What did you think of Half-Life for the Dreamcast?

Post by **racketboy** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:51 pm

I personally didn't get too far in it, but I was pretty impressed other than the load times.
I didn't realize it, but the Dreamcast version was actually based on the High-Resolution Pack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_ ... ition_Pack

I don't know about you, but there was a very weird feeling the first time I saw Half-Life running on the Dreamcast
(I can still remember where I was when I read that it was canceled)

Post by **Mozgus** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:17 pm

Yeah, the two main selling points of that game were going to be the inclusion of an exclusive expansion, Blue Shift, and the inclusion of the HDR pack.

But no, I still wasn't impressed by it. It needed a lot more polish to truly take advantage of DC. Have you tried the PS2 version? I admit, it's pretty impressive. Or rather, it was at the time, because PS2 was pushed much further as the years went on.

Post by **racketboy** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:30 pm

Mozgus wrote:Yeah, the two main selling points of that game were going to be the inclusion of an exclusive expansion, Blue Shift, and the inclusion of the HDR pack.

But no, I still wasn't impressed by it. It needed a lot more polish to truly take advantage of DC. Have you tried the PS2 version? I admit, it's pretty impressive. Or rather, it was at the time, because PS2 was pushed much further as the years went on.

Nope, never played the PS2 version, but i would guess it was better.

i acutally heard that there was two versions for the Dreamcast. One that was based on the Windows CE framework (which was the one leaked) and a more optimized version that was based on the Dreamcast's native hardware.

Post by **Mozgus** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:31 pm

racketboy wrote:Nope, never played the PS2 version, but i would guess it was better.

i acutally heard that there was two versions for the Dreamcast. One that was based on the Windows CE framework (which was the one leaked) and a more optimized version that was based on the Dreamcast's native hardware.

It's pretty much a solid 60 fps on PS2 and it has a lot of content in the co-op mode which has never made it's way to any other platform. Plus, the dual analog setup was much better than using face buttons to move.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:39 pm

I would like to see it as a tech demo, but FPS's on consoles do not excite me at all, well untill CoD3 on Wii,

which Im quite enjoying

Post by **Zalphier** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:38 pm

I thouroughly enjoyed half life dc. Just the long and frequent load times [over time] pissed me off. Honestly, though, it was my first and only time playing half life. And I have yet to play another version of it. That aside, the game I thought was pretty damn awesome. And I was/am impressed how good/fun the game is even till today in the age of gow cod3 and halo2.