Things that didnt make the cut

[Mechagodzilla]

Looking at those cut weapons, the only ones that look at all interesting are the combine guard gun and the hopwire. The guard gun because it's an alternte way to take down a strider, and the hopwire because it's a very cool tripmine variant. and it ties in with the snark bombs at the end of HL1.

Everything else is just unecessary. The game really didn't need six rifles, five grenade variants and three nearly identical melee weapons.

Looking at that list has pretty much convinced me that Valve's policy of perfecting a few things instead of jamming a lot of stuff in and hoping for the best was the right way to go.

 

[Danimal]

I made a poll about it now

 

[ZoFreX]

There were a lot of things cut that I would liked to have seen, especially the assassins that were in the leaked build, their animations were awesome. But the more I think about the blue tentacles, the assasins etc the more I think it would make the game too crowded, they just wouldn't fit in.

The one thing I miss is the big street battles shown in the binks.

 

[m0rb1d]

This isn't aimed at anyone here, but it occurs to me that some of the things that were cut that people complain about would have been completely unkown without the stolen build.

A lot of what was cut wasn't intended for any eyes outside of the VALVe offices or the early test demos shown only to the press.

If we still didn't know about them today, it wouldn't hurt that they were missing. And I wonder if Raising the Bar would have the focus that it does now?

its real annoying to me when people complain about things like this, you could have at least read the first post.

but speaking of the beta, what are those things that you throw and it shoots out all those little streams, anyone know what it was meant to do or what they intended it to do?

 

[Mechagodzilla]

but speaking of the beta, what are those things that you throw and it shoots out all those little streams, anyone know what it was meant to do or what they intended it to do?

Based on that russian website link from a few posts back, I think they're a sort of tripmine. If someone crosses through one of the streams, it detonates?

 

[Phat-t]

i dont know if im allowed to post this or not, but does ne1 know where i can find the leak?

 

[Sulkdodds]

Your probably aren't allowed to post that, even though the game is out.

 

[Brian Damage]

its real annoying to me when people complain about things like this, you could have at least read the first post.

but speaking of the beta, what are those things that you throw and it shoots out all those little streams, anyone know what it was meant to do or what they intended it to do?

Thanks for the laugh, dude, that was actually pretty funny.

Y'see,

1: I did, as a matter of fact, read the first post in the thread... it's what sparked off the line of reasoning in my own post.

2: I specifically stated that what I was saying wasn't directed at anyone who had already posted (it was just something that had occurred to me while reading the first post). So thanks for not reading my post properly.

3: I don't actually see myself complaining in that post. It was an observation I made and commented upon.