Happy (mostly early) 20th birthday HL2! While HL1 will forever be my favorite Half-Life of all time, it isn't like I hate the game. Here's photos of some HL2 stuff I own (and my HL1 shirt, still new in the box!) Deep in my garage is also the Headcrab plush from the Valve store.
Have you ever been bothered by the fact Half-Life: Source steals a GameBanana addon for the HD Pack option? Fret no more! Here's a proper port of the HD Pack, done by yours truly.
Lets pour one out for the fallen GoldSource solders that fell victim to the 25th anniversary update: Counter-Strike Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes Day of Defeat Half-Life: Blue Shift Deathmatch Classic and all of the menus for everything but Half-Life 1. Will it be fixed? Yeah, probably. Hopefully sooner than later.
You can't stop me from posting anything I want here. This is my own private domicile.
I think something is wrong with my Lambda Generation...
Here's some photos of really early Half-Life as seen in some French E3 97 coverage. Its spliced in-between footage of Half-Life's first trailer. Depicts the cut chapters C3A4 and Security Complex (C1A3).
Half-Life at ECTS 1997. The build that was shown off at ECTS 1997 is also the same build as the leaked Alpha.
In the Preliminary Findings footage, Barney can be seen with no pistol when firing.
There's something quite amusing with the development screenshots of C3A2. The maps are mostly untouched between retail and the maps from around mid-1998. Some minor changes like a hallway being closed up and the portal sprites just being colored rectangular prisms. (First and third photos are pre-release and second and fourth photo are retail.)
For many years, it has been speculated that there was a cut weapon in Half-Life known as the "Zero Point Generator." However... This is the original name of the Gauss Gun! If you take a moment to compare the Day One skill file to the one in the final game, you would notice that the Zero Point Generator is in the same spot as the Gauss Gun. The skill file also shows that the original name of the Egon Gun was the Tau Cannon before it was given to the Gauss Gun. How exactly this piece of mis-inf…