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Plants? Awesome.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
Now, how about EPISODE FUCKING THREE?
Now, how about EPISODE FUCKING THREE?
figmentPez
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How do you know this isn't Episode 3?
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Looks like Glados might be around still too... unless that thing is going to house the founder of the company like it is rumored.
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Sweet can't wait. Can't believe I lost my orange box though 
I think the Counter-Strike guys work for Valve now, so this would technically be true. Even if they weren't, it wouldn't exist without Half-Life.Any news what it's gonna be about?!
Creators of CS?!
Shot in the dark guess, but...portals. *ducks!*
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figmentPez
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Kotaku has some major spoilers: An Insider's Guide to Portal 2
In short it revolves around Chell's interactions with the computer simulation of Aperture Science's founder Cave Johnson, who becomes increasingly unhinged as the game goes on
Also Kotaku says that the cooperative multiplayer mode will have an "entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters,"
I'd like to wave this in the face of whoever said Valve was too busy with DLC for TF2 and L4D to make anything else this year.
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Half Life and Portal are two very different games. I don't find it at all surprising that someone might love one while not caring for the other.
I'm not saying I didn't like Half-Life, I think the reason that I stopped playing was that my laptop kept crashing or something.... long time ago, don't really remember.... but it's been so long I'm weary of jumping back in and finishing all the.. "episodes".
THat's the other thing, I don't get the whole episode system.
THat's the other thing, I don't get the whole episode system.
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Not much, really.
I'd still recommend playing Half-Life though, as it is an extremely solid FPS game.
The Episodes are for Half-Life 2. They're just the next parts of that story, but they're shorter than either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.
The Episodes are for Half-Life 2. They're just the next parts of that story, but they're shorter than either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.[/QUOTE]
And they're just stand alone mini expansions, not really complicated enough to have to "get".
The Episodes are for Half-Life 2. They're just the next parts of that story, but they're shorter than either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.[/QUOTE]
And they're just stand alone mini expansions, not really complicated enough to have to "get".[/QUOTE]
Unless you want the story, that is. You could probably skip episode 1 if you had too, but Episode 2 has some serious plot stuff in it that your not going to want to miss.
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It also has some of the best gameplay in the entire Half Life series. The turret battle with Griggs and Sheckley, the first battle with hunters, ambushes by combine and oh so much more.
It also has some of the best gameplay in the entire Half Life series. The turret battle with Griggs and Sheckley, the first battle with hunters, ambushes by combine and oh so much more.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but that last part where you need to defend the shacks with the Magnuson Devices is crap. Why the hell did they make such complicated explosives to fight off the Striders when they COULD have made a bunch of Stinger rockets during the same time and just shot them down like that? Though to be fair, it DOES sound like the kind of idiot move that the guys at Black Mesa would pull.
I loved the Magneson device defense. The rockets thing would have been simpler, but we shot down Striders in Half-Life 2 and one in Episode I. This was cool, and got the car involved. I loved bashing down the hunters with the car, shooting the Magneson up from point-blank at the Strider, and then bursting its head.
Calleja, the episodes are stand-alone, like sequels. No save files carry-overs or anything; it's really not complicated at all.
Calleja, the episodes are stand-alone, like sequels. No save files carry-overs or anything; it's really not complicated at all.
Yeah well I hated it... because I can't get the god damn shack defense achievement...
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The secret to the "Neighborhood Watch" achievement is that very specific striders are the ones that destroy buildings. Specifically striders #4, 7 & 8. Those three move fast, and usually crouch while moving, but each one will try and destroy a specific building (see the link for details). It's a lot less frantic when you realize not every strider is a threat to buildings.
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