Wake Up and Smell the Ashes. Let's Play Half-Life 2 (plus Episodes 1 and 2)

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Gordon was not a lowly lab tech. He was going to be a researcher on the Anomalous Materials brought from Xen.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

theenglishman posted:

It's really easy to forget how much of a resource hog Half-Life 2 was back in the day. Over the years there have been numerous updates to the base Source engine that helped it run better, but back in 2004, only the beefiest of machines could run it smoothly at max settings. Plus the 1.0 version was an unoptimized mess, loading times sometimes lasted over a minute, and of course you had to install the then-new Steam to even play the thing.

I distinctly remember a Flash comedy video from the mid 2000s where the villains' supercomputer was so powerful, it could run two copies of Half-Life 2 at once while still having enough RAM left over for a game of Solitaire while they loaded.

Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 in 2004, F.E.A.R. in 2005, Crysis in 2007...there were some brutally demanding on hardware games released in a short period of time.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Our Benefactors are killing the entire world in a slow-motion apocalypse and the environmental storytelling through level and scene design and dialogue is brilliant. One of the strongest points of the game on how much you are learning about the situation without even realizing it.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Deathloop and Dishonored both thrive on their soundtracks

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