We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.

Now I beat Half-Life: Opposing Force. Hey, nothing says de-stressing like a genre that involves more adrenaline than you can handle! Less need for cheats in this one; it is a bit easier and there is far less platforming to screw up speedrunning your way out of a bad sitch (and practically no platforming while fighting off swarms of things).

Might be weaker than the first in plenty of respects, and surely they would have a hard time bringing back very much from it in the future, but it was a decent gaiden-type story that adequately explained the goings-on at Black Mesa after

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SpoilerGordon Freeman left for another dimension, and what the Marines must have thought about that stinker of a mission, though it seems to gloss over their overt cruelty on display in the first game.

I certainly don’t blame anyone who likes this one more than the first; there are plenty of things to like more (cool weapons! the idle animation where Shephard pets the Spore Launcher is both heartwarming and disturbing).

While much has already been said about the similarity between the final boss of this game and that of a certain more recent Gearbox offering, I just discovered it for myself.

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SpoilerNeither one was built up to well, though I guess the Gene Worm was slightly less disappointing since you could see a little bit about the Race X invasion that needs to be stopped. Still, it came out of nowhere; you only get notified of its existence right before you go fight it.

As far as expansion packs go, this one of the better ones I’ve played. It’s more of the same with enough difference to keep it from being pointlessly the same. In fact, it’s pretty much a whole new game; it just shares a lot of assets with the first. Not that anyone would be making a decision based on this, but I have to prattle about something, I just do.