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Bought Half-Life Counter-Strike today at the PX, because I've heard lots of good things about Half-Life. Turns out the stupid game seems to be only for online play. Can one play this game without going online (I detest online gameplay with an unbridled passion)?

Yes, you can play in on a LAN Party

What's wrong with online gaming, anyway?

(I'll take that CDKEY and dispose of it properly if you don't plan to play online )

Shogoki wrote:Yes, you can play in on a LAN Party

What's wrong with online gaming, anyway?

(I'll take that CDKEY and dispose of it properly if you don't plan to play online )

Hmm, no playing against the computer AI, eh?

Just never have liked online gameplay. Got soured on it after trying to play Diablo online and watching idiots use cheats to kill me and add to their "ear" collection.

jegs2 wrote:Bought Half-Life Counter-Strike today at the PX, because I've heard lots of good things about Half-Life. Turns out the stupid game seems to be only for online play. Can one play this game without going online (I detest online gameplay with an unbridled passion)?

Sorry to say, but you got robbed. You could have easily gotten the Half-Life Platinum pack for roughly the same amount, if not a little more, and gotten Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, TFC, and Counterstrike. You would have had to update CS online, but hey, big whoop.

Sorry, next time read the box more carefully.

jegs2 wrote:

Shogoki wrote:Yes, you can play in on a LAN Party

What's wrong with online gaming, anyway?

(I'll take that CDKEY and dispose of it properly if you don't plan to play online )

Hmm, no playing against the computer AI, eh?

Just never have liked online gameplay. Got soured on it after trying to play Diablo online and watching idiots use cheats to kill me and add to their "ear" collection.

Well, Diablo is about as piss-poor as it gets in terms of the quality of the online community. I suggest trying other games online, preferably not a Blizzard game (as they generally have poor communities).

JediNeophyte wrote:Well, Diablo is about as piss-poor as it gets in terms of the quality of the online community. I suggest trying other games online, preferably not a Blizzard game (as they generally have poor communities).

Counterstrike isn't much better, really.

Yes, Counter-Strike is only for online or LAN, but you can download some bots and play against AI.

Hotfoot wrote:

JediNeophyte wrote:Well, Diablo is about as piss-poor as it gets in terms of the quality of the online community. I suggest trying other games online, preferably not a Blizzard game (as they generally have poor communities).

Counterstrike isn't much better, really.

True, very true.

Wedge wrote:Yes, Counter-Strike is only for online or LAN, but you can download some bots and play against AI.

Thanks Wedge, I'll look into that.

Here Counterstrike is the most played FPS among the LAN community with the map dust2 as the top map. There are little kids 5-6 years old who can get a head shot with the AWP without using the scope..

God, why is it that I can never play Starcraft, Warcraft III, or Unreal Tournamant at a LAN these days? It's almost ALWAYS Counter-Strike for 99% of the time.

There's an alternative. You can get bots and play by yourself...

I recommend Realbot, or PODbot.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:God, why is it that I can never play Starcraft, Warcraft III, or Unreal Tournamant at a LAN these days? It's almost ALWAYS Counter-Strike for 99% of the time.

I agree, unless you're with friends it's hard to play RTS's at a LAN. Unless you know the network cafe's owner personally like me...

DPDarkPrimus wrote:God, why is it that I can never play Starcraft, Warcraft III, or Unreal Tournamant at a LAN these days? It's almost ALWAYS Counter-Strike for 99% of the time.

Here it's always CS and BF 1942.

After that one time where I emptied a magazine of a (IIRC) sub-machinegun into someone, firing from a crouched position and shooting in burst no less, and then still have that person just turn around gun me down in a couple of seconds, I've washed my hands of trying to play Counter-Strike online.

Give me Jedi Outcast anyday (even with all those arseholes who keep doing that sabre-copter crap).

Counterstrike: The Mos Eisley of the online gaming community. Addictive, fun... but CUTTHROAT. And don't be TOO skilled, either... the game has a habit of punishing skill and rewarding whininess. Watch your back, and don't expect things to be fair... and for Christ's sake, stop using "fag" as if it were the wittiest insult on God's green Earth. It ain't.

In short, Counterstrike is fun only if you know how to deal with it. Sorta like how some people enjoy lying on beds of nails or walking on hot coals.

SPOOFE wrote:Counterstrike: The Mos Eisley of the online gaming community. Addictive, fun... but CUTTHROAT. And don't be TOO skilled, either... the game has a habit of punishing skill and rewarding whininess. Watch your back, and don't expect things to be fair... and for Christ's sake, stop using "fag" as if it were the wittiest insult on God's green Earth. It ain't.

In short, Counterstrike is fun only if you know how to deal with it. Sorta like how some people enjoy lying on beds of nails or walking on hot coals.

*Sigh* I wish somebody told me all that, and how annoying the single player aspect of Half-Life can be (*grumble*), before I went out and brought the Half-Life Platinum Pack...

Counter Strike can be insanely fun, but be careful. The smartest thing to do is test different servers. Find one with a good admin and good rules that keeps both cheaters and whiners out of the game. These servers are some times hard to find and even more often filled to the brim, but they are worth it.

Lord of the Farce wrote:*Sigh* I wish somebody told me all that, and how annoying the single player aspect of Half-Life can be (*grumble*), before I went out and brought the Half-Life Platinum Pack...

Let me guess, you just got to Xen in Half-Life, right?

Lord of the Farce wrote:*Sigh* I wish somebody told me all that, and how annoying the single player aspect of Half-Life can be (*grumble*), before I went out and brought the Half-Life Platinum Pack...

Get Day of Defeat. Do it. Now.

I got the platinum pack, enjoyed HL, OF, and to a lesser extent BS.

Never was able to DL the patches to TF or CS to play online.

Hotfoot wrote:Let me guess, you just got to Xen in Half-Life, right?

Can't remember, it's been a while since I played. I do remember getting stuck in Opposing Force when that guy in the suit had the door to the landing area outside locked... And I remember Half-Life being one of the rare FPS to give me motion sickness after only a short playing time...

JediNeophyte wrote:Get Day of Defeat. Do it. Now.

No.

No.

Yes. Do it. Do it now. Lest I... I... um... SMITE THIS HANDY PIECE OF PAPER AT MY DESK! Yeah! So you get it, or the paper gets it!

Lord of the Farce wrote:

Hotfoot wrote:Let me guess, you just got to Xen in Half-Life, right?

Can't remember, it's been a while since I played. I do remember getting stuck in Opposing Force when that guy in the suit had the door to the landing area outside locked... And I remember Half-Life being one of the rare FPS to give me motion sickness after only a short playing time...

You got stuck...there? WTF? Dude, aliens warp in, explosion, new route. So incredibly easy. If worse comes to worse, just go to gamefaqs and look up the walkthrough for the various Half-Life games. No biggie.

Hotfoot wrote:You got stuck...there? WTF? Dude, aliens warp in, explosion, new route. So incredibly easy. If worse comes to worse, just go to gamefaqs and look up the walkthrough for the various Half-Life games. No biggie.

Neh? I think I got stuck after that bit out in the landing field and the mortars dropping down and the Spec Forces guys come down on their ropes (etc) and you have to crawl through some ventilation shaft and all that.

EDIT: Damn, now I'm getting Half-Life and Opposing Force single player messed up.