is blue shift as bad as people say it is?

[killian]

the one with barny in it people say it's the worst expansion but I still wanna play it. Do you guys think it is worth it

[PlayerT]

No not at all the game is more then worth playing.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Absolutely not, play it.

[Doctor Go-Go]

Blue Shift was more about the HD pack and exclusive Dreamcast content. Which is why it also included opposing force. The Blue Shift content is very small compared to other expansions.

But it's not bad, it's worth a gander.

[Mλrtin2H]

people say it's the worst expansion because compared to Opposing Force it's worse, but it's fine, I think the gameplay is on par with some parts of Half-Life 1

[Doctor Go-Go]

How can they complain for a few dollars? We must be talking about the type that want everything to be great and free if not cheap and exceptional.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by Mλrtin2H:

I think the gameplay is on par with some parts of Half-Life 1

Some parts are not only on par with HL, they are also better. Blue Shift is nice, every fan of the first game should play it.

[Duck Twacy]

Originally posted by Valkyr:

No not at all the game is more then worth playing.

This.

My only complaint was that it was too short. Shorter than Op For.

[SV BOY]

i mean if you wanna be a half-life fan or something then you must play it, the only complaint here is that its kinda short compared to opfor and half-life, otherwise its worth a try

[Doctor Go-Go]

Conclusion, if you ignore blue shift you're not missing anything.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by Doctor Go-Go:

Conclusion, if you ignore blue shift you're not missing anything.

Correction, if you ignore this comment you're not missing anything.

[cambreaKer]

it's a great expansion, bit worse than opfor but still worth playing

[Mailbox]

its not bad at all, its just way too short and theres nothing exactly new. its still good fun tho!

[Doctor Go-Go]

Exactly, it's not bad, lackluster would be the term. More of the same with no real new flavor. That's why OF came bundled with it, because it was more about promoting sales of Half-Life by selling that HD pack and OP with it when it was a new thing. Was a great deal for $30, two expansions and and an HD pack to bring Half-Life back to life.

But now, it can be disregarded. BUT if you really want to check it out just to see or experience it then it's playable and enjoyable, but not exceptional.

So "lackluster" would be the best way to define it.

[UmbralPenumbra]

I played them first years ago with the Platinum collection CDs, the old versions that still used WON and OpFor had the old title screen (you can look it up on YouTube)

Blue Shift is better than Opposing Force in some ways, Opposing Force is better than Blue Shift in some ways. I can't say which I like more because I like both for different reasons. About half of each expansions campaign is boring or annoying, but the other half is really enjoyable and interesting

I liked the idea of teaming up with the scientists to try to escape Black Mesa in Blue Shift, making me feel more like an average guy than HL, but the sequences where I'm having to wait around to flip switches was lame. I liked how OpFor delved more into the conspiracy angle, and the displacer allowed me to find cool secret areas, but Black Ops and Race X are so f*cking annoying to fight

Both of them improved on Xen by revisiting it, showing more about the research taking place and even the Xen creatures being held for experimentation on Earth. They must have been traveling to Xen and finding fauna to experiment on for some time, probably why they used the portal opened to Xen during the resonance cascade as a way to launch an attack on Black Mesa. It showed that humans weren't just innocent victims, and added weight to what the Nihilanth was saying at the end of HL

The real MVP of expansions is Decay, though. Very underrated. There's a key to switch between Gina and Colette so it can be played as single player. Harder, but do-able. Shame there still isn't an official PC release

[Robogamer]

I think you should play it though it has less weapons than opposing force and really short compared to the other games but it's still good so give it a shot