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When you first show up in Half Life 2, nobody knows who you are. You almost get sent to Nova Prospekt before Barney notices you. And then you set off alarms in Breens office because Lamarr is a secret agent specializing in teleporter malfuncitons. Nobody else on the underground railroad...

By surviving as far as he did, Shep was exposed to unknown alien influences and energies that could have cause problems for the rest of Earth (and G-man's later plans); without even having to speak to another human being. Like a bad case of space cooties. There were no other survivors...

Especially considering its a picture of Eli Vance. He's certainly changed from the knees down at least.

Same here. I actually made it back from running errands in time to update my video card drivers, defrag my games partition, and load steam in time to get the last 60 seconds of the BioShock countdown. Then I had to wait another 24 minutes for it to decide to start decrypting...

It also depends on where you are in the game. Most events in HL2 were scripted so you don't feel like you have all the time in the world to carry on a coversation with every passing vortigaunt. It's not meant to be obvious, and was designed to help make those momentary encounters seem...

http://www.hlfallout.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=24251 Scroll down to the second post.

Hasn't Valve in the past also: (a) Given discounts for pre-orders thru Steam? (especially if you already own a related game) (b) Allowed more flexibility in purchasing choices thru Steam? (once steam notices that you already own parts of a previously released package) (c)...

He's a Priest. He was most likely one of the few people left on the planet who still practiced some form of religious faith, after everything the combine had done. He was helping out the resistance by maintaining Ravenholm as a kind of sanctuary for the underground railroad of escapees from...

I have Vista (RC2), Half Life 2, and an Nvidia GF 6600. Playing Mods just fine here. Are you running 32-bit or 64?

I'm pretty sure it actually kept people from being able to get it on. Why else do you think everybody was so depressed?

Snack Machines = Health. Soda Machines = Energy. And close to the end of the Mod, you start to discover Dark Donut dispensers, that act like the double powerup chargers that were in the Citadel.

There have been many good counter-arguments for that theory. So many that the regulars are a bit tired of trying to rehash the issue. As a non-fanboy Shephard fan (oxymoron much?), I would like to see a return of the character; but even I realize there is no chance he would be...

And Eli was a bit too cozy with her in Breen's office for there to not have been some prior understanding of what they were trying to accomplish at the end. Either he's competely whipped, or they had some ideas of setting her up as an insider to get information from Breen all along.

City 17 (set in what was Eastern Europe?) also represents a setting that is just about as far away from Black Mesa as you can get and still be on the same planet. Which makes it an ideal location to continue the Half Life story, without worrying about the player trying to associate...

You are making the assumption that the ingestion is for the benefit of the human body, instead it could be an easy way for the headcrab to continue to draw nutrients from the current body, and not having to leave it to find a new host.