Mr eel
Half Life 2 Makes Me Dizzy
Well, now that I have a shiny Macbook Pro I figured it was time for me to set up Boot Camp and play Half Life 2. I’ve actually played HL2 Deathmatch a good deal, but I’ve never played the single player game. I debated buying the current retail box, or waiting until Valve release the Orange Box set — HL2 and all of it’s addons.
In the end I bought it off Steam and downloaded it. Worked out to be $28AUD with Episode One, which had previously been about $20AUD by itself. Steam is very annoying or at least the client app is, but the convenience of buying online and downloading games far outweighs any irritation. I’m keen to see even more games distributed this way. Lower cost for punters, no DVDs or paper packaging. A hell of a lot less waste all round.
As for the actual game — I’ve played it for hours on end today. It is very, very good. And running on my MBP, I can crank the settings right up. It looks lush.
The only real downside is that the game makes me feel ill. Having the perspective in game swing about while my body sits still inevitably makes me nauseous. Thankfully it usually takes awhile for it to kick in, so I’ve still managed to play a large chunk of the game.
I’m looking forward to completing the game and getting back into Deathmatch again. I’ll play woefully like usually, but I hope I can avoid embarrassing myself too much.
Comments
Ted Han on July 4, 2007
Dude, i had totally the same experience. All i can figure is that they did something really messed up with the way the game fish-eyes. Cause i can’t play the game for more than 15 minutes without getting seriously motion sick. I find this very unusual, since i have never ever encountered another game of any genre that’s managed to accomplish that. The only other time I’ve ever felt motion sick while playing a game is trying to play a platform scroller on my DS while in a moving car.