Every now and again, erstwhile Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw talks wistfully about his hopes for the series - and we all wistfully return there with him, reminiscing about a brave boy named Gordon who kept on getting into scrapes with aliens.
In a recent interview, however, Laidlaw mentioned that his favourite game isn’t Half-Life 2. It’s Dark Souls. At the moment he said it, something clicked – Half-Life, Dark Souls, the connection makes sense.
It was enough to bring Dark Souls devotee Rich and Half-Life mourner Jeremy together, to have a nice chat about why Laidlaw’s pick of favourite game makes sense. Here, Rich and Jeremy discuss what the two games have in common, and whether one could stand to learn from the other.
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Jeremy: Hi Rich. When was the last time you thought about the Half-Life story? I remember it was quite important to me at one time, but it’s since drifted into a fuzzier realm of sentimental fondness.
Rich: Hey Jeremy! To be honest, Half-Life’s story didn’t have much of an impact on me – the first game affected me much more than the second, and its story was pretty minimal. It was richer in Half-Life 2, but even then it never felt like much more than context, which is why I found Laidlaw’s comments about Dark Souls so interesting.

I think most players also see Dark Souls’s story as context, but I’m the mirror of you in the sense that, having explored it, it’s become very important to my enjoyment of the series at this point.
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