Okay, so, yes, you've met the big chompity fish. I don't know why but that thing scares the crap out of me. I distinctly remember emptying at least three guns worth of ammo trying to kill one without entering the water one time. Seriously, I was that freaked out, and did not want to get in and fight it on its terms. I just opened fire whenever the thing broke the surface, y'know, like the shark-born-from-satan's-arse that it is. It worked. But it left me to crowbar my way through everything else. I kinda pictured Gordon wide eyed and crazy, cuddling the crowbar like a child at that point, mumbling about how only it would never fail him, and that the bullets all belonged to the fish-monster and he had to be sure to give them all back.

And now that I'm playing through HL1 again (I just got to the chompity fish area myself nngngngngnnggngngnngngngn) I can TOTALLY see what you mean about the headcrabs looking like raw plucked chickens.

So. When you're done with this, what's next? HL1 expansions? Or jumping right into HL2?