Saturday November 15th 2008

	Left 4 Dead 12:36 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Games Permalink So I preordered Left 4 Dead so I could get the demo early. The game is a survival horror shooter that plays out like you’re in a zombie movie. The loading screen even shows a movie poster and displays the players name as if they were the movie stars playing the rolls in the movie. After a short cinematic you’re left on the roof of an apartment building and the demo begins. It’s a hell of a lot a fun when you play with other people. But the bots do hold their own as well. The demo is 2 levels and the full game is out on the 18th.
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Saturday October 20th 2007

	Half-Life 2: Episode 2 2:44 pm-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Games Permalink I bought the Orange Box. I’m playing through Episode 2 because I’m too dumb for Portal. But then I hit a brick wall in the form of the driving shit in Episode 2. And again I’m apparently to fucking stupid to figure out what to do. Here is a visual history of what I’m doing. This is the wrong way obviously: I won’t even get into Portal. I’m completely dead in my tracks. It’s fun enough. I have yet to try Team Fortress 2 online and with people. I played around with the commentary mode to look at the levels. Halo 3 has made me scared of playing online again with the young people.
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Tuesday June 6th 2006

	Half-Life 2: Episode 1 2:05 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Misc Shots Permalink Half-Life 2: Episode One came out on the 1st. I bought it finally yesterday. Another 19.95 blown on episodic content. I’m still not certain how I feel about this stuff. I do think that Half-Life and Sin are doing it better than Oblivion. I’m only maybe into the game ten minutes or so. Right off the bat you notice that the game is a little more polished than Half-Life 2. The characters act better. Or seem more life like. Not sure yet. Features included in this episode: An all-new episode for one of the best-selling action games of all time. Discover what’s become of City 17, Dr. Breen, and the G-Man. Incredibly advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI (Artificial intelligence)). Highly detailed environments, featuring High Dynamic Range lighting, provide amazing gameplay settings. Digital Actors: The most sophisticated in-game characters ever witnessed. Physical Gameplay: Objects obey the laws of gravity, friction, and buoyancy. Design Team Commentary Mode. Also includes two multiplayer games: Half-Life 2 Deathmatch and Half-Life Deathmatch: SourceTM. Half-Life 2 not required to play. For only being ten minutes into it I think the game is worth it. Which even after finishing Sin Episode 1, I still can’t say that. If you liked Half-Life 2 grab this first in a series of episodes. I wonder though about this episodic delivery of content.
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	Sin Episodes 1:29 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Misc Shots Permalink Sin was a game I played back in the old days. It was a fps that reminded me of Duke Nukem. Now there is a sequel of sorts. Using Valve’s Steam to release Sin Episodes. The first episode is called Emergence and it will cost you 19.95. On the plus side you get the original Sin 1 and Sin 1 Multiplayer. The down side is the games length. Content wise I still haven’t decided if this is worth the 19.95. It was fun. A single male is of course going to enjoy boobs and bullets. Which are in abundance. Other than that the other feature worth mentioning is the games Personal Challenge System: Driven by one of the most elaborate statistics systems ever created, SiN Episodes will constantly adapt to your playing style and offers a challenge that is custom-tailored to your skill level. Prior to a patch on May 17th this Personal Challenge System had a habit of raping the hell out of a player that happened to do better than the game thought you should. The patch does fix this. My long term enjoyment of this episodic content will be determined by the cost of the future episodes.
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Wednesday November 17th 2004

	Half-Life 2 2:04 am-Turk Comments (2) Show » Misc Shots Permalink Half-Life 2 has been getting my full attention ever since the game was unlocked at 12:07 am (Valve time) on the 16th. I played the game from the time I got off of work (around 7 am) until about 4:00 pm. I only took 6 screen shots and the only ones of note to show are these shots of Barney and Alyx: A couple of things about this game. First off the graphics are amazing. I think it’s even more than just the graphics, it’s the environments and the way the story unfolds around you. You may have heard about this games physics in a preview or two. And it’s something that has to be seen, I can’t do it justice writing about it. More or less if you played and liked the first Half-Life this game will be a must have. Multiplayer is handled by the Counter-Strike: Source, the juiced up version of CS. Personally I don’t like CS so it’s not an issue to me and I’m not big on the multiplayer part of the game. But some people would like to have just a plain old Half-Life 2 Death Match mode. And from what I hear it’s coming thanks to the mod community.
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