I thought so as well, but apparently ConcernedApe started enlisting help around the 1.3 update. Before then it was all solo work by him.
The referenced dev from the article contributed to the 1.4 and 1.5 updates from the Stardew wiki.
InquisitiveApathy
joined 1 year ago
That's good to hear! It kind of sounded like you tweaked something or at worst have a minor tear so you should heal quick. Still, take it slow next time to feel things out. Always better safe than sorry, good luck!
It's always a good idea to err on the side of caution with an injury. Better to take a week or two off and be able to jump back into things where you left off than to end up with a chronic issue because you keep exacerbating the injury.
Front delt isn't the worst spot, but your shoulders are involved as a minor muscle group for most upper body. If you are determined to try to do your normal sets, make sure to keep the weights light and really pay attention to what your body is telling you. If it hurts any more than a minor ache/soreness, you should stop.
Yeah, I think ultimately my expectations got the best of me for this one. I'd heard nothing but praise of the game for so long and wasn't looking at the game through the lens of the development limitations of it's time period. I'll still probably finish the game, but I am a bit disappointed and probably won't play the second.
At this point I'm definitely going to finish the game, so we'll see if my opinions change at the end of it all. If I'm still struggling to get into it I'll definitely give Black Mesa a shot so I appreciate the suggestion and clarification.
I guess my expectations were way out of whack because I'd heard nothing but praise of the game for 20 years.
If that's truly what the game is about I don't know that it's for me then. Outdated graphics aren't actually a big issue for me and with the updated patch on the base game they really are not bad at all.
Most of my issues come from game direction and design. I can only run straight down a hallway with no idea why for so long before it just starts to feel tedious. If the Black Mesa map redesigns helps to give more area traversal options I would definitely think again though.
I was planning on doing a playthrough of HL2 after the first, so I haven't actually played it yet. The first has kind of left a sour taste in my mouth though and as far as I can tell the second isn't a huge change in terms of the issues I felt the first had. If they did a good enough job with Black Mesa to fix the hallway simulator vibes of the first I may definitely have to give it a shot.
I don't mind the dated mechanics and graphics as much. I do mind the lack of player agency and objectives or direction. A lot of similar shooters of this period really survived on the atmosphere they created and I just don't feel that in this game. It just makes it hard to overcome the "why am I playing this, I'm very bored" feelings.
I was playing through the patched version of the original. I picked up the entire Valve bundle for a few bucks on sale about a year or back.
As someone who is an outsider to the series, I was under the impression that Black Mesa was a unique game set in the same universe?
I was always a console gamer in my childhood so I missed the boat on a lot of the most iconic PC games.
I feel like I might catch some heat for this one, but recently I tried Half Life 1 and I just couldn't get into it. The game just feels so...lifeless. I got about 10 chapters in, which is like 60% or so of the way through, and every moment just feels like I'm playing House of the Dead in the arcade, walking down a hallway and shooting jumpscare enemies. I think the lack of any semblance of story or motivation for what I'm doing is especially egregious to me.
Lunacid might be worth checking out. It's an homage to the older Kings Field (Fromsofts flagship series before the Souls games) games from the PSX era and really well done. It had it's full 1.0 release a few weeks back. I had a lot of fun playing through it
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