By Alec Meer on November 15th, 2011 at 2:12 pm.
If there’s one downside of having an SSD as your main hard drive, it’s that you find yourself aggressively removing any and all games you’re not convinced you’ll play any time soon. And so it is that I have no Source-powered games on my PC right now, and need to sit through a 5GB SDK download just to play this 200MB mod. While I wait, I’ll show you what it is I’m waiting for – Water is a mini HL2 mod about a singing Mermaid with magic powers who isn’t wearing a shirt. No Jamaican lobsters and crying here though: this puzzle-blessed action-adventure makes fish-people all grimdark, by the look of things.
Download Water yourself from here. I’ll take a look soon, once my SSD is fat with 5GB of Source SDK. Meantime, I have dragons to shout at.
15/11/2011 at 14:17 stahlwerk says:
That is not how singing works underwater. Looks intriguing, though.
“Its beginning to look a lot like fish-men…”
16/11/2011 at 02:30 Eagle0600 says:
Good thing the singing is above water then, isn’t it.
15/11/2011 at 14:21 MrSing says:
Free bobies? :>
16/11/2011 at 01:03 mod the world says:
Oh noes, i hope it was checked for mysogenical stuff.
15/11/2011 at 14:36 AN_D_K says:
“No Jamaican lobsters…”
You just lost me.
15/11/2011 at 14:45 choconutjoe says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgA2xo0HYrE
15/11/2011 at 16:57 Ravenholme says:
I’ll always thought he was a crab.
Certainly, he was as irritating as crabs.
15/11/2011 at 14:44 KoldPT says:
http://www.stefanjones.ca/steam/
This helps a lot with SSDs and steam, apparently.
15/11/2011 at 14:53 neolith says:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)
I’ve been looking for something like that for ages…
15/11/2011 at 15:06 CilindroX says:
Also, the Nerd way (if you are as resilient as me to install 3rd party soft):
Exit Steam. MOVE your game’s folder from Steamapps folder to the other Drive.
Open command prompt with admin privileges (right click -> Run as Admin)
mklink /J c:\Programs\Steam\Steamapps\common\FolderName d:\Backup\Steam\FolderName
remember to use “” whenever you’ve got spaces on the path, such as
C:\Program files , should be “C:\Program files” eg:
mklink /J “C:\Program Files(x86)\MyNotPornFolder” “D:\not my porn folder”
Have fun with the command prompt!
15/11/2011 at 15:17 Nallen says:
POST OF THE GODS
I was actually trying to figure my way around this for Skyrim.
15/11/2011 at 15:33 Baboonanza says:
Even better:
- start the download
- pause download on 1%
- create the link using command prompt, DirLinker or the tool above
- resume download
That avoids the annoying stage of copying the whole game between HDs
15/11/2011 at 14:48 neolith says:
So…. hooray for no shirt?
15/11/2011 at 18:50 Post-Internet Syndrome says:
Great… singing.
15/11/2011 at 20:32 Torgen says:
So, actually a siren rather than a mermaid.
16/11/2011 at 09:49 zbeeblebrox says:
I’m listening to that singing now…and if that’s a siren, they are WAAAY over-hyped :p
15/11/2011 at 23:23 Rossjg says:
I hope you guys enjoy it. There’s a boob.