You should play deus ex too, great great game! I love the music of that game 
my problem is that i keep playing games in a cycle
like ill play them for 3-6 months straight then stop for like the same amount of time…
my skills have decreased in a few games because of this
I hear ya pr. Back when I was in HS, I used to play games all the time. I don’t have time to do that anymore. Good thing for summer breaks. After that I need to find myself a job similar to what most of you have here where I can surf the forums from work also 
I work full time (design/IT), go to ASU as a full time student (15 cr/sem), cruise forums, design in my spare time, and STILL have time to get a good hour or so a day into gaming.
kirupa,
funny thing is, is that I’m in HS, and all I do is play video games 
Deus ex is awesome… I love it how a mission failure doesn’t end the game… life goes on but deus ex 2 had an fps of 4 on this pc (gettin’ a new one in a few days… hopefully) and didn’t look that good… gonna try again whe ni get my pc…
it takes a good job position to be able to surf the forums and not worry tho k-man lol -
man i love dues ex !!! its the best the story line, the choices thhat you make in the game !!! man it got everything !!
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I play too much battlefield '42. I gotta get a job. :beam:
That’s what I did also in most of my computer classes 
Nothing like UT on the network.
Just finished Half Life. This game rocked! Such a shame I didn’t play it when it came out…5 years earlier 
Congrats! Now you’ll be more up to speed when you play HL2. Good luck with whatever you decide to start out on next… (Deus Ex?)
Probably I have a lot of work on the site and other stuff I need to wrap up before I spend a whole week on another game.
Haha!
I just opened up my steam app today, to play some counter-strike, I just noticed that I have HL! I never really looked at the games that came free with steam, and I started playing HL, and man this game is great for being out for so long!!!
opens up HL
Steam is cool, but they need to fix it before they release HL2. Fortunately, Valve hired Bram Cohen (creator of BitTorrent) to help them improve the distributed net-code. 
i never played half-life up until about 2 months ago. i got it to play CS also. i must admit it was quite entertaining for being an old school game. the last couple of levels were fun!
Hehe Half-life indeed rules 
I’ve got this video with a speed run of half-life, this dude finished the whole game in only 45 minutes!
http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/halflife.html
You should check it out, it’s really funny! (some think it’s a rape of half-life though 
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Greetz, ScHAmPi.
That video was amazing. It’s really cool how he was able to pretty much skip an entire stage by using trip mines as a ladder
Kirupa, you should get Opposing Forces (The Half Life Sequal) and play it also.
HL has been and will always be my favourite game of all time, even when HL2 comes out. It’s the game which helped me “boost it all”. Starting by duke nukem 3d, going into starcraft, then into half-life, my mapping career was really fun.
Go check out the powernode series on svencoop.com, it’s the only thing i ever released. Shi-t, you ask me? I can do slightly better now --but not that much better :P. Like, I don’t map Natural Selection-worthy maps. That’s way ahead of me.
I attempted to map serious sam because it was one of the first engines to allow really huge landscapes without slowdowns, and also masses of enemies, but it was really hard to catch up on (so much that I didn’t ever produce a playable map).
Once I get ahold of a good PC to play Farcry onto, you can be sure i’ll start plopping down some worlds! That video of the engine (with the guy mapping in a breeze) looks inspiring.
I played all of the HL episodes, and now, my favourite mods are The Specialists and Svencoop. I also experiment Contra Force and its derivate, Contra Strike Force, both on thaigamenetwork (or is it thaigamingnetwork?).
If anyone’s up for some modding of FarCry in a teamup, a mod which we could host on a cool flash site (isn’t this the purpose of kirupa.com?:)), well contact me @ [email protected] and I’ll reply and further the project once i get my new comp (which should be within the next two weeks!)
A coop mod already exists, but what if we add complete overhauls (and new maps which are not only the usual jungle-and-beaches…) like urban environments, new weapons, perhaps some highly alien or “horror” creatures…My head is full of ideas, but of course, like anyone, it’s the determination that counts when trying to mod. Not just the idea…