Sure, the PC version of Half-Life was a great game, but I'm more of an old-school guy. That's why I preferred the classic NES original. That game offered a lot of 8-bit, crowbar-swinging good times. I'm also not a fan of those fancy 3D graphics. Nothing beats pixels [via VGBoxArt]:
That's not even original art.
See for yourselves - http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-arcade-artist/3512764490/ - Gordon sprite and similiar style box art
Head crab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-arcade-artist/4043785173/
All this was created by an artist named Arcade Art. I hate people who rip off original art and call it theirs. Like they won't get caught.
You know, if someone did a sort of NES or SNES "hack" of Half Life (say, Half Life as a Metroid-vania game, or an action-platformer) I'd play it. For that matter, if Valve decided to (after finishing Half Life Episode 3 or something) to do a 2D platformer version of Half-Life, in a 16-bit style (say, as an homage to Blackthorne, or Out of this World or something), for DSiWare (or even as a released DS game), I'd definitely buy it.
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