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[camwyn]

Half-Life for the PS2 arrived in the mail today. Danii and I've been playing it. Which is to say I've been getting killed a lot and shouting, and Danii's been cackling. That's okay. I have fun, Danii has fun, and I don't have the slightest bit of motion sickness at the graphics the way I did in college. I just, y'know, run poor Dr. Freeman RIGHT over edges and down lifts and into the face of the Maw Men and... yeah.

It is my and Danii's firm and certain determination that the headcrabs in Half-Life resemble raw plucked chickens more than anything else, and so we have spent several hours shouting about EVIL CHICKENS and singing "There Are Chickens In The Trees" as I try desperately not to get poor Dr. Freeman killed by HOMICIDAL CHICKEN OF DEATH. We now knew exactly what Kahlan had to deal with when Terry Goodkind wrote "This was no mere chicken. This was pure evil." It's just a pity it didn't leap at her and start eating her brains. Headchicken zombie Kahlan would've made the Sword of Truth books a lot more fun.

Suggested post-game therapy for Dr. Freeman, should he ever find himself anywhere/anywhen even remotely normal ever again: that fair down in Texas or Arkansas or wherever that has the Great American Fry-Off contests. Because then he'd get to buy equipment capable of deep fat frying entire birds, or entire headcrabs, at one go...

For the record? I'm not even past the bridge where the bull slug materializes yet. I stink that much. But it's a fun kind of stink! and a social one, since Danii and I are hanging out and commenting and all those good things.

It's just that we're, y'know, dealing with homicidal evil space chickens.

Comments

[pat-trick.livejournal.com]

"Headchicken zombie Kahlan would've made the Sword of Truth books a lot more fun."

So, so true.

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

I disagree!

Headchicken zombie Kahlan would've made the Sword of Truth books fun.

THAT.

[pat-trick.livejournal.com]

i bow down to your superior grammar correction.

[blackswanevent.livejournal.com]

The minute you said space crabs I thought of cloverfield.

and I died a little inside.

Gee Dr. Freeman, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CLOVERFIELD MONSTER?

(also. I am now reading all I can on it so as to chat at you. dammit. XD)

[camwyn]

You want his response? Honestly?

"... I'm gonna need some bigger guns. And a couple of mines." The rest of his response would depend on whether he'd made it to the sequel yet or not.

*snicker* Enjoy. And if I ever find it for the Mac I'll let you know.

[camwyn]

I must make a correction now.

Gordon's response to the Cloverfield monster is "HOLY SHIT GONARCH HAS TENTACLES KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT". Followed by a whited out screen and the text a scene of unimaginable violence. Because the baby headcrabs that Gonarch drops move and act SO like the parasites from Cloverfield that it isn't even funny.

[sylveraven.livejournal.com]

I tried playing this yesterday, since you left it at the house. You think you're bad?

...it took me over an hour to find the Haz-Mat suit, so I could get into the room to start the test.

I then proceeded to die three times, trying to get from the little room where you have to turn on the fans to start the fun, to the floor above you. After dying twice in exactly the same place (the random room with the two lazers) I gave up because it was making me nauseous.

I think I'm probably worse than you.

[camwyn]

It helps to crouch as soon as you get within sight of the killer laser death hallway, then stay crouched and sort of waddle along the whole way. As soon as you see the dead security guard, run like hell. There'll be a laser coming along to show you what half a security guard looks like.