It was just an overgrown blast-pit tentacle with differently placed eyes & some tendrils around it that spewed purple gas.
Not to mention the Gonomes, which were basically just bullsquids reskinned with zombie models.
And how is that not extremely cool? 
The Nihilanth was so much more menacing. The gene-worm was just a big ball of fuck.
The floating-fetus fight was really fucking cool after traveling through space in an alternate dimension.
Shepard, of course.
Well, for what I know after playing opfor is:
1st objective: go to black mesa, you haven’t got any orders than go (mostly because they were using the grunts to see what was going on)
2nd objective: survive and find more soldiers to know what the fuck is going on
3rd objective: after being left behind you still try to survive and some [COLOR=‘Red’]grunts tell you that they’re angry with freeman. The more you complete the game the more you have a strange urge to “kill that fucking bastard” even if you don’t know who he is
4th objective: Fight back the black ops to get out
5th objective: Dissable the nuke that the black ops left.
6th objective: you are told that some soldiers went down to fight a strange alien race that tries to conquer earth while taking the advantadge that Xen is also attacking so you go kill them.
Yeah, sure, no other objective than survival in the whole game and going after freeman only because you knew him from the original game /sarcasm
as I think you can already guess, I think that Shepherd would win a fight because he’s been trained to survive in Hazardous Environments a lot more than Gordan, he has a bigger arsenal, he had to fight two different alien races at the same time (even if one of them is not canon), a giant worm that could only be damaged if hit with an explosive in it’s mouth, he had to dissable a nuke and had to beat a group of MUCH more trained millitary special units with orders to kill him and everything they found and then he got pulled into stasis because the G-man saw that he, a normal grunt like the hundreds that died in black mesa, could be of use.
What did Gordon do? Try to scape, fight against H.E.C.U.s, fight a LITTLE group of Black ops fem. assassins, teleport to Xen, kill a big fat ugly monster that could be damaged from wherever you hit it and get pulled into stasis.
tl;dr
The first objective you don’t even really get, that’s what’s happening when the game starts. 2 & 4 can be boiled down to “survive”. 5 & 6 are actually objectives: Deactivate the nuke & Kill the alien. Oh, I think there was also; Regroup with the others at the hangar so you can retreat. (failed)
Back where this argument started:
But there was an objective in HL1 other than to survive: Fire the rocket to stop the resonance cascade, Get to the Lambda Complex with the other scientists & Kill the alien.
As long as, you know, you hit it in the fucking brain.
I’m sorry to interrupt, but it’s Shepord, not Shepard. Also, it’s Freemen.
On my first playthrough, I found that getting to the lambda complex was the single objective which kept me going through the game. The other objectives (eg. killing the tentacle, sending up the rocket) didn’t really matter as much to me, just being chores which had to be done in order to continue on towards the lambda complex. In effect, I’d split the objectives of HL into three:
- Survive/find out what the f**k’s going on.
- Get to the lambda complex.
- Kill the giant foetus.
There’s one thing I’ve got clear from this thread: In all the HL1 games (except blue shift because doesn’t have a final boss) the final bosses are giantic ugly fetus.
Freeman PWNS everyone!
List:
Shephard
Barney [Because of lie about beer]
Scientists [Becuase they all always pissing Gordon off!]
Aliens [Because they speaks ununderstandable language!]
Facepalm
Did you really revive a post only to say that?
I just give my vote to Freeman. He PWNS all in my list from previous post!
well your motives to “PWN” everything are a bit… strange…
But ok, the post is revived already so who cares now?
And i thought i hadn’t seen this thread for a while