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 ====== Half-Life ======
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 **Half-Life** is an FPS game franchise created by [[lb:Valve]] based around a theoretical physicist getting caught in an alien invasion that he probably caused. Now his goal is to kill everything.
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 ===== Notes =====
 ==== I haven't played Half-Life ====
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 This is important to note mostly for my own peace of mind.
-//That said//...I've seen several playthroughs, analysis/speculation/theory videos, lore videos and quite a lot of stuff related to Half-Life. There was a point in time where I regularly watched Deadwater Gaming – who play Half-Life games almost exclusively – and when I still watched YouTube videos regularly, I'd watch Half-Life videos. So I have a pretty good picture of the //theory// surrounding Half-Life, just that I haven't played (and finished) the games.
+//That said//...I've seen several playthroughs, analysis/speculation/theory videos, lore videos and quite a lot of stuff related to Half-Life. There was a point in time where I regularly watched [[lb:Deadwater|Deadwater Gaming]] – who play Half-Life games almost exclusively – and when I still watched YouTube videos regularly, I'd watch Half-Life videos. So I have a pretty good picture of the //theory// surrounding Half-Life, just that I haven't played (and finished) the games.
 Though, elaborating on “played and finished”, I //have// played:
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   * Made Gordon even more susceptible to damage, which forces players to be a lot more careful.
   * Given players more options for avoiding fights/dealing with fights in creative ways.
-  * Made Gordon a woman.
+  * Made Gordon a woman.((:fn:>Yes, I'm aware there was supposedly a plan to allow the player to pick a gender but it was cut due to time constraints. I don't buy the story that they cut it due to lack of time because it may suggest that Valve didn't realize at some early stage in the game that to avoid recording the same lines twice they could have just referred to Gordon as “Freeman” instead of “Gordon”. Though considering Valve is often blind to the obvious, this may have actually been the case.))
 That last point is of import because women are generally perceived as more fragile and weaker than men.((:fn:>Which is because they are. Sorry not sorry.)) It may not seem like much, but it's something you can rely on 99% of players to think, which //will// subtly adjust their behaviors. Whereas most people probably don't have the same view of theoretical physicists. That isn't to say that people think theoretical physicists are body-builders: they just don't think of them period.\\
 Something else this would have done is differentiate Half-Life from other games of the time since, to my knowledge, there //weren't// any FPS games released back then that had female protagonists.