loudaslife

If there's going to be any real character development, Xen is obviously the last chance for it to happen. So far Freeman has maintained pretty much the exact same demeanor throughout the entire series. Honestly it would pretty disappointing if he continues that way through to the end. Freeman's personality is what has made the whole series, but I think it will have to change at some point, even if only for a little while. Just my 2 cents.

I just downloaded Half-Life: Source from Steam after reading this (never bothered to download it before as I like the authenticity of the original). Surprisingly, I have all of the exact same errors that you described. The weapons look like they're covered in shiny plastic wrap, scientists freaking the hell out, everything. So it's not just you, the game really is bugged. I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium x64, with a Radeon HD 6790 and a Phenom x4 955 BE. I don't have these problems with any other Source game. Or any other game in general, I might add.

Do you have demo files for ANY of the older episodes? I realize that if you spent time to render them in HD it would only delay work on new episodes (and nobody wants that). However, I would be willing to lock up my computer for several hours in order to do HD recording and process motion blur for whatever old episodes you do still have the files for. I'm sure many other people here would be happy to do the same thing.