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Finished Half Life 2
Mar. 26th, 2008 03:19 pmI've been letting myself play Half Life 2 in measured doses, and just finished it. Great game. I have the next two episodes, by way of the Orange Box, but I don't feel particularly driven to fire them up right away. Soon enough I'll be like Oh, dude, I can play Episode One and that will make me so happy. Probably after I conquer some territory iRL first.
Also finished Concerned, a delightful parody presented like a photocomic, using posed game characters and settings. That's nuthin new for game-fun comix, but what I haven't seen before within the genre is its very clever use of secret-history storytelling style, threading around and through the canonical story (which it leaves intact) in an attempt to explain some of its peculiarities. As with all good webcomics, the writing gets tighter and the humor sharper as it continues, and there's an especially satisfying surprise near the end.
Also finished Concerned, a delightful parody presented like a photocomic, using posed game characters and settings. That's nuthin new for game-fun comix, but what I haven't seen before within the genre is its very clever use of secret-history storytelling style, threading around and through the canonical story (which it leaves intact) in an attempt to explain some of its peculiarities. As with all good webcomics, the writing gets tighter and the humor sharper as it continues, and there's an especially satisfying surprise near the end.