Opposing Force was the best of the HL1 games, and Episode 2 was the best of the HL2 games. I don't think I could pick between them, but I think I preferred Episode 2 more.
Half Life > Half Life 2 > Opposing Force > Episode 2 > Episode 1 > Kleiner's Dance Party (rhythm music game) > Blue Shift.
I still prefer the original slightly, the top three in my list are close and the episodes are fantastic. Blue Shift is a blemish.
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i tend to agree with this. i'm going to have to google for kleiner's dance party, never heard of it and sounds like it could deliver some hilarious moments.
Half-Life > Half-Life 2 > Half-Life 2: Episode 2 > Opposing Force > Half-Life 2: Episode 1 > Blue Shift
To clalify, the first four in this ranking are so good, it's hard to really decide, although the first game will always be top. But I love them all, except Blue Shift, which I mearly thought was good.
It's been so many years since I last played HL1, I honestly barely remember it. I wasn't even 13 yet when I played it (I'm almost 21 now) so yeah.. So right now, I'd have to go with HL2, but of all of the episodes and the main game itself, I loved HL2 Ep. 2 the most.
Half-Life 1: Boring, uninspired, looked old a year after it was released. Opposing force: A total rip-off. Blue Shift: At least it introduced Barney Calhoun in it, one of the very few good things about HL2. But except that, another rip-off. Half-Life 2: Decent, gets a solid 6/10 from me. Though I don't understand why people call it one of the best games ever. Episode one: WTH was this? Episode two: has it's moments, but it's too short and also sounded very unnecessary in terms of story advancement.
HL1 is the best, at least until Xen. HL2 has a lot of filler content and abandoned what was good about HL, Episode 1 is boring and Episode 2 would be the best of the modern ones if it weren't for that terrible cave section. Haven't played the other ones.
Also, the HL2 games have some of the worst gunplay ever.
The first has the fondest memories, Blast Pit is still one of my favourite levels in any game. The second is almost up there as well, just didn't wow me like HL did for its time, but it's an outstanding game for different reasons. Shame the episodes, and HL1 expansions are so forgettable.
HL2E2 has the only part in any HL that genuinely scared the pants off me (guardian in the caves section), but the strider/sticky bombs are annoying- in fact, that's what I'm stuck on right now. -_-
Ravenholm didn't freak me out at all.
But I'm gonna have to say the original HL2 was the best.
Half Life 2: Episode 2, I felt a stronger emotional attachment to the characters mianly because of the previous games. I also thought the game had the right balance of everything great in the Half Life franchise from puzzle solving, driving sequences, storytelling, and action.
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