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| [[Image:Jean_luc.godard.fr.jpeg|thumb|left|Jean-Luc Godard, the star of ''Half-Life''.]] | | #redirect [[Half-Life]] |
| [[Image:Gabenwasted.JPG|thumb|right|[[Gabe Newell]], creator of ''Half-Life''. Need we say more?]]
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| [[Image:Half Life House.jpg|thumb|When Jean-Luc manages to get lupus, House often takes on the burden of covering for him, and memorizing the many lines spoken throughout the game.]]
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| {{Spoiler|G-MAN PWNS THE SHIT OUT OF [[WTC|BLACK MESA]] WITH A BOMB}}
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| '''''Half-Life''''', a term used to describe a first person shooter computer game, as well as the amount of life the basement dwelling nerds who play it often possess. Also, how long it'll take for that radioactive sludge to degrade into half. A first person shooter that for some reason stars film director [[Picard|Jean-luc Godard]]. The ''Half-Life'' games are universally regarded as the second best first-person shooting game ever, despite being repetitive, linear, overblown and almost as bad as ''[[Halo]]''.
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| In this, the player takes control of Jean-luc, who plays a personality-free bespectacled physicist called Gordon who works in some lab in the desert. After [[Lie|accidentally]] pushing a shopping cart into a laser beam, Gordon fucks up the lab, steals a special [[robot]]ic battle suit and kills hundreds of soldiers and innocent aliens.
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| This appeals to video game nerds because they too are glasses-wearing, socially retarded fuck-ups and it doesn't take too big a leap of their atrophied imaginations to see themselves running around the Black Mesa laboratories getting to massacre hundreds of people without their mothers grounding them.
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| It also appeals to twitchy, ''Call of Duty''-playing, college fratboy sipping amphetamine pumped mountain dew type jocks because of it's simple representation of science in the only way they have the brain capacity to understand: ultimately, [[TF2|pushing a fucking cart]].
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| In the sequel, Gordon proves improbably attractive to a hot gurl, thus increasing the loser appeal of the game tenfold, in a faux-[[1984|Orwellian]] dystopian hellscape. That is the extent of the story, which proponents of the game seem to think is deep, even if there really isn't any character development, plot, or point. Apparently "deep story" means "[[Lost|potentially cool setting that nobody bothered to put a real story in]]". The whole reason the game exists is so the designers can show off their physics engine, which was cool [[at least 100]] years ago, but now is boring as fuck. There are also parts where you drive vehicles that are as fun as getting your face chewed off by Nancy Cartwright's clam-[[cunt]].
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| Both games have an online version called ''[[Counter-Strike]]''. Beating someone at this is the [[Internets]] version of bustin' a cap in some Opie's ass, yo.
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| [[Shit nobody cares about|Half life is also used in physics to denote the amount of time that decaying discrete entities, such as radioactive atoms, take to reduce their mass by half. This of course does not apply when there is only one atom left, one atom will not decay into half an atom, but will rather Decay into 0 atoms, or not decay at all.]]
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| [[tl;dr]]? See [[Physics]].
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| ==Teh Gman==
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| The Gman is ultimately, the koolest kid evar. He has the ability to shift through time and [[drugs|space]], influencing every event that goes on in the mothafucking universe. He is like g0d in a way, except instead of a robe, he wears a shitty value village suit. [[9000|Around 9000 years ago]], had a meeting with [[satan|santa]] himself, and when asked why he was letting that fuckwit freeman run around, he replied extravagantly, my good sir, for what other reason mankind do anything, other than to generate the life energy known as ''[[lulz]]'' . He is rumored to be at Xenus house right now, discussing ménage à trois over an intricate game of [[gay|backgammon]], while enjoying the finest of treats, chunks of spotted [[you|fetusdick]].
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| ==Teh [[Lulz]]==
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| It is a well known fact that everything that took place during the course of that day was done by Gordon [[for the lulz]]. From shooting every guard and/or scientist execution-style, to pressing the buttons on the microwave so the food overheats and explodes. Some might even say Gordon is the lulziest man at Black Mesa. In fact, that very day, Gordon decided to have the most lulz any one man could ever have by pushing a non-standard specimen into the scanning beam of a Anti-Mass Spectrometer for analysis, thus creating a resonance cascade and opening a portal between [[The Jewnited States of Americunts|Earth]] and [[Africa|some other worldly dimension]] ([[fact]]). He [[pwned]] [[over 9,000]] [[shit nobody cares about|innocent people]] as a result. Lulz ensued.
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| ==The Modding Community==
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| Half-Life is one of those ancient, shitty old games that despite really looking like crap compared to newer games, still attracts 12 year old little kids and oldfags who like to "mod" it, or in other words design levels, create models, textures and code. Most of these tend to have abysmal quality even when compared to the engine itself, and these losers tend to bitch when others criticize their work. Most of the forums are also full of trolls who use any opportunity to milk lulz from other modders' weak egos, ensuing epic butthurt.
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| On most forums like [http://hl-improvement.com/forums/ HIT], most of the "modellers" are actually just talentless hacks who wank models and characters together from others' original works, and bitch about almost anything, erupting in endless flame wars where eventually people start bitching about how much the site sucks. In fact, people can get banned for almost anything, as the mods there are trolls. This place is the guide line to all the modern Half-Life modding forums, all of them have gone down the same way, if not outright deleted for their level of fail, like the VERC forums.
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| The community used to be good once, with modifications like "Spirit of Half-Life", wich introduced all kinds of useful entities that helped imaginative mappers invent all sorts of complex elements, but it died after the lead programmer realized that [[shit nobody cares about|nobody used his mod]]. Sometime after this numerous mods became hellbent on coding [[wtf|modern graphics into the 13 year old game]], but most of these improvement mods eventually dumped Half-Life's original file formats and relied on their own, essentially not resembling Half-Life at all but still relying on it, [[lazy|instead of doing their game from scratch]].
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| Half-Life mods are born every day and fall every day, maybe all in one day for numerous of these. They tend to be all fan wank with no imagination, with Gordon Freeman as the protagonist, because most of the community is made up of lifeless, loser geeks who see their father figure in Gordon, and wank to Alyx-Gordon and Alyx-Vortigaunt porn all day in their [[basement dweller|basements]]. In fact the modding scene is just so dry of originality and so full of aids, most mods just straight out rip content from other mods and mangle it all over, ensuing epic butthurt when the original creators find out, but [http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-episode-two some] [http://www.moddb.com/mods/plasma mods] go to the point of [[Party Van|stealing content from copyrighted games]]. There is no Half-Life mod with an original storyline and original content, everything is stolen out of commercial games or from previous mods. The worst failures of [http://www.moddb.com/mods/s-fwebgardencz these] are the mods that port content from the later Half-Life 2 and respective games, essentially making [[fail|Half-Life 1 look a lot like Half-Life 2]], despite the 5 year gap between the two. However even most community members tend to flame these and their faggot creators to death, resulting in lots of butthurt and fail.
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| Recently, the community devolved so much into crap, that not even the oldfags have any original ideas anymore, and instead they decide to turn [www.moddb.com/mods/heart-of-evil already shitty mods] into even [www.moddb.com/mods/heart-of-evil-napalm-edition wrose pieces of shit], in the name of improving them. Despite the fact that there's an endless war between the oldfags and the newfags, the fact is that most of the oldfags are 30 year old [[basement dweller|basement dwellers]] with weak but large egos, who need the constant praise from the newfags, it's the only thing keeping them from becoming [[an hero|an heroes]] and banning themselves irl, that is why they still cling onto an easily moddable, crappy engine instead of moving to [[Steam|Source]], or the fact that [[Gabe Newell|Gabe Newell's]] [[fat|new diet]] deprived the funds previously devoted to fixing their useless, buggy tools. The only reason this entire community of failure is still standing, and had not devolved into pure cancer is because there is one thing common among all of the modding community members: they don't have the [[stupid|skill]] to work with modern game sdk's and they all have [[no life|no lives]].
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| The most special type of Half-Life modder is the [[fag|programmer]], they tend to be very proud of their [[shit|hard work]], and always bitch about it when the newfags use their code without giving them any credit, also they tend to have no life and spend months just trying to figure out how to actually program, as most of them are just 13 year old boys who are too stupid to read a book on programming. They tend to have egos the size of the moon and bitch about code theft, when in fact most of them also steal code from all over the place and usually get away with it, because most of the community is too stupid to notice the similarities. They are the main source of butthurt and lulz due to their huge and weak egos, and also the rarest form of the Half-Life modder.
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| ==Near Banruptcy==
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| Although the game was successful, Gabe Newell's celebration of the game's success nearly caused the company to file for bankruptcy. Gabe's celebration included fat hookers, 80 subway foot long Italian BLT without vegetables and honey mustard sauce, pink colored chocolate, blow-up dolls which resembled the 3 boobed chick from Total Recall and shares in the scat porn industry. Two years after the release of the game, Valve was down to just a few hundred dollars. Gabe sought to make a couple thousand by whoring some of his employees to junkies outside clinics.
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| Gabe's actions nearly caused support for Half-Life 2 to come to a halt till he found out he could make money on the [[internets]] by claiming he was an ex-nigerian prince. Although this attempt was unsuccessfull to most people in the United States, United Kingdom and those countries with the funny hats, gullable people in Australia were the first to hand Gabe over the millions he needed. Although Gabe got the money back and the company was back on it's feet, this still wasn't enough to have development start on the now mythological ''Half-Life 2: Episode 3''. Although he promises an episode 3 WILL be made, we all know he's just eating, sleeping and pooping and even all at once on a daily basis.
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| ==Gallery==
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| <center><gallery>
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| Image:Sceptre Freeman.jpg|Typical ''Half-Life'' player.
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| image:Hl_crobar.jpg|The most effective weapon on ''Half-Life''.
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| Image:Nihilanth_hl.jpg|The final boss of Xen is none other than a giant aborted fetus with telepathetic powers....and a spikey penis.
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| Image:halfspelling.PNG
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| Image:Gfcost2.jpg|[[You]] wish.
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| File:Half-Life production.jpg|Production during Half-Life. Immense time working usually meant staff would take their shirts off.
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| File:Gabe Newell Boob Mouse Pad.jpg|Came with the Half-Life 2 Special Edition.
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| File:Gamecrush.png|Where to go to verse Gabe
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| </gallery></center>
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| == See also ==
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| *''[[Doom]]''
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| *''[[Quake]]'' What the Half Life engine is based on
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| *''[[Half-life 2]]''
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| *''[[Left 4 Dead]]''
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| *''[[Team Fortress 2]]''
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| *[[Steam]]
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| *[[Charlie Cleveland]]
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| *[[Squirrelking]]
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| *[[Freeman's Mind]]
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| *[http://halflife2.zoy.org Zoy's official fansite]
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| *[[Natural_Selection_game|Natural Selection Mod]]
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| *''Neotokyo''
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| *[http://www.moddb.com/mods/boom Best Half-Life modification ever]
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| *[http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-specialists The Specialists] (specialistsmod.net down) like ahl+cs, only more haters.
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