Roland Deschain
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Hi all,
now here is the story. I remember watching the original E3 presentation of HL2 (which led to a rather large puddle of drool to accumulate at my feet for some reason, go figure). Now, every single section of that demo was amazing, but the one that really dropped my jaw was when Gordon shot down the Combine Gunship and you saw it crash through the cars. I mean just looking at the physics, the cars being pushed away as the gunship prows through them . . ., well you know the feeling.
Now, a long long time later, I'm actually playing HL2 for the first time and waiting for that sequence (praying to god that it wasn't cut). Now, god answered my first request, but Valve kinda spoiled it, by making the gunship explode in the air (rather crappily I might add) and coming down in pieces.
Well, I was dissapoined, but liked the game enough to play it through 3 more times. Now on the third go through, I think God felt sorry for me for some reason, and allowed me the pleasure that Valve took away from me. All the other gunships exploded normally on that go through the game, but one, and as fate dictates, it is the same one that caused that mighty jaw drop in the original E3 demo, didn't explode. Even further, and to my great cheers, it fell rather realistically to the ground smashing the cars this way and that (which made me wonder why Valve made it explode in the first place). Needless to say, if armaggedon happened right then, I would have been happy to retire from this world.
So there you have it, my friends. Just another small story about HL2 and how it enriches my life everyday. It truly was the right bug and the right place at the right time.
PS: Here are some screenshots, unfortunatly I was too stunned to take them while the gunship was actually diving down (and upon reload it exploded normally).
PPS: You might wonder why I took the time to write this fancy tale, which could have easily been faked using GarryMod (hopefully my high post rating and the cute cat beside my name can persuade you of my honesty, plus my total inaptitude at GarryMod). Well there is a simple reason, there is nothing good on TV and nobody is on MSN. Simple enough, ain't it.
now here is the story. I remember watching the original E3 presentation of HL2 (which led to a rather large puddle of drool to accumulate at my feet for some reason, go figure). Now, every single section of that demo was amazing, but the one that really dropped my jaw was when Gordon shot down the Combine Gunship and you saw it crash through the cars. I mean just looking at the physics, the cars being pushed away as the gunship prows through them . . ., well you know the feeling.
Now, a long long time later, I'm actually playing HL2 for the first time and waiting for that sequence (praying to god that it wasn't cut). Now, god answered my first request, but Valve kinda spoiled it, by making the gunship explode in the air (rather crappily I might add) and coming down in pieces.
Well, I was dissapoined, but liked the game enough to play it through 3 more times. Now on the third go through, I think God felt sorry for me for some reason, and allowed me the pleasure that Valve took away from me. All the other gunships exploded normally on that go through the game, but one, and as fate dictates, it is the same one that caused that mighty jaw drop in the original E3 demo, didn't explode. Even further, and to my great cheers, it fell rather realistically to the ground smashing the cars this way and that (which made me wonder why Valve made it explode in the first place). Needless to say, if armaggedon happened right then, I would have been happy to retire from this world.
So there you have it, my friends. Just another small story about HL2 and how it enriches my life everyday. It truly was the right bug and the right place at the right time.
PS: Here are some screenshots, unfortunatly I was too stunned to take them while the gunship was actually diving down (and upon reload it exploded normally).
PPS: You might wonder why I took the time to write this fancy tale, which could have easily been faked using GarryMod (hopefully my high post rating and the cute cat beside my name can persuade you of my honesty, plus my total inaptitude at GarryMod). Well there is a simple reason, there is nothing good on TV and nobody is on MSN. Simple enough, ain't it.
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