so i beat hl2, and feeling a little empty after that ending i decided that i wanted to go back and play the origional half life. but i lost my origional half life CD! and of course it has the CD Key written on it... damn. but then i realized wait a minute steam does all that authentication through their online account... so i logged into steam and double clicked half life, it remembered that i have a valid cd key! wahoo! half life time!

but my question is, did anyone here get the silver package that includes the source version of hl1? i really wanted to play it and i thought it came with the bronze package but i guess not. does it really look just as good as hl2 or is it just a graphics makeover? boy you can really see the difference between a game made in 1998 and a game made in 2004

No, it really looks pretty close to the same as it did back then. Only difference is in the lighting and the water, that's it. Same character models, same weapon models, etc...

oh that's weak. i was expecting a full overhaul of the textures and characters...

just got past the snake with a beak thing that you have to throw grenades so it doesn't hear you...

they have a new weapon models thing out... but I suppose that came with blue shift tho didnt it...

That is one of my all-time favorite gaming moments. At least, that was one of the best ways to kill a boss, ever.

Runner-up for best boss kill is when you finally get the big baby at the end to open up his head for you...but only if you then jump INSIDE, dig out your crowbar, and get to business. I never understood why tranq darts killed it faster than anything else...a lot like I don't understand how you can die in CounterStrike by being shot once in the leg with the AWP. Yes it's a high-power sniper rifle...but it's your LEG, you should be able to go down guns blazing...

Oh well. Back to physics.

actually if you hit someone in the leg now with an awp, they dont die.

I'm still (ok, just started) playing CS 1.6 .

I personally don't see why the "realistic" game rewards you for doing dumb stuff like bunnyhopping and shooting for the head with automatic and semiautomatic weapons (particularly assault rifles and submachine guns).

well. it isnt realistic, but its close. and where would it hurt them more? head or leg?

AWP's don't kill with only a leg shot in 1.6 either.

You can't bunnyhop in CS....

In real life you aim for the center of mass. This usually translates to the chest, but in the case of Evie, is more like the gut (this joke may be from before your time). Also, if you get shot while wearing Kevlar, you'll probably live, but you won't be doing anything productive for at least a few minutes.

My previous post was the result of 5 hours of sleep and a schooling by normal-difficulty bots in CS:S. I get frustrated easily when I spend a lot of money buying equipment only to have it taken away in a quarter of a second, which then forces me to watch a very non-captivating battle between my bot-teammates and the other bot-team.

Yes, I suck at CS. No, I have no intention of playing with real people. I don't feel like replacing my monitor and my keyboard every 2 weeks from the violence that it would propel me into.

You mean kinda like this??
Kid Going Nuts Dying at Counter-Strike

No. More violent. Like slamming my keboard over my monitor repeatedly and then throwing the keyboard across the room (both my current keyboard and my ex-keyboard are/were wireless).

GenPFault can back me up here. The game in question was not CS, however. It was called Savage.

maybe you should get a wired keyboard. in fact, maybe you should go one step further and and bolt your keyboard down to the desk... and a mouse that weighs 20 lbs. wait... that could be dangerous to any spectators.

i almost beat the shit out of my keyboard in a network game of generals about a week ago. i think it was mostly egged on by the fact that out of 3 of us the computer focused all his attention on my shit. like the only building i had left was a power plant and a command base, and they were both bulit deep inside kevin's defenses because the rest of my shit got blown up, and he would still risk all of his guys driving PAST kevin's defenses not firing at him, but waitin guntil he got in range of my shit to blow it up. that, and the fact that the game has a stupid censoring thing on it that will censor EVERYTHING. it's quit rediculous. "poop", "he'll", its got a list of like 200 words that it will replace with ***. sometimes it's hard for your teammates to respond to "oh **** he's *** stupid **** ***hole what the ****" so i usually resort to "OH LK:#$U*()ULDJKHR#$*(RUO*IDUJFLKFLIKJ#*()UDKF"