{"id":25866,"date":"2015-02-05T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25866"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:05:56","slug":"half-life-2-episode-1-ep2-how-to-win-at-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25866","title":{"rendered":"Half Life 2 Episode 1 EP2: How to Win at Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROi-5XJsGEI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ROi-5XJsGEI'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear: All of my complaints in the episode were really trivial. Maybe it sounded like I hated this game. I don&#8217;t But this is what I would have said if the designers asked me for my analysis during development.  The energy spheres are too random and unwieldy, and the explosion sound effect doesn&#8217;t really satisfy.<\/p>\n<p>But for all my whining, this is making me really sad we haven&#8217;t gotten Half-Life 3 yet. They just don&#8217;t make games like this anymore, and they should. They really should. <\/p>\n<p>For the curious, here is Ivan the Space Biker:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/ivan_space_biker.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='ivan_space_biker.jpg' title='ivan_space_biker.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Just to be clear: All of my complaints in the episode were really trivial. Maybe it sounded like I hated this game. I don&#8217;t But this is what I would have said if the designers asked me for my analysis during development. The energy spheres are too random and unwieldy, and the explosion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-25866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-half-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}