11-20-2004, 04:30 AM
Ok, I guess I will put my little half life 2 rant in here. After beating the game, you might be a little disapointed with the ending. I wanst expecting much, because hl1 was left pretty open. People were saying it was disapointing, but it was alright.
The biggest problem I have is with your squad and barney. Your squad (at least in easy, I will try on hard tommorow) treats you like a noob. They will say stupid stuff like, "better reload mr freeman." Which gets anoying after awhile, espically since you cant kill them. Which brings me to my next point... you cant kill them. I am hoping there is a console command I can use to fix this. In my opinion, when someone says that gordon freeman should reload, they dont deserve to live. Another problem is there are a couple of invisible walls. Luckily they're not in really bad places, its just a pet peeve of mine. I mentioned barney earlier. He isnt anoying at the beggining of the game, but when you have to work with him, he will say lets do this. You look around for medical kits or ammo, and he will say lets do this, 10 - 15 seconds later, he was also very very captian obvious, but it only at one point. Which gets anoying. Your alone for the most part of half life 2, and even when your not, it is still a really great gaming experiance. The envoirnment is incredible, the weapons are all fun, very very few bugs, at least that I know of. I'm sure they are in there, this is valve we're talking about. They have some nice puzzles in it, but nothing very challenging. The gameplay was good, and I liked how they worked in a few diffrent styles of it. The soundtrack is great, I wish I heard more music throughout the game.
If you have the system to run it, get it.
The biggest problem I have is with your squad and barney. Your squad (at least in easy, I will try on hard tommorow) treats you like a noob. They will say stupid stuff like, "better reload mr freeman." Which gets anoying after awhile, espically since you cant kill them. Which brings me to my next point... you cant kill them. I am hoping there is a console command I can use to fix this. In my opinion, when someone says that gordon freeman should reload, they dont deserve to live. Another problem is there are a couple of invisible walls. Luckily they're not in really bad places, its just a pet peeve of mine. I mentioned barney earlier. He isnt anoying at the beggining of the game, but when you have to work with him, he will say lets do this. You look around for medical kits or ammo, and he will say lets do this, 10 - 15 seconds later, he was also very very captian obvious, but it only at one point. Which gets anoying. Your alone for the most part of half life 2, and even when your not, it is still a really great gaming experiance. The envoirnment is incredible, the weapons are all fun, very very few bugs, at least that I know of. I'm sure they are in there, this is valve we're talking about. They have some nice puzzles in it, but nothing very challenging. The gameplay was good, and I liked how they worked in a few diffrent styles of it. The soundtrack is great, I wish I heard more music throughout the game.
If you have the system to run it, get it.