Half-Life: Ways to amuse myself

[jeriendhal]

1. Play through the entire game again after installing the Russian language module, on the logic of fan speculation that City 17 is actually Sofia, Bulgaria, so everyone there (at least the non-Black Mesa folks) should be speaking some form of a slavic language. [1]

2. Wonder just why there are a quarter-million explosive barrels in the city? Are there no freaking gas stations left after the apocalypse, even in the CP controlled areas?

3. What are all those proles in the city doing? Except for the CP's and the resistance, no human beings have jobs except to stand around and be abused by their Evil Overlords. The only person you see doing any actual work until you hit Black Mesa East is one Vortiguant pushing around a broom at the train station.

4. Count how many times you pass that couple sitting on a couch comforting each other. I've gotten up to three so far

[1] Wierdly, if you try to set it for Japanese, you end up playing in English with subtitles. The Mandrian Chinese language module crashes early in Point Insertion, but I skipped forward to Red Letter Day and it seems to working fine now.

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

There is a whole other world that I have no idea about. I wonder if I'm going to be left behind on culture because of my disinterest in computer games.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Nah, there are always other things to be geeky about, and the sort who obsess about some of things I mentioned (like figuring out where the game is set going by the city architecture and translating the graffiti you see on the walls) is a subculture of a subculture.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I understood what you were doing. I've never even heard of the game you're talking about.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

It's Half-Life 2, released in 2004 a sequel to the earlier hit FPS (First Person Shooter) Half-Life, which came out in the dark ages of 1998. Basically it's the gold standard for action video games right now, with excellent plotting and characterization (for a video game anyway) and about as close to photo-real graphics as you're likely to see on a home computer.

[cho-hakkai.livejournal.com]

Ha ha well if you have Rockband at all you could amuse yourself like I did by creating a singer that looks exactly like Gordon Freeman and then dying of laughter everytime you play.
I seriously almost failed Dead of Alive by Bon Jovi because I couldn't stop laughing at the Irony of Gordon Freeman singing that song.