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Run Gordon Freeman! Run!
Speedrunning games are an art for gamers!
In this mod you will run with friends through the plot twists of HL2, HL2e1, HL2e2.
Gather all your friends and don't forget to raise your personal server 🙂 - Only then will you be able to unleash the full potential of this mod!

Achievement and hunting for it.
There is only one achievement here! It will be the jewel in your Steam Achievement Hunter's crown!
The first and most important condition for getting it is to play during the Event... The main point is that only the Dev of this game can start it... and this happens on average once every 5 years!
If you missed this fun period of time, you can wait 5 years…. or make an offering to your gods so that Dev starts this event earlier =)
In any case, this is a very rare achievement due to the limited time periods in obtaining it!

Single player mode.
If you have any game with the HL2 engine, then you can download this mod and thus get a free walkthrough of HL2e1 - HL2e2 or even HL2 itself! It all depends on the game you already own!
If you don't have friends 🙁 then you can spend a couple of evenings in the last days of hope in the HL2 World!
Once again I want to emphasize - this is not a full-fledged game! But only a modification!

P.S. I specifically didn’t talk about the music, graphics, atmosphere of the game and much more, since it’s all similar to the original HL2, and if you want to fully enjoy the great series of games, then just run and buy it! Unless, of course, you haven't done your Freeman life run yet!

100/100 laps of running with a Crowbar!

Every night we close our eyes and leave for the Kingdom of Morpheus ... ...
Our road there can be bright or dark. But one thing we know for sure: when the Sun rises, we will open our eyes and wake up! Or will we never see the Sun again ...?

Most of the survival games are very simple, and they are created only for the sake of killing your time behind the endless process of survival in the virtual World! At the same time, in most games for survival - sandboxes there is no even a plot !!!
When you start the next survival game, you understand that it was created for people with problems ... and after 1-2 hours it becomes boring, and, having turned off such a game, I never want to start it again 🙁
But when you go to Don 't Starve you feel that it was as if plunging into the World of Morpheus, and after night or day you will want to go into his Kingdom again to survive in the World of Nightmares!


We all live in a World that is real for us, but when we fall into the World of Dreams, we understand that everything that happens to us is unreal, and this is only a dream .... Or the World of our dreams is real, and the World that surrounds us is only a long dream under the rays of the sun ....

By the will of fate ... or demons, our hero falls into the World of Dreams without blinking and an eye!
If you were waiting for pink clouds and a rainbow behind them, you can say goodbye to the World of illusions and plunge into the World of Nightmares, where you should not only be afraid of every rustle in the bushes in the night or your own shadow, but also survive day after day!

Passing along the long way of life in this world of nightmares, you will learn more and more answers to those questions that the plot of the game leaves in the surrounding world ...
As in real life, we will not be able to understand or find out something if we do not go a long way to our goal!

It should be noted here that most of the disclosure of plot intrigues occurs in the Don 'Starve Together, where you can go to the terrible World of Dreams more than one, not alone .. ..
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322330/dont_starve_together/

Engage in collecting or hunting?
Build your own house or find a stranger's one and capture it?
This is not a choice that the game gives us, but the ability to combine many of the possibilities of this World, which is generated when creating a map!

A large Culinary Book is at your disposal, which will be filled with your experiments with the preparation of everything and everything :) After all, a person is a predator and it can eat everything ... or almost everything .... Since food can be incorrectly cooked or damaged and lowering your characteristics, but if you are an excellent cook, you will always be full!
If you are a good builder and hunter, then you will have a warm and cozy house that you will update every time of the year!
Yes, yes, in this game, a harsh cold Winter will come after the beautiful golden Autumn of your Last Hopes ... ..

The most difficult system in the game is your Mind :) After all, it can not only grow, but also degrade (your mind near your computer will be safe from this drying process) because when it will fall, you will see more and more terrible creatures Your secret consciousness or demons of this World of Morpheus!


Of course, we are in the terrible World of Nightmares, but when you abandon your fears and doubts, you will firmly step towards tomorrow!
Then you will suddenly see the beauty of this World! There will be charming forests from which you want to build your small cozy house :)
And the beautiful swamps, where among the water lilies we want to make their cozy fortress on the island!
And somewhere in the vast and free steppe in empty lands you will want to build your oasis of luxury of green colors of life with waterfalls of Love ...;)

All this can not only be seen on the other side of the monitor, but try to create your beautiful World of Nightmares!


It is difficult to say about it as a bad or good level, because the whole World is so subtly sewn with threads of care and love of the developers for us that despite surrealism in detail, we feel the warmth of grandmother's terrible stories when we look at this virtual World!
I can only say one thing: that when the talent is suppressed with love for work, then we will see that graphics that will not obsolete even after 10 years!


There are no shock heavy sounds, after which your gray brain cells will be destroyed, or quick meaningless words that are so insignificant that our brain cannot understand the meaning of the spiritual message of the author of music - poems to us.

In this game it's only subtle music, which will cross the notes of the world and nature in it, and when we invade it, it will change under us like N. Paganini. Caprice No. 24, where we listen to the World to the last string!

If you want to take the music of this terrible World with you on the road, then this album is for you!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/219750/Dont_Starve_Soundtrack/


Don't Starve was released on April 23, 2013, and each of us plunged into the World of Nightmares in a lonely room with a mug of tea in a gloomy darkness outside the window!
But on April 21, 2016, the Don 'Starve Together came out, and it is no longer important or light around you, and what is happening outside your window - because now your friends will always be in this World of Nightmares, which will become better and bright with the warmth of their hearts!

Perhaps Devs thought in the same way .... But releasing the next part of the game, they practically killed the first part of the game :(
After all, even lonely people without friends and loved ones will in their larger quantities create closed servers in the Donat Starve Together and build their World of Nightmares, rather than return to the first part 🙁
But no matter how this game develops in the future, for me forever Don 'Starve remains like a step into the World of beautiful Nightmare Dreams!


10/10 Beautiful Nightmares!

The ship rocked from side to side, and the wind howled outside the window. Lying in this hammock, I thought about whether I would see my native Vvardenfell ... a couple of times it seemed to me that the ship was about to capsize, and my little journey in shackles would end in this sea!
]Will my life end when the Last Sun rises tomorrow?
Only 9 Gods and the Empire know the answer to this question!

When I talk about Morrowind, I'm talking about the game that won my heart and gave me the love of the RPG genre!
I can say with confidence - after many 10-20 years of playing different RPGs - that Morrowind not only remained in my heart as a great and pure love, but also became the best RPG in the entire existence of this genre!


The success of a good RPG is storytelling! After all, the story that we see on the screen of our monitors, we read like a book, and because of how versatile and rich it will be, it will depend - whether we want to reread it again and again even after many years! I can really say that the plot of Morrowind is an amazing story that you will want to re-read many times and replay over and over again to find out all the possibilities, subtleties and trifles that we might not have noticed when we first read it - passing the game! Even after 15-20 years, we will remember the detective story, where we not only learned the secrets and arcana of this World and unraveled the tangle of intrigues, but also assumed the role of the savior of these Lands from the ancient cult and ancient Gods who wanted to destroy our World.

Many games that call themselves RPG forget that this system must be quite large and to a certain extent difficult for the player, so that the study of this whole system is like learning mathematics from the multiplication table to matrices and other more level elements - algorithms that will add up to a single picture of the existence of this virtual world!
You will get the opportunity to make a character level 100, pump all skills to level 100, learn hundreds of new spells and abilities and create 1000 types of weapons, scrolls, potions, giving you the opportunity to create your own unique character leveling system and unique tactics of life and victory against evil!

I managed to get level 105 in one of my playthroughs, can you do the same? :)

I would like to separately note this wonderful romantic world in which you just want to live!
Even when you reach your maximum level in the game and complete all tasks: main and side quests.
There are very few games that have such a rich and saturated world, filled with many small details that fascinate you and imbue you with the magic that exists in our real world, but which we simply do not notice due to the fact that we rarely look at the stars above our heads!

When the game appeared, I was very delighted with this graphics, which I saw on the screen of my 17-inch monitor, and then on the screen of the 19-inch monitor, which I bought a little later (when I played the game for the second time). Even when I ran this game on the formats of the new 28 inch 4K monitor, I saw the same beautiful picture that I saw many years ago! At the same time, I understand that these are graphics - the game does not give a widescreen resolution, since it is old, like good wine, but over the years it gets better and is filled with a large bouquet of flavors, notes of nostalgia for my soul!

This game has amazing gentle music that will caress your ear throughout the entire gameplay!
Even when you're done playing this game, you'll want to download the album of this music and use it as a divine serenade before bed!
When you have children (or maybe they already have), then you will want to put this music as a lullaby for them, so that they can feel the taste of beautiful and high art from childhood!

This is the saddest part of all that I wrote above, but I can't help but write about it!
Yes, there are many bugs in the game, it's pointless to describe all of them, but I want to say that some of them add more hardcore to the passing of the game!
As an example - my favorite bug - there is a destroyed Daedra statue that asks you to restore it, and in return you can get a unique Golden Sword, the most powerful sword in the game!
The whole point is that from the beginning of the game, a timer starts, and if you do not have time to accumulate 5.000 gold in the first 2 weeks and still get a couple of rare elements (and this is very difficult to do), and then start restoring this statue with the help of a master sculptor , then you just risk not getting this wonderful sword!
That is, if you play this game and do not do everything quickly enough in 2 weeks, then, of course, you can restore this statue, it will talk to you, but it will not give you this sword! This is just a bug that was made by the developers and which, most likely, cannot be fixed, probably after tens of years. And there are a lot of such bugs in the game. Studying every bug and every subtlety of the game mechanics gives you more hardcore in terms of passing the game than any difficulty level that you will increase in the game!
This is the unique game in which bugs make the game not worse, but better many times over, and therefore it becomes one of the best RPGs for a real hardcore RPG gamer!

10/10 Hardcore Love

When the crusaders came to the Pope and asked him how they would know which people in the city are faithful to God and which are not?
The Pope replied that you need to kill everyone and God will figure it out!

The Crusades are the most brutal and bloody military campaign in which Knights and Governors went to a distant desert to seize valuable resources and violence in the name of God!

Please read the Stronghold HD review at first! Since this is the second part which is a great addition to the first one!

After the first part of the game in which we developed the economy and military affairs in a balanced way, here the main emphasis is on bloody military battles that look simply amazing and epic!

Plot:
Oddly enough in this game it is much more ambitious than in the first part, and here are Insidious desert dunes in which you do not have more friends and everyone around you craves for your blood like the last drop of water!
There is also a large company here which is pleasant to pass and read as an interesting history book!
But also individual missions will not leave you indifferent! On the luscious Oases you can build a good economy and on the hot sand you can spill the blood of your enemies!

Gameplay:
As I said earlier, in this game the main emphasis is on the military battle, so here you can see really epic large-scale military battles between Europe and the Arab world! At the same time, the entire Gameplay from the first part of the economy and the development of the castle and the creation of the army remained the same. Of course there are some changes, but they are more like little things that bring some additional taste and flavor of the East to this game!

Music:
Does Stronghold HD have us immersed in the World of the Middle Ages! Here you are lured by the enchanting East, its stunning melody of caravans and life that penetrates our ears and our hearts and remains there forever!
I also saved all the music of this part to one of the best albums on my phone and listen to it, drink delicious coffee brewed on an open fire and imbued with the enchanting aroma of sweet notes of an Oriental tale!

Graphics:
This game also has an HD version as in the previous part and you can see on the large monitor not only your entire castle and its economic development in the desert, but also an amazing large-scale military battle, and if you run Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD you will get epic large-scale battles with thousands of units on your screen!
At the same time, the texture of the units and all the buildings looks pretty good despite of the fact that this game appeared in 2002 !!

100/100 Crusaders for the Faith! Deus vult!

When we think about the Middle Ages, then most often it seems to us that this is the time of romance of knightly tournaments, beautiful ladies of our hearts and a cheerful life with a mug of ale!
But in fact, these are harsh times, when people were sick more often than they ate and died before they reached a better future!
But it is in this game that you can become a Lord and feel all the power and strength of your hand. With this power, you can create a better future for your citizens here and now!
You can create an army and defeat your enemies and grow a new grain of wheat on their skulls in the ground for the future of your people!
You can create a strong and reliable Castle, which will not only be beautiful in appearance, but also solid in its foundation, so that children and grandchildren can live peacefully outside these walls, without fear of the cruel World that is somewhere beyond the horizon!
You can eventually go to unexplored green meadows and forests, and there, to the sounds of nature and love, embrace the lady of your heart and together with her create a new Kingdom and a future for humanity!

Gameplay:
Building a castle is not difficult, it is much more difficult to make a choice: will you be a kind ruler or cruel in the eyes of your people!
In any case, you must protect your citizens. And for this you need an army. And an even better defense option is, of course, an attack on enemies!
Therefore, in this game, a strong army is just as important as a strong economy, and, in fact, there is an opportunity to achieve the perfect balance between these two very important values of life.
The management in the game is quite simple both from the point of view of military affairs and the economic sphere, and do not require much training from you. This makes it wonderful!

After all, from the first minutes of the game you feel like a real Lord!

History:
The main company in this game gives you the opportunity to find yourself in the role of the heir to the throne, who was undeservedly forgotten and pushed into a remote dark corner of history. But you can light the light for your people and lead it with your warriors to the peak of power and Glory!
Also in this game there are small maps, missions in which you can practice very well, and just have fun in defense or attack on the castle, or just in economic development and achieving small goals!
In any case, choosing the main company or something else, you will get great pleasure from completing even the smallest tasks and creating your own little kingdom, in which you will feel like a real master of your lands!

Graphics:
Once upon a time, this game did not have HD in the console, and then you could not play on large monitors and get truly great pleasure from the game!
Now you can see the stunning texture on the big screens of your monitors and realize that the entire map, which previously had to be scrolled on a small monitor, is now available for one glance on your large monitor!
Yes, this game was released in 2001, but even now it looks amazing!

Music:
Closing your eyes and hearing the music of this game, you will plunge into the world of the Middle Ages, where there are funny songs over a mug of ale and bloody battles under the call of the horn of war!
To be honest, I have put all the music of this game to my special album and have been listening to it for decades, when my heart requires immersion in the wonderful world of the Middle Ages of the past to fill me with romantic thoughts about the future!
All units in this game are voiced at a high level of acting! And you can hear in the intonation of the voices of the inhabitants of your kingdom what disturbs their minds and souls!

100/100 Respect for you, Milord!

If you have neighbors? And do you feel? that they are children of Hell ... then maybe it's time to return them to Hell ?!

This game is full of scary humor and fun from the first minutes to the end!
There are no difficult puzzles or big plot! These are just 2 parts of your favorite game in one HD edition that will bring you smiles and positive emotions in difficult times around you!

In the first part:
We are neighbors with a Terrible Person! He chomps at the table and picks his nose! He's always rude and noisy! He is so terrible that he is ready to take the lollipop from the child and eat it in complete selfish loneliness!
But in reality he is not so lonely ... he has a Mother who is scary as death, and maybe that's why he is afraid of her so much;) and, of course, there is us! To bring him the moments of Hell on Earth!

The second part of:
If your Neighbor thinks he can run away from us on a cruise ship and hide on the island, then there is a big surprise for him!
We'll be like a cherry on his big cake! But this time he found himself a worthy match ... this is a Woman - a Snake! She is ready to endure him for the sake of money and hates us! And this is not his Mom! This is his Girlfriend! But we will try to relax with him on this island and enjoy each of our tricks that we will do to bring him a Hell Vacation !!

The graphics and music in this game are at a good level, since the developers have reworked everything that was in the old versions, and at the same time they did not break anything from what we loved so much in the past! Maybe because they also have neighbors? =)

The atmosphere of fun and humor will haunt you until the end of this game and will not let you get bored! A light plot will be as pleasant as the waves of the ocean or sea that caress you in good times!

If everything is bad in your life, and you think that this is the end ... then open this game and get laughter in the Hell that is around you!

10/10 smiles on your face and your neighbor's fits of rage!

This is the Love of games!
This is the Love of esports!
This is Love for Girls! :)

This is not just a game and it is not for your entertainment in the evenings! This is the # 1 world esports discipline!

It is difficult to evaluate this game somehow, since this is a part of my youth and the first steps in esports, when I was still 11-12 years old :)
At that time, the sky was bluer, and the grass was greener, and the Orcs were no match for the present ... although what am I talking about .... it is from another….

The most important thing in this game is the Team and the Spirit that it contains!

It doesn't matter what is in your hands! It can be M4A1 and AK-47, or even an ordinary knife!
But all this no longer makes sense when you feel like 1,000,000 eyes are looking at you online, and you need to defuse this bomb or detonate it, and then everything depends on your Team!
You just go to Length and make a headshot, then make a minus from the Elephant and here it is! But do not forget to discard 2 Flashes on the Zigzag and make 2 more minuses from your Desert Eagle, and now you are left alone! And time goes by….

Years of life pass in the same way, but you, as always, will love this game and smile after 10 -100 years when you see it :)
And, seeing how new gamers play something newer, smile with a grin behind their back and burn the same fire of Love for this world of video games for the rest of their lives!

A few words about the technical capabilities of the game….
Over the past 10x years, the World has changed 10 times! But this game remained the same as it was in 1999-2000!
If you want to see what the World was like then, and what it was like to live in the World of esports at the turn of 1000 years! Then you need to play this game for 1000 hours so that your eyes and hands and brain are immersed in this World and stay here forever with Love in your heart!
Yes, there is a lot of something beyond new and amazing around, but why all this?
When you have your favorite game in your hands, and you see your favorite Team of friends on the monitor!
But they are not so young anymore, so your girlfriend will be under the table :)

100/100 HeadShots through the wall!

I have been using this program for many years! And I am 100% satisfied with it even now!

When you play your favorite video games and want to capture a good moment, then you need a simple program to capture video and then post it to YouTube! This program will give you high quality with minimal load on your CPU and RAM!

Of course, if you want to get more, something like... for example, streaming and recording at the same time, then you need to look at a different version of this program! Or other programs;)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/746390/PlayClaw__Overlays_Game_Recording__Streaming/

But if you need a small handy program for high-quality video capture - then this is my choice!

You can also watch my videos on my
https://www.youtube.com/FoxLeks
Where almost all videos are made thanks to this program!

Also don't forget to follow me everywhere =)

This is the only game in the Angry Birds series (here is the version about Space) that appeared on Steam, but then disappeared from the store and became one of the most coveted games for Remove Game collectors!

But I want to talk about the whole series of these Angry Birds that don't like pigs!

When many years ago, on my iPhone 3G, I played the first game of “angry birds”, I realized that it will always be with us now!
After all, here you have 1000 opportunities to destroy pigs, and even if you lose rounds, you will still get a feeling of pleasure from the game and the desire to play more and more!

You asked yourself the question: why is this?

Yes, this is Psychology!

This is such a part of our mind that may not even be subject to us! We sometimes do something again and again and do not understand ourselves why we like it! Why do we repeat this ... but if you are a videogame developer, not just working hands !, namely a developer - creator - author! then Psychology is what you need no less than knowledge of the binary space partitioning method or any other algorithm =)
Psychology makes gamers not only give their money to us, but also become our loyal servants until the moment when someone with an even stronger psychological weapon of control of millions and billions appears!

At the end of the day, each of our minions is happy and has this feeling from their favorite game on their phone or computer!

Is it bad to give feelings of joy to people in the world?

Any religion, or ideology, or something else gives the same thing, but takes away from a person much more than a game…. Here you give a couple of bucks for your favorite game and already immerse yourself in a world where everything is simple and there is always attempt # 2! And only time passes away along with the game through your fingers, which at one moment will touch the fingers of death!

The word in the name “Birds” refers us to the birds and the sky, where we will all find ourselves sooner or later, and “Angry” gives us an understanding that our life is full of anger and hell is around us, and we pour all the negative out of our souls onto these cute virtual pigs that die for our psychological balance of life!

P.S. I wrote this text about Angry Birds, since this game clearly expresses the principles of Psychology in the development of video games, but the same text could be written about 1000 other games :), but, alas, they are not as perfect and brilliantly created as Angry Birds !

10/10 birds of happiness in your hands!

This game was created as a test for your PC and Polygon for testing new technologies of that time in 2005!
There was a time when we had already passed Half-Life 2, but we were waiting for something new and believed in it! Of course, there was no HL2E1 and HL2E2 and much more!

So open your eyes, Mr. Freeman, and see this wonderful little island of your life story!

From the first seconds we recognize the thin hand of brilliant authors and developers from Valve! Here you can play with light, physics, and, of course, any puzzles and artificial intelligence technologies in the NPC!
All this literally fills this little gameplay with the spirit that excites our blood!

This game takes 30 minutes of your time, but it stays in your heart for years to come!

10/10 Dr. Freeman's moments for our eyes and forever in our Hearts!