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.

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[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.