Everything you liked about Half-Life was a secret train

Half-Life was released to a rapturous commercial and critical reception. It is a game about... well, it depends on who you ask. For some people it’s about Gordon Freeman, an everyman physicist who struggles to survive the inter-dimensional alien invasion of a secret government research facility. For others it’s about a mute sociopath who murders anything that moves, as he bunnyhops with bloodlust.

Game developers must make millions of small decisions all the time, and each decision is in conversation with a million other decisions. How big can a Half-Life level be, how many colours and shapes can it have, what can it look like? Well, it depends on how much texture memory and 3D map geometry memory you’re allocating in the engine. Half-Life’s guts influence what Half-Life can show you and what Half-Life can do.

The chapter was pitched initially as more of a tech demo than a bit of subtle atmosphere. According to former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw, it began when a programmer implemented a new type of game object called a ‘func_tracktrain’. Unlike its simpler ancestor func_train, inherited with the Quake-derived codebase, func_ tracktrain could run on a long stretch of path_track, branch onto different tracks, and bank and pivot into turns.

I really miss the hl days, good times

I stil have the original box and CD I bought when it first came out.

so many old memories, not sure about half-life 3.

Im going to guess that this article talks abour how linear half life is

This was a great read

I just recently played through Black Mesa again after it sitting for years - andit reaffirmed my thought that its one of the best games ever made.

This is a really interesting article to read but I'm going to reply to only the headline and declare I fucking hate trains and I love Half-Life. Trains are the worst.

Disagree. It does however utilize the tram system excellently to drive the narrative of a sprawling vast secret government black site, it's not the total star of the show. Played through all of Black Mesa recently and loved every second of it.

I'm sorry was there no real news for PC games today?

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Huh? It's one of the best games ever or the best game of all time.

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