in addition.....from the title of your thead, i thought this had something to do with Hitler's Mein Kampf....i didn't want to mention it and fulfil Godwin's Law.
if you want to be a rebel and protest valve's "duping," don't "waste" your money on half life 2. you were fully aware that an internet connection was required, or should have been seeing as it is on the box. if you don't like it, you don't BUY IT! jeesus, nowadays everyone thinks they can...
yeah, i love the fact that they have it in first person...in any other game that sequence would be a cutscene, and wouldn't be half as engaging as it was in hl2.
...what the hell are you talking about?
the idea of gordon being in a VR room the whole time, and the GMan turning off the game and turning off the lights and leaving him there seems appealing.
i think it was for continuity with the no-hands-picking-up-objects thing, which
a) is for immersion, the "you are gordon" thing"
and b) it'd be tough to figure out a way to make hands grasp tons of objects in an almost infinte number of positions.
sorry, but doom 3 is way scarier than ravenholm. overall half life 2 far surpasses d3, but if you think ravenholm is scarier, you need to change out of your rocketship underwear :D
i took this as a bit of sarcasm. usually the phrase "arbitrary imposition" has a negative connotation....like the united states arbitrarily imposing its beliefs onto the iraqi people, for example. but since the gman is saving gordon from certain death, it couldn't be too bad, could it?
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