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https://www.patreon.com/henrytaiwan Haven't played it since 0.42 came out a couple of years back so thought I'd revisit it. Cue me losing track of time and finally getting to bed at approx 5 this morning.
What are you playing this weekend/these days?
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More https://www.patreon.com/henrytaiwan this time I got to bed at approx 6 this morning. In other news I have been banned from playing the game for a while.
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Just finished HL: Blue Shift. Not a great expansion. Rather annoying in places. And I forgot how bad torchlight is in those old games. There was a lot of squinting involved, complemented by the bad monitor I have to use at the moment. And apparently there's no subtitles 
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I actually played it a long time ago, when it came out, and I remember it as a fun game. I played many expansions for Half-Life 1. Maybe it was the shiny helmet.Just finished HL: Blue Shift. Not a great expansion. Rather annoying in places. And I forgot how bad torchlight is in those old games. There was a lot of squinting involved, complemented by the bad monitor I have to use at the moment. And apparently there's no subtitles
The Dreamcast port also contained this expansion: https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_(Dreamcast_port)
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I found the expansions of Half-Life very interesting because them shared the same story, and happens at the same time, but with different point of views, also in every expansion there are visual connections to the main game (or to the other expansions), so you can understand better what is happening in the main story while your actual character is doing alternative things.
Half-Life - is the POV of Gordon Freeman.
HL: Blue Shift - is the POV of Barney, the policeman that can be seen punching a door at the start of the main game.
HL: Opposing Force - is the POV of one of the military men sent to attack the laboratory.
There were also different great fan projects that continued the trend, I'll list only the best two that I remember, but there were more:
HL: Point Of View - is the POV of one of the aliens that appears at the laboratory, and it's DEEP, damn this game adds a lot to the lore, even more than the official expansions, it starts in the alien world and you can see how it was managed.
HL: Azure Sheep - is the POV of another Policeman trying to save a colleague. It has a connection to the previous "Point Of View MOD" as them share some same locations where, well, in both MODs you can see the other protagonist from the other point of view ...
Half-Life - is the POV of Gordon Freeman.
HL: Blue Shift - is the POV of Barney, the policeman that can be seen punching a door at the start of the main game.
HL: Opposing Force - is the POV of one of the military men sent to attack the laboratory.
There were also different great fan projects that continued the trend, I'll list only the best two that I remember, but there were more:
HL: Point Of View - is the POV of one of the aliens that appears at the laboratory, and it's DEEP, damn this game adds a lot to the lore, even more than the official expansions, it starts in the alien world and you can see how it was managed.
HL: Azure Sheep - is the POV of another Policeman trying to save a colleague. It has a connection to the previous "Point Of View MOD" as them share some same locations where, well, in both MODs you can see the other protagonist from the other point of view ...
I played HL2 today. I can't tell if it's overrated or not. I don't like it as much as Portal but it is very pleasant. I'm downloading the Dreamcast version now. I hope it will be more pixelated than HL2 on PS3. I'm really into pixelation.
kuru
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Heh. I also started HL2 again today. The recent offer on steam included both episodes. Not sure about episode 1, but definitely haven't played 2.
BTW this is free, short and sweet: ...and apparently "no longer available in [my] country": Transmissions: Element 120.
BTW this is free, short and sweet: ...and apparently "no longer available in [my] country": Transmissions: Element 120.
If it is I haven't noticed. It's been a few years since I've read about red shift in sci-fi and only just got double meaning in the title. It had always been the shift of the security guy in my mind, I never had a second thought.
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I've recently re-discovered Midwinter (the DOS version). An early first-person open-world game that I guess could be seen like a proto Far Cry (2+). Set in a post-apocalyptic world covered in snow you play some kind of militia member who discovers that a general is attacking the local federation of free cities.
Your goal is to travel to the enemy HQ and blow it up before the advancing enemy units capture some strategic buildings around the map. But you start the game with only your pair of skis, a sniper rifle and a few grenades while being chased by an enemy unit of about 60 (from what I've read) vehicles with homing missiles. You can evade them and make your way to the enemy HQ (by skis, snowmobile, handglider or most likely a combination of these) while evading the other enemy units but it's not easy. To raise your chances you can recruit people (up to 32 characters, each with their own stats) and wage some kind of guerrilla war, sabotaging factories, slowing down enemy units, etc.
The game is played in 2 in-game hours increment. Once you've recruited more people, you can play each one of them during these two hours and then you advance the time. So there's a mix of first-person action (mostly skiing/driving/gliding around and sometimes trying to shoot down enemies) and strategy (deciding how to best use your troops, where to ambush the enemy, what to sabotage, etc.)
It's a bit difficult to get started but once I was able to get my footing I had a lot of fun. The skiing/driving/gliding part is pleasing (even if the controls are a bit dated). Your characters need to eat and rest and avoid injuries (or heal each other and/or rest if injured) which really helps build the atmosphere of trying to survive in a hostile environment. My main problem so far is the combat, maybe it's because it was meant to play at a lower FPS but most of the time I hardly have time to find the enemy vehicle (due to technical limitations you only face one vehicle at a time) before I'm hit by one of their homing missiles.
I really like the FPS/survival/strategy blend and would be interested to see a modern take on it.
Your goal is to travel to the enemy HQ and blow it up before the advancing enemy units capture some strategic buildings around the map. But you start the game with only your pair of skis, a sniper rifle and a few grenades while being chased by an enemy unit of about 60 (from what I've read) vehicles with homing missiles. You can evade them and make your way to the enemy HQ (by skis, snowmobile, handglider or most likely a combination of these) while evading the other enemy units but it's not easy. To raise your chances you can recruit people (up to 32 characters, each with their own stats) and wage some kind of guerrilla war, sabotaging factories, slowing down enemy units, etc.
The game is played in 2 in-game hours increment. Once you've recruited more people, you can play each one of them during these two hours and then you advance the time. So there's a mix of first-person action (mostly skiing/driving/gliding around and sometimes trying to shoot down enemies) and strategy (deciding how to best use your troops, where to ambush the enemy, what to sabotage, etc.)
It's a bit difficult to get started but once I was able to get my footing I had a lot of fun. The skiing/driving/gliding part is pleasing (even if the controls are a bit dated). Your characters need to eat and rest and avoid injuries (or heal each other and/or rest if injured) which really helps build the atmosphere of trying to survive in a hostile environment. My main problem so far is the combat, maybe it's because it was meant to play at a lower FPS but most of the time I hardly have time to find the enemy vehicle (due to technical limitations you only face one vehicle at a time) before I'm hit by one of their homing missiles.
I really like the FPS/survival/strategy blend and would be interested to see a modern take on it.
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