or just talk about the games in general. Is Black Mesa better than the original Half-Life? What is the best Half-Life game? Why are the games still so good? How about the post-soviet setting? How about how cool it is that most of the main enemies are cops and troops?
I think you should give HL1 a try. In a lot of ways it's the culmination of the Quake-style FPS generation, where you're running around real fast and picking up health packs and have like 10 weapons to choose from. Same level format too, with increasingly intense little baddies leading up to a big unique boss battle.
Still waiting for Trump to issue an executive order mandating a full remaster of Quake II.
I've played through it, technically twice because I got stuck at the end the first time. I just never have the hankering to play it again like I do the others.
Like, I know the early stages of the first two quakes so well and I feel like I could drop into them any time. I just never feel like playing half life 1