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That is awesome

Crazy

expedia would be proud

I love how he posed it for the screenshots.

I personally would have just played through the game normally, and then right before the rocket scene I would have said "I booked a king and they gave me a single."
That gnome would show up real quick...

I gave up at the first car areas

Congrats on finishing it though, quite an accomplishment.

I feel bad for the poor bastard he stole it from, poor guy is never gonna see his gnome again. Someone stole the lawn gnome outside my house a few years back. I still have nightmares about it.

Sounds a little like Amelie.

I haven't played the game yet and had no clue what you were talking about throughout most of that article, but it was very entertaining.

Thanks.

Thorn: While this is very amusing, what's hilarious is the fact you completely missed the gnome near the rocket launcher cache... which makes getting this achievement far, far easier than you detail. Good job, though! :D

hmm will definitely try and unlock it now

"its presence starts to get a little creepy during the more personal moments."

oh man that made me laugh so hard

i finished doing this myself last night.
i came close to giving up during the train-car alley but i just couldnt leave the little guy.
Valve really should have put in a line of gnome dialogue for alyx, i was expecting some sarcasm.

Wow, this kinda makes me want to play this game now.
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For the record I believe it unlocks the achievement when you seal the rocket door (because it's not possible to reopen it) but like several of the achievements it does not notify you of this.

On strategy: I read on the Half-Life Fallout forums that you can wedge it in the area just inside the back window of the car, right behind the seats, and he won't go flying out unless you make sharp turns or on steep inclines. That proved to be invaluable information when going through, and the knowledge that you can avoid the first level of helicopter hell by taking Alyx through, go back (on foot) under trains for cover, collect the gnome and take it up to Alyx in the tunnel :)

protip; the level where you get the car; dont leave gnomey with Alyx. you wont be able to get back to it.

This is awesome. I know what I'm doing next time I play through. (Although I really want to figure out a way to save the companion cube)

simply genius

It would have been neat if the npcs of the game would make comments about you carrying the gnome around.

That was an awesome review lol.

1. Launch rocket into space.
2. ????????
3. PROFIT!

Great narrative. Loved the bit at the end: "Farewell, brave traveller! May I never, ever set eyes on your stupid ***** face again." :D

my new desktop background

http://hlcomic.com/gnome/005.jpg

who was the first person to do this? and how many other objects were dragged through the entire game before someone got the 'gnome ending'? seems like an egg, milk, oyster, etc. thing to me.

I have no idea why I haven't played any of these games yet. Only one thing to do, I've installed steam and bought orange box.

awesome

Can't wait to finish Playing Half-Life 2 so I can get to this.

Damn, I found him but just played around with it and moved on. Guess I'll do it again after I finish, yeah I'm slow.

I started carrying him thru the game when i found him because he is sooo cool and unique. I gave up though when things got rough. I knew it would do something!

That reminds me of ICO.

Holy *****. This is a fantastic achievement.

Episode 2: Sponsored by Travelocity. Sellouts.

The new achievement system with the steam community is awesome.

Amelié would be so proud.

The worst part of that guy starting a blog about it was I was already doing that :(. http://www.grantmcneil.com/gnoming/ is now dead, I think.

Absolutely brilliant ahhaha

"I'm here to enforce the guarantee!"

That was an awesome review lol.

My goodness, I can honestly say this is the hardest I have laughed in some time. Top drawer my friend.

"Farewell, brave traveller! May I never, ever set eyes on your stupid ***** face again."

I'm definitely saying that to someone today.