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    Default [THE PURPLE VIEW] Whats So Good About Half-Life?

    It's a series I did a while ago for habbox.com , it's kinda shallow and harsh to be honest - but there is a bit of goodness in there.

    I've moved blogs btw, I can now be found at www.thepurpleview.wordpress.com , there's a lot of archiving going in - so it may lag, and you'll see previous posts go to neptune and back.

    Anyway, the link to the actual articles are here - http://thepurpleview.wordpress.com/c...so-good-about/
    start at the bottom, and make your way up... orrr...

    Part 1
    Part 2
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    You can see the articles better that way

    P.S - My editor hates me btw

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    Nice article and I never knew that all the hype was about, it was a enjoyable game but the fact you would always need to pick something up and throw it when there wasn't a gun available etc was so annoying.
    That's why we seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it cause we consider these minutes golden.


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    I liked Half Life 2 but didn't see what all the big fuss was about.


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    I think the word would be The Orange Box
    That's why we seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it cause we consider these minutes golden.


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    To be honest, after reading your review, it seems to me like you have never played it in your life. :S

    You said there was no storyline, well if you bothered to play them ALL in order (which you obviously haven't, otherwise you would know that there is a storyline to all of them) then you would know that there is a storyline.

    I don't really know what else to say, apart from that all the Half-Life games are amazing.

    Quote Originally Posted by GRlME View Post
    I think the word would be The Orange Box
    No, not really.. :S
    i'm out of touch, i'm out of love
    i'll pick you up when you're getting down
    and out of all these things i've done
    i think i love you better now

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    That's most probably the reason Half Life is so popular, you get the Half Life series, TF2 & Portal, I don't see why anyone wouldn't buy this game and try every aspect.
    That's why we seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it cause we consider these minutes golden.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GRlME View Post
    That's most probably the reason Half Life is so popular, you get the Half Life series, TF2 & Portal, I don't see why anyone wouldn't buy this game and try every aspect.
    HL2 was popular WAY before Orange Box was released.

    I don't see what the fuss is about either, personally I actually found the games to be a bit dire, they were ok to run through but nothing makes me want to play them again, I'd like to get my hands on episode 3 just to see how things goes story wise but other than that it's just a mediocre FPS with some nice physics.

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    eww I was meant to be the orange box but i stupidly bought TF2 and CSS sepertly whiched endedup costing more

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    I like the HL series, has the best physics engine of just about any game going and good graphics as well. The storyline is a little ambiguous but that makes it able to continue through the episodic content. Can't wait for Episode Three to come out

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    Maybe I didn't go into detail about the storyline, but I do know the damn thing inside and out, in fact - lemme do it from memory

    - there's a big science secret station thing in the middle of the desert
    - Gordon Freeman is a nerdy physicist (it's never implied he's nerdy, I guess we work that for ourselves) who is tasked to switch on and generally work the umm... portal technology machine whatever, names don't matter - I didn't remember it and neither will you (photonic something?)
    - It all goes horribly wrong and then he goes into... another dimmension with aliens and blah blah blah
    - He... fights his way through the complex, having to deal with facehuggers (it is just about what they rip off) and zombies (cliche alert!)
    - The Army don't want anyone to know about (gasp, the government lies!) so they try to kill everyone there
    - Gordon has to blah blah blah blah kill kill blah blah, he goes into the world and kills the big alien dude who was introduced 2 minutes ago and then Gman says "good work" and pushes him into the portal
    - 20 years later, the combine has invaded and stuff, and taken over the world...
    - Gordon to the rescue
    - Gordon runs!
    - Gordon umm... wait... umm
    - Gordon blow up big alien combine HQ
    - Gordon gtho
    - Gordon fire rocket into the sun! Or... portal or whatever

    plot summary: nerd kills stuff and facehuggers, then fires a rocket somewhere

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