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A lot of the "invincibility" and mystique about him was lost in Wrath when he'd show up to punish or do something to one of his minions and leave you standing there perfectly unharmed (except for once when you first get there and get to close to him).

Instead it has the stupid "wait for the elevator in the pitch black room" section. At least you got to shoot something... I do admit that I went overboard when shuttling refugees from one spot into the train station when I took out a sniper with an RPG.

I heard rumors that they were putting the portal girl into Half Life continuity and that Gordon might get the portal gun in the next episode. Again, merely rumor.

Studied geology for about 5 hours then raided and then beat Episode One.

... the amount of shrubbery used in that shot is amazing.

Steam requires an online check when you are installing but you can play in offline mode after it's been installed. And like I said, you're just as likely to loose a disk as Valve going under and Steam's servers shutting down, given that so many publishers have invested in steam. Valve does not need to go under to shut down servers... They just need to get the idea of changing business model and start to thing keeping Steam up is not so cost effective and turn them off... big corporations made lot of these before even while they were in big profits, some changed their decision after public outrage some not... http://www.dailytech.com/MSN+Music+Authent...rticle11585.htm http://www.dailytech.com/Sony+Disconnects+...article8669.htm Given that Steam is the only way that Valve likes to distribute their product it seems unlikely that they'll take it down (again, they don't have to pay a publisher like EA part of the profits from the sales because they don't have to go through said company) Plus there are other companies that might go back and hold it up, Ubisoft and EA have both started releasing their products via Steam, and THQ is in love with it, so it feels like it's going to be the ITunes of video game D2Drive stuff vs those two above you've posted.

Decided to hammer out Episode one. It's actually got a lot less of the stand around and talk parts.

You are depressed because we have a president who's taking responsibility and is concerned about civil rights? You frighten me

I think the MGS4 bundle was designed to get rid of the last of the "old model" PS3's. Honestly it's probably more cost effective to pick up a PS2 right now.

If you'd just stop running in front of me... Actually I either hang back or stay way out in front because I've got the hunting rifle and am popping zombies left and right, also the fact that it's very exact about where it goes keeps my friendly fire low.

... I'll still have less than you next time we play :D

Steam requires an online check when you are installing but you can play in offline mode after it's been installed. And like I said, you're just as likely to loose a disk as Valve going under and Steam's servers shutting down, given that so many publishers have invested in steam.

The thing about steam is that unless you want to install it you can keep the information on valves (I guess) server, rather than with you. You can put Steam on any computer and download all the programs that you own onto that computer. As long as you remember your Steam ID you can pick the steam framework back and just re-dl the games that you want to play. As to what happens if Steam/Valve/all those publishers in Steam go bankrupt, but from the looks of it Valve is earning money hand over fist with the system because they don't have to pay distributors or publishers really to produce the game, they just pop it up on Steam.

Objectively wrong. The what WAS the mood? All I saw were regular farmhouses, some everyday beaches and cliffs, and typical europe-looking city with a few fugly black walls and screens added. It was pretty much "Humanity is in peril. Save them." Everyone's strangely cheerful attitude made the invading combine look like a joke. Ravenholm had a nice zombie-town atmosphere though, if it weren't broken by the line of infinitely spawned zombies (I'm serious, you could see they were spawned at the exact same interval, too). And the Citadel was your average sci-fi citadel. Basically what I'm saying is there was nothing of interest in the environments or set pieces. For me Valve put together one of the best feelings of you're in something big, when you're zipping through the citadel in that people capture thing. I mean you look around and it's cavernous and there are striders walking so far below you they look like toys. Also some of the visuals are well done in Half Life (the destroyed city 17 for example). They do however have the problem of trying to keep the formula the same (with the story telling etc) when the formula has been done so much it falls into the "Seinfeld isn't funny" category.

too late, as in pregnancy test positive! Wait, what? No don't worry, I'm not really pregnant Wait, Bokoshi the Hutt King of graphics is actually a Queen!?

It's Ninja Scroll. Every moment is EXACTLY the wrong time for one's mother to find one watching it. ... She was ok with the violence of it (we'd had to persuade her that we weren't violent... we couldn't watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when we were little so this was a breakthrough) but the one part where there was nudity... THAT'S when she walked in.

I actually played that tonite. It was very pretty and smooth, but I thought it was damn difficult. I died trying to blow up a bridge, I died trying to defend a guy who was supposed to open a door, I died everywhere. But for my cousin who actually owns the PS3 and loved Halo, I think it's a perfect match. From what I've heard the biggest gripe is that you always have AI teammates but you can't pull in a player to make things ZIP along. ... That reminds me I should really finish Resistance 2.

Half Life 2 is a very boring game. The stupid combine do nothing but run straight at you and provide no challenge at all because they only take 2 shots to the foot to die. If I have to stand there and listen to someone talk for 15 minutes one more time, the whole series is going in the garbage where it rightfully belongs. The only entertaining part of Half Life 2 was baiting the CP guys in the train station by continually throwing garbage at them and laughing in their face as they try to run after you only to slink away in defeat because they don't know how to jump a two foot barrier. This is just me, but the reason Half Life 2 is so boring is because it's actually trying to convey a story. It was also pretty advanced when it came out in terms of enemy AI and some of the things you did. Only problem is everyone improved on the Half Life formula so much Half Life 2 seems to be boring (I'd probably put Call of Duty as the successor to Half Life in terms of story and gameplay) And Dagon, I hated Halo2. It pulled the Metal Gear Solid 2 twist by having you run around as the Arbiter, and it didn't really have an ending. Other than that I found it to be a very by the book shooter. Half Life wrote the book that halo went by btw.

YOU'RE the one with the weird unit system, you convert it. Actually it's a german system, 100F is his wifes temp (when she was menstruating so she was hotter than normal), and 0 is the coldest day in his village.

I lurv steam. It's an amazing tool to keep track of all the games that you have.

Some people didn't like it because most of the content was optional, and the Uncharted Worlds were just episodes of the mundane. I loved it personally (and if you're willing to dig, you can find where me and Wrath duked it out over ME) Also Eat Lead looks like it might be fun in a Weird Al sort of way.

Seconded. But the whiners coming out of the woodworks are just part of the natural reaction any successful product has. It's the same reason people feel the need to complain about The Dark Knight. Coincidentally, it's also a natural reaction to a crap game, funny how that works. Actually it's a little bit of both. Alot of kids today will take what ever is beloved by many and indifferent to them in general and call it crap because it's cool to buck the trend. Also all of your gripes about Mass Effect can also be applied equally, if not better, to your favorite game Kotor1.

Actually Valve made it so that the campaign Expert achievements were cumulative I think (so if you did the last two levels in one play through and the first three in another play through you get the achievement). I THINK, I'm not sure on that. Also your post about the party swap outs is why I usually play with friends or if the friend leaves I quickly invite another friend to the game.

How about the one that's beet red and has a skin cancer!? In all seriousness, Can somebody please convert this to Fahrenheit? I suck at math at the moment (but it looks like my two biggest prospects for a major at CC are going to require A LOT of math... them being business and Geology.)

My brother had rented Ninja Scroll dvd and my mom walked in on him at EXACTLY the wrong time... What's that? Oh... this is supposed to be video games... ... The first time an armored replica came through the door in FEAR with that Penetrator 10mm I jumped like a cat. I also leaped out of my skin at one point during sixth sense (the ghost who vomited on the kid and had died because her mother poisoned her) And I forgot, resident Evil 3 Nemesis when Nemesis first blows through a wall (as he randomly does) and all you've got is a pistol.