COMBINE VS COVENANT

(I have never played Halo)

fuck a covenant, the fedback sound the combine make when they die is so creepy/awesome/exhilarating, i want to give the sound engineeer a big fat KISS

no contest for me. Combine are truly creepy enemies.

fuck a covenant, the fedback sound the combine make when they die is so creepy/awesome/exhilarating, i want to give the sound engineeer a big fat KISS

-- Will M., Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

totally.

all the sound in HL2 is amazing.

i was playing unreal the other day and i was all thank god for the half life games for not being about steroid douchebags with soul patches and stupid cut scenes. so nice that they dont insult your intelligence like so many other dumb games.

re: the sound, came across this gem in wikipedia: the gunship probably uses echolocation "because it constantly emits low frequency "pings", barely heard in-game because of the noise produced by the hoverfan."

yeah slocki I think my first reaction to playing the HL2 games re the sound was 'wow that totally fucking works!'. And the way the little music segments kick in at the right time.

I'd never played the first one, so when I played HL2 first I thought the Combine were just earth soldiers with strange masks on.

fuck a covenant, the fedback sound the combine make when they die is so creepy/awesome/exhilarating, i want to give the sound engineeer a big fat KISS

-- Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

HELL YEAH, THINKING ABOUT THIS MAKES ME WANT TO PLAY DIS GAME AGAIN

yeah, i remember playing through HL2 and thnking, "man that was a pretty good game" but not really thinking "BEST GAME EVER" or anything, and then playing through episode 1 and thinking "that was actually just kind of annoying" and playing through most of ep2 and thinking the same thing. of course, the end of ep2 is face-meltingly awesome... but anyway, it's one of those pieces of media that just eat away at me like a corrosive time bomb long after the fact, where i start thinking back to moments and thinking, "holy shit, everything about that was perfect."

aaaargh my eyes

(haven't played ep 2 yet)

all i said is that it rules!

unless you mean my saying "face-meltingly" which has NOTHING to do with it, I was just trying to use an XXXTREME ADVERB!

started ep 2 last night. will m your lauds and plaudits have me excited.

I just kinda saw "end of ep 2" and went "aaaughughjk43$£3$3lkkl"

xp. oh i'd love to be able to start ep 2. oh to have a pc i could play games on. oh to not have to rebuild my system all over again, again.

everything about HL2 is amazing :D

i wanna play hl2 so bad

possibly my favourite game. defly my favourite art direction in a game.

about an hour into HL2 I got stuck in some weird room full of pipes and chain-link fencing. I haven't touched it in like two months now. I probably need to finish that I guess.

i'm waiting for the big price drop on xboxen ;_;

b-b-b-but, just download it off steam - the requirements aren't much...

minimums...
1.2 GHz Processor
256MB RAM
DirectX 7 level graphics card

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I'm playing through Halo 3 at the moment and keep being shocked by the number of scenes which are blatant steals from Half Life 2.

Interesting that Halo uses its enemies as comic relief too (those grunts who fall over each other and squeal and run away and everything) but makes your colleagues a bunch of straight faced cigar munching thugs, while in Half Life the humour comes from your friends (the prof and his headcrab, etc), while the threat is treated as dead serious. Makes a big difference to the way I approach (and the extent to which I give a shit about) the two games.

some article i read recently (av club?) used the analogy of hl2 being the moody high school loner to halo's jocky football star

ie more intelligent.

wayyy

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lol

wow lol

I for one welcome our new extra-dimensional bio-mechancial insectoid mind-control S&M freakage overlords!

"mechancial"

lol i like that new word

the little covenant guys say some funny shit in battle fwiw