https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/11/09/half-life-12-summed-up-in-60-seconds/ My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Ludologist [researcher of the design, meaning, culture, and politics of games]. This is my blog on game research and other important things. Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/11/09/half-life-12-summed-up-in-60-seconds/comment-page-1/#comment-52649 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:14:22 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=396#comment-52649 It’s how I remember those two games as well.
Currently I’m in the middle of episode 1 and quite frankly, it has really started to bore me.
I find the moods in the half-life games excellent, it is the problem-solving bit that gets a bit tedious in the long run. My conclusion, after hours of HL-games, is that the game tries to hard to be a first person problemsolver game. It just ends up being repetive.
And they DO say Gordon Freeman a lot…
M:)rten

]]> https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/11/09/half-life-12-summed-up-in-60-seconds/comment-page-1/#comment-52634 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:31:50 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=396#comment-52634 That makes sense. I do think the HL2 story is a lot more interesting HL1, but mostly the beginning and mostly because of the way it is told – because you get to try to be a citizen in an oppressive society.

]]> https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/11/09/half-life-12-summed-up-in-60-seconds/comment-page-1/#comment-52633 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:15:53 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=396#comment-52633 Yeah but it makes pretenses toward the latter, and thats why this is a key send-up.

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