Better lighting effects, too.
And the odd physics-enabled level geometry, like the room of hanging boxes.
I am still waiting for a dev to come to this thread and be like:
What game did I play? I played Black Mesa today.
Wow, I haven’t been on the forum for like a workweek, been doing stuff, so I’ll post an update on what I’ve played recently.
Hmm, I’m proud to say I finished [COLOR=‘LightBlue’]Crysis in just a couple of days (believe me when I say that I take pride in that, I don’t wish to discuss my 2+ year struggle to finish [COLOR=‘LightBlue’]Thief: Deadly Shadows), it’s one game that really takes you on the action rollercoaster and you’re left wanting for more. To those who haven’t experienced it and only see it as a tech demo, I cannot stress this enough:
“[/SIZE]NOTHING COMPARES TO PUNCHING PEOPLE IN THE ASS, PUNCHING ALIENS IN THE ASS AND PUNCHING ANIMALS. IN THE ASS.[/SIZE]”[/SIZE] [align=right]-Spooks[/SIZE][/align]
Oh, also, there’s guns in there too.
But no, seriously, it’s great fun, you are presented a wide range of options to just dick around and do jack-shit, the Alien Spaceship level, as Coll tipped me, is freakin’ insanity ([COLOR=’#222222’]Seriously, Zero G! Punching aliens, in the ass, in zero G! Wheeeeee!) and it’s not another EPIC story that needs a whole damn game universe to accommodate it in my perspective, it’s just a Hollywood action movie, and a good one, made into a game! Bunch of army guys who just can’t get stereotypical enough, bad guys unleashing something beyond their knowledge upon the world, aliens, you, killing bad guys and aliens, happy end, time well spent!
Moving on to other stuff, I’ve progressed one inch closer to finishing [COLOR=‘LightBlue’]Silent Hill 3. I’m genuinely put off to continue in the Amusement Park, my supplies have been running low during the second part of the game and now I’m really grasping to survive the horror (someone should think of a name for that genre of games :retard 
, plus the atmosphere in that place is really unsettling, the insanity of the level in the original Silent Hill kicks in… And I’m not the one to wet my pants every time a monster shows up, really, I’m not, but maybe it’s that my gaming time has been recently saturated with Silent Hill games, or it’s the third title on its own, but I really have no desire to play SH3 for long periods of time. The gameplay and incentive to drive the story forward are there but so is the mindset of “I don’t really want to open that door.” - nay, “I don’t really want to be in this place.” I guess SH2’s foggy desolate town didn’t just do it for me; the myraid, cold metro stairways though really evoke the feeling of melancholia and claustrophobia in me. In any way whatsoever, the game has obviously achieved its goal - an ominous and depressing atmosphere you’re reluctant to wade in, it’s this type of horror that is actually horrifying.
PS: I should also say that I started replaying SH2 on hard with them chainsaws. All I have to say is: Monsters. A lot of them.[/SIZE]
Next up, yay, I’ve finally stopped being a complete faggot (resorting to whining and ragequitting when the sufficient amount of skill required to overcome the ingeniously crafted cheap deaths in the game is clearly lacking) and made it through the last area in [COLOR=‘LightBlue’]Bionic Commando: Rearmed! Albatross, ahoy! I FUCKING HATE THE ALBATROSS. No, don’t get me wrong, there’s just three fucking long segments you have to do before continuing forward, and you don’t get any saves in-mission whatsoever, this is a sidescroller, it just so fucking sucks when you’ve memorised every bit of the three long and somewhat cheap-death-friendly obstacle rooms, gone through them without a single scratch and then advanced forward just to discover that there’s a shitty no floor segment ahead. WITH CHEAP DEATHS. But this is obviously whining, please, this game requires SKEEEEL. Did I mention I ragequit? Yeah. But fuck that, 'tleast I beat the Area 12 boss, 's fine by me. (As ironic as I intend to sound, it’s the one thing enjoyable about BCR, it doesn’t hold you by the hand like games nowadays do, props to now-defunct Grin for keeping the unforgiving nature of the original in the remake, getting the sense of achievement in these games is far worth the thousand deaths.)
And hey, what do you know? I played [COLOR=‘LightBlue’]TF2! First time in two weeks! And I’ve got a halo! But everyone has a halo! Fuck, where’s the real hats at!? :retard:!
No, seriously! :retard:!
So far, Heroes of Newerth and EVE Apocrypha.
you surely had a lot of free time lol
i’m going to play some gmod today and probably post some screenshots too.
Street Fighter IV. Just bought it off Steam for $19! Gotta love them weekend deals.
Yeah after I bought it for 39.99 -_-
I played STALKER SoC, then I played the game of watching keresh play a game about bears driving cars.
I played STALKER CS and then some Mass Effect.
Deus Ex!
Applause
…for about 5 seconds. Then the greenish low resolution textures annoyed the piss out of me.
Does anyone know of any good HD mods? I would REALLY appreciate it.
Facepalm
You little brats and your being spoiled by normal mapping and High-Definition graphics.
Assassin’s Creed.
Good game but extremely repetitive.
Sorry, but I find green blurry stuff all over the walls to be a major immersion killer.
I know an HD pack exist. I’ve seen videos of it.
Hahaha, and I thought I was slow! 
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I haven’t played anything since last week =\
Never mind. Turns out I just had to switch to OpenLG or whatever it’s called. The textures are back to normal now.
Anyway, the game’s very cool, but I haven’t exactly gotten “in” to it yet. I’m very early in the game, so I assume that will all change as I go on.
It starts off extremely slow. It took me 3-5 uninstalls and reinstalls because I kept getting bored. Once you get a few hours into it, there’s nothing like it. I fucking love it.
Well, that makes me feel allot better. Thank you.
Oh, and the theme kicks ass! It’s going to stay in my head for weeks!
Particularly, this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8jMn2Kcgs
Indeed, it is a great theme.
Makes me want to play through the game again…I’ve played through upwards of 4 or 5 times, and every time, I still find something new. It’s the first game that I know of that allowed you to solve problems in a multitude of ways, and experimenting with the different ways is always really fun.