JudasPhysicist

Happy new year! Now go get some rest Ross. And I'll probably finish subtitle the translations sometime this year

Let's see how Half Life 1 ends if Freeman is a sociopath!

I doubt Source 2 will fix stuff. If anything it'll be more buggy.

Nice! But he might have a few weeks to find refuge until antlions arrive. And after that the portal storms will begin.

HECU was a name given by Gearbox not Valve and is only mentioned in Opposing Force and Blue Shift thus it can be considered non-cannon. It makes far more sense that Black Mesa had it's own military base in it's campus as it would make sense why we see Tanks inside Lambda Core etc. Since it's an old goverment missle base it needs to be protected from those sneaky bad communists during the cold war and would have normal soldiers residing.

At this point I would have to imagine that the suit pumps in some proteins and sugar into his blood stream directly. Otherwise he should have feinted by now. Also people seems to have forgotten the point of this series. It is a parody about the bizzare story and level design of the late 90's shooters. And as far I am concerned it still does a great job of pointing out the flaws in funny ways. Another thing is that this is a very accurate description of how I felt about the game story the first time I played it. It was so barebones that I couldn't understand much of it after "Forget About Freeman". Many of the story points made sense when HL:Ep2 pointed them out to me.

It's not especially obscure actually, but it likely won't be one people are thinking of. It's none of the ones you've mentioned. MDK?

I do like real time strategy like Ground Control or Company Of Heroes but turn based is something else for me. Oh well everyone has their own tastes. I hope you do Gothic 1 at some point of the Game Dungeon. Believe it or not the game runs fine on Windows 7 with full widescreen resolution support without needing any patching. The only bad thing about the game is the weird two button combat system (Mouse1+ W).

Oh come on what's this hate against turn based combat? It's methodical, reqiures strategy and tactical placement. X-Com is a great example to this. The game benefits from being turn based, it wouldn't be fun it it was real time. Have you also tried Fallout Tacitics? It has a real time mode which is super chatoic and nearly unplayable. The moment you turn the game back to turn based it's fun again.

I liked the magenta credits It really is sad how old games don't run so well on modern systems. I almost feel like gathering some old PC parts and building a computer for the 1990-2000 era video games.

That's not even practical. If you manage to get the old files you can launch the game as a mod. But getting the files is the part you have to search some torrents. Even Ross states in his Carnevil video that it's sometimes necessery to do some pirating to get content created because you cannot get the service you desire from the legal source.

The steampipe update came and Half Life Source was ported from the 2004 Source Engine to the 2007 (Orange Box) Source Engine. It caused many of the bugs you described above. It also added things like dynamic lighting, try shining your flashlight (with shadows on high) on someone and their outline should fall behind them, this is a feature of the Orange Box Engine. I believe Ross uses an older version that runs on the 2004 Engine as it is probably the least broken when it comes to recording demos and capturing them. How he managed to get it to run kinda falls into a gray area as it is sort of like pirating, but you already own the game anyway and you didn't ask Valve to patch it and break the working features for dynamic lighting and some useless motion blur.

I think he has a Pentium II 1.8 Ghz

I still think it ranges from anarchy to developing nations at best. All the power in the Fallout world feels fragile and has many exceptions beyond its influence. This isn't really the sign of a developed society. I say anarchy because in real anarchy, you DO have pockets of organization with different idealogies, because anarchy in itself is a temporary state. Like in Fallout 1. The ghouls are a giant cult, there are large groups of wandering bandits, you have small farming villages, you have small closed-knit communities like Junktown, you have a small theocracy with the brotherhood of steel, you have merchants doing whatever in the hub. Everybody is doing their own thing, that's anarchy. In later games, some larger groups emerging, but they're warring and their hold isn't secure at all, nobody has obvious overall control, that may not be anarchy, but it's not really society either. It's more like warring tribes with more technology. As for the water thing, in addition to no almost no area in any of the games looking like it has remotely enough food and water to last for more than a few weeks, in Fallout 3 they say the water is radioactive and plant life basically can't grow, yet somehow this has lasted hundreds of years without everyone dead. To me that's just lazy writing. Anyway, I don't really want to go further into a Fallout debate, but I'll say that Fallout feels squarely post apocalyptic, rather than dystopian. Strife to me feels dystopian. Post apocalyptic to me is Fallout, The Road, Road Warrior, Book of Eli, Walking Dead. Civilization has collapsed and hasn't really rebuilt yet. Dystopian is 1984, Brave New World, Soylent Green, Equilibrium, Hunger Games. Established society exists, but has clear oppression and / or very hollow or twisted values along with it. Are you saying that because no one has obvious control over everything? The NCR has basically renovated the entire west coast, and has a very strong grasp on their territory, to the point where they're basically a modern nation, having their own industry, professional army, government, and even currency. Other clearly established societies exist, even if they tend to be small scale, like Vault City in Fallout 2 (seems pretty dystopian and is very high tech, well established, sell sufficient, and can swallow up surrounding territory) and the Legion (though, they may fall in to the "very weak grasp on power" category given that they basically disband after their leader's death). I just don't agree with the idea that Fallout is really post-apocalyptic, at least not as of Fallout: New Vegas, due to organizations like the NCR, and the overall feeling of the world. Civilization HAS rebuilt, and the Mojave region doesn't seem any less civilized than the old west of the 1800s. The southwest and east haven't been seen for a while, but were well on the path to reconstruction last time we did see them. The west coast is entirely rebuilt to nearly modern levels. The Arizona/New Mexico/etc. area has been unified under a brutal, militaristic empire that, for the most part, is extremely low tech, but has random bits of modern technology dispersed throughout. The Mojave is the new frontier, and while there's no main government to it at the time, there will by the end of the game. The Utah region seems to be the only place we know of that still seems somewhat anarchic, being dotted with civilized city-states, such as New Canaan, but mostly inhabited my independent stone-age societies that just so happen to have found modern weapons. Well, Fallout 3 is... Fallout 3. Kinda the black sheep of the series, and by far the least logical. I don't think you should count Fallout 3 and onwards as the old Fallout series, it was built on the foundation of Fargo's Fallout but it had Bethesda's and Zenimax's dirty paw prints all over them. They are similar things but not the same game series continuing.

Well considering their studio got shut down and who knows what happened to the computer the source code was on. It's safe to assume the person who was responsible for it simply forgot it when he was moving out.

Damn the game is practically what I asked for when I was a kid. I always found it odd that everyone was attacking me in FPS games. It wasn't until Deus Ex that I found what I was looking for. Sane NPC's you can talk and reason with, no obligation to gun down every single living thing you see. If only I had internet access back in the late 90's. All I had for gaming was Duke 3D, Doom 2, Warcraft 2 and Tie Fighter.

So kinda like Machinima then... I doubt Machimina killed a 14 year old boy.

You need to use things like VPN's or Tor as they have also banned DNS's as well. As for the goverment, imagine people with primary school children intelligence running the country only much more evil. They have access to unlimited tear gas supplies and a ruthless uneducated police force that beats the crap out of people who don't vote for them. There is literally Hitler levels of being evil going on.

Just my luck, first twitter was banned, now youtube is banned country wide. Maybe if I beg enough they'll let me in Europe.

Hmm, maybe I should move to Poland. Is there an easy way to become a Polish citizen?

I consider this as a Valentine's Day special for the Forever Alone types like I am Great stuff Ross

You know what I noticed, all this time playing Half Life I always projected myself into Gordon Freeman, thinking as myself and inevitably with my own native culture. However Gordon Freeman how much I would argue against it, is pretty much American or British at best. So your version of Freeman Ross, is the more correct one.

Good riddance I say!

Just a heads up, I'm not dead or anything I've sent you episode 20 of the Turkish subtitles.

EA shut down Westwood studios, then proceeded to make horrible C&C sequels. Ubisoft bought Massive Entertainment, my favorite RTS developer, proceeded to have them make a weird mmo-rpg-action game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_j9uKBmUEk I don't know which is worse. We'll see when Division comes out I suppose.