Recent content by Butterblaster

When it is unlocked, can someone please confirm whether it has SecuRom or not? That will determine whether I get it.

You're right...you're invincible for a small fraction of a second. The only reason for this feature is to stop "SLAM camping".

Yeah I signed up. Tried to play a match yesterday...right now it's just to get used to the system since they delayed it til Monady. But I don't think I'll play any more. 1x1 matches are just not much fun. You spend a lot of time looking for the opponent. And for the tourny, they're only...

I didn't realize they actually did sell copies to non-HL2 owners--now the standalone aspect makes sense. I can see why you'd play this first--it's cheaper, so more people might be willing to give it a shot.

If Alyx was a teenager at the time of Black Mesa, 10 years sounds far more realistic than 15 or 20. :P

You can throw them on the ground and remote detonate them like in HL1, but you can also stick them on the wall or floor with a trip laser.

How about the SLAMs? Those are all ready to plop into the game--there are interesting tactical puzzles they could come up with involving those.

Yeah, they could add it without messing up gameplay too much...just have a little less ammo for each so players will switch between them. It'd be fun to have that laser sight when sniping.

I haven't eaten in five days.

1. Barney looks like he's in his 30s. He couldn't have been a teenager when he was a guard. 2. The picture of baby Alyx is not necessarily the most recent photo Eli had. 3. Alyx thinks Gordon is 27 years old plus the number of years since the Black Mesa Incident. Unlikely that she'd...

I think it's ten years. Everyone would be a lot more suprised to see Gordon if they though he was 47. It would be especially weird that Alyx flirts with him. Who says she was a tot at Black Mesa? She could have been 12 or 13, and it'd still make sense. I think we're supposed to imagine that...

There were at least two, I think three, poison zombies. There were a few fast headcrabs, but not that many, but there weren't that many in HL2 either. I think the idea with the antlions is that they can now run free in the city because the thumpers around the city went down. The gunship...

Um....It's not the same logo, unless they intentially changed it to make it look unrecognizable. In the Radiohead logo, the ears are on top of the head. If you pretend that HL logo there is a head, the ears are way to the side. And there are no teeth.

I'm not sure why people interpret this as meaning the series is ending once the three episodes are done. I think the point in the article is that Valve considers the three episodes to be one cohesive story, separate (in a way) from HL2. On the other hand, I still consider it an expansion...

You've got to use bubbles to power stuff up. Actually, if you're exactly where I think you are, you have to run up that small hallway with the streaming bubble things and exit the side at the end. You gotta dodge/gravpunch them out of the way.