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Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real!

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject	Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real!
Date	2024-11-07 20:30 +0000
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 21:39 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 19:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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>>I have both on steam, I just haven't beaten them ^^
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> Have you _played_ them, though? Or do they exist in your library just
> to bolster The Number?
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> (Not that the latter is a bad thing, of course. I would never speak
> evil of The Number. Please don't report me to the Inquisition. I
> couldn't face another session with the Comfy Chair.)
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> Although it's forgivable if you haven't played "Half Life" at all.
> With so many other, more modern titles to choose from, it's easy just
> to pick one of those and just skip that silly game the old timers keep
> harping on about. A lot of what made "Half Life" so memorable --so
> revolutionary-- is taken for granted today. It's just what we expect
> from a modern FPS, which took the "Half Life" formula and gave it two
> decades of polish.
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> So going back and playing "Half Life" today it's hard to see what the
> fuss is about; it seems a rather ordinary shooter with decades old
> graphics. As I've maintained, I still think it's a terrific shooter
> -it has (mostly) excellent pacing, good level design, and satisfying
> AI. But it doesn't stand out against stuff like "Dead Space" or "Call
> of Duty CMXXVI" or "Horizon Zero Dawn". It's merely good-not-great,
> with the further downside of being butt-ugly. You have to put in
> effort to appreciate it ... but it's worth it.*
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> * These posts are not sponsored by Valve. But they should be. Call me,
> Gabe; my rates are reasonable! ;-)


I did play both, but I got stuck in HL1 because my version was bugged
and water had no transparency which made part of it impossible, and
HL2 I think I stopped around the Nova Prospekt intro because I couldn't
figure out how to take down the gunships.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-03 11:05 -0500
  Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-04 08:54 +0000
    Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-04 12:30 +0000
      Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-04 10:48 -0500
        Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-04 22:49 +0000
          Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-05 11:00 -0500
            Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-06 01:48 +0000
              Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-06 19:00 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-07 02:19 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-07 21:40 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-11-08 11:59 +0100
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-08 18:10 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-08 17:52 -0800
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-09 02:20 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-08 21:34 -0800
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) - 2024-11-10 16:11 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-11 01:40 +0000
            Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-06 10:18 +0000
              Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-06 18:42 -0600
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-07 02:22 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-07 10:22 -0500
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-07 11:07 +0000
                Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-07 10:46 -0600
        Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-06 19:00 +0000
          Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-06 16:39 -0500
            Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-07 20:30 +0000
  Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-11-04 12:11 +0100
    Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-04 11:40 -0600
    Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-04 12:53 -0500
      Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-05 07:20 -0800
        Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-06 11:05 +0000
          Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-06 18:43 -0600
  Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> - 2024-11-04 18:52 -0700
  Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-12 13:57 -0500
    Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-12 22:20 +0000
      Re: Half-Life 3 Confirmed! For real! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-12 18:25 -0500

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