May 19, 2021

Gameclub: Half-Life 2

1 hour 8 minutes

Alon, Danny and Teddy played through Half Life 2 and had a freaking BLAST. Do we say anything original here? Probably not, but it was great to play and shoot the shit, so to speak. We wanted to keep our very first ep short and sweet, but we cover:

00:00 - Intro

00:34 - Is this still a good game

06:35 - What aged the best

10:00 - What aged the worst

18:00 - Pathing, level design

20:30 - Game difficulty

22:02 - Quicksaving

34:49 - What's the best gun

36:50 - What's the best gravity object

40:02 - Hitscan vs projectiles

43:33 - What's the best quote

46:55 - G-Man love

51:00 - Silent protagonists

56:00 - What's the most replayable moment/chapter

1:00:19 - Music

1:04:18 - Player agency vs game narrative

1:06:35 - The ending

1:08:21 - On next month's episode we will be playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Show notes:

Coriolis effect clip https://youtu.be/ReOoZbWixlc?t=1052

Singing vortigaunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpl_e23D1Y

Also, correction, apparently the coriolis effect does influence bullet trajectories, but in very small ways that seem nearly impossible to account for. If you are an experienced marksman and have some feedback for us, we'd love to hear it, and please tell us why we are wrong.

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