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Friz, I believe you maybe in error and doing yourself an injustice there. Unless I am much mistaken, Portal is not part of the HL series, so there is no "in sequence" and no harm in playing it. And to add to that it's good enough to poke your eyes out and it's short (so the Zero Punctuation guy says).friznit wrote:And yet I feel I should finish HL2 and maybe play Ep1&2 before Portal or it'll all be out of sequence.
I think most of the complaints people make about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are caused because people are confused by the bullet physics. Once you adjust to the way the bullets drop and their speed the game becomes much easier. The weight limit is quite brutal, especially if you're not good at conserving ammo, and when I just want to have fun I use a weight mod too. You won't need to carry much ammo if you're using the same ammo as your enemies, and if you're good at getting headshots. Of course, with the weight mods, I end up carrying 2 or 3 different rifles with about 1000 rounds of ammo each because I like to spray when necessary.FatherJack wrote:S.T.A.L.K.E.R I did finish, though not without a cheat or two (the weight level was just broken). Once I'd figured out how to not keep killing myself slowly with radioactive implants it became more fun - so much so that I even went back to a vastly earlier save just to get the item for the "correct" ending. I hated it in parts at first, but when I started it again (incompatible savegames FTL) and got the armour hidden in the start village it was much better. I was a frequent visitor of the loading screen, though.
Actually, I've never ever completed a RTS game's single player campaign. So I guess I should add C&C and Red Alert to the list of games I started but didn't finish. I much prefer RTS games in multiplayer.FatherJack wrote:I've never finished a non-console strategy game except for Mech Commander, yet continue to buy them. For this reason I prefer ones like Dark Crusade and Supreme Commander where you get to use the ultimate weapons simply by building up and playing a map for long enough - rather than progressing further into the game. They are also the #1 genre for me to come back to and carry on where I left off after a long time.
portal is part of the HL world, but you really don't need to know anything about any of the HL games for it to be fucking awesome.cheeseandham wrote: Friz, I believe you maybe in error and doing yourself an injustice there. Unless I am much mistaken, Portal is not part of the HL series, so there is no "in sequence" and no harm in playing it. And to add to that it's good enough to poke your eyes out and it's short (so the Zero Punctuation guy says).
In the words of a wise man called Nike..
Just do it!
I was using that one, but it made the game crash when I got to Lake Yantar. Every time I tried to talk to the scientist in the bunker it CTD'd.friznit wrote:Might have to give it a go then. I believe I have a steam account.
The only mod/cheat I have for STALKER is the kit repair one. It's mighty useful, and means you can carry on using your cool gun when you finally found it. Oddly, the bullet physics are very similar to ArmA. Maybe that's why I prefer these to normal FPS type games that do laser physics... meh.
I'd tell you, but my save corrupted on the last level, so it went NYENYE, never to be seen againLexy wrote:Lateralus: I haven't finished Vampire Masquerade either.
SPOILERS?
I get to that bit in London where characters go missing and it just annoys me. Seems I spent so much time getting my character all pretty and awesome and RAWR ... then they put him in a leather jacket and he looks like Tom Cruise with a heavy metal hair cut.
I don't like Tom Cruise :/
Can anyone tell me what happens in the end? ;p I can't be bothered finishing it.
