Recent reviews by ironclaw

What the **** has pokemon been doing........

Amazing!! Been waiting a long time for this (og stalker) I am extremely happy with this :)

Please add the drop to the Main Screen music. I keep waiting for it...

It was literally a pleasure to play. Thank you very much FromSoftware

Got it on sale 50% off. Still not worth it. Wait for a big sale...
Unless Elden Ring has spoilt me for games... This isn't fun or immersive at all.
What happened CD Projekt Red... Urgh

I wanted to like this game but it was boring, boring and more boring. Press X simulator..

What an absolute pleasure to (re)play!!

I first heard about Half Life from a friend of mine in grade 8, 1998. A strange game about a theoretical physicist and some experiment gone wrong. I didn't get my first taste until a month later when I stayed over his place on the Christmas Holidays. It looked amazing, felt amazing and was so damn fun I didn't want to go home lol.

From that point on I was asking my parents if we could get a PC for home, mostly for this game but I told them it was for school (we were a middle class family and PC's were expensive) We didn't get a PC for many years to come..

I heard about half life 2 years later and thought about that old game my friend had and it re-ignited a want to play it. At this point in life I only had an original xbox and was playing games like halo 1. I knew Half Life was a PC exclusive game and probably would never get to play it at this rate.

A few years later again, I had bought my Older brothers old PC to play Call of Duty 2 on. (The first game I ever owned and played on PC, what a golden time of online multiplayer) I didn't get Half Life 2 until the Orange box was released. This was before steam was really a thing and back when buying games was very different. Bought it at the shop, went home and installed it immediately.
Finally I was playing a Half Life game. Half life 2 was, in my eyes, one of the best games ever made. But I still hadn't played the first one all the way through. So I started looking for it in the game stores, EB games, video stores, everywhere. I finally got it around 2008 and played it exclusively for about a month.

I then started seeing on forums that 'Black Mesa' a remake of Half Life on the source engine was starting to be developed. This was about 2009 or so.. I followed it religiously, I got the free mod release of the game in September 2012, played it. I bought the game when it was released on steam, played it. Then bought it again when it was officially launched by Valve and played it again.
I held back to review until I had played the full released version with xen. A series of extreme life changing events prevented me to play until recently.

And this morning, I finished the game. Now I need to go back and play Half Life 2 again, for the possibly 50th time.. It was well worth the wait and well worth the price. I don't remember the last time I felt the way I did while playing Black Mesa (especially xen) Probably the first few times playing Half Life 2, all those years ago.
Now.. I'm an old man... (37 lol) I was a young man when half life 2 was released. Yes, I still have hope for Half Life 3. I think most half life fans still do, deep down.

From one fan to another, Thank you for the Half Life series to everyone involved. It has been a blast!!
Happy Crowbar'ing, my fellow scientists

All dates and times are subject to change as my memory isnt as good as it used to be.

Thousands of hours put into this game on Origin. 10/10, Great game.

Blast from the past. Been missing some rts in your life? This should suffice until starcraft 3

Garbage. Launcher won't load, keep getting errors and tried all apparent fixes. Can't even get a refund. Thanks Square Enix