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Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
Best way to play Half Life 2 is to install SMOD and jump kick your way through the game. :mrgw:

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Mordja posted:

Best way to play Half Life 2 is to install SMOD and jump kick your way through the game. :mrgw:
The shovel in SMOD needs to be in every FPS

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

SMOD really does make the game fun as gently caress.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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half life was 17 years ago

:dogbutton:

there are probably people on this forum who were not alive when half life was released

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

If I was Gordon Freeman I would have gone up to G-Man and said "Half-Life? Lmao bitch I'm about that FULL LIFE." and pushed him out that gay interdimensional space tram then taken that interdimensional space tram and lived a full adventurous life traveling the cosmos.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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gman is gordon freeman from teh future

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

So he finally learned to talk but only like a retarded piece of poo poo.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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exactly, he was really self concious about his speaking disorder

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

How he swing crowbar so fast.

whatis
Jun 6, 2012
hl2 was good

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

Zzulu posted:

exactly, he was really self concious about his speaking disorder

W-Wake up, Mister Fre-Fr-Freeman. Wake up and. Get. To. Speech th-therapy classsss.

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

JebanyPedal posted:

How he swing crowbar so fast.

loving amp suit or whatevs, duh

ferroque
Oct 27, 2007

i would really love to read an article about the sound design in half life 2, because they really loving nailed it

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
Valve seemed to nail everything, like how to properly tell a story in first person. Then they decided they had nailed enough, and we'll get nothing more than TF2 hats.

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

Crow_Rodeo posted:

Valve seemed to nail everything, like how to properly tell a story in first person. Then they decided they had nailed enough, and we'll get nothing more than TF2 hats.

They realized they could never top Portal 2 and said F it, we'll just do steam and make a bank.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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Anyone into Valve games should read "Raising the bar"

it describes their process in detail. Oh and apparently it's free on the internet now:

:siren:http://it.scribd.com/doc/33209535/Half-Life-2-Raising-the-Bar-eBook#scribd:siren:

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed
Xen is not loving 1/3rd of the game, it's maybe a fifth

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Carol Pizzamom posted:

Xen is not loving 1/3rd of the game, it's maybe a fifth

Kok.

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvH9mwkvWIU

whatis
Jun 6, 2012

you know what would make a game more fun? skipping over as much of it as possible

-severe autist

hj henhemjamib
Sep 16, 2007
simply follow these steps and you be Whammin

Ferroque posted:

i would really love to read an article about the sound design in half life 2, because they really loving nailed it

this sort of blew my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNpfisnFMtQ

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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yeah but think of the achievement! To beat a game really fast... and the fame, of being the guy to beat game fast

whatis
Jun 6, 2012
hmmm this section is really good and fun but what if....what if i....

*opens door w/ butt while spinning counter-clockwise and mashing use key; entire game freezes and warps you two chapters forward for no apparent reason

yes! haha!

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



whatis posted:

you know what would make a game more fun? skipping over as much of it as possible

-severe autist

i dont get speedruns either

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

whatis posted:

you know what would make a game more fun? skipping over as much of it as possible

-severe autist

actually, hl1 is loving awesome to watch speed runs

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed

whatis posted:

hmmm this section is really good and fun but what if....what if i....

*opens door w/ butt while spinning counter-clockwise and mashing use key; entire game freezes and warps you two chapters forward for no apparent reason

yes! haha!

Accurate and fair depiction of HL1 speedruns, which are awesome

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

Zzulu posted:

Was Diablo 3 really that bad? I never did play it but it looked solid on youtube and stuff

it's fine if you just want to run through the dungeon, kill some monsters and beat the story. but if you want to sperg out about grinding endlessly for items i guess it was bad at that

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

whatis posted:

you know what would make a game more fun? skipping over as much of it as possible

-severe autist
I enjoy watching speedruns but the thing is that because of all of the planning, savescumming, scriptwriting, route optimization etc it's in reality more like "half life in 3-4 months" than "half life in 21 minutes"

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed

a hole-y ghost posted:

I enjoy watching speedruns but the thing is that because of all of the planning, savescumming, scriptwriting, route optimization etc it's in reality more like "half life in 3-4 months" than "half life in 21 minutes"

Half life is like, over 15 years old, and people have been speedrunning it for most of that

PantsandCola
Aug 17, 2013

you did good... you did good
hope valve never releases half life 3 because its gonna be poo poo.

circ dick soleil
Sep 27, 2012

by zen death robot
HL3 will be open-world.

PantsandCola
Aug 17, 2013

you did good... you did good
tf2 hats of what hl3 was going to be

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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I think if they release Half-Life 3 it's not going to be able to live up to expectations at all but still be a pretty solid game, because Valve is solid at the game making dealie.

It's not like there are a lot of other really good story driven FPS games around to compete with it

circ dick soleil
Sep 27, 2012

by zen death robot

whatis posted:

hmmm this section is really good and fun but what if....what if i....

*opens door w/ butt while spinning counter-clockwise and mashing use key; entire game freezes and warps you two chapters forward for no apparent reason

yes! haha!

Speedruns can be pretty cool actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gECESOoU8Es

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Apr 8, 2012

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Stick Figure Mafia
Dec 11, 2004

i wanna play through half life again with this mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJSBJ6gkMS0

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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there were like hundreds of mods for HL

i wish modern games were moddable like that

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed

Stick Figure Mafia posted:

i wanna play through half life again with this mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJSBJ6gkMS0

Ahahaha, I saw a city name sports team texture in there about halfway through

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Gordon is a highly trained professional
*Gordon is jumping around the room and sometimes humping the scientists' heads*

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Stick Figure Mafia
Dec 11, 2004

Quote-Unquote posted:

Gordon is a highly trained professional
*Gordon is jumping around the room and sometimes humping the scientists' heads*

There was a mod for Half Life 1 like a decade ago that was from some Barney's perspective that had a Gordon jumping around and breaking poo poo and doing stupid stuff. Plus you would always arrive just after the hero had killed everything in the room so there was nothing for you to do but to just move on to the next room.

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