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YouTube - (RELEASE) Half-Life2: All sounds replaced with my voice

2009 Sep 18, 1:54A HL2 mod in which guy replaces all game sound effects with his voice...PermalinkCommentsvideo humor halflife hl2 videogame game via:waxy

Half-Life 2: Episode Two Stats

2007 Nov 28, 2:09Valve shows off their cool visualizations of stats they generated from folks playing HL2E2 including heat maps of player deaths by level.PermalinkCommentsvisualization statistics hl2 game games valve development

Funde Razor '07 Grand Prize Announced - Funde Razor '07

2007 Nov 27, 4:19Cool life size weighted companion cube plush toys.PermalinkCommentshumor portal weighted-companion-cube hl2 valve toy purchase via:boingboing

Portal is fun; the cake is a lie!

2007 Oct 22, 4:47I purchased the Orange Box off of Steam a bit ago and like others before me who have discussed elsewhere, I already owned two of the five games that come from the Orange Box. However, the combined price of HL2E2 and Portal, the two games I actually wanted was supposedly equivalent to the price of the Orange Box bundle. Incidentally, if anyone would like HL2 or HL2E1 I can gift them to you.

HL2E2 was excellent of course but the big surprise for me was Portal. (Mild spoilers follow) It has a sort of zen simplicity: there are a few simple game-play mechanics, a handful of textures and objects, and a deceptively simple story all used well and tied together to produce an entertaining and polished game. It seems a bit short but its probably better to end with the gamer demanding more. The humor and the sort of play within a play aspect of the game is what really sold me though. It has the funniest ending theme I've heard (also blogged by the creator). The voices of the automated turrets are so adorable I would feel compelled to hug them if they weren't always trying to kill me. Additionally the weighted companion cube seems like an experiment in understanding gamers' attachment to NPCs. In this case the NPC is a box and yet I still felt awful incinerating it. The whole time I was vaguely reminded of Solitary the reality show that sticks contestants alone in small rooms forcing them to endure various tests all the while being watched by a humorous computer with a female voice. Someone should sue...

RPS has articles on Portal including a Portal review, a page suggesting Portal is a tale of lesbianism, and others.PermalinkCommentshl2e2 game hl2 solitary valve portal nontechnical

GAMERadio :: View topic - Portal - the end credits song (mp3/ogg) download :)

2007 Oct 17, 11:31Portal / HL2 E2 Spoilers! This is the lyrics and an mp3 of the end credits of the most excellent game Portal. What a great game. "Anyway, this cake is great."PermalinkCommentsportal game mp3 music humor

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Blog Archive - A Goddess Reborn

2007 Oct 3, 2:36PermalinkCommentsgames valve orange-box halflife hl2
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