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"Look at how spooky and normal mapped everything is"

-Jon Carmack 2004

Step 1: Take away somebody's in game funds
Step 2: Accuse them of hacking
Step 3: Introduce shark cards that will allow them to buy back the money you arbitrarily took away

Look, this game has been pretty well recieved by the community and for all I know it's fully deserving of it's reputation, but I wouldn't play this on pc. This game is pretty well acclaimed for it's sound design and there's a bug on PC which causes audio to be streamed at a much lower quality than usual. As far as I know there's no fix for this either, so you just won't get the same experience playing this on PC as you would on Xbox.

Are people seriously still playing this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game? It's a remake of a goldsource mod that came out in 2007.

It's a broken piece of ♥♥♥♥ based on a joke that's funny for about 5 seconds. Still, I would say it's easily worth $20.

This game isn't just hard, it's physically strenuous to play. The game has no room for beginners. If you think you can just pick this up and walk into a match then you'll have your nads blown off from the other side of the map. It's astonishing just how unforgiving this game is toward new players, espescially when you take into account the fact that it doesn't even have a progression system like most modern games (and thank ♥♥♥♥ for that!). Anyway, pick this up if you like shooters that are so hard that they make you cry.

I'm not even usually into RPGs or anything like that but for whatever reason this games is incredibly addictive to me. It can take hours to gather the materials you need to craft a new sword, or to craft the swords you need to make that sword, but the feeling you get when you craft a new weapon? DAM there's nothing like it.

I'm not sure what id were really thinking here. It looks like they ported doom 3 to console and then ported the console port to pc. A lot of the textures look dodgy and distorted.

I really like the art style for this game, but I think it needs some optimization. I'm running a gtx 970 and even I get some framerate spikes from this.

This is a game from a time when Valve were just a small group of ambitious developers who played a lot of Quake. I'll spare you the read because we've all heard about what makes Half-life so great before, the fluid combination of gameplay that still manages to carry along a half decent narrative, the iconic design of the environments and enemies, being able to play as a character who isn't some tanked up super soldier, but a guy who's about to have a ♥♥♥♥ day at work. Like I said, this game came from a time when Valve didn't have money spewing at them from Dota, TF2 hat skins and steam sales. But it's a game that did what it did so well that, without it, Valve would probably just be some group of no name developers. It isn't perfect, the voice acting is cheesy, the characters feel like robots, their are a few weapons that are kind of useless (mainly the snarks and satchel charges), the graphics look like origami, but it has this distinct charm and simplicity to it that just has no substitute. It takes me back to a much simpler time when Valve wasn't the machine that powered the commercial games industry.