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Hey guys.. Before I post this.. I know I expect insults and stuff like that.. But here goes.. I have never played any of the Half life games.. I feel horrible about it btw... What I wanted to ask is this.. I wanna play the sequel.. I wanna know which of the series I should play and if there is any i should leave out..

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Hey guys.. Before I post this.. I know I expect insults and stuff like that.. But here goes.. I have never played any of the Half life games.. I feel horrible about it btw... What I wanted to ask is this.. I wanna play the sequel.. I wanna know which of the series I should play and if there is any i should leave out..

Half-Life 1

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 Episode One

Half-Life 2 Episode Two

 

that's it. play in this order.

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I felt guilty that I hadn't played them either, so when they were 75% off I bought the complete pack and played through all of then in order. Took me a week of discipline but it was completely worth it.

The series has to be played in order, no skipping.

Absolutely brilliant games, worth every second!

PS: hl1 it's hard, even on easy, you'll be surprised.

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I felt guilty that I hadn't played them either, so when they were 75% off I bought the complete pack and played through all of then in order. Took me a week of discipline but it was completely worth it.

The series has to be played in order, no skipping.

Absolutely brilliant games, worth every second!

PS: hl1 it's hard, even on easy, you'll be surprised.

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I will definitely try them out.. All of them... You did the extension packs??

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play black mesa then if you dont like the graphics :)

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Blue Shift and Opposing force I haven't played yet, but they aren't made by Valve. Lost coast is just a tech demo, quite interesting though.

 

As someone recommended, play Half Life 1 (or Black Mesa, although Xen isn't included there), Half life 2 and then the episodes.

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Opposing Force and Blue Shift aren't necessary for story(unless you want a different perspective).

 

Opposing Force puts you in the perspective of the military Gordan Freeman fights in the game. Blue Shift puts in the perspective of the guards in the lab that Gordan Freeman works in. Both provide outside perspectives of Half Life 1, but to me, they aren't necessary.

 

Lost Coast, like others have said, is a tech demo, it isn't necessary either. I don't know what "Decay" is? But I bet it isn't necessary either.

 

So, to reiterate;

-Half Life 1

-Half Life 2
-Half Life 2: Episode 1

-Half Life 2: Episode 2

 

That's the order in which you should play it in. If you really want to. There's a mod called "Black Mesa" which is Half Life 1 but it is redone using the Half Life 2 engine, so it looks much better, but I don't know if it's 100% done(last time I looked it wasn't done completely yet). So research a bit on that one if you really can't play HL1 with 1990 graphics :P

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As others have said, Opposing Force and Blue Shift (The two official expansions for Half-Life), aren't necessary for the overall story.

 

However, I do recommend playing them. They are both quite good games. I really enjoyed the opening to Blue Shift in particular, as it mirrored Half-Life's opening but gave you a slightly different route. You play the guard who is knocking on the locked door as you ride by in the mag-train.

 

Decay, I believe, is the PS2 Half-Life game, yes? I don't even know if there is a PC port for it. I've never played it, and I'm not 100% sure if it's canon or not. Either way, Decay is a skip unless you have access to it and a bunch of free time.

 

I'd play them as follows:

Half-Life

Blue Shift

Opposing Force

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (It may only be a tech demo, but it's really neat, and only like, 10 minutes long)

Half-Life 2: Episode 1

Half-Life 2: Episode 2

 

You could play Black Mesa (The Half-Life remake in Source) instead of Half-Life, but it doesn't have the Xen levels yet, as they are still being finished. If you did this, I'd recommend going into Half-Life and finishing the game from Xen on-ward, just for the complete experience. You could in theory watch a play-through of the Xen levels, but I think the mechanics are fun enough to just go ahead and play it.

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Dont bother playing Half Life 1, play Black Mesa http://www.blackmesasource.com/ Community remake on the new Source engine, great game, oh and its free

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How about Half Life : Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Decay??

 

Are they any good??

Shows events from different person view aka one of the guards in Black Mesa...

 

 

Dont bother playing Half Life 1

I prefer to play original than remake. Remake dont have Xen world as far as i know...

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