I'm the local sadistic female VALVe nerd that loves computers and androids. I've played pretty much every single VALVe game there is except for the Left 4 Dead series. Don't worry, it is on my list. I have an ambitious dream to someday, hopefully, work at VALVe and contribute to the pure awesome that they create and distribute.
As for what I do, I am a programming novice and trying to master the art of putting together clean code. I can program in C++ to a highly limited extent and HTML/CSS. I draw things in Paint Tool SAI and color them in Photoshop CS6. My skills in drawing can really use work, for my style is highly cartooned and a complete anatomical fail. I also do writing, but rarely finish it through. Usually, something happens and I can't ever finish it. Sad, true, and unfortunate.
My personality... I'm a very Germanic soul. I'm kind of crossed in where I would live. If I could, I would be living in Germany and speaking German for multiple reasons. One, love the language. So brutal and commanding. Two, Germany is next door to two of the best countries in Europe: Belgium, land of the beer, and Netherlands, home of the hardcore. I listen to several kinds of music; Dubstep, aggrotech, trance, hardcore, dubstyle, death metal, rock, power metal, metal, alternative, gothic, and (just to throw you off) Irish folk songs. My top artists are Alestorm, Angerfist, Avenged Sevenfold, Boyinaband, Combichrist, Deadmou5, Disturbed, Dragonforce, Drowning Pool, Godsmack, Iron Maiden, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Obsidia, Psyclon Nine, Rammstein, Skrillex, Rob Zombie, Voltaire, and White Zombie. My favorite characters of all time... Oh god. Too many. I guess I could start with the VALVe characters first. GLaDOS, Cave Johnson, Wheatley, Loki Loofeyson, Magneto, Phoenix, Mystique, Captain Jack Sparrow, Gandalf, Legolas, and HAL9000. Wow. My character list is sadly short. I really need to compile it all, but these are the only ones off the top of my head! D: Oh. I procrastinate, too. I should've done this a VERY long time ago.
Oh. Just a reminder; when life gives you bad Medics, make combustible Medics.
... And I do "really like cookies". Thanks for the reminder, VALVe.
Picks off on Half-Life 2's massive cliffhanger. Unfortunately, the game is horribly short, lasting 5 hours on average.
Graphics and scenes have been upgraded, but not too much to kill computers that can barely run Half-Life 2. Some minor joking and flirting nature goes on between Gordon and Alyx. However, the jokes/flirts are one-sided, with the player-character silently taking them. This nature can be confusing considering the player-character's life and actions are that on the player and the player IS the player-character.
A couple new enemies are added and the game is -EVEN EASIER- than Half-Life 2, with the player easily able to fall back on Alyx.
The whole story behind the game is that the player and Alyx must escape City 17 before all hell breaks loose. I won't spoil it, but I will just say that VALVe doesn't fail on storytelling.
Starts off sometime where Half-Life 1 left off. However, Half-Life 1 is not required (thank god) to enjoy this game. The graphics have been upped majorly from the previous game and so has the game play. Now, you will use physics, science, and your common sense of survival to run and crawl your way though downtown City 17, to the slurms, to even the sewer area. But the game doesn't end there. For the first time, you get to mount up on vehicles and drive them. Gordon is still a silent protagonist, with the player immersed as the image. You ARE Gordon, you ARE the mercenary, hired by the ominous G-Man, to keep Earth safe from severe threats.
Staying true to the last game, adrenaline-inducing techno kicks in during major fight scenes and action is around every corner. Puzzles are minor, requiring some thought, but not enough to stop or stump you. The graphics are still kicking, even for their age, and the environments really do capture and trap you inside the world.
A FANTASTIC read behind the process of Portal 2's development and minor background history on the each of the Portal Team members. Overall, the book itself is great, although at times just a little buggy on the interactive features. The picture quality is nice, but not excelling, and the interactive features (to be honest, all 7 or 8 of them) are also an excellent touch behind an amazing story. For half off, I'd get it without a second thought and for full price, I'd still highly recommend it.
The only real downside is the fact that you get a sentence mid-way on one page, a full page dedicated to a picture, and then the rest of the sentence on the page after. If you are OCD, it will drive you rabid-mad. If you are the type that gets stopped mid-sentence and forgets what was going on, this inconvenience might frustrate you. In the end, though, you might end up reading the book multiple times, so skipping over the pictures taking up a full page is easy. But still annoying.
