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01:38:29 ER: or whole new fangame, really
01:38:57 ER: it's really well made, you should try it if you like half life
01:39:28 MJ: I've actually never played it, my twin brother loved it and I watched him play a lot of it but I've never played it myself
01:41:23 ER: HL1 or HL2? They're similar but also very different. :p
01:47:02 MJ: I've played portal 2 though
02:07:47 ER: this game actually references portal a lot
02:08:05 MJ: Ah, too bad that is the portal game I haven't played
02:12:40 MJ: But I do now most of the plot solely because it was in all the memes for most of my childhood
02:12:53 ER: this game also adds portal grenades which suck in physics obejcts and enemies and then teleports in Xen creatures
02:18:37 MJ: I do wonder if Half life 3 will ever be made
02:18:37 ER: it can also teleport in health and suit energy to make it a sweeter deal
02:18:46 MJ: That sounds even more awesome
04:30:17 ER: a clever part is that there's a character named wilson who is sort of the equivalent of wheatly from portal 2, you meet him in one chapter and have to carry him around an use him to open doors to escape
04:30:43 ER: and you get to choose whether to bring him with you or leave him behind for the rest of the game
04:31:36 ER: so I played through the game on hard the first time and left him because I was having a hard time as is and carrying him everywhere would make things harder
04:32:11 ER: so for a my second playthrough I put it down to easy mode and taking a more liesurely experience with my turret buddy
04:45:05 ER: (yeah he's a turret but he can't shoot things for you, he's a broken one)
04:54:44 MJ: And a very clever refrence since wheatly made all the broken turrets
04:57:50 ER: they show up before he takes over
04:58:18 ER: the facility just builds half and half normal turrets and clearly defective ones because apature science
05:00:51 ER: one of the things you do in order to face glados is go into the turret factory and sabotage it by making the scanner reject working turrets and let broken ones though
05:01:55 MJ: I've heard the original portal is fantastic
05:03:57 ER: it's been a while since I've played it
05:04:19 ER: but I did recently watch a streamer play a very cursed mod for portal 1
05:05:02 ER: mostly the mod just puts rocket turrets everywhere
05:05:37 ER: you can't knock those ones over so the whole game you have to dodge rockets are every moment while hearing a dozen beeps of them locking on to you
05:06:05 ER: and it also adds HL2 enemies and weapons
05:07:10 ER: in portal 1 there are those little observation room offices overlooking the chambers, you can shoot the window open with a shotgun and then portal into there
05:07:23 MJ: God that reminds me years ago of some old video I saw that was like how it should have ended portal and it's mostly chel and gordon going on adventures of silent protagonsits
05:08:07 ER: kind of amazing how the aperture facility never got a headcrab infestation
05:08:21 ER: they seem to worm into literally everywhere else :p
05:09:26 ER: the sheer number of headcrabs everywhere convinces me that humans aren't really a necessary part of their life cycle and they probably lay a shit ton of eggs or something
05:10:51 MJ: I thought they were like cloned or something
05:11:02 ER: also strange how so many people get zombied, like you'd think they would learn to wear helmets or something :p
05:11:22 MJ: Or why Gordon never wears helemts
05:11:31 ER: gordon wearing his suit takes like... 2 damage from a headcrab leap. it's like a cat scratching you
05:13:09 MJ: Yeah, you'd think other people would wear at least a hat or something
05:13:17 ER: gordon's gotta have a helmet built into the suit right, it protects him from deadly radiation
05:14:20 ER: or maybe there won't be an episode 3 because he got acute cancer of the entire head in episode 1
05:15:41 MJ: heh, every other part of him is completly radaition free except his head
05:16:32 MJ: I wonder if the next half life will be VR like Alyx
05:19:29 ER: I hope not, I can't play alyx :p
05:20:18 ER: oh, this game did have one tiny detail which I think was a reference to or inspired by hl alyx
05:20:49 ER: in one chapter there's a monster you have to evade due to not having weapons, and making sounds can attract it
05:21:34 ER: and there's a cube you have to pick up which has one little glass bottle on it. if you pick up the cube itself you'll drop the bottle and smash it, making a noise
05:21:54 ER: so you have to carefully pick up the bottle and set it down without breaking it
05:22:24 MJ: Oh that's neat and yeah that's defeintly inspired by Alyx since there's that whole enemy who does exactlly that
05:24:53 ER: so anyways play entropy zero but probably play HL2 first and maybe HL1 if you want :p
05:25:34 ER: and maybe Opposing Force? EZ2 references it but that's one I never played.
05:26:02 ER: or blue shift but I think that one has fewer novel ideas
05:26:15 MJ: I've heard opposing force is good yeah
05:26:58 MJ: That's were you play as a marine rihgt?
05:29:21 ER: you're the bad guy but not really :p
05:30:37 ER: it was also made by gearbox, not valve
05:30:48 ER: looks like I don't own it on steam, ehh
05:31:17 MJ: Speaking of Valve I guess back4blood was not very good
05:32:28 ER: I didn't like L4D either so what can I say >.>
05:35:22 MJ: I wish Valve would update TF2
05:35:59 ER: I wish valve would make more HL :p
05:36:15 ER: what do they make these days? just dota updates?
05:36:48 ER: HLA was legit but back in 2020
05:37:03 ER: which is amazingly, two years in the past of what year it now is
05:37:27 ER: looking at their list, looks like they made a tech demo for the steam deck this year
05:37:53 MJ: Oh right they did make a steam deck.
05:40:15 ER: valve like the idea of being able to make games for their own hardware but then never actually make the games before getting distracted by exciting new hardware ideas
05:40:17 MJ: i mean just the steam deck itself
05:40:39 MJ: I feel like Valve wants to be nintendo in some weird way
05:49:42 MJ: Goodnight
ER, was fun talking
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