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Impressive Half Life 2 Case Mod
risinganger writes "Well it didn't take somebody too long to get all enthused over Half-Life 2 (hardly surprising?) and so they have decided to present their lovingly created case mod based on the game. " Very cool looking fake rust thing.
He only made the case mod 9 months ago and it's already on the front page
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The date of its construction aside, I wish I had not only the skill and equipment required to do something like this, but the creative ability to even know where to begin!
He made a much newer one on Valve's request since. Way to go TACO! http://www.bit-tech.net/article/146/ http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/ 1438215&tid=222&tid=10
I took my Half Life 1 case, removed all the interesting content inside and covered it in bauble and visual enhancements.
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Does it make his computer call home for authorization before it works?
...so it's an old link, but he's added a new addition to celebrate the release of HL2 - the case has a new motor built in that randomly vibrates the case, causing it so shudder and shake at intervals throughout the game. Now that's the real HL experience :)
[...in all fairness, I've had no problems with the skipping bug...]
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/ 1438215 (almost a month ago)
This case was commissioned by Gabe Newell and will be inside Valve. Originally reported by Bit Tech.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Does he have to spend 2 hours fucking about on an airboat before he can do anything enjoyable?
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Here are the same pics with a bit more commentary.
not only that, I think this is the third time it has been featured on the front page... what do you call that?
SUPAH-DUPE!
He underestimates the carelessness of /. editors.
Maybe it's just me, but it looks more inspired from Fallout, than HL2 (other than the huge logo, of course). Especially the front buttons, rust, and yellow/black warning lines.
I personally prefer the Doom mod.
A black case.
It isn't slashdotted. It's a hobby page. Something is very very wrong here.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Stuff that Matters.
Apparently this cosmetic tarting-up of one individual PC matters so much that it has been on the front page of Slashdot three times.
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Just stick a couple of snotlings on top (or better yet, one underneath holding the case on a pole in total contravention of the laws of physics) and it could win a Golden demonaward.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hey, down here, mod this one up. If you want a REAL HL2 mod, this is the Blackmesa 2 mod by the same guy. I believe this was a requisitioned mod from Valve, so this guy went all out to model it after real in-game models. I should note that parts 1, 2, and 3 for this mod are posted, and it's already been about a week since it was last on Bluesnews, so once again /. is behind the curve anyway.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
my computer looks like that and I didn't do anything more than I normally do with it... and the keyboard and the mouse too...
You can't handle the truth.
check out this doom3 casemod.
p age=1&pp=20
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=802808&
the thread is 3 pages long, make sure you go to the end to see the current status. holy detail..
7. Profit!
That's not a Half Life 2 case mod! That's a Half Life case mod with 'Half Life' crossed out and 'Half Life 2' written in in crayon!
"You saved 1968." - Ms. Valerie Pringle to the crew of Apollo 8
Most often the are cool at the most.
But here the design in the game has been transferred to the casing. When I looked at the green water in the glass, I thought, "I hope it serves as cooling also". And it did.
Very nicely done.
very well done. I bet that beast runs 50MHz faster now. I would put a few more stickers on it though, and push it up to 60.
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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Well this is a good 6 or 9 months late. This was posted on just about every gamer forum that had a HL2 section or Case Mods section out there all those months ago. Funny how its only now slashdot worthy.