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Friday Fun Thread for July 10, 2026

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Video Game Thread

What are you playing? Did you pick up anything great in the Steam summer sale?

I'm working my way through Half-Life (1998) and its expansions. It's pretty great even beyond the nostalgia, and I like the general feel of the engine and how you move around in it. Even the much-criticized Blue Shift is kinda fun. The engine was always one of the main strengths of HL and played a large part in its many mods' successes too, IMO. I'm playing with the 'original models' because I prefer how those weapons look and sound. I tried Black Mesa again briefly but I don't really like many of the changes they made. It's not a faithful remake.

Picked up CoH3 (fun! I'm awful at RTS games!), Fields of Mistria, and SRPG studio. Yes, I'm aware I'm too lazy for the last one. No, I don't care.

So the 'old' Company of Heroes 3? I saw there's a new CoH 3 with some subtitle, coming soon.

Is Fields of Mistria good?

New CoH 3 is a... wave defense expansion pack/standalone, effectively?

Haven't yet fired up Mistria. What I really want is Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, legit and legal on PC, but in the old artstyle rather than the new remade 3d style, and I'm hoping this will be about as close as I can get to scratching that niche itch.

New CoH 3 is a... wave defense expansion pack/standalone, effectively?

Yes. That made me a bit skeptical too, but it looks pretty good graphically. I will try it.

I'm glad you're having the same experience that I did. I played HL1 stone cold for the first time in... 2009? Zero Nostalgia. Still loved every second. The magic was very much still there.

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