i know i'm kinda late for this but... HALF LIFE 2

the game definitely has a bunch of points where you're kind of shaking your head about where to go. in particular, i remember after this one boss fight, you're outside in the ruins of this building. after you win you're supposed to actually climb on top of the building rails and then over a wall, but at the time it's completely unclear how you get there, what direction to go in - even after giving up and finally going into a faq, it still took me a while to figure it out

that said, the game's like 90% great so i forgave it

i always forget to look for vents when i don't know how to get out of a room.

yeah, or a few planks of wood covering up a hole that can easily be removed with a crowbar

haha so after all my bitching sat down tonight and beat that dumb room on my first try - memo to self WALK AWAY SOMETIMES

getting left 4 dead totally stalled me out on HL2, even though i only have two chapters left.

The first couple chapters and the last couple chapters are the best bits

i was surprised how super easy the end was. i started episode one and i'm digging the quiet horror movie vibe in the falling-apart citadel.

It was surprising! But it was also a lot of fun with the SGG -- I almost wish more games would just let you go all-out and utterly destroy everyone with ease towards the end game, it's definitely different from the usual difficulty ramp up.

it's kinda weird to back and forth between HL2 and left4dead, in HL2 i keep wanting to shove back zombies before shooting them and thinking that some crazy-ass zombie is going to haul off my partner with its tongue.

finished episode one, started ep 2, so far i like it a lot more, more puzzly, less shoot shit forever going on.

i liked the 3d mazey bit at the beginning (if it's the bit i'm thinking of). must play through this again now i've the computer to do it justice.

if you want puzzles you should try the mod i linked to - http://www.moddb.com/mods/research-and-development

have downloaded that. need to copy all my steam games to new laptop before i can play it though.

i think the key word in the above was 'bit' 8) was nice as a prelude and a scene setter. an entire game of that would drive me batshit.

the mod ain't long, a couple of hours perhaps, and there's a fair amount of variety. also a few enormously frustrating bits, to be fair. it is brilliantly done though, could easily be taken for a valve release.

that looks awesome, too bad i'm playing on xbox

zing

almost finished episode 2 last night, but it got late and i had to take a break. too many striders!

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2001/11/14/MoriaAragorn.jpghttp://the-hobbit-movie.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/aragorn.bmphttp://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2006/10/ghosts_goblins_and_difficulty/aragorn.jpg

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You don't know your LoTR?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragorn

o rite

hilarious i know

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/escape-from-city-17/

A coupla guys shot their own live-action short using game elements and Children of Men/District 9 handheld cam

finished episode 2. cheerful

trying to think of other games with "endings" like that, and kind of drawing a blank.

EP 3 NOW

WE DEMAND JUSTICE

Dino D-Day - Half life 2 mod with Nazis, dinosaurs and Nazi dinosaurs!

http://www.moddb.com/mods/dino-d-day/news/dino-d-day-the-mod-released

dinosaurs is a good idea. i suppose turok did dinosaurs but i can't think of anything else.

(maybe 3d monster maze...)

There was Dino Crisis but that was third person Resi style control (and therefore a pain in the ass when a fucking dinosaur is running at you, they're a bit more agile than yer average old skool zombie).

I couldn't get it to work - "Could not load client library" error. I'll piss about with it tonight again and see how I get on.

cadillacs and dinosaurs !

fuck ravenholm

i didn't sign up for some "survival horror" b.s.

scaredy cat

it's all about the buzzsaw blades. great level.

it's alright but it was a pretty severe shift from the relatively placid "riding around in a boat and occasionally shooting a couple of soldiers" level

that's life in a dystopia dude

that boat was fucking hard to turn around. way more frustrating than zombies.

remind me of the boat again?

http://gamerlimit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/half-life-2-hovercraft-500x375.jpg

i guess it's a hovercraft, whatever

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/151/WHATEVER~What-Ever-Posters.jpg

otm

http://www.cracked.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/seaspray1.jpg

http://grab.by/1ls1

I beat ravenholm with no guns in my second playthrough (first on pc, second on xbox), forgot the fucking cross bow at the end of the level and didnt have any good saves that weren't the beginning of ravenholm so I quit. =(

I had trouble getting through Ravenholm unless I brought Dog's ball with me and left it for the zombies to fight over in the bit of town where they keep spawning and you have to ride a basket in a cable car type thing.

hah, i remember being super annoyed by that specific section - i spent forever hopping between rooftops, trying to figure out where the switches were

is that the part where you can drop a car on a bunch of zombies? that was key.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EHPtG9Pu3E

is it necessary to play through HL before jumping into HL2 - I've been trying to play through HL but it just feels so dated