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Originally Posted by Prophecy
As for Half-Life, well I'm not trying to be rude, but what exactly did Half-Life bring to the table to warrant an honorable mention in the greatest games of all time list? From what I remember Half-Life just took the standard fair of the day and did it extremely well, but added nothing ground-breaking to the genre.
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Well... Half Life was one of the first, if not the first, FPS to have a story that develops around you as the main character in real time. It didn't really bring anything new to the table in regards to the action, but the way that the story developed was pretty revolutionary and has subsequently been imitated by just about every other FPS since.
But, I think Quake 1 was more important due to the fact that (I think) it was the first FPS to allow people to run servers and join and leave games as they please, rather than having to start a game with everybody there. It really changed the way FPS, and pretty much all online games, are played.