Games are taking over my life. These last few months, as noted by others, has been a hard period on gamers. It started with BioShock and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Then Halo 3 landed and immediately started consuming evenings. Halo 3 improves upon the second game a surprising amount and I find myself constantly interested in playing, which I didn't think would happen. And then The Orange Box came out. Basically, my month is shot.
Half-Life is still one of the greatest games ever made, and was the first "cinematic" FPS I ever played on a PC back in 1998. I remember playing the game nearly straight through, eyes glued to the screen. The expansion packs, Opposing Force and Blue Shift, were also a lot of fun.
I eagerly awaited Half-Life². When it finally came out in 2004, I immediately started playing it on my outdated PC and fell in love again. Unfortunately, at the time, I was having enormous amounts of arm pain due to a damaged nerve in my right elbow. I couldn't finish the game.
Fast-forward to this month and I was finally able to finish the game on the XBOX 360. And, fantastically, I can now finally play Episodes 1 and 2. If you haven't played any of the HL games, now's the time to start. Especially since Portal is included with The Orange Box, and Portal is awesome. (I'm not even going to go into Portal in this post. It deserves its own entire rambling post.)
Yesterday, I received The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass for the DS from GameFly. There's another bunch of hours. Oh, and Guitar Hero 3 comes out next week. Okay, so I'm getting nothing else done.