Half Life on DC

[Chrono]

So how near to completion was this game? I've heard there is a torrent of the game which I could burn to a disk and play it on my DC (i'm crap at this sort of thing and only have a vague idea of how this would work to be honest). But my real question is, is it worth it?

[GSZX1337]

If you have the PC version, no.

[8bitCaged]

its is a good port lode times suck try it out. sorry I do not have the torrent for it.
the game has one major problem. Save files. 1 save game can take up nearly the entire memory card!!
here is a good video about Half Life on DC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbLL9JymQiM

[Chrono]

I don't have the PC version, infact I don't have any versions of it, I sortof want to play it on the DC as it sounds a bit far fetche'd and... well cool.

I also don't have a GD-rom drive, would this be a problem?

[andymol21]

Half Life is one of my all time favourite games, and a fantastic fps. The DC version is probably the worst of the bunch, from what I gathered the only piece of coding left in theevelopment was optimization of the loading times, which was never completed. This means that it can take up to a 1 min o load a section, and with some sections only lasting 1 min themselves, you spend a long time looking at the loading screen.

If you want to play HL1, play the PC version. Buy it off Steam so that the developers get the money directly and enjoy it as it was meant to be played. If you want to have a go at burning games for DC, by all means try this out. But the loading times kill the games somewhat!

[RackGaki]

This game was weeks away from release, from what I understand. Like said above, loading times suck.

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[andymol21]

If people do not buy Half Life for $0.98 I will personally kill tham. That is the best deal on a game ever made!!!

[Chrono]

To be honest I just like the idea of having it on the Dreamcast, not a lot of people can say they've got HL on the DC. If anyone can help, PM maybe?

[Caboose]

I've played quite a bit of Half-Life on DC (I set out to play it from start to finish). Like everyone else has already said, The load times are terrible. You also will need to have an entire VMU dedicated to it because the save files tend to shrink and get larger, so you don't want to run out of space. The game crashes sometimes, and the reason I never finished it was because I got about halfway through and it crashed, corrupting my gamesave.

If you want to play Half-Life because you want to play the game, get it for PC. If you want to play Half-Life because you just want to see what it would have been like, by all means go ahead and play it on Dreamcast but the load times do get frustrating. Also, the controls with the controller are a little awkward (they are set up like MDK2, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament). You can get used to it but using a mouse and keyboard is much more practical.