WILL THE ALMIGHTY

You really should. The ending is fantastic.

So you need to be European to enjoy Half-life 2?

I didn't have much interest or hope for this game anyways. And you have to expect the bioware fanboys will be all over it for no goddamn reason.

Screw it, I'm not playing these games for the story. This **** makes no sense.

You could make a backup DVD/CD.

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.

The weapons were pretty cheap/old meets new. I have to wonder, would Crimson Skies (1 or 2) qualify as Steampunk?

In restrospect, Dog was the most interesting character in HL2, excluding the Gman, who says 3 lines of dialogue throughout the game.

I might get a PS3 (if only for the blu-ray for the new HDTV), but this is definitly the first game I'm checking out. Unless Team Ico announces something. In which case I will buy a PS3 without any other reason.

Am I the only one who noticed HL2 didn't have any mood/ambiance at all? Except maybe for Ravenholm, but still. Portal makes up for it though.

HL2 had a story?

It made sense 5 minutes ago so I'll stick with it. Strange. Bioware usually excels at hyping its games. :/

I honestly think they're getting worse after every game. But I still liked Mass Effect, so I want to continue the series, if only to see where it goes. Dragon Age looks mehtacular to me, and Obs could do much more with the KotOR license than Bioware.

Think about it this way: We've already got the silent assassin gameplay, heavy weapons guy gameplay and traps n' melee gameplay. All we need is western gameplay, with guys in longcoats and hats, dual-wielding pistols painted gold.

I am cautious/optimistic.

The 90 hour mark is total bull****, as is every single estimated game time these days. Dead Space was said to last 20 hours, for example. Looks like it'll definitly be a good RPG, but I'm not playing it. The only thing I will ever touch from Bioware nowadays is Mass Effect. Not even Kotor 3.

Of course Halo 3 was dumb. I said more fun and entertaining. Hell, at least there was a semblance of ambiance. Deraldin pretty much sums up what I have to say about it.

I would very much like to know what Obsidian's devs think about the Wii, or DRM, or even casual gaming. Or just random drunks yelling would do.

Halo 3 was a lot more fun and entertaining than Half-life 2. *equips +10 flameshield*

Fine then. But you could never kill Zombie Longcat.

Give me a revolver and I will be happy. Any revolver, doesn't matter. Add a silencer if you feel like it.

HL2 was the most boring shooter I've ever played. :S So basically recite facts? Got it. You forgot -Defend your favorite console like it's your firstborn -Whine about the Wii killing gaming Being a console fanboy makes you seem pathetic to the elites of PC gaming. Therefore you would not be cool. The second one works though.

Would you kill zombie kittens?

I like to think my -30C is worse. Or at least deadlier.

There's something very wrong with that timeline. The Pointman would be... six? Something like that?