Results tagged “Autosave”

Or that's what it looks like. Even though I haven't been writing much lately, I'm having most visits than ever before (an increase of ~40%). Why? I have no idea, but most of these visits are searching for pages with the Half Life tag. Needless to say, I got near 3000 new messages that were filtered as spam, in just one week. What's happening! Aaahhh!

Soon, a proper update.

I've played some Dragon Age during the past days. Even though I'm not sure if I'd qualify the game as something as amazing as the critics say it is, I've found some really nice stuff throughout the game, and hell, it's being quite fun. And some times frustrating, in a lovely way. Probably many of you have lived the following situation:

The last head falls to the ground. Enemy corpses lay around your badly injuried (but still alive) party members, as they rest for a couple of seconds cathing their breath. They need to ration the provisions, as the final confrontation against the $evilmotherfucker feels closer and closer.

The group continues its journey through the dark dungeon, following a perfect formation. The full-plated warrior walks first, followed by the rogue and the archer. Behind them, the mage. There's a big room at the end of the tunnel they're walking across right now, roughly at 15 metres in front of them. The warrior draws his sword and holds his shield, anxious. The party moves forward and... "click". Silence. Trap.

Fire everywhere.

The warrior tries to get back to verticality, only to see how the party is ambushed from both sides. First one to fall? The mage. The group tightens their positions, trying to overcome their enemies, and the battle rages. The archer is bleeding a lot, and won't be able to hold much longer. Her wounded look reaches the warrior, who suddenly pauses the game and, getting pallid by moments, exclaims:

I haven't saved the game for... 40 minutes!!

Natural Selection was one of the most famous mods for the first Half Life game, thanks to its innovative mix of genres, style and gameplay.

Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is how the people behind that mod now call themselves, are about to release the second part as a stand alone game with a new game engine written from scratch that allowed them to create things as awesome as dynamic infestation, that will allow aliens to slowly take over the space stations creating havoc by shutting down the different electronic systems, among other things. Plus, the game will come with an everything-capable toolset.

So, pre-orders are already available, and even if both include Beta access, the Special Edition (which is roughly $40) also features Alpha access and eternal gratitude. Did you ever got something like that?

If you never tried the first Natural Selection, the Half Life mod, it might be aswell a good moment to do it.