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4Opinions on the “pre-release” characters of Half-Life 2 I’ve been working on a personal rendition of Half-Life 2 that takes elements from both retail and older eras of Half-Life 2’s development and wanted to get feedback on how you would personally like to see some of the characters from earlier eras portrayed. Here I’d like to specifically ask about Eli Maxwell and Captain Vance, as I’ve taken a unique approach to adapting their characters compared to how they are in the “source” material. Instead of having Eli completely absorbing Captain Vance’s character, I’ve instead separated the “Vance” from the Captain, so as of now they are Eli Vance and Captain Maxwell. In my retelling, I want to keep the father/daughter relationships and story aspects that Alyx and Eli have in retail, but still keep Captain Vance’s storyline and The Conscripts. I’m still currently working on how to adapt Captain Maxwell further to be a more compelling character now that Alyx has been separated from him, b…
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I swear, no matter what corner of the internet I'm in the Half-Life brainrot will surely follow.
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More dinosaurs with Xenian patterns! I thought Sinosauropteryx having the snark pattern was very fitting. (also Sinosnark has a nice ring to it lol)
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A friend of mine makes these tiny dinosaur models so I wanted to make some Xenian inspired patterns for them! And so, here's Tyrannosaurus with a tentacle inspired pattern and an Edmontosaurus with a red bullsquid pattern. They were done pretty quickly and primarily with a mouse, I hope you enjoy them despite their amateur-ness!
1I like the sound design of the HL2 beta a lot
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Wanted to put together my personal take on the HL universe's timeline so I quickly cobbled together this! :)
1Edited the photo of the dude in the sewer with Elden Ring on their Steam Deck to be Half-Life instead. After finally deciding to join this community I thought why not also add the water dripping ambience to it?