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was that before or after 911 actually happened. i remember the TV show being on in the early 1990s.

Yeah, i heard him on BBC Radio 1 when Max Payne 3 was coming out. His Twitter is pretty humerous too:

Is that the only conclusion. What if this is not current? What if it's Gordon Freeman in old age, recollecting on his lifes actions; battling the onset of dimensia and alzeimers. Chris said on the Book Podcast in reference to The Sense of an Ending, something akin to there is medical evidence to suggest the more you access a memory, the more distorted and opaque it becomes to what actually happened. Imagine if that is what we are experiencing with Half-Life. That would conveniantly explain the jump in graphics from HL1 to HL2. And HL2 to HL3 as those memories will be closer in relativity and less likely to be contorted and warped. Maybe Gordon is a total dick and everything he ever said is traumatising to him so he prefers to remember staying silent. The in game level of detail is akin to Freeman's in-brain level of detail, filled with rough outlines, blurry images and regular load times to render the course of his life. The only people he remembers from the HL1 time-span is Barney, Dr Kleiner and Dr Magnusson. He knows there were others there, but the empty avatars of who and what they looked like has long since been forgotten, so it's easier for him to paste their likenesses to those memories in order to fully immerse himself in his past. Maybe Judith Mossman didn't exist. Maybe HE was the one having a go at Alyx about The Zero-Point-Energy-Field manipulator. Maybe HE was the one who gave the combine the resistances info and had a change of heart in the Citadel against Dr Breen. The G-Man is a schizopfrenic manifestation of his subconcious. Dr Vance wasn't refering to "The G-Man" as their mutual friend, it was Barney. Barney is the one Alyx fancies. The most Gordon got was a hug after the citadel collapse in Episode 1. As Arthur Gies said on the Rebel FM Gameclub that in real life - after blowing up the citadel core with Alyx watching behind a protective glass - Alyx would be thinking "God damn that man is a bad-ass. I will fuck that guys brains out if he survives this." Barney can handle himself. He's always sorted himself out without help. Gordon has always needed Alyx's hand to get him from A to B. The reason he survives HL1 is a) He works at Black Mesa and knows the facility like the back of his hand and thus b) he spends alot of it hiding and crawling through ventilation shafts to avoid confrontation. That's why he has no melee attack (fists), he's a dick who can't look out for himself. Alyx only talks about Science or the issue at hand because Gordon is a recluse scientist and that's ALL she can talk to him about. Eli was taking the piss out of Alyx about her having children with Gordon for an irony sense, and also to boost Gordons ego and sense of self worth for when they need him to eventually do science. That's why he's the only one in a hazard suit. Because he's the only one that needs it. Gordon Freeman is a Dick and causes problems wherever he goes. No-one conciously tells a joke around Gordon or gossips like most adults do in real life, they treat him like a grown child with a gift for science. Like a child he believes the world revolves around him, everyone knows who he is, everyone is glad to see him. They tell him what they need him to do because he has a low tollerence and skin for taking things to heart like alot of children and dicks. He never grows up but is subjected to adult consequences. Gordon freeman is a man at odds with the successes and failures of his life. His Half-Life.

then this thread is just a news post like reddit? even if you are as i suspect joking i love the theories on here, and also that this forum hasn't any ...miscreants. (That is snobbish even for me, but i am British, it is my reason d'etre. that and contempt at everything) Same here @Kolzig. i also like games that break up the gunplay/puzzleplay with areas to explore freely. Uncharted 2 had the Tibetan village and alot of the snow areas. [As opposed to Uncharted 3 which for me and other critical reviews overloaded the gunplay. the boat from the E3 press conference had only stealth, then in the game it wasnt just gunplay for gunplay's sake but it was a chore. it just kept coming in waves and tarnished my love of the series irreconcilably. The london bit at the beginning was a stereotype of characters...from 1950's. London has more languages spoken than any other city in europe. before the bluemonsters i felt Uncharted 2 could happen in real life.] I feel Half-Life could happen in real life. i still want tightly choreographed linear flow of immersive cinematic with Valves level of polish. but i'd love a freeform area to explore, with no established enemies to hinder my exploration. My fear is that the only other game to do that in singleplayer online in recent memory was RAGE.

Another screen photo

If Far Cry 2 had mods, it would be one of the few games i'd play the zombie mode. Zombies that come out at night a la Minecraft. Zombie Zebra, need i say more. Btw, Happy Halloween FarCriers!

also, Mayhem:

That's the best shot i've seen so far. love the sloping savannah. Kudos Jonathan. Save points? are you playing on a console? i highly recommend PC for this game. it looks alot better and you can quicksave with F5. might solve your issue with the gunplay too mate.

Has anyone changed the display settings for FarCry 2 at all? I played around and the game looks ten times better when you get it set to your monitors calibration. Here is a comparison of the bridge i blew up, the first is a Steam F12 grab: Note, some reason no matter how i change the display settings in-game, a F12 screengrab always stays the same, which is... perculiar. So the second is from my iPhone. It isnt the best i admit, but this is to show how i see/play FC2 so you get the gist of it. I really notice god-rays, HDR, shadows and all the little details alot more, just by changing Gamma, Contrast and brightness - so it shouldn't hurt my graphics card, and just looks so much more lush and breathing of life. In motion its much more noticeable:

could you link you steam profile screenshots page? wouldn't mind having a look at you visual diary out of curiosity if that's ok.

I don't know if i can handle an extra level of chaos, i've got a GTX 680 and the latest Ivybridge, this games runs so fast its borderline psychologically unnerving. I'm on the second world/map in FarCry2, taking my time, savouring the game, taking it in my stride and then i came across this: That looks huge. Huge as in 'I bet i'll have to eventually have to blow it up', huge.

that sounds like a rough way to play. how did you not get motion sickness. also:

I loved Out of Time, and the whole of series 6 for that matter, and it is that the opening to the horrible CGI-laden Series 7 was a slap in the face to dwarfers, personally. Wipes an pre-tense of logic to the wind. Maybe i'll rent Looper.

Same here, that is so true. Nice night shot btw. Also, action:

the trailer whiffs of the dreaded Red Dwarf Series Six finalè of killing your future self paradox. Yes or no, does it do a better job than Red Dwarf did in its execution of an explanation? i'm looking for a decent excuse to part with my cash to see this.

obligatory FarCry2 Screenshot of the week:

those buggars' are up there with Black Headcrabs of "gaming sounds that freak me out". Persistantly non digetic, end up panic-sprinting to cover when i hear them rev.

Lol at the not taking long to wreck it! weird, like that vehicle was always at every other bandit-checkpoint for me. I've got the gold edition with the DLC though, maybe that's why. Also:

In game? oh wow, didn't know that.

i saw the second episode on your recomendation. really enjoyed its pacing and production values. thanks for the heads up @riadsala. btw does Civ play anything like the Total War games?

I concur @Rodi. That analogy @Toblix of easy waves of nazis as supposed elevate the meaning of a big nazi boss in comparison is sadly a prominant stain of how great games become cheap when i'm playing them, extremely quick. @Laxan, if you knew the campaign-based game you used in your analogy would iterate to unknown potentially exciting through a well-implemented use of dynamic systems would you replay it? This could help stifle publishers not investing in singleplayer games for fear of the play and trade stigma. or cutting funds to an unimaginative multiplayer mode to appease investors, that will likely see not played after launch. Dan Pinchbeck of The Chinese Room (Dear esther) was on the Unlimited Hyperbole Podcast explaining one of his greatest gaming memories was in S.T.A.L.K.E.R, he has no ammo and low health and was holding down CTRL and the arrow keys hugging the shadow until a monster that would definitely kill him would leave. He waitied like 20 minutes if i remember. You can really tell the tension and relief in his voice during the podcast; i can't imagine that story from a PR team pre-launch would do nothing but put the majority of potential players off.

When i got FarCry2 originally on the 360 i couldnt get past the house where the Jackal saves you at the start without dying. I tried for hours - accustomed to winning in games during the tutorial process - and traded it in when i was off work a week later. Years later i found out it was a scripted sequence and theres no way to survive that

@brkl, same. [source]

yep

If that is true, thats still four days of intense rebels fighting, puzzle solving, traumatising events. H.E.V suit includes by-pass?