Lt_Albrecht

HL2 Mods. It's that time of the year when all desire to do anything except shoot members of the Combined Overwatch leaves me. So I delved into HL2 Mods, and came to the following conclusions:

• Too many stupid ideas (like any mod community, HL2 is blighted by mods founded on stupid ideas supported by stupid fans, nothing big),
• Good but poorly executed (Joutomaa, good idea, but REALLY short. Quite sweet. Definitely needed more...),
• Big but meh (Strider mountain, this mod has got to be about as big as HL2's SP. Unfortunately although reasonably pretty it has a few flaws, like so-so gameplay and all of the game after "summit" being underground killing zombies and a few combine. The climax is in the middle and I lost the will to play after that...) ,
• Then we have the good bits (Minerva. MINERVA. Migh play that again, it was a brilliant piece of storytelling with stimulating gameplay and reasonably fun puzzles as well as combat. And a section where you are completely unarmed....)
• And finally, my pet peeve: Awesome but unreleased (I know it can't be helped but I WANT BLACK MESA SOURCE. Yeah, I like a remake. Sue me.)

TL;DR Version: Get Minerva. Strider mountian is ok but use cl_drawhud 1 and stop after "Source". Black Mesa:Source is worth more than your life.