'Half-Contra' explores NES Contra as done by Half-Life 2
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Nov 25th 2009 5:00PM
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:12PM MystileArmor said
HAH! See, I wasn't the only one! Still gotta get through the whole thing though.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:14PM latin trident said
go to amazon.com and order the arcade and the orange box. That is the true definition of a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:25PM Marco le Polo said
I need to buy a new psu and tower, then I'll have my new, slightly used PC to play it on and I think I'll just borrower the orange box from the friend who's gifting me the rest of the hardware.
Can't wait!
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Can't wait!
Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:51PM John Musco said
Consider picking up The Orange Box - you get HL2, the first 2 episodes, Portal, and Team Fortress. Something tells me they might do a new version of The Orange Box when Ep.3 comes out.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 7:40PM CaramelZappa said
Actually, the Valve Complete pack is a better deal than anything right now. L4D 1 and 2, the entire Half-Life series, Team Fortress 1 and 2, everything counter strike, portal, and a few others for $100,
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:12PM MystileArmor said
Probotector > Contra
Europeans will know what I'm talking about.
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Europeans will know what I'm talking about.
Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:44PM laser beams said
they are virtually the same thing with a few different sprites... although i've never played Probotector, i'm inclined to disagree because the European version of everything that didn't originate there tends to be crap (in terms of videogames- not culture at large).
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 6:10PM MystileArmor said
It pretty much was the same game, and honestly, it didn't make too much of a difference. Just a bit of nostalgia attached to it, I suppose. That's all really.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:58PM HighFiveJesus said
he still couldn't make it over the second bridge. I rarely could either.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:20PM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
After watching both these videos I'd like to see them make a Half Life Man 2, The Greatness of Mega Man 2 but with Half Life 2.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 5:17PM Gate Stormer said
Damn it! I started brainstorming an idea for this a few weeks ago. Figures someone would beat me to it.
However my idea for it is a total conversion mod using the UE3 & UDK.
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However my idea for it is a total conversion mod using the UE3 & UDK.
Posted: Nov 25th 2009 7:35PM Mmmmz said
They seem downright stupid to me and I'm still being kind. If you can't do it right, which you can't in first person... don't do it at all or be creative and reinvent it to better suit the first person perspective.
But hey, it's their time not mine so power to them.
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But hey, it's their time not mine so power to them.
Posted: Nov 25th 2009 7:42PM CaramelZappa said
It's really just for nostalgia, not to be necessarily amazing or even fun.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 7:06PM Gate Stormer said
I could see this working much better w/ the UE3 & UDK. Sure it would be a ton of work, but using Unreal Script, you can do a lot of stuff.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 10:31PM Xylon Uxkid said
So many awesome people in this world and I really wanted to see the boss fight.
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Posted: Nov 26th 2009 12:27PM Grey Acumen said
Orange Box and the HL1 anthology is the best purchase if you're only interested in the Single Player experience. Though with the deals steam runs, it may be cheaper to get Half-Life, Blue Shift and Opposing Force as separate games when they go on sale.
Either way, you can't beat the Half Life series and Portal when it comes to the support of the modding community. The mods here are cute little nostalgia pieces, but I've played mods that are just as good as the games Valve put out themselves.
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Either way, you can't beat the Half Life series and Portal when it comes to the support of the modding community. The mods here are cute little nostalgia pieces, but I've played mods that are just as good as the games Valve put out themselves.
Posted: Nov 27th 2009 7:24AM (Unverified) said
This is pretty astounding. And it's simple and easy to do. Of course there could be more vivid ways to do this, but it looks pretty darn awesome they way 2D games are realized in 3D. It's just a neat different perspective. To me, it's as if I'm looking at games if our PC systems were more powerful in the 80s.
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