Imagine a small plastic bag full of them. Puppy ones. And putting said bag in a jacket pocket. And someone else searching something from the pocket and accidentally putting their hand in the bag.
Happened to my cousin. The one who looks a bit like pope's gf. 

And you get zero trade value for them, the only thing they're good for is synthesizing anti-rad serum. Bah! 

Now I remember, that things were fixed but old savegames were rendered useless or something.
Well, I will play it once I am through with Diablo 2 (again...). 

With all others, the savegames continued to work. Some spawning issues still remained in patch 1.0001 or 1.0002. Or at least situations in which respawning enemies spoilt some of the fun. For example, every time I returned to the garbage from Agroprom, there used to be new bandits attacking the hangar. Eventually, I ignored them so the stalkers there would be killed.

Retried the game recently with patch 1.0004 (the two newer only contain fixes for MP), because the majority of mods only support this version. However, all the mod packs I tested kind of sucked in one way or another. Either they featured too many critical modifications, or too few. Too bad. I just play it again without any mods.. 

Seems ok. Sometimes the task system seems buggy, but never commits a real error. 

oh yeah most stalker mods blow
like 'super realism awesome gfx mod!' = broken game balance and economy (yeah gun prices from real world - great idea!) and 1000% bloom intensity for graphics improvements. "fuk dat!" (� sagat) 

Harvey Smith's review of Half-Life
http://www.planetdeusex.com/witchboy/articles/halflifereview.shtml

I guess the other articles are as readworthy. 

excellent stuff there. Game reviews are almost never like this. This is actually more of a pondering post analysis that would not fit as a review/preview, so it's not fair to compare to magazine stuff.. but still. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1517

Im also trying to play this weird thing
~4hrs in and there is no "game" so far. just reading and long walking ;| 

Sounds very interesting, reading those reviews.

Also sounds like it's better that you're trying to play it, rather than me ;) 

That review was more about System Shock and Thief than Half-Life. 

by a guy who worked on System Shock and DeusEX :))) 

he is better known for what he has screwed up. 

it's great, most of his points are very valid.

Now that i think of it, hl2 did everything wrong he mentions as the dangers of the stuff in hl ;) 

Not This is one of the best ways to create such coherency-the world is not a single-file trail through the woods, but a looping, contiguous labyrinth? check.

No But now the combinations of elements in the room provide a new twist.? check.

Not gives the player just enough ammo to cause him to pause and consider? check.

Cut scenes that are the exact opposite of being interesting, not too long or common and they do not stop the player from moving around in the game world.? check. 

This one has some basic between-round survival management, where you are searching the nearby town to find weapons and survivors. And you occasionally have to travel to the next town, using supplies you found to make the trip. It's a good way to join the zombie survival premise of the game with the typical shooter features of buying/upgrading/repairing between levels.

http://armorgames.com/play/1443/the-last-stand-2 

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14232680/gears-of-war-2/videos/gears2_reveal_050908.html

looks excellent! :D 

... for someone to make a video game about Uwe's boxing, that would be cool. 

Huge war machines are fighting and they depend on one guy sitting on the back with a small machine gun for defence. How about putting a gun on the thing?

It's arcadey all right.

The lighting on the huge models doesn't seem right either when they move right at the start at the one minute mark.

But looks very cool otherwise. 

Those are derricks, not war machines. They transport things. 

...with the tails coming out of the back combined with the massive valleys instantly reminded me of Crysis, but then I remembered that they were in Gears of War 1 at the end with the train... 

otherwise it's looking pretty damn sweet.

I remember a lot of the concept art for gears being very colourful, but oddly what I saw in the game was far less so. Still, it was a blast in coop and the graphics were otherwise fucking amazing, so I didn't care.

Besides, I guess I've been making grey and brown Quake levels for years so who am I to complain about lack of colour? 

that's fucking cool. I hope a duel isn't always initiated in multiplayer though. It'd suck to always lose if you had a dodgy finger even though you got in first or snuck up from behind. I only say this because I suffer from occasional RSI and mashing buttons is no longer something I'm really good at :( 

than

The duel initiates if someone tries to chainsaw you and you have your saw out and attack them at the same time. If someone gets the drop on you or you're facing the wrong way or whatever - you're dead. :) 

I mean, chainsaw duel? You can't go wrong.