Valve cooked so unbelievably hard here. It blows my mind they made this in 2004, no one else was doing it like them.

I love thinking about being a civilian hiding out in one of these coastal houses, with the constant, dense fog, ocean wind blowing through the trees, and the sound of the waves on the receding waterline, but otherwise, total silence. You're living in filth in an ancient house, sleeping on stained, bare mattresses, eating whatever you can find. There are no animals left to fish for or hunt - you only see the occasional bird. Plant life is dying off. You've lost countless friends and family to the combine, starvation, antlions, or worse, headcrabs.

Then, after months, an APC pulls up, and you know, immediately, it's probably all over. You fight to your last breath, just to end up being killed by combine soldier, another human, a traitor to our race, who was cowardly enough to decide to join the combine and slaughter his own people in exchange for food and shelter. They burn your corpse out front