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To escape the combine invading Black Mesa East. -
I thought the story was pretty clear personally.Comment
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Aye, me too. Maybe he's switched off while playing? I know with Ravenholme that there was no way I was going there but then some rocks fall or something blocking your path and you're forced to go there, IIRC. Damn, I'm gonna go play it now you got me thinking about it. Time to turn the bass up, grab a combine rifle. Duhm duhm duhm duhm.Comment
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I'm half way through Episode 2, and... I'm actually not enjoying it as much as I thought.
I'm sure it's because of "Half-Life 2 fatigue", because I replayed most of HL2 and Episode 1 first. (I didn't actually intend to, it just kinda happened).
Unfortunately, I'm now quite tired of all the usual gameplay mechanics. See-saw physics puzzles; zombie rooms; poison headcrabs in stairwells; restoring power to things; the same old ways to kill zombies; Alyx and her constant "Come on Gordon," "This way, Gordon," "We have to get the thing to the thing, Gordon..."
The new environments add some "newness", but I didn't really enjoy the
much. And one of the new enemies, the
is my new least favourite enemy ever. They shouldn't be so damaging and irritating.
Eh, I dunno. It's quite good I guess. I should have played it first, that's all.Comment
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Finished Episode 1. First half was drab drab drab. Really. I had to make myself keep playing. Second half was fantastic.
What is it it with Valve and dark flashlit sewers.... they've got this great City 17 and rather than exploit it to the full they stick you in dark confined tunnels. Bizarre. Just bizarre.Comment
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Sewers in a game = council scenes in sci-fi movies.Comment
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Just think how long it takes to model a tunnel compared to a city.Originally posted by Ish View Post
That said, they took so long over HL2 taking short cuts is a bit shoddy.Comment
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Just finished Half-Life 2 for the first time. It's a great game, as fun and relentless as Resi 4, but what the **** was that ending about? Maybe you need to be well into Half-Life to get it but it just seemed like a nonsense cop-out ending to me.
Anyone care to explain?Comment
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Played the first game? It'll make a lot more sense as to what is happening.Originally posted by Kaladron View Post
And then Episode 1 kicks in.
Just be greatful you didn't have to wait two years to find out what happened next like PC users.Comment
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I've only played the first half of HL1 and don't have a PC any more. Just read up on the story through wikipedia and it all makes sense now, at least the Gordon/G-Man relationship anyway.
I'm a bit confused about the headcrabs and other aliens now though. Are they part of the Combine race or members of the Xen?Comment
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The Combine use headcrabs and antlions kind of like biological weapons. To make sure the population of Earth can't survive outside the main Cities, they made everywhere else uninhabitable with infestations of these aliens. They are not "Combine", but alien wildlife from Xen.Comment
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Yeah, while this is obvious if youve played through the games and actualy thought about it enough its never really explained either. The "first person storytelling" of the half life games deffinitley has its faults in that there is really moment in the game that actualy lays out any kind of solid plot for you, its more about the immersion than the actual story really.
You deffinitley have to listen and think hard to understand everything.Last edited by rmoxon; 29-10-2007, 01:21.Comment
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Definitely. I noticed part way through that NPCs explain things when you look at newspaper clippings but I may have missed a few along the way. It's a shame that you can miss so much backstory, especially if you didn't finish the first Half-Life - an almost decade old game. At least Wikipedia and you fine chaps are on hand to fill in the blanks.Originally posted by rmoxon View PostComment
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Maybe a revisit to HL is in order; it's playable on Dreamcast and other platforms
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