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[camwyn]

The problem with RPing anybody from a first person shooter canon is that sooner or later you're going to have to describe a boss fight. I sort of wish Half-Life were martial arts oriented. I could probably get away with copying a few paragraphs out of something by Louis Cha if that were the case. As it stands I have a creeping horror of it turning into the Penny Arcade strip where Tycho describes his Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun manuscript: "'First the harvester went out for some Tiberium. Then it harvested some Tiberium...' I don't want to give away the ending, but they eventually run out of Tiberium."

*&*!@ fight scenes.

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[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

This is entirely irrelevant, but Louis Cha rocks like a great bog old rocking thing.

That is all.

[camwyn]

Srsly. *pets her copy of The Deer And The Cauldron* Kick ass, man.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

That should be "big", but I'm betting you already figured that out.

[camwyn]

Yeah, I'm good at reading the intent rather than the content when it comes to typos.

[sylveraven.livejournal.com]

John Freeman fired his bullet from teh gun really fast and the bullets went and shot the final boss in the eyes and the final boss couldnt see.

Gordon Freeman said "its time to end this ones and for all!" and punched the final boss in the face and the final boss fell.

[camwyn]

ZOMBIE GOASTS, LEAVE THIS PLACE.

[sylveraven.livejournal.com]

You should definitely have Gordon punch one of your bosses in the face. Just once.

Because you are head-crab zombie.

[camwyn]

Ah, dude, my motorcycle ran out of gas. I'll have to settle for giving him a post-traumatic nightmare which ends with him punching one of the bosses in the face.

And then getting stepped on by the next boss.

[minkhollow]

...post-traumatic nightmare in the style of Full Life Consequences, perhaps? From the looks of the OOMs, poor Gordon's brain would be in about that state of functionality once the adrenaline etc. gave out.

[camwyn]

Something along those lines, yes, although I also have the desire to give him a series of post-traumatic nightmares based on all the ways I screwed up in the course of play. "I just... I can't stop jumping, even though I know I'm going to miss the ledge by an inch, and I fall and fall and suddenly everything goes black and I have to jump again..."

[sylveraven.livejournal.com]

You should TOTALLY have him have a nightmare where he gets stepped on by a giant G-Man.

That would be awesome.

[camwyn]

Might have to arrange that. Let's face it, he's had the HOW BIG IS THAT THING encounter and the WTF ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE so many times in the past twenty-seven hours that he'll be lucky not to have nightmares of getting stepped on by giant incomprehensibles.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

And this? Is why I tend to suck at fighting pups. Notice my Wedge has almost no 'on-screen' dogfights. Poor boy.

[camwyn]

Yeeeah. If you go through Gordon's OOMs, I generally made a point of starting scenes right at the end of a fight, or cutting to black as soon as the fight got underway, or else going with 'Gordon knows sod-all about combat and was too AUGH WTF to notice any of the ongoing details'. But in the end, I had to do up the Nihilanth combat. It just didn't feel right otherwise.

I'll be putting him back in the Bar later today, when I can be sure of people there to tag the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse poor bastard.

[slarti.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is why I -- at least from what I recall of what I did during Grif's run -- only rarely got into the details of the shooty itself, but focused more on setting, movement, taking hits (especially when it was enough to deplete his shields and hide for recharge), and the OSHA-nightmare nature of Black Mesa. :-) Also, the character interaction that comes from Grif being a much chattier guy, but that's less of a combat-related thing.

Also, I totally support face-punchings or similar. While I'm pleased with the work as a whole, I think my favorite moment is, ultimately, having Grif decide to grab the G-Man by the lapels and throw him bodily into the portal. (I'm also fond of, "I hope no one will think less of me for pushing a pregnant woman [the Gonarch] off a cliff, but it was better than throwing shitloads of explosives at it and hoping it'd eventually croak.")

[camwyn]

I took one look at the Gonarch chapter and opted to cover it exactly as follows:

"He was fighting a twenty-foot-tall armored alien venom-spitting spider with a testicle the size of a Buick.

Yep. Gordon was pretty sure he was in Hell."



... I'm big on handwavey.

[genarti]

Handwavey is your friiieeeend.

Heck, I do a lot of handwavy with my fighting characters, and I like writing fight scenes. There comes a point where it's that or agonizingly boring blow-by-blow.

[camwyn]

Twenty-six+ hours of game play = good entertainment value for the dollar.

Twenty-six+ hours of game play transcribed scene-for-scene: pure torture for the reader. Not to mention grounds for yours truly to say 'sod this, I'm running away to Alaska'.