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Okay so bait thread aside, let's start a proper conversation: Opposing Force is the WORST entry in the Half-Life series and is extremely overrated. To note:
>Bloated weapon set which make HL1's already bloated set look perfectly reasonable, you'll end up relying on two weapons by the end game
>Bloated, EXTREMELY SHIT enemy roster made of bulletsponges that can kill you on three or four shots on hard, uses minibosses like the Assassins as standard enemies and has no alternate ways of dealing with them besides using the optimal, obvious weapon choices
>Xenians replaced with boring "Race X" aliens which are just shittier, dumber Xenians. Also Gonomes are insanely stupid
>Map design is complete shit, confusing as fuck and arenas are often designed to give you little cover and allow enemies to get the jump on you instead of giving the player a fair chance
>HECU "allies" have as much health as base HL1 HECU soldiers and most of the time carry the standard MP5s or SPAS-12s meaning they die extremely fast to the new bulletsponge enemies, making them useless. Engineers don't have bonuses to keeping them alive, they just open doors in set locations and serve for escort missions. Medics are just mobile health chargers with no regenerating health or anything making them practically useless once you've gotten the 25HP from them or whatever.
>Lore is completely retarded, from Race X and the Black Ops which fit about as well as the shit Return to Ravenholm tried to pull, to the nuking of Black Mesa which even Laidlaw regrets
>There is little effort put into environment and horror apart from a few destroyed buildings and whatnot, as opposed to something like Blue Shift which spends its time building up the world and ambiance perfectly
>Random shit happens constantly like that one scientist in the underwater chapter dying for no fucking reason
>No new, memorable characters
>Colette is fucking dead for some reason
>Adrian is a boring Gary Stu

What a joke of a game