I’ve played Half-Life many times before. But the farthest I’ve gotten is about halfway through Surface tension on easy difficulty. Which is the beset recommended difficulty setting? My health stays pretty high on easy but I’ve seen many videos on medium and hard and I always see the same thing: Up until about On a Rail, there seems (in my opinion anyway) a decent curve in the difficulty. No matter what video I’m watching though, Xen always seems to be brutal on the person playing. Ammo always runs out quickly, they die many times, and there’s loads of frustration. So which one is really the best? And how much of a difference does the difficulty have on Xen? Is it really that bad? Or is there some easier way that only people who’ve played that part of the game a few times know? I’m certainly not an HL noob, I know the entire plot front to back and even some of the beta story lines. But I simply haven’t beat any of the GoldSrc ones.
Simple solution: get better
You’ll just have to work your way through the game
Personally i like playing on hard, which is weird for me cause i usually play games on easy/normal just cause i usually like playing through with few to no choke points so to say. But there is something about half life, i absolutely love that for a good 75 - 80% of the game i have 15 health or less and there is always that tension.
Same here.
I’m glad BM doesn’t have regenerating health
Not to sound like a boasting faggot or anything, but I can go through all of Half-Life on hard difficulty setting and maintain 80 health and above majority of the time and have surplus of ammo throughout entire game. Just quicksave correctly and play smart. Know what your enemies do and what their next moves are. The only part that proved to be a bitch on hard difficulty was Xen and fighting the Nihilanth. One awkward jump and you get a blast of shock to the face fuckin quick bringing your health 95 to 0.
I play through on Hard, but I’m very good at getting shot. I seem to have an ability to somehow survive most of the time with 2-5 HP remaining, however.
Always playing on normal, I enjoy the story and scenery without being too much hassled by folks trying to kill me.
My general approach to games is: first time play through is on the hardest difficulty available to me (hence why I nearly destroyed a PS3 pad on my first play through of Max Payne 3) and then any subsequent play through is on either Easy or Normal, so I can enjoy the story/action.
Weird, usually it works the other way around. Or is it a way to enjoy a game more longer ?
If you play on hard, you will get as far as Interloper maybe and thats it…it’s fucking hard. It took me many trys to get past Interloper, as for the Nihilanth, I actually found that pretty easy.
I don’t think I’ve ever played HL on anything but hard… it’s not that hard, really.
Yeah, but BM might have a better spike in difficulty that makes it much harder than HL on hard would be
If it did, it would probably be more fun regardless of how hard it was since the game is, from the looks of things anyways, going to be less tedious than the original could be at certain times.
It will satisfy and the difficulty can be adjusted how you like at any second during your play.
Now i’m sure other people have already told you, but you need to remove your signature or make it smaller. It’s unnecessarily large and also annoying.
Hard difficulty is best difficulty.
It is. When I uploaded the file to Imgur, I made an effort to shrink it down but for whatever reason, I guess the changes didn’t save. I’ll go ahead and take it off. But surprisingly, no one has said anything. But thanks for reminding me.
Whenever I play a game, I play it on normal. Why? Because it’s normal. Not incredibly simple. Not annoyingly difficult. Normal-it’s just how the game was meant to be played.
Yeah, almost all games that I get my first playthrough is on normal/medium. If I replay it I sometimes up it to hard.
When I first saw BM screenshots around 2006 I thought, fuck that I’ll be playing that on Easy. But now that I think about it I’d rather play it on Hard and still enjoy the scenery (after I kill everything in the room, of course).