Oh YOU HAVE TO BE JOKING!!!!

[Danoran]

Ok so I finished the game.
What must have been the best (END LEVELS) I have ever played.
But the Ending FALL FLAT ON ITS Face! I won't give anything away but it is SO dull. They could have made it even a bit more fun or informative. I would be ok with the ending if there was some expansion or something. but I mean there was the most Grind to a halt endings I have sat through. If there is an Alt ending I would love to know about it. I was also told that the ATI version of the game has more then the store bought version. Any truth to that? Sorry for flaming what I beleve is one of the best shooters I have ever played, But other then wishing it was longer I wish they would have put in more endings

 

[Biggleska]

I was also told that the ATI version of the game has more then the store bought version. Any truth to that?

No.

To the rest of the post: Deal with it. (Half-Life is a trilogy)

 

[Sequence]

Go and read through the rumours and speculation section of the forum. I think that'll make you feel better

 

[UKchaos2]

HL3 is the ending

 

[subtlesnake]

In my opinion the ending was the best I've experienced in any game. When everything slowed down and the G-man echoed "time" it just felt so right. I suppose it was realising that I really was Gordon Freeman, and I'd only been in the world for 19 hours or so.

 

[Konfuzzyus]

I, on my behalf, am totally sure that the last chapter of the game must have gone missing somewhere along the production process... They just put in an ending that can be blended over all current game content by just calling HalfLife2_Ending(); And it would look right no matter where Gordon finds himself at that moment. So my suspicion is that the retail mission is missing the final chapter. They just didn't put it onto the DVD... It's just not finished... can't be... I do not want it to be... I am going to send Valve an email telling them that I am missing the final chapter on the DVD i bought... That a very confusing crash occurs and the credits show up even though the game should be still running...

 

[pickers]

it as remaniscent of the old tv series "knightmare" which froze all the contestants at the end of 30 mins...

 

[tkato]

A. i have to disagree... i liked the ending so frekin much...

B. it's a triolgy... wait for the next game... i wish i had a slow time warp right now :\.

 

[CTTcrew_MrBlue]

it as remaniscent of the old tv series "knightmare" which froze all the contestants at the end of 30 mins...

LOL was that were they had a wear a ridiculous helmet so they couldnt see a thing and travel (blindly) through a CG world?

mant that was funny/

 

[Varsity]

Funny? That thing gave me nightmares!

 

[sportythief]

No.

To the rest of the post: Deal with it. (Half-Life is a trilogy)

Is that your excuse for the pathetic ending for every trilogy. Trilogy or no trilogy, bottom line amazing shooter, but a poor ending. You can try to defend it all you want but in the end Valve cheaped out in what could have been a great ending movie.

I am sick of everyone chanting "IT'S A TRILOGY." HL2 sets a whole new standard for shooter fans, but really a three minute ending movie with pointless crap is not everyone's taste.

Anyways, these kinds of forums are meaningless and pointless now, as no one ever excepts the facts and only burns the person who started it.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

Is that your excuse for the pathetic ending for every trilogy. Trilogy or no trilogy, bottom line amazing shooter, but a poor ending. You can try to defend it all you want but in the end Valve cheaped out in what could have been a great ending movie.

I am sick of everyone chanting "IT'S A TRILOGY." HL2 sets a whole new standard for shooter fans, but really a three minute ending movie with pointless crap is not everyone's taste.

Anyways, these kinds of forums are meaningless and pointless now, as no one ever excepts the facts and only burns the person who started it.

Well I don't think the ending sucks at all. We all have different opinions on this. I respect yours, and I suggest you respect the other opinions around here.

The ending requires a person to start thinking. That's what I like about it. Not everyone like to think though, and I can understand why such a person would hate the ending.

 

[dys4iK]

Not everyone like to think though

*snicker*

I thought the ending was suitable for the second episode of a trilogy. It resolved the issues within that episode and gave us larger questions to be solved at the climax of the series.

 

[ScRaTcH-A-HoLiC]

HL3 is the ending

no way!!

They wont stop this game at just 3, at least I hope not.

 

[pickers]

LOL was that were they had a wear a ridiculous helmet so they couldnt see a thing and travel (blindly) through a CG world?

mant that was funny/

thats the one

 

[PvtRyan]

Spoiler

... time Dr. Freeman? Is it that time again already? It is like you only just arrived...

Perfect...

 

[The Monkey]

I loved the ending.Almost better than HL1's.

EDIT: 2000th post!

 

[corkscru74]

Yep, I loved the ending. It's the only time I've finished a game and not had that empty, jaded feeling.

I think the problem a lot of people are having is that the ending makes you want to know more - and we'll have to wait 'til HL3 for that.

For all those unhappy with the ending - how would you have finished it?

 

[UKchaos2]

I used to watch Knightmare too, great show

http://www.knightmare.com/

 

[sportythief]

Well I don't think the ending sucks at all. We all have different opinions on this. I respect yours, and I suggest you respect the other opinions around here.

The ending requires a person to start thinking. That's what I like about it. Not everyone like to think though, and I can understand why such a person would hate the ending.

The thing is I have been respecting others opinions, but obviously you didn't notice whos blaming who here. If you read my reply from the start than you'd know who I quoted. Good try though. Next time try pointing fingers at those who need to be told.

Thanks for comin out.

By the way for us dumb ppl plz do explain the ending...as you seem to be a guru at bs talk.

 

[.Transmit]

OMG yes

 

[kupocake]

Good Game Endings are few and far between. I don't think I can honestly name a single one. I think a lot of people are prone to getting the disappointment that the game finished at all, mixed up with a disappointment that the ending was bad. I think it was good enough ending... when we all play the next one, or the one after that, we'll look back and we'll realise that it was a good ending after all...

 

[Dsty2001]

I don't understand how anybody could have enjoyed the Half-Life 1 ending and not enjoyed HL2s ending.

 

[ShinRa]

Thanks for the thread.

Yo mike! Over here! Yea, another I hate the ending thread. What do you wanna do? Ticket it? Ok.

/adds ticket number #932,323,221

 

[big_king_frosty]

Its an awesome ending, a cliff hanger giving the base for another excellent game.

Its not one of thoses series that has a "happy ending" from the first game and then, oops everythings gone wrong, the second game appears with added storyline. The HL games flow the storyline through making it better!!!

 

[SFLUFAN]

I don't understand how anybody could have enjoyed the Half-Life 1 ending and not enjoyed HL2s ending.

Exactly - don't both games have the same ending conceptually anyway? As far as I can tell, very little was resolved in the original game (which by the way had a pretty "standard" sci-fi storyline that wasn't particularly original but extremely well executed while HL2's story was quite original) except that you killed a giant floating fetus and were offered a Hobson's choice for your fate.

 

[epmode]

To the rest of the post: Deal with it. (Half-Life is a trilogy)

please show me exactly where it's said that half-life is a trilogy. it's obvious that there will be a third game, but that in no way implies that that's all there is. it seems to me that the series is shaping up to be episodic, rather than there being a concrete 3 part story. we'll see when hl3 is released, i guess.

 

[Varsity]

http://www.knightmare.com/

Word. :O

 

[Draculas_Guest]

LOL was that were they had a wear a ridiculous helmet so they couldnt see a thing and travel (blindly) through a CG world?

Yeap and it was made in my home city :thumbs:

As for the ending, I thought it was pretty cool for the most part, I love the fact that it left you hanging for HL3, and I much preferred it over the ending to HL1 (I never really liked that ending), but it really depends how they follow through in the next game.
Valve seem be pretty damn good at creating mysteries and intrigue, but eventually there needs to be some kind of payoff. I used to be a big fan of The X Files, but after a few years it was twist after twist after twist and the series felt like it was chasing its own tail, so eventually I just got fed up and stopped watching.

I'm giving Valve the benefit of the doubt, and assume that there'll be a satisfactory resolution in HL3, but I just hope they come up with something really meaty that makes you go "oooh" and "aaah". One of the few criticisms I have with HL2 is that some parts of the story needed to be expanded. Yes I'm aware that the story is "there" if you explore enough, but there needs to be something a little bit more substantial than easter eggs hidden through the game. I want to play the Half Life games and enjoy the story while playing them, not spend 3 hours in Nova Prospekt hunting down a coke can that reveals the Gman is Gordons time travelling nephew from 2025.

 

[sportythief]

For all those unhappy with the ending - how would you have finished it?

Unfortunately I have not played the first HAlf Life, so I have no idea how to link the two endings. Personally, if a game's ending NEEDS to relate to the previous one, than it's weak. In HL2's case the consumer needs to play all three games to understand the basic plot, which is absolutely :rolling:. I am not attacking HL2 for it's technical aspect. Everyone knows it's the best technically executed game. The A.I. alone pushes the envelope further than in any other shooter.

I might not get the opportunity to play HL3 in the future, so where does that leave me, HL2 and it's plot, NOWHERE. I would really appreciate if someone could start a thread where ppl can post their p.o.v. about the ending in HL2.

Personally, I don't want to make a big deal with this issue, but when I see someone, who does not understand the plot, being attacked or degraded by a much more "intelligent" player, who knows the game inside-out...well it pisses me off.

WTF this getting stupid me go play HL2. :E

 

[CriYam]

Its an awesome ending, a cliff hanger giving the base for another excellent game.

Its not one of thoses series that has a "happy ending" from the first game and then, oops everythings gone wrong, the second game appears with added storyline. The HL games flow the storyline through making it better!!!

Wasn't a happy ending? What kind of ending was it?

I can recreate the ending by flipping the switch to OFF on my power bar.

You go from point A to point B without ever seeing the fruits of your labor.

Seriously, what is good about the ending?

 

[Random Task]

It was a good ending though I have that empty feeling from it still pondering what the hell happened to Alyx and Freeman etc. Slow mo was a nice effect but i just feel like i missed something or something wasn't mentioned which would make it all click.

 

[subtlesnake]

The ending was supposed to take the player out of the world and make him realise that he'd only been put there for a short amount of time to do the G-mans bidding. So many games let the main character go at the end, as part of some "and they lived on happily ever after" conclusion. Hl2 did the opposite - it ripped Gordon out of the world, and put a far bigger perspective on everything.

HL2 was only a 20 hour mission between time warps. Gordon never belonged in City 17, he was just called out for a brief period of time to change events. And he'll say in stasis until we are next able to step into his shoes.

Gordon doesn't have a place inside the gameworld - he is the player, a foreign entity that comes in to change things. Hopefully, with HL3 we'll finally understand his true role.

 

[ignot]

Gordon doesn't have a place inside the gameworld - he is the player, a foreign entity that comes in to change things.

I like that, sums things up nicely.

The way the storytelling is distorted is what impresses me. Usually you start with Equilibrium, that gets disrupted and the protagonist has to go through conflict to establish a new equilibrium.
In HL, you are the disruption to the equilibrium, and it is only re-established when you are gone. Really thought provoking for me.

 

[Ownzed]

The Alt ending is HL3.

 

[Asknoone]

Originally posted by: Bigleska

(Half-Life is a trilogy)

No, no its not, its been confirmed that valve dont know how many they are going to make.

 

[JamesPicard_007]

Perhaps the best way to think of HL2's ending is the same way we think about The Two Towers from Lord of the Rings. (I am not saying that Half-Life is a trilogy!) The Two Towers is neither a beginning or an end. It's a continuation that builds up on the story (Albiet Half-Life 2 adds more questions than answers.). and Half-Life 2 can fit within the same vein. It's building up for the next installment where hopefully, in this case, we get quite a few of our questions answered if not all of them.

 

[smsKONG]

***SOME ENDING SPOILERS***-for anyone numb enough to come into an ending thread who doesn't want the ending spoiled:E

A good ending in my opinion, well that is once I'd gotten over the'no more HL2 to play feeling', and was very similar to the original ending. You got no real closure in the first HL and it is the same in HL2- just more suspense.
The only reason people feel cheated this time round is because they'd got all built up over the expectation of answers. Whereas Valve wanted us to still feel like Gordon, and in his screwed up little world, the G-man rules the roost. Therefore when the citadel is destroyed he rips you from time and leaves you with nothing...which is a perfect cliffhangar. Now you are left with many questions, not least of which is, did anyone else (alyx, eli) survive, hell did the city survive.
Of course they could have just let it run and let you all die in the explosion, but it's not like you can go anywhere from that, is it.

Now you can argue all you like as to whether it's a trilogy or a serial, but the fact of the matter is, there will be a HL3. Now take the second part of a good trilogy, for example let's take The Empire Strikes Back. Now at the end of that you are left with some fairly dark questions and with Hans survival in the balance. At the time it was seen as the weakest film so far (even tho imo it had the better story and ending), however these days it is generally thought of as possibly the best out of the 3 (original) star wars films. It is a transition towards the end of the trilogy, and in the same way HL2 is, it must set up the final(?) chapter without giving to much away, whilst at the same time it must give you a sufficient hanging in the balance feeling...afterall it wouldn't be much of a final chapter if you didn't have any answers left to find or adversity left to fight , now would it?

 

[Jesus Lincoln]

I thought the ending was suitable for the second episode of a trilogy. It resolved the issues within that episode and gave us larger questions to be solved at the climax of the series.

Werd.
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[pickers]

I wouldnt be surprised for gordon to be brought back say a century later when it wouldnt matter if alyx and/or eli survived.
Or maybe they become legend and there is a cult of "free man" followers waiting for gordon to return in some kind of almost religious manner. earth could be a wasteland with pockets of humans here and there living a basic life... Would make an interesting twist this - considering both the games so far rely heavily on technology.
Bah I've entertained this idea enough.
still i wouldnt be surprised if some time (alyxs lifetime - or shes old and saggy) has passed before we see gfreeman again.