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ncyphe

well, not voted exactly, as Gamepot only states the "Top Greatest Games of All Time;" however, it's not surprising the Half-Life 1 once again returns to this list.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/617...opslot;title;2

As additional info, every year PC Game (US) does a story depicting the "Greatest PC Games of All Time" (up till that year), and every year HL1 has made it into position number 1 (HL2 followed in second and or third).

Now I know there are going to be a lot of Halo freaks who'll start spamming my post, but the truth is HL1 did pioneer alot of the features used in gameng today.

• They where the first to utilize skeletal animations
• first to fully support a modding comunity by adding an in game mod switch system
• first to succesfully tell an imersive story without evr pulling the character out of first person or make (Freeman) do anything other than what you make him do

Without HL, there would be no CS. Heck, many of the games out today probably had its gamepolay mechanics test done as a HL1 mod.

so, with this, you probably know why thousands of PCGamers yelled at their TV screens during the first Spike TV's Gaming awards when HL series won no awards while Halo series won many.

I love HL (I can't say the same about Halo), it's the brain child that ultimately turned me on to my passion for game design.

Now, I made this to personal, but just sharring the news (please don't flame me )

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TheOmen

It deserves to be #1, it's one helluva good game.

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*vash_the_stampede*

yup it deserved it! i just hope no one will flame in this thread by saying like "hell no, (name of the game) is way better " .

SilverIce

"hell no, (name of a game is way better!)"



meh, I should try and find it around.

cinderboy

HL1 is good, but yeah, I have another numner 1 game in my opinion heh heh

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ncyphe

Give it time and a overly devout Halo fan will show up.

Many people don't realize that the best game of all time (excluding mmo's [different gradeing scale]) is determined by four things

• amount of revolutionary gaming ideas
• excellent gameplay
• replayability
• and an ultimately refreshingly unique eviornments. (enviornment doesn't look the same everywhere)

They are never graded upon graphics (unless the graphics feature something outstandishly never done or almost impossible)

Where Halo fails on this list is in the department of unique enviornments. WHile yes, it does feature a uniwue universe, almost every room looks the exact same. As a noob mapper, I can think of a texture in HL and remember key spots it shows up in HL, in Halo, 90% of all the textures are located in almost every other room. One of the reasons I can't stand Halo 1, it defies game design texturing logic.

HL1 had although and ultimately kicked off the huge modding revolution that occured 5 years ago. Before that, it was devout gamers who spent hours trying to figure out how to crack the code and develop their own stuff, because before that, game dev companies refused to share their code with modders, fearing it would fall into enemy game company hands.

I need to rap this up, I got work in the morning.

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Arcteryx

HL1 is a damn good game. I've more or less just started playing it, and I freaking love it. I can easily see how it got the honor of being the best game. But as for my favorite games, and thus, what I consider the best, it would have to be the Smash Bros games and Chrono Trigger/Golden Sun. Best firkin games evar!

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TheOmen

My favorite game of all time is Earthbound.

Ontopic: I haven't played HL1 for awhile, i have it for both PC, and ps2.

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Seuska

Well, personally, to me, its kinda dumb that you own the same game for two different systems.. kinda a waste of moneys.. Although its only like 7$ at the nearest store to me.

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TheOmen

I found my ps2 copy at a garage sale, for like a quarter.

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