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Takeaways from a Half-Life Marathon

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Dark Energy, Half Life 2’s final chapter, is the capstone to a five year struggle at Valve Software. At long last, Half-Life had its sequel. Easily one of the most anticipated and highly rated PC Games of all time, Half-Life 2 ushered in a new standard for single player FPS. It’s a damn shame the ending sucked. Ripped from a reactor explosion by the eponymous G-Man, Half-Life 2 ends just as it starts: With Gordon in escrow and future uncertain. A follow-up would come, but a pattern had already emerged. “Half-Life just can’t wrap it up.” Between a low gravity duel… [Continue Reading]

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Half-Life 1 At 200 Ping

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When you have over 3000 articles on a single blog, sometimes you forget things. That was the case when I started playing Sven Coop with a new buddy of mine. While me and my friend were struggling getting through the levels, it turns out, we didn’t have to. Because aabicus has written lots of articles about Sven Coop. Had I remembered aabicus’s stellar articles, then my friend and I would have had a way, way easier time. Still, it’s been interesting playing through the original Half Life campaign, but in multiplayer. It’s oddly stressful yet fun I should point out,… [Continue Reading]

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The 5 Most Influential Half-Life Mods

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Half-Life was a great game, had a huge impact on the shooter genre and everybody who grew up back then loved this game, myself included. Valve did a decent job of releasing new content for us all to play, such as Blue Shift and Opposing Force, but the real heroes were the modders who filled the voids with hundreds of standalone fangames of every conceivable length and quality. A few of them are super famous, and if it made this list, it’s because I think you should go play it. Quick Disclaimer: This list is only interested in mods, not… [Continue Reading]

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From Civilian to Messiah – A God Complex Towards Freeman

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After playing Half-Life a bit more, browsing through Half-Life 2 maps in GMod, re-reading what is basically Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and watching a large array of Half-Life content, I’ve realised something. The more you play Half-Life, the more people begin to worship Gordon Freeman. And that bothers me. As I re-watched the delightful series Freeman’s Mind, I was reminded by an argument a friend of mine came up with. In Half-Life 1 and the other goldsrc games, you’re just a person who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Half-Life 2 and onwards, you’re… [Continue Reading]

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Sven Co-op and Half-Life with Siblings

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I like to be left alone when I play games, yet I constantly get roped into playing games with my brother and sister. Generally games they want to play, not games I want to play. If I ever suggest something, it’s always “nah don’t fancy that”, but I’m not allowed to complain about their choice of games. Luckily, we managed to convince each other to give Sven Co-op a go, after I said it was free. Everyone likes Half-Life, right? Maybe not. Sister had never really played before. Okay, she’s looked at it and knows what the game is and… [Continue Reading]

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How to Play Half Life For Free

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The original Half-Life is one of the most important and influential first-person shooters ever released. Have you ever wanted to experience it but don’t own the game? Well now you can! Half-Life comes bundled within Sven Co-op, a free-to-play GoldSrc mod available on Steam. In this article, I’ll be explaining step-by-step how to setup Sven Co-op so that you can play Half-Life they way it was meant to be. Step 1: Go to the Sven Co-op page on Steam and download it by clicking ‘Play Game’. Step 2: If you don’t already have Steam, you’ll be prompted to setup an account. If you already… [Continue Reading]

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Half-Life: C.A.G.E.D.

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A free Half-Life mod with a single player campaign by an ex-Valve developer? Why, yes please. Though it should really be called “C.A.G.E.D. – A Half-Life Mod” considering it has nothing to do with the world of Half-Life, it just shares the engine and models of the original. Some point through the game I noticed this and felt a tinge of disappointment but I wanted to reach the end and judge it accordingly on its own merit. The basic premise is that you’re locked up for some unspecified crime and you prefer the view from the outside of the bars,… [Continue Reading]

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A Tribute to Half Life 2’s Male07 Civilian

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Gordon Freeman encounters a lot of different people when he emerges from his mysterious sleep to find himself in an alien-occupied Earth in Half-Life 2. Assetwise, Valve used a handful of models to represent these civilians and Resistance members. But why is male07 far and away the most popular civilian among the Half-Life community? With his thin beard, widow’s peak, bald spot, and a dash of the real-life poser’s handsomeness, male07 is in all respects and purposes an average character model. The first fan project to give male07 special treatment was the fancomic Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman. Author Christopher C.… [Continue Reading]

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Epistle 3 – Too Late an Ending, But an Ending Nonetheless

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It’s been ten years since Half-Life: Episode 2 came out and left us on a cliffhanger, with Eli’s death and a world of opportunity opening itself out to the Resistance. In ten years, a ton of things have happened, as is often the way with the passing of time. Heck, in the last 4 years, we’ve managed to pump out 1600 articles, and there’s been a billion new Call of Duty games. But the one thing that HASN’T happened was an answer or a sequel to what occurs after Half-Life 2 and its chapters. Then, all out of the blue… [Continue Reading]

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Sven Coop – A 2017 Review

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Yesterday I realized that I’m never playing the original Half-Life again. It’s one of my favorite single-player games of all time, and I have hundreds of hours in in from various playthroughs. It was the first game I ever tried to mod (to varying degrees of success, though none of my attempts were ever released to the internet) and its artstyle and gameplay will forever hold a special place in my heart. But I just installed Sven Coop and discovered that it contains the original Half-Life playable in multiplayer! Completely for free, you can go enjoy Half-Life 1 right now! Apparently Sven… [Continue Reading]

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