What are you playing this weekend/these days?

[Null]

https://www.patreon.com/henrytaiwan Haven't played it since 0.42 came out a couple of years back so thought I'd revisit it. Cue me losing track of time and finally getting to bed at approx 5 this morning.

 

[Null]

More https://www.patreon.com/henrytaiwan this time I got to bed at approx 6 this morning. In other news I have been banned from playing the game for a while.

 

[kuru]

Just finished HL: Blue Shift. Not a great expansion. Rather annoying in places. And I forgot how bad torchlight is in those old games. There was a lot of squinting involved, complemented by the bad monitor I have to use at the moment. And apparently there's no subtitles

 

[netcat]

It's it about a shrinking universe?

 

[TeDaDeS]

Just finished HL: Blue Shift. Not a great expansion. Rather annoying in places. And I forgot how bad torchlight is in those old games. There was a lot of squinting involved, complemented by the bad monitor I have to use at the moment. And apparently there's no subtitles

I actually played it a long time ago, when it came out, and I remember it as a fun game. I played many expansions for Half-Life 1. Maybe it was the shiny helmet.
The Dreamcast port also contained this expansion: https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_(Dreamcast_port)

 

[PowerGod]

I found the expansions of Half-Life very interesting because them shared the same story, and happens at the same time, but with different point of views, also in every expansion there are visual connections to the main game (or to the other expansions), so you can understand better what is happening in the main story while your actual character is doing alternative things.

Half-Life - is the POV of Gordon Freeman.
HL: Blue Shift - is the POV of Barney, the policeman that can be seen punching a door at the start of the main game.
HL: Opposing Force - is the POV of one of the military men sent to attack the laboratory.

There were also different great fan projects that continued the trend, I'll list only the best two that I remember, but there were more:

HL: Point Of View - is the POV of one of the aliens that appears at the laboratory, and it's DEEP, damn this game adds a lot to the lore, even more than the official expansions, it starts in the alien world and you can see how it was managed.
HL: Azure Sheep - is the POV of another Policeman trying to save a colleague. It has a connection to the previous "Point Of View MOD" as them share some same locations where, well, in both MODs you can see the other protagonist from the other point of view ...

 

[netcat]

I played HL2 today. I can't tell if it's overrated or not. I don't like it as much as Portal but it is very pleasant. I'm downloading the Dreamcast version now. I hope it will be more pixelated than HL2 on PS3. I'm really into pixelation.

 

[kuru]

Heh. I also started HL2 again today. The recent offer on steam included both episodes. Not sure about episode 1, but definitely haven't played 2.
BTW this is free, short and sweet: ...and apparently "no longer available in [my] country": Transmissions: Element 120.

It's it about a shrinking universe?

If it is I haven't noticed. It's been a few years since I've read about red shift in sci-fi and only just got double meaning in the title. It had always been the shift of the security guy in my mind, I never had a second thought.