Missing parts in game....

[newgendesign]

HL2 is a great game but I feel its a tad short - the original went on forever - so many memorable scenes: such as the train at the start, labs, experient going wrong, sewers, emerging into daylight and having marines chase u underground again, cliff-face, rocket chamber, airstrikes, beingcaptured etc I was really looking forward to the sequal...

I havent finished HL2 yet - altho im near the end. We made the mistake on putting it on easy (I think it was default) and playing - its is too easy. I wont replay the game on a harder level until Ive finished it. Not looking forward to Ravenholm on hard I can tell ya.

My point: I remember playing one of the leaked demo levels on an early version and there was a cool ship with skelenton zombies that fired lasers at you from their heads- thought this would make a great level - anyway - this was missed out! Bugger. It seemed really scary at teh time even tho the ai was in development.There must have been loads of stuff missed out at the end. I wished they'd kept it all in and made the game simply longer....

 

[Andy018]

I think the majority of the stuff. the blue spike fight scene. the robots the borialis (ship) was cut due to time constraints with valve wanting to ship the game.

hopefully they will release HL3 and it will be a direct continuation from HL2 instead of somewere ex years in the future and use some of the cool stuff ere.

 

[h00dlum]

Many things was cut that was in the E3 movies and the leak....

 

[deekey777]

I miss two things: Barricade and City 17.
Traptown is a part of Ravenholm and the hydra is dead. :E

 

[newgendesign]

reading through the old posts it seems they cut loads out:

What a shame: I must admit Halflife was better in every way - agreed the physics etc is excellent in HL2 but I see that as a natural progression in technology: remember that HL1 was all about the plot. The fact that you ended up on Zen was superb! I loved it. HL2 is a bit "simple" if you ask me - straightforward and a bit boring in places (buggy journey - stopping off to clear the path etc)

Think of all the monsters/enemies in HL1? There were tons!! What happened to the snipers in HL2? Thinking about it the weapons arnt really that exciting (apart from grav gun). I was looking forward to the greenscoped gun but that was taken out too. HL1 had loads of alien and experiemntal technology too...

 

[TigerRei]

I agree. Although the game is great, it didnt feel that long. However, I think this is more due to the fact that HL1 had many more load zones than HL2, so it felt longer. Also due to the fact that even though you had a bigger world to move around in, a lot of it was the same type areas, whereas in HL1 we went through labs, sewers, elevator shafts, cliffs, etc.

Oh, and the snipers are still in HL2. Just not many of them. You get to see one sniper shoot a bird, and

Spoiler

Barney is surrounded by snipers that you have to take out afterwards