Takeaways from a Half-Life Marathon

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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From Civilian to Messiah – A God Complex Towards Freeman

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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