Justin Kemppainen, Minnesota Games Examiner, writes:
There are some who despise digital delivery of any content, be it music, video games, movies, or anything else. The transitory nature of computers or any storage device makes people leery. If I delete the file, experience catastrophic system failure, decide on a whim to reformat my hard drive, or in some other fashion lose the file, will I be able to download it again?
Well, while those are general concerns that Valve's Steam content delivery and social network system has done very well with, another irritating problem has arisen that could cast a measure of doubt on it.
Are the Half-Life expansions Blue Shift and Opposing Force worth playing in 2023? Let's discuss each of these entries in the beloved franchise.
Opposing Forces and Blue Shift were awesome addons. It was great getting to intersect with Gordon from the Half Life game with a whole different perspective on the events.
Some Video Game franchises have weapons that are imaginative, unconventional and downright bizarre. This is a good thing. Join us as we investigate nine of the best.
I'm surprised Ratchet & Clank wasn't on the list. Late Saint's Row games, with more imaginative weapons like the Shark gun and the armchair with guns would fit on a part two list as well
I'm not familiar with Ratchet and Clank (not my sort of game) but I'll add it to the list for part two along with Saint's Row. Thanks for the suggestions :-)
look up resistance fall of man from insomniac as well. there were some interesting weapons for that too
@phoenix
Resistance series 100%. Especially the secondary fires. Auger shields, Bullseye tags, Magnum detonator, Rossmore incindiary, then throw a Hedgehog for good measure. By the time I got to R3 they were onto Atomizers and Mutators. Armory speaks for itself.
Thank you to everyone for your excellent suggestions. They have all been added to the list for part two which should be published by the end of the month :-)
Modder 'Leaufai' has released a new AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack for the classic Half-Life games.
A lot of my Steam Games work straight off an external harddrive now since I decided to download Steam straight onto it, downloaded all my games and got the games to run right off it, now I think that's pretty cool. I can't say I've had any problems with my games and I just run my old Halflife anthology on disc anyway, except for that cool deal on HL1 for cheap.
Bit of a pain when it does updates though. More DD services should offer 'Gifts' services too.
Sony and MS, I'm looking at you.