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Those made me laugh. You think they'd at least strap explosives to the little guy, or maybe a machine gun or some kind of giant sucker thingy: Headcrab:'EEEEEEEK' Alyx:"What's that you say? You've got a bomb and a giant sucker thingy?" Headcrab:'EEEKOWOWEEK EEEK.... LOL' Alyx:"Can I borrow...

The reaction I've found from friends is 'good game, but I got bored and uninstalled it'. I'm posting on a HL2 fan forum and even I think that it dragged just a little in places. One of my top three games of the year for sure, but I wouldn't have it down as an automatic GOTY. They're not...

Makes a lot of sense to me - why write a full story out before you need to - and if they'd have written more about the Gman/etc I'd have thought they'd allude to it (even vaguely) in HL2.

Referring to me? Even as a moderator, your comments get exactly the same amount of respect and consideration as everyone elses. Your original 'rocket science' comment was uncalled for.

No wonder people are confused if CS:S loads using HL2.exe. Why didn't they call it Source.exe and pass -game hl2, -game css or whatever? But it would be a lot easier if Steam made all this clear. This little fault is in the Steam interface. You know, it's ok to admit that Valve aren't perfect...

Yeah, it must be his PC because we all know there are no lagging problems with this game. Jeez, what is it with some of you people? It's like living in some kind of Valve-worshipping cult sometimes.

But the guy has a point. If you say 'don't update', then it shouldn't update.

Ha! I'm afraid you finish the game, you have a brief party/vacation and then you pretty much get back to work. Games people work hard.

Respect to the original guy for having the balls to admit he fell for it :)

Get yourself something like Filemon. Start it. See which file was being accessed when the error appears, then delete it/revalidate and try again.

I second MajorPayne, but personally I wouldn't touch anything until you sort the processor out. If you can't get a new processor, keep saving - a new graphics card is going to be throttled silly by that CPU.

Weird, I thought FC's plot was awful. I enjoyed the game, but I could have done without the Jean-Claude Van Damme style meanderings. HL2 beats it hands down for me. Let's put it this way, I reckon it has a fairly strong plot for an FPS. People who say it has 'no plot' are maybe expecting too...

Now that is a proper story. But where did Bowser come from?!? And leave the turtles, man.

Who said Pacman had a plot? There was never any pretense about it being a story driven RPG. If you're going to call that 'multiple plot lines' you'd better extend the same courtesy to UT2004, Max Payne 2, FarCry et al.

This is a critical point for me. I maintain that Steam is a horrible, amateurish, restrictive piece of junk, but at least at the moment it's not actively evil. When someone like EA releases their version it's going to wipe your hard drive and probably try to steal your girlfriend.

Like Narcolepsy said, 'plot holes' is mostly a lazy shorthand for 'I didn't like the way they told the story'. I'm sure it was a deliberate decision to let the player infer what happened rather than deliver 10 minute long cutscenes where Alyx explains it all. My opinion is that the presence of a...

You don't need to purchase another game, but you might want to download the dedicated server from Steam. You can use the same copy on multiple machines but expect to have to mess around with Steam to get it to work (if you're using the same account on >1 machine you have to go offline on the rest)

If you look at the teams who made really big popular mods... they got bought up by Valve. Also modding is far more widespread now than it was then. I think the modding talent pool is a bit more diluted this time, so I'm not expecting a new Counterstrike any time soon.

I think HL2 has a few problems in the whole PR department. It doesn't have the glamour of Halo or, critically, the mainstream appeal of GTA San Andreas. The whole Steam/piracy/etc issues have probably marred things a bit. I suspect the game is seen as a bit 'old'. The limited replay value has...

Well you're going to have to come out of hiding to attack him, and at that point Strider spears you and waves one foreleg victoriously in the air. I've thought hard about this!