Posts by Tequila

  • Mapcore should pwn the Valve Map contest

    Citadel sounds good to me. I had the idea of putting those Combine devices that strip you of weapons to good use. Perhaps you have to face a gauntlet of them, losing your weapons but at the end is a RPG or something equally powerful to go wild with. Oh, and an alternative one-way exit so you don't have to lose it again.

  • Mapcore should pwn the Valve Map contest

    You know where the whole team has to sign their signatures? How are a team hundreds of miles apart going to manage that, unless I'm being silly and it just means a typed signature?

    Anyhoo, I've decided it would be stupid to go lone-star on this; two heads are better than one etc. and with Mapcore's surplus amount of talent, we can't lose.

    Now we just need to work out the teams.

  • Half-Life 2

    Quote from -Stratesiz-

    Some sort of freedom would be appreciated, for example, the city is too linear which makes it feel less like a city. The areas where you can fight the striders are too restricted. It felt mostly like a box with striders.Maps with more A and B objectives before you can continue give a sense of freedom. Think of the area with the tentacles in HL1 or the building with the generator thingiesin HL2 . Too linear areas break the illusion of a fully functional world.

    More things like that would have been nice, but that isn't to say they don't exist in HL2. The bit where you have to use debris to cross the dangerous sand gives the player tons of choice, and it's the physics that not only allow this to happen, but also make the world seem much more 'fully functional' that HL1 could ever manage.

  • Cool Bloodlines Stuff..

    Quote from curman

    nah but here in the US, if a number has "555" in in it , it means theres no such phone company so its like...not..real...likeunderstand what i mean? it lets phone companies no its not a real number so it doesnt dial it

    I do believe Hollywood organised that decades ago with the phone companies, and it's become standard for more than just films.

  • Half-Life 2

    Exactly. And all this "but it's linear!" bullshit is starting to annoy me. Newsflash: few games are non-linear; Deus Ex, for example, is linear, but you are given a certain amount of leeway in your actions. However, it still follows a narrative path that will carry you from the beginning to a choice of three definite endings. Films are linear - HL2 is like a fine action film, only one you have control over.

    Basically, linearity is NOT a bad thing, so stop using it as a negative aspect for HL2.

    Now, I can safely say that HL2 is my favourite game, the best I've played since the original HL, which in-turn was the best I'd played since those magical SNES classics - Mario World, Link To The Past, Super Metroid etc. and, of course, the modding potential blows my mind; another reason to absolutely love the thing. But of course, that's just my viewpoint. I'm sorry if you can't truly enjoy HL2 like I can, for whatever reasons, but man, don't totally rain on its oh-so-fine parade.

  • What was your favorite gun in hl2?

    Quote from RD

    magnum was better in hl1, where u could zoom.Best gun in hl2 is the crossbow

    You could only zoom in multiplayer, so it's irrelevent when comparing singleplayer aspects. HL2's magnum is just the finest thing since sliced bread, with the boomstick coming a close second.

  • de_Porterhouse (CS:S)

    Quote from Pericolos0

    look very nice but i hope u do realise that its a matter of months till we see 1000+ maps with those same props and textures.

    Well, the HL2 props and textures will be properly unlocked next week, so it won't be too bad.