beat the game and (spoilers)

[Mike521]

I gotta say I was disappointed with what I thought was an anticlimactic ending. Maybe I was just bummed that the game was over and I have no more new hl2 levels to play. which means they better release an expansion pack!!!

anyone else think it woulda been cool if they showed you all the pictures that were taken of you by those flying things, throughout the whole game?

 

[kenyo]

as soon as the mods are done you'll have tons of new fun maps to play!
(sven coop II is werth the wait!)

 

[Warlock]

Oh, I'm sure there'll be an expansion pack of some sort sooner or later.

As for the picture thing... Hmm, kinda cool I guess. Though it would take away from the immersion factor of the game. Notice how there are no mirrors?

 

[Mike521]

yep I was looking for one throughout the whole game and never found one

will keep reading here for news on mods and more maps --- how bout a mod that lets you hold more than 3 rockets, and surrounds you with stalkers and lets you go to town in an ultimate battle royale.. that'd be nice

 

[bboymatty]

i think more than anything the most dissappionting part of half life 2 was that it never really expanded the universe of half life by explaining important details like who the combine are, what happened over the past 10 years etc, i know that some of this info is on the wall in eli's lab but really, dont u think the game would have been better with more story telling?

 

[Simplepsy]

I like to see of HL2 the same way I see Matrix Reloaded.
The end of HL2 is not the end. I stongly expect HL3 to pick up the story where HL2 left off, possibly a couple of years down the line, but theres a few loose ends that still need to be tied up.
We'll just have to pray to the gods of valve for some nice expansion packs to fill in the time. Although on the other hand I'd like them to put their full attention into HL3.

 

[kenyo]

i think more than anything the most dissappionting part of half life 2 was that it never really expanded the universe of half life by explaining important details like who the combine are, what happened over the past 10 years etc, i know that some of this info is on the wall in eli's lab but really, dont u think the game would have been better with more story telling?

it is couse they all exspect you (gordon) to allready now!
and you as gordon cant speak to tell then you wannaknow

 

[mrkab00m]

The mod is called 'Spawn a lot of Striders and bind q "impulse 101" for inf. rockets or you could just change the RPG config. in the sdk.'

 

[Mike521]

I agree about the plot, that's why I was disappointed in the ending. I didn't mind it in HL1 cause I thought HL2 would explain things, but it just made more questions and gave little or no explanation. Now it's a pattern :/

I see what they're saying about showing the plot through gordon's eyes, but you'd think he'd pipe up and ask a question once in a while. or tell eli and alyx "uh you know by the way there's this weird dude in a suit and uh yea..."

anyway, let's see the expansion packs, the gameplay is what's most important anyway!

 

[ratm9200]

whiile i didnt really like the very end (except the gmans first line, time...) alot was explained through out the game. i forget where it was but the picture of the ape, the person and the combine tells you that they are cyborgish, and the scatterd conversation with breen in the citadel gives you clues about the gman and his relation to you. Also in the citadel you see those half-dead with stilts on ther legs which shows you what the combines goals are.

i know im bad at explaining but the point is hl2 answerd most of my questions, but only gave clues to my biggest one, who is the gman. so, i think there was plenty of plot line explnation, it was just very subtle