It being far too short compared to the original as well. 

Sure, it was short but I find it hard to believe that it was 3 hours short on a first play through. 

yeah the developers were pretty lazy, there's even a few levels where you play through multiple times like that stupid fkn funhouse. but yeah... 3 hours on a first play through sounds a little low to me too. i guess if you skipped all the cinematics that would take an hour or two off. 

I liked it. Simple game but plenty of style. Was shortish but took me a lot longer than 3 hours. Certainly got plenty of playtime for my � as I do with almost any game. 

Looking back Max Payne 2 is still one of the best stories I ever played. Gotta play it again.
3 hours is a joke but maybe Zwiffle is so zwofflish that he zwuffled right through it.

I still haven't bought it though, cough. But I bought GTA:San Andreas and that piece of shit just does not end. So I guess I am even with the gaming industry dickheads. 

Hey, aren't you the guy who fell in love with Mona Sax? 

Yeah, quite embarrassing reading that old gibberish... 

thanks. I did do a search but didnt realise the game was so old :) 

negke: Post? Where is this little gold nugget hidden at? 

any links for HL 1 mods/editing info?

... I'm lazy, I know. 

I found this one really nice (but have to admit that I do not remember if I completed it, oops). If you like "post-nuclear" feeling, check it out: http://paranoia.level-design.ru/index_eng.htm

Nice review site: http://spmapcorner.blogspot.com/search/label/Half-Life 

i've never play it before and i must say it impressed me a lot, what the beautiful game :) 

Anyone played it? From the authors of painkiller 

I'm using the steam version of half life, but not the source version. Not sure if downloading mods/editing will be a pain in the ass to set up - anyone have any experience there? 

no problems here with the non source version. Some older mods though dont work with 1.08 updates onwards. 

Pulsar I didn't think it was gold yet? Looks awesome though, a bit of a RTCW ripoff, but who cares if it looks good and is fun. 

i wonder why no one tells anything about it, it's about a week in retail. my pc is too old to run it 

I got the demo at work. It doesn't run all that well, and the PC here is fairly decent. It was running well on a coworker's PC, and looked pretty much like Painkiller in WW1. Fight zombie Germans, ghosts, use two weapons at a time, run around a lot, etc. 

Is now an open beta, for anyone that missed the news. The site is totally swamped at the moment so I would leave it a while before trying to register if your interested :) 

pretty frustrating right now though, with the queue to get onto the page. Had to go through it once to register, once after downloading the plugin, and now i'm in the queue again after i tried to go fullscreen in firefox and it completely fucked up and wouldn't let me quit.

Hopefully will get to play within the hour! 

offline play: worked fine, Q3 is still fun!
online play: good, good, lag, lag, BSOD

Might wait a few days and try again... 

Anyone know if there are any sites with Half life tutorials or mapping resources still active? 69th parallel seems to be dead. Handy Vandal is really hit and miss...
Did Valve ERC disappear too? 

http://www.half-lifecreations.com/
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.snarkpit.net/
http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?cat=2
http://www.interlopers.net/

http://www.podcast17.com/ is your friend :) 

Thanks Daz! 

Interlopers is source engine only, my bad!

But if you are mapping in Source, you should already have bookmarked Interlopers, signed up to their forums and read everything there :) They are like the func_msgboard of Source engine games.