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Author: Lewis
Posted: December 26, 2008 (04:12 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
A thoroughly interesting take on the game. I like this sort of retrospective: an examination of exactly why something worked, and a challenging of popular belief, instead of a mere description of how good something is.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: December 26, 2008 (05:28 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Double wow. I was thinking of writing a Half Life review one of these days, but you've nixed that. I couldn't write one better than this. You've captured why HL is great. I don't know what else there is to say.
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Author: dagoss
Posted: December 26, 2008 (11:26 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Ha! I was expecting this "review" to be greeted with comments like "are you on crack?," "where do you get your crack?," and "can I buy some crack off you?" Now if only this same reversed self-actualizing could happen in the real world...
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Author: Lewis
Posted: December 27, 2008 (02:52 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You can sort us out with some crack as well, if you like.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: December 27, 2008 (04:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I once played Half Life up until the monorail stage when I forever stopped.
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: December 28, 2008 (09:47 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Me and Boo have nagged you forever to finish that game off. If this review really changes your mind about that, then that's great. It had more power than either our nagging or my review put together. Awesome. =D
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Author: Lewis
Posted: December 29, 2008 (01:19 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Um, Gary? The 'monorail stage'? As in, the introduction?
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: December 29, 2008 (06:07 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Foolish Lewis! Some way into the game, there is a section where you need to ride a train around behind the scences of Black Mesa. The level is call "On A Rail". It's as far as I got before quiting, because it's bloody awful.
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Author: Halon
Posted: December 29, 2008 (08:23 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Here's the official Black Mesa trailer. Hopefully it comes out in the next year or so because I'm sick of waiting for it.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: December 29, 2008 (10:53 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Gary: yeah, so not a monorail then.
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Author: Halon
Posted: December 29, 2008 (12:53 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I actually liked On a Rail quite a bit. Once you get the hang of the level it's actually pretty good.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: December 30, 2008 (03:01 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That was a very good and interesting review. I don't know that I necessarily agree with your argument, but you've legit given me something to think about and it's not many reviews that actually do that to anything like the degree this one has.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: December 30, 2008 (03:07 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Surface Tension is brilliant.
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