great half life 2 comic

[Unstoppable]

Here ya go enjoy. It's finished and quite a good read. It's hilarious at times.

 

http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-05-01

[Unstoppable]

Holy shit I was eatuing some crumb cake and started drinking mountain dew. Then I read this part which is hilarious.

http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-12-12

 

Course you won't get it till you get to that part of the comic. Anyway I almost choked on some mountain dew. Rofl.

[Subjective Effect]

It's also really old news. It is funny though, I only read it all the way through recently.

[Crispy]

Maybe I should get around to playing that game sometime...

 

Nah.

[Subjective Effect]

Yes.

 

HL2 is a great game. Not just for the gameplay, which is varied and fun for a shooter, but for the story!

 

If you've played HL1 and remember what happened play HL2 - it has the best story/plot and the way it's told is fantastic.

[Unstoppable]

Yes.

 

HL2 is a great game. Not just for the gameplay, which is varied and fun for a shooter, but for the story!

 

If you've played HL1 and remember what happened play HL2 - it has the best story/plot and the way it's told is fantastic.

 

Half Life 2 is stellar. Deserves all the credit it has received. At first I got bored of it. However once you get past the first half of the game the second half of the storyline really becomes great. I just hadn't gave the game a chance before. I prefer to play on normal setting also. It just gets really good towards the end for me.

 

Recently beat Episode 1 which was sublime. Can't wait for Episode 2 Oct 10. Also played this single player mod called Prison Riot. Was quite good.

[Crispy]

I did play HL1 - finished it in fact - and the HL2 demo. I just don't really have time to play through an entire shooter, especially since the genre doesn't really interest me that much. I'd be playing for story, which is always tedious since you have to wade through the gameplay.

 

Why waste countless hours of my life on that when I could be working on something more interesting. Like optimising TDM AI.

[Domarius]

That's the best argument ever

 

Though if you ever have time; it's not so much the story that you play for, than how the action plays out. If you are absolutely sick to death of shooters and won't touch another one, you probably can't be persuaded to play through HL2, fact is it is a shooter and there is a lot of shooting involved.

 

But the creative scenery you're put into, and the scripted events that occour, all come together like you're in an action movie, and there are some really memoriable bits, like that huge coast drive in the buggy, really felt like a "huge coast drive" and a big adventure all in itself, and it's only one part of the game.

[Crispy]

I will play shooters occasionally - I had lots of fun with Prey, though haven't yet finished it (still meaning to get on to that). I just can't see myself taking the time to play a long one right through to the finish. I don't think I'll ever replay Half-Life 1, for example; way too many gameplay hours in that one. I take it that HL2 is shorter though?

[sparhawk]

HL2 is indeed shorter. But when I repelayed HL1 I had the impression that it was shorter than I remembered. Still it was longer than most games now, which is easy, because nowadays companies seem to try to give you a single level for full price.

[Domarius]

Well HL1 is just mostly the same thing all the way through. HL2, the scenery and interesting level design, and plot, and action sequences, all keep changing as you go.

[sparhawk]

Don't know about the plot, but the level design and overall presentation was indeed very good.

[Domarius]

Well the plot was always present, whenever someone met you and talked to you, you had a new task to acheive, and on the way something might happen and things would change, or you'd arrive and meet the people you were told to meet, and something else cool would happen, and scripted buildings would collapse, etc. none of the cheap "plot" tricks from games like Doom 3, eg. "Go meet team X and help them" and JUST before you get there - oh surprise surprise, they all get killed in a cut scene, and you enter the room and are greeted with, not some new characters or anything, just more dead bodies, like every other room.

[Crispy]

HL1 had its moments too - like the bit where

you face off against those ninja things and then get all your weapons taken away

. And when you first see the military and

they shoot the scientist who thinks they're coming to save everyone

. And your first headcrab, without a weapon! Heh heh...

 

Oh, and the blast chamber bit was cool, if slightly tedious

(moving silently is hard when you're not Garrett)

and way too noisy

(stop pecking the bloody walkways, you stupid alien, it's making my ears hurt!).

 

 

Not much in the way of plot though.

[Macsen]

I don't get it... (turns to next page) ... I don't get it... (turns to next page) ... I don't get it... (turns to next page) ... I don't get it... (turns to next page) ... I don't get it... (turns to next page) ...I don't get it... (turns to next page) ...I don't get it... (turns to next page) ...

[Ombrenuit]

It might be funny...if I was stoned off my ass

[Unstoppable]

The orange box owns. Teamfortress 2 is endless hours of fun. Peggle extreme free 10 levels is fun lil game. Portal is a great game not to be underestimated. Half Life 2 is stellar. Episode 1 is decent. Episode 2 is sublime. All for 45 bucks if you pre ordered. Ownage.

[Ombrenuit]

The orange box owns. Teamfortress 2 is endless hours of fun. Peggle extreme free 10 levels is fun lil game. Portal is a great game not to be underestimated. Half Life 2 is stellar. Episode 1 is decent. Episode 2 is sublime. All for 45 bucks if you pre ordered. Ownage.

 

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. I also never actually bought Half Life 2... . I only pirated it ^^; heh. So it would be nice to replay through that. I just need to find some time.