Ships Ahoy - Half-Life 2: Episode One [Jun 01, 2006, 6:42 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Valve announces that Half-Life 2: Episode One is now available via
Steam:
Valve Launches First of an Episodic Trilogy
Bellevue, WA, June 1, 2006 - Valve®, developer of the blockbuster series Half-Life® and Counter-Strike™, announced Half-Life® 2: Episode One is now available via Steamgames.com for just $19.95 and at retail outlets around the world.
The first in a trilogy of episodic games, Episode One reveals the aftermath of Half-Life 2 and launches a journey beyond City 17. Episode One does not require Half-Life 2 to play and also includes a first look at Episode Two, which will ship by year's end.
In addition to the new single player experience, two multiplayer games are included. And those who purchase Episode One will have free access via Steam (www.steamgames.com) to Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, the interactive technology demo that introduces High Dynamic Range lighting to the SourceTM Engine, Valve's award-winning game technology.
He isn't the brains, he's the brawn.
He does things his way, but he does what people more knowledgeable about the situation have told him to do. People he knows and trusts.
His place isn't to question. It's to act. He's not mindless, he's the best killing machine the world has seen.
And yes, maybe he's just a tool of brains above him, but all the more reason not to say anything.
The bottom line for me is that dialogue by the character when I'm in the character's eyes pisses me off. I can take it from external cut-scenes, but not in the eyes of the character, because I've yet to see a game where the character doesn't say something absurd and ridiculous. Half Life keeps you in Gordon's eyes the entire time. It's better to keep Gordon silenced than to have him say things the player would never say, or ask questions the player has already figured out the answer to.
I can understand keeping quiet.
I'd never be able to understand asking dumb questions. Or worse, tolerating someone else being an idiot. Being quiet is the solution to all of this. His response is what the player makes it. Is he quiet because he doesn't care? Is he quiet because he accepted his fate? Is he quiet because he has nothing nice to say so better to bite his tongue?
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He does things his way, but he does what people more knowledgeable about the situation have told him to do. People he knows and trusts.
His place isn't to question. It's to act. He's not mindless, he's the best killing machine the world has seen.
And yes, maybe he's just a tool of brains above him, but all the more reason not to say anything.
The bottom line for me is that dialogue by the character when I'm in the character's eyes pisses me off. I can take it from external cut-scenes, but not in the eyes of the character, because I've yet to see a game where the character doesn't say something absurd and ridiculous. Half Life keeps you in Gordon's eyes the entire time. It's better to keep Gordon silenced than to have him say things the player would never say, or ask questions the player has already figured out the answer to.
I can understand keeping quiet.
I'd never be able to understand asking dumb questions. Or worse, tolerating someone else being an idiot. Being quiet is the solution to all of this. His response is what the player makes it. Is he quiet because he doesn't care? Is he quiet because he accepted his fate? Is he quiet because he has nothing nice to say so better to bite his tongue?
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Doomriders: the first new band worth a signature - http://www.deathwishinc.com/
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Music for the discerning:
http://www.deathwishinc.com
http://www.hydrahead.com
http://www.painkillerrecords.com
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