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Anyone play Half-Life or any of its mods?

My steam account is Kriley402. Add me to your friends list. Always fun to play with a familiar face. Well, here are a few short description of some of the many mods, incase you're having trouble deciding which ones to download.

Counter-Strike
The most popular of the mods. It is a tactical teambased mod which puts the Terrorists vs. the Counter Terrorists. The Terrorists usually have to complete objectives such as planting bombs, eliminating VIP's, or holding civilian hostages. The Counter-Terrorists are on the other side of the coin. They have to defuse bombs, protect VIP's, or rescue hostages. If you're a console player, think a first person form of SOCOM. Its a great game, but the community absolutely sucks. Everyone whines about how someone is using an "unfair" weapon or calls each other names because they lack actual skill. 9.4/10

Day of Defeat
The second most popular Half-Life mod, and well deserved. It is a WW2 themed mod that puts the Americans versus the Germans in a battle to capture all the command points on the maps. Every 15 seconds, there is a respawn to give the effect of waves of soliders. Personally, I am not a fan of DoD, considering how overdone the WW2 shooter is. But from time to time, I give a good run at the game. 8.4/10

Team Fotress Classic
The best CTF game ever. I'll keep this one impossibly simple. You have a red team and a blue team. The two teams are composed of "classes." You have the solider, medic, scout, heavy weapons guy, spy, engineer, sniper, demolitions man, and the pyro. They all work in conjunction. The solider is your all around assualter, the medic stay in the back of the battle healing teammates, the scout goes after the flag, the heavy weapons guy defends vital points, the spy disguises as enemies and takes out sentry guns which are built by engineers, the pyro softens the enemy, and the denoman sets traps. Quake fans, rejoice. Con? Just a lack of variety. But, I would rank this as one of my favorite mods for Half-Life. 8.8/10

Opposing Force
If you've played and beaten the original HL, then try this. It puts you as one of the Government Grunts sent out to "scilence" Freeman. However, your adventure unviels many other secrets and Government cover-ups. I won't spoil the story too much. Download it from Valve's Steam service. 9/10

Deathmatch Classic
Half-Life is built on the Quake 2 engine. Deathmatch Classic and Team Fortress Classic are original Quake 2 modes modded for Half-Life. The low score here is because it is way too generic. But considering the point was to recreate a favorite, I still play it. 7.5/10

Natural Selection
By far my favorite mod. It is a hyrbrid between a FPS and a RTS. This mod puts the Marines versus the Aliens. Each of which have structures which contribute to them. For example, the Commander on the Marine side can build turrents, armories, healing stations, etc. The alien drone(s) build defense towers and such. However, these structures don't come free. Both sides must collect minerals. The Aliens can evolve into other lifeforms from gathering minerals, while the Marine Commander can give out armor or weapons to his troops. If you have Half-Life, please download this (note that everyone plays BETA 3 v.4a, not BETA 3 v.5) I can't find any flaws here except that it gets a bit buggy sometimes, but what would you expect from a 3rd Party Mod? 9.8/10

Firearms.
RIght behind America's Army as the worlds most realistic FPS. The game puts two squads against each other. Each player can select from a diverse set of equipment to serve as their loadout. Also, as in real life, not every solider is the same. Some are great shooters, others are medics, and some handle artillery. To show this, a player can select a skill that their solider has on the battlefield. What makes this game realistic are the damage physics. The developers have a great knowledge of how body armor works (read the FireArms FAQ on GameFAQs if you would know what I mean.) It goes on, but read the FAQ. The main problem with the game is the lag, which is enough to stop anyone from playing. 8.2/10

The Specialists.
A Matrix Themed Third Person Shooter that allows you to preform tricks to evade your enemies. Allows you to recreate scenes from you favorite movies with its large selection of weapons and dual weilding abilities. It is always worth a play now and then. What it lacks is variety. Sure, I could recreate my favorite Hitman moments, but most of the game is a fragfest or a team fragfest. 7.9/10

I just saw the best commericial ever.

Kid 1: Guess what? I had Receses for breakfast!
Kid 2: You had candy for breakfast?
Kid 1: No, Receses Peanut Butter Cup Cereal! Another food specifically designed to fatten America's youth into butterballs. We stuffed it with extra lard to give it that juicy taste. Trying to lose weight? Well don't worry. We made a low card bull**** version for those who are too lazy to exercise. Sure, it tastes like ****, but its low carb! Not only will you lose weight the lazy way, but your body will become horribly weak, and you'll die of lack of nutrients. But dorry worry, you'll be thin, shalow, skank!
Kid 2: *cries*

What is up with food today. It is either some lard stuffed sandwhich, or some low carb bull****. What happeded to the day when people would eat whatever they want, and exercised it off? Times have changed. Now everyone is switching to a diet that deterriorates muscle mass (which is how the weight is lost, not fat,) and that requires no exercise at all. Now listen up you fat whores, only consume the energy that you need. I play video games all day and type up useless rants on my comp, but why am I not a lardass? Well, I don't overconsume. I only eat what I need. If I ate to much, have no fear, jogging is on its way!

What is the worst is that us who are in good shape have to suffer. It is nearly impossible to find something that isn't low-card bull****, or fat stuffed butterballs. Coca Cola C2? WTF? Low carb Cheetoes? If you're so concered about eating something healthy, then may I direct you to the fruitbowl that has gothered dust for thousands of years, not turn to an implausible diet.

All the Aktins is is a fad diet. Companies have to give in or they'll business. Look at Krispy Kreme for example. Eeeerrrr-SPOOSH! I can't believe it takes a fad diet for people to stop eating Krispy Kreme. They're not eating Krispy Kreme NOT because it's full of fat and extremely unhealthy, but rather they're not eating it because it isn't low carb.

My Two Cents on Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain. SF1 and SF2 own it like nothing

Hello everyone. I've come back for one final post here. Although it may see like trolling, but it is merely my own opinion.

After fully finishing the game, I know know how much time I wasted. There is a reason why I still play SF2. SF: OMS had so many problems with it.
1. Story Line. It had nothing to do with anything. A story line is not supposed to be vague SYphon Filter references and a handful of overdone conspirisies.
2. Online Play. It is fun at first, but it is always a chore to find a game. Even the gameplay was a chore. Way too slow, clunky, and predictable.
3. Par times. Again. The SP wasn't fun, it was a chore.
4. Replayablity. Maybe I would still be playing the game if it had a death match mode, it isn't in the game.
5. Level design. Way to0 clunky and predictable as was the gameplay.
6. Characters. In the one mission that you play as logan, it was lame as hell.
7. Weapons. There are so many weapons, but you always use the same loadout because none of the weapons were different. I would have been happy with simpler weapons with actual differences.
8. Aiming system. At least in the first two SF games, the auto aim actually took some skill. SFOMS was simple enough to let a monkey beat the game. The basic way I went through the game: Play the level. See enemy. Hold down x to kneel. Press square. Release x. Go on. Replay level and know where everything is. Repeat.
9. Overall gameplay. So repeative. So cluncky. The game was a chore to play. I never really enjoyed it.


I could go on, but I'd be here all week. While playing the game, I couldn't decide weather I liked or disliked it. Now that I've completely finished it, I realize that I hate it. I've wasted so much time on a game that was a chore to play. The only thing I ever enjoyed was talking to other people over the mic.

What did you see that was wrong with the game?

Nikelodeon pisses me off.

One day, I am watching TV. I decide to stop by the channel we call Nikelodeon as I expect one of their classics such as the Angry Beavers, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren N' Stimpty, or even Invader Zim. But what do I get? I get a bunch of bull cartoons and repetitive after schools specials. I immediately think, WTF?

Nick is obviously run by 50 year old assclowns who are trying to be "cool." Yeah, great work chief. Rocket Power is such of a great show, I want to act like a poser/skater much like all the other 8 year olds who are induced with this delusionous cancer. Seriously guys, instead of keeping the shows that we all enjoy (even 40 year olds love to watch,) we get mushy, mushy bull that these lttle kids love to watch like sheep. The network needs to stop try to "grow-up" with their audience, and start making shows that are worth watching.

Pfft. Sell-outs.

EA Blows

Ok. You start a game publisher/developer. You have made 5 games so far. They have done great; but wait. You're an uncreative whore who ran out of ideas. You have one solution. Get those 5 games, update them marginally, repackage and resell, and make big bucks from midless sheep who don't actually play games. Guess what company you've created? That's right, Electronic Arts.

Ever year, EA manages to get the Madden serries (which is more of a chore to play than an actual game,) update the rosters, and resell that the game to the same assclowns who bought the same game last year. Think about it. Every game that EA has made is now a whored out title that is a varriaton, sequal, or expansion of the original.

One game I am paticularly disgusted of is Goldeneye Rogue Agent. It is obviously a half-assed marketing ploy to get people to buy their ****ty Bond FPS's. The asshats at the GERA board are beyond naive. "Omg! GERA iz not takin advantge of t3h original LOl! It is caled dat cuase teh maine charter has a Golden-eye! LOL!" Seriously. Ever thought that the corny plot is built around the title, not the title being a name for the plot? EA is too lazy to make a half decent game that they try to whore out a good name that we all love.

What is horrible is not only do the games blow and have been milked like a anerexic cow, but the company itself treats the developers like absolute crap. Employees go to emotional pieces just to carry out the crappy ideas created by the guys upstairs on strict deadlines. That new Madden game every year may be a rehash, but to develop the game, the producers put the devs into a 24/7 crunch time just to put it into the desired release date.

EA is only good in one senario; where they leave the developers the **** alone, let them produce their own ideas, and only get involved in the game when it comes to marketing and actual business. That is why Burnout 3 and The Sims (before the five trillion expansions that cost as much as the full version came out,) were such great games.

For those of us who aren't rich enough to buy the same, repackaged game every year, we'll just save ourselves $50, and spend it on a game that is actually worthy of it.

EA Games! *whispers* We ruin everything.