Recent content by Foebane72

Yeah, Gordon's wearing what all the other citizens are wearing. And Half-Life 2 would NEVER work in a third-person view, it would destroy the series' acclaimed sense of "being there".

How is rape depicted in a FPS if it happens from behind?

Yes, OK, it may be funny, but is it just my imagination?

I think about this when, despite the apparent sheer scale of the outside when you get up close and next to it, it still looks tiny compared to the inside, especially if it's on one level. Maybe the Combine utilised TARDIS technology from the Time Lords?

I always thought that was a musical sting of sorts? Then again, I do love the female Overwatch voice that resides over the entire HL2 series! I actually wonder how the voice is projected, whether it's heard across City 17, or the "miscount detected in your block" heard from just within the...

I have to admit, I stayed away from the pivotal Strider battle in "Our Mutual Fiend" for a few years, as previously when I tried to play it, I would get stressed and frustrated very quickly - I once resorted to cheats, but no amount of rockets against the Striders did anything, and I totally...

Well, others have reported this and it happened to me as well: Take the can and toss it at the Combine's head so that it bounces off and lands in the trash anyway! He'll attack you but you will have attacked him first and yet granted his wish, so you win!

This chapter of the game is awesome on so many levels, I don't know where to start. Yes, I do - the sound effects, namely the huge metal blocks below ground level at the Citadel, where they make the grinding noise and so forth. And the weird metallic dinging sound that those capsules on rails...

I like most of HL2, but having only played my way once through the entire game, I decided some areas are just too much hassle for me, like Sandtraps with the jumping puzzle, and everything after Entanglement and before Our Benefactors, simply because I had enough of leading an NPC squad after...