Awesome! <3

[Bad^Hat]

Felt the need to post this since I have finally been able to play through Ep. 2 (and Portal), and I am very very satisfied.

Just putting it out there. :bounce:

 

[jpventoso]

I finished Ep2 yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I think it was much much better than Ep1, and even a little better than Hl2. My favourite parts:

Spoiler

- The antlion caves (excelent shaders, great ambient and lights)
- Dog vs. Strider (the environment just looks amazing)
- The final fight (I love to see the striders blowing in the air)

So, I have the same feeling as you. I'm very satisfied too.:bounce:

 

[Druckles]

Still waiting for internet.

 

[ríomhaire]

It was a really great game.

 

[GM)Paravin.]

I hate my weak, puny shit comp..

 

[Gordon-Shepherd]

Spoiler

Best bit- Cave defence with Sheckley and whatsisface against antlions. They're two really great characters, and the later appearance of vortigaunts only enhances the awesome.

"remember freeman, be adequate!"
"what?"
"I dunno, sounds like something the vorts would say"

 

[Ennui]

Good man, Badhat.

 

[MJ12]

Ep 2 was good but fell short in a couple of places

 

[Ennui]

Yeah, I agree. It fell short at being anything but awesome.

 

[Asknoone]

Best Half-life game yet.

 

[Antlion guards]

That is becouse of amazing forest my friends...

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

Spoiler

Becides the Antlion chapters, I loved entire episode.

IMO it is a huge improvement over ep1, phenominal job by Valve!

 

[BigBoss7556]

I'll agree with bacons on that basically. The antlion chapters didn't bother me so much though, but they definately weren't the best.

 

[MJ12]

I totally enjoyed the antlion chapters compaired with that final battle.

That final battle was a big let down for me.

Best Half-life game yet.

It was much better than ep 1, and had a very epic feel, but as a single game, it does not compair to HL2.

The big plus side of ep.2 was a lot of character development and attachment which we don't see as much of in HL2.

After ep.3 is done, maybe all the episodes as a whole will be better than HL2, but not as a single episode.

After ep.3 and black mesa source comes out (if it does) I am going to play through all of them in order, then I will decide.

(that's assuming that ep 3 is the end of the current story arc)

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah, I agree. It fell short at being anything but awesome.

Best Half-life game yet.

Those things.

The only part I only slightly didn't like was being chased by the antlion guardian through the caves. It succeeded at being severely intense, but it also succeeded at getting me severely lost (and beaten). But maybe that was just me.

In other news, I'm really really glad I completed Portal and Ep. 2 the minute I got my Xbox back, because it's just broken again. Same exact problem, very same day I got it back. ^_^

That has to be some kind of record.

 

[UseAbuse]

If you haven't already, you should check out GooseGoose's commentary on Episode two. This guy takes loving a game to the next level

 

[ríomhaire]

I actually liked it better on my second playthrough. Did anyone else think so?

 

[Laivasse]

I enjoyed the final battle a lot more on my second playthrough, certainly. I had the combat strategies down by then and even on Hard the whole thing went very fluidly with a lot of hollywood-esque moments (bar some save/reloads of course).

The antlion caves were less annoying than I remembered too.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah, I'll be doing many more play-throughs (just as soon as I can). Still gotta play through on hard and get all the achievements. I'm part way through the dev. commentaries at the moment, though.

 

[Asknoone]

The antlion caves were less annoying than I remembered too.

Yeah, I found this too.