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Subject: Re: How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:50:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 01:52 this Saturday (GMT):
>> On 11/15/2024 2:43 PM, Ant wrote:
>>> In alt.games.half-life June Of Daventry <junetunes@tilde.club> wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:
>>>>> https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

>>>>> 20!??!?! What? :O
>>>> Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source,
>>>> the far superior experience :^)

>>> Black Mesa too! :)

>> Half Mesa!!

>They split black mesa in half?!

More than that, at the end of "Opposing Force". They split it into
lots of itty bitty pieces, in fact. 

Exploding a nuke will do that. ;-)