HL2 Ending verdict?

[Black Mesa corp]

What was your verdict on HL2s ending?

10/10 - Absolutely perfect, not faulted in anyway

1/10 - Faulted from every aspect, disliked in everyway

 

[Ennui]

9/10 - I liked it, the effect was nice and I almost cried to leave Alyx... but it also was a teensy bit dissatisfying, and it left me with a physical pain for Half-Life 3, so now I have to wait with this ache in my side for the next several years.

 

[Sulkdodds]

9/10. Same reasons, and also I wish I could have found out more about what had happened since HL1. Perhaps not everything that had happened, but I think you should have found out most of it by the end of the game.

 

[A2597]

we know a fair amount of what happened between the two.

 

[Ennui]

And we've correctly (according to Mark Laidlaw, who wrote the story so thats pretty much the best source) speculated on the rest.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Well yes, but I didn't know all that stuff at the point where the game was ending.

 

[Ennui]

yeah thats true. I pretty much figured most of it out because I have an eye for details and I really listened to everything that was said, but it COULD have been a bit clearer and less guessing.

edit: whoever voted 1/10, pull the stick out of your ass and go play Halo.

 

[kupocake]

8/10
Pros:
Excellent Effects
The GMan!
The G-Man's enigmatic words were pretty enthralling, excellently acted and well written ("Time, Mr Freeman?")
Doesn't break the series tradition

Cons:
It came too soon (from a "I want this game to last forever" perspective)
A little bit more explaination would have been nice
Didn't try to break the mould, and came after a particuarly disappointing "Final Boss"

 

[Icarusintel]

it was pretty much everything i expected after seeing HL1s ending, and they did it very well, didnt give too much away, left you hanging, even more so than at the end of HL1 especially with the Citadel in the middle of blowing up and Alyx standing right next to you, and it had the Gman, so who can really complain, right? - 9/10

 

[Messermeier]

8/10,

con: what happened to alyx? i felt so helpless

pro: quite surprising, nice effects, biggest "wtf" moment i ever had in a game

 

[Destores]

i think ill give it 8-9 out of 10. the ending is not suprising or something, the thing that made the ending so good is that is everything, but EVERYTHING is open.

 

[Cargo]

I voted for 1/10. The worst ending to any game EVER! Too easy, and too quick and not enough monsters. And where was Zen (Xen)? I thought I was only half way through the game when I saw the credits rolling....

I did love the physics/graphics though..

Let's hope Valve have a "proper" ending stored up for imminent release!

 

[michael_obrien]

9/10...

beautiful graphics effects, the entire citadel portion was really fun for me, but the lack of true bossage, replaced instead by a jumping puzzle... sorta anticlimactic It was nice to see the gman one more time.

 

[insig]

10/10

The ending was perfectly crafted to fit the rest of the game. The g-man delivered an oscar-worthy performance, and the part where he walks out of the door into nothing... brilliant acid trip feel.

Spoiler

Plus, I'm a shameless fanboy

 

[TheCorps]

8/10

Great but I thought it was a little too easy. I thought the last boss would be something a little bigger than two gunships.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

8/10 because it was really just a very nifty way of saying "to be continued"

 

[uberBullsquid]

start with 10

-1 Didnt get to save eli and alyx (the hell with mossman, even tho she made good in the end, she ****ed up)

-1 Now i guess i have to wait at least 3 years (most probably more) to find out what happens

good but very abrupt and open, so 8/10

 

[oberGeist]

10/10

-because there was NO final boss/monster (sick of it tbh...)
-'WTF????' of the century
-G-man (no comment needed)
-more questions that I like to speculate on