Comments on: Get A Life

By: Crispy

Crispy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:34:20 +0000

Cooper, physics has a charming art style but the game is ASS! I completed it in 30 seconds due to them not blocking off parts of the level you’re not supposed to get to.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:39:48 +0000

Nice, thanks for the heads up macc!

By: Cooper

Cooper — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:20 +0000

On the subject of SP mods for HL2, Eclipse is a short, but fairly pretty, and an impressive bash and only-slightly-unwieldy attempt at focusing solely on physics based combat and puzzle solving.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:57:32 +0000

Might well give it a go, despite the flaws. However, it’s things like this, that while admirable in themselves, remind you once again how brilliant the real Valve stuff is, in terms of all the elements that aren’t done so well here – voice acting, difficulty curves, intuitive route-finding…

I get the same effect when building TF2 maps – I’m assembling something I’m quite proud of, but when I compare it to the real deal I still find myself somewhat lacking. Then again they do have epic resources and as much time as they want…

By: macc

macc — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:55:24 +0000

Singleplayer mods are quite rare for HL2, it’s a pity. All those deathmatch clones doesn’t quite do it for me.

Anyway, here’s a list of HL2 singleplayer mods which I think are really worth the download:

Minerva Metastasis (the best!)
Riot Act (also very good!)
Rock 24
Union (a lot of Ep2 stuff)
Coastline to atmosphere (long! a lot of stuff in here)
Causality Effect (different storyline for HL2)
Mistake of Pythagoras (very arty, strange and original mod)
Dayhard (funny mod!)

Too lazy for links, just do a search on moddb.:P

By the way, the upcoming mod Strider Mountain also looks very promising:
http://www.stridermountain.com/

And of course Black Mesa if it ever comes out.

By: Feet

Feet — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:46:28 +0000

I’ve played through a good 7 hours of this until I hit the randomly on fire catacombs under a church bit where I got bored and stopped. Some parts of this were very good, the difficulty curve is all over the show, the voice acting and plot are pretty non-sensible, there are random dream sequences, and generally speaking it’s just way way too long to hold ones attention till the bitter end.

I was impressed at points though.

By: OverlordUbiquitous

OverlordUbiquitous — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:42:41 +0000

The level design is fairly unintuative, I spent many a while just wandering around trying to find out where I was supposed to go next. The biggest problem however, is the ‘Flashlight is a seperate weapon’. I thought we’d seen the last of that with Doom3. Yeah, yeah. It supposedly ‘adds atmosphere’. Only atmosphere it adds is that of frustration. Especially coupled with the aforementioned level design, and the lack of other light sources.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:23:56 +0000

Being tired of machinegun renders is a silly reason to skip HL2 multiplay mods. It’s were the best stuff is. Eternal Silence just recently released version 3. A pick-up space shooter in the Source engine? That’s standing out from the crowd.
http://www.eternal-silence.net/

By: ViscountGrizzley

ViscountGrizzley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:22:39 +0000

It was pretty slow, frustrating and anti-fun from what I played. Lot of effort around some bad basic design.
I had a lot more fun with this.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/10513/union
Better simple and well executed than overcomplicated.
Edit: Another good one, while I’m on it…
http://www.moddb.com/mods/9348/riot-act

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:30:18 +0000

This reminds me to try the Toronto mod…whatever it is.. with Canada fairly accurately reproduced in game?

By: Ging

Ging — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:38:32 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with machine gun renders, especially when they’re just the default modeling package grey with fancy lighting applied.

By: Lord_Mordja

Lord_Mordja — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:27:57 +0000

It was actually pretty fun, though with a bit of an…how should I say? “Oldschool” feel to it. By this I mean that the level design felt somewhat archaic and many moments felt a lot like HL1′s singleplayer.

I’m definitely agreeing with Alec’s consensus on bullet time; it’s practically useless. The enemies are generally pretty inaccurate until you go slo-mo and they suddenly start to hit you.

Oh and the story is largely incoherent and you keep falling unconscious unexplainably and waking up in completely different locations.

Still worth a download, and pretty much the only HL2 TC that lasts for more than an hour.

Edit: Not true, there’s also a newly released RPG mod Called “Bloodstone” that’s supposedly long as well. Haven’t played it yet.