WHAT...is this it?!!!!!

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are you the same person registering new accounts and starting up all these threads? you all seem to have the same train of thought, or lack thereof...makes you think..


EDIT: not directed at badger :/
 
Stop wasting your time here, please.
This could go for everyone.
Don't feed the troll who is too dumb to understand Half-Life 2.
 
Comments, yes. Trollish bullsh*t? No. If you want your opinion to be taken seriously please stop talking liek thsi for too seccondz adn use some punctuashun orr sumthn kthx?1//1/1/?!?!1 :) :) :) o!1! maib3 u shuld stpo usnig a starw man adn reespodn to arguments :p

Anyway, I was very impressed by the graphics. Check your detail settings, make sure both textures and geometry are set to high. Trust me on this, it looks much better.

As for the story, this has been discussed before. You don't know what happened after Black Mesa? Neither does Gordon - as far as he's concerned, he just woke up on a train. There is a backstory, though. Check the news clippings in both Isaac and Eli's labs for some interesting tidbits.

My absolute favorite part of the game, though, would have to be how all the main characters are so nerdy. What other action hero could wear glasses like that and still be cool? :D
 
"YEs doom3 is a frag fest...dark and predictable...but thats exactly what the originals were."


This statement shows your age

Doom was lit up like a ****ing x-mas tree...Doom 3 was the only one that was darker than all hell


and Farcry had the WORST ending in the history of FPS


and rave music sucks
 
just my 2 cents...i think u playd through it to fast...u keep going on bout it being a frag fest, action bang bang explosion story...well i didnt find it that way at all, infact i recon i spent more time looking at scenery, playing with physics, generally having fun, then i spent shooting stuff...
 
Yes, bunnymud, but what about candles? Are we to let them continue their pancakes? Look - an airplane!
 
I WAS finished babbling on but you guys wont leave it so here we go again:
You lot seem to be concerning your attacks at me at my complaints at the graphics and the lack of story!
The thing is that i dont want to be left Guessing the story or making it up for myself...thats usually their job to include the in depth story to the game you are playing...not the players!

The hype...that this has had over the past 2 years was all pretty much just hype...and to find out that their really is nothing noticably or world changingly revolutionary in this game though the hype said there would be just makes it disappointing!
It's not my fault i dislike the game...I had such high expectations of this game that i turned out not to like it. And i am being biased here...truely biased because i was expecting this game to be like HL1 and because its so different i don't like it...I would probably like the game if it was not at all to do with half life but still it plays like a console shooter and has no "cloak and dagger" in it what so ever so itsn ot my kind of game!

I saw people saying everything about it is realistic...the fighting clearly isnt as its run in blast the shit out of all the bad people and win...except the bits when youhave to destroy the huge striders that takes some tactics,...but i find it completely lacking in tactics!

It is also a very linear game and i hate linear games!

Perhaps i am being too hard on this game because of the hype or you are being too kind to the game because its labelled half life 2and instantly is good. Face it you lot made your mind up before it came out!

My favourite part of the game is the beginning level from the train up untilyou get your weapons as this sets the atmosphere really well and introduces you to this amazing world...like one of those cult sci fi films but once you get to ravenshorn i find it just goes down hill until the end when it picks up slightly...
 
Hmmm, all I can say is, if thats what you think then think that. If you did some backround reading, and listened to what most people were saying, and paid attention at the beginning maybe you would get the game a little bit more. How is the game suppose to be original? Black Mesa was destroyed....why place the game in another lab, City 17 was a great location. Also the reason why it's so different is because it's been 20 YEARS! Alot changes in that time, and the gameplay rocked. It was fun and intensive, there were puzzles that weren't to hard and there weren't to many. The Fan-Boat Level was the sweetest level ever, thats the level I'll always remember.

Also, hate to break it to you, but it's impossible to beat the game in 6 hours. It took me about 14 hours on Easy. That being said, I do play through games quick, I don't take time to look around at the scenery or anything, so it's a valid time. If you want a 6 hour game, go ahead and go buy Halo 2, thats gun was pretty damn short.
 
Paul_Wakefield said:
Oh my god...seriously this cannot be it...what happened to the amazing graphics and physics......The first level is awesome before you get weapons...but after that they concentrate more on Wave attacks...infact its all run in blast the brown goo out of everything standing in your way...

The level design is poor aswell i was hoping the the 15 chapters shown on the new game bar were like prologue chapters....and werent the real half life 2 but nooo....i completed the game in about 6 hours...and now i feel like crying at the sheer average-ness of this game....the original kicks its arse.

What happened to the Aliens?! it was based more on shooting head crabs and humans then some rather grotesque looking alien...infact ...Where were the rather grotesque aliens!!!!!!

IS this valves way of saying...We're not releasing the REAL half life 2 for another year because of complications so were just gonna give you a half made poorly designed FAKE half life 2 while you wait! PLEASE GOD I HOPE IT IS!!!!!!!!

Half Life 2 - 100%...........disappointment
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are you some stuck up rich kid that has to have everything PERFECTLY PERFECT to NOT complain?!
yup... you must be, or maybe you had to much hype and spoil
 
Personally I think you're a bit mad in the head if you hate the game as much as you make out. Even if it doesn't live upto your hype anyone with common sense can see its still a great achievment and a fantastic technical display even if you dislike the gameplay. You arn't particuly constructive in your complaints either, you sound more like a moron halo fanboy bashing it, but in a more polite way. Its fine you don't like it, I don't care, its just silly that you can't even praise the good things about it (which are obvious to anyone)

Oh and completed in 6 hours first time through? unless you were using cheats, thats a load of rubbish. An even if that were true, running through that fast you deserve to be dissapointed for not taking more time. Well whatever, I still say best.game.ever.
 
HL2 is ****ing amazing and I dont think anyones going to change their opinions because one lowly troll cant stop spamming his arse off about how shit they think it is. I've never had so much fun in a singler player game, I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN.

No-one cares, youv'e made your point with no good reasons, leave. Bye bye.
 
There really hasn't been much hype other than word of mouth stuff. I mean, I haven't seen any big ad campaigns for Half-Life 2 as of yet...
 
Its not perfect but it is still the best FPS ever made. I found the story got a bit slow after playing catch with Dog until the antlion chapter. But all of those levels still had amazing visuals and story and physics its just I thought the levels with transport were a little long and repetative. The traps level is I'm sure a lot of fun for some people but I thought it was a bit tedious probably because that father guy was annoying to me =]

I definitely think it was better than HL1 though. I didn't really enjoy most of the underground / alien stuff from HL1 and I think when they made HL2 they rectified this by having more out door environments and more humanoid like opponenets. Of course this was also due in part to the new engine and HL1 is still the second best FPS of all time ;p

As I said up until playing catch with Dog I had a great time. Absolutly no complaints I was even begining to feel that the characters had depth. For instance the playful posture of Alyx sitting on the tip watching Dog was amazing from a body language point of view. Also from Ant lion chapter to the end the pace increase nicely and it was just stunning.

I don't think the "trolls" are completely wrong, it wasn't perfect and there is room for improvment - but we already knew this, thats why it didn't get 10/10 from most major reviewers. I still wouldn't have made a thread about how its a poor game, more like incorperated critisum into a thread about opinions on the game but... This forum is sadly full of shit posts and pointless waste of time posts with less than 1% decent discussion so this wasn't unexpected.

When it comes to post counts I have the most respect for long term members with realitivly low post counts - at least when they say something it might actually be meaningful rather than pointless rubbish, adding to pointless rubbish in order to increase post counts. Sad basterds lol! (admins excluded of course)

/rant
 
I thought HL2 was like the original

Yes i know atlot of things we're diffrent, but I still felt the essence of HL1 there
 
It completely boggles my mind how you could dislike Half-Life 2 so strongly. It BOGGLES the mind.
 
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for some reason i am thinking he played with some kind of cheat going... or maybe didn't play at all... something he said earlier about the whole chapter/cutscene thing. i dunno about you, but everything has run together very seemlessly, and logically. something just doesn't sit right. maybe it's just that he's got 20 posts, most of them in this one thread. who joins a fan forum to bitch?
 
Actually, i am really let down, i waited on that game ONLY for the story!!! and i got some lame ass shoot, run , shoot, run , hide , shoot, game, i think i'm gonna check out doom3 instead.
 
chimpmunk said:
Actually, i am really let down, i waited on that game ONLY for the story!!! and i got some lame ass shoot, run , shoot, run , hide , shoot, game, i think i'm gonna check out doom3 instead.
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You do realize that it is an FPS... right? It's not an RPG... no, it's a friggen FPS.
*slaps forhead*

If your going to check Doom3 out for it's story... lol, have fun with that. It's just your run-of-the-mill: opens gate to hell... helly stuff comes out.

And if you dont like the shoot, run, shoot, run thing... do you really not expect that from Doom 3?
All of Doom 3 consists of the following:
Hey... a health or armor pick up... I think I'll grab it...
ZOMG!!! Stuff jumps out from the infinite blackness!
Repeate 1000 times

HL2's story > Doom3's story
Simple math
 
WhiteZero said:
You do realize that it is an FPS... right? It's not an RPG... no, it's a friggen FPS.
*slaps forhead*

If your going to check Doom3 out for it's story... lol, have fun with that. It's just your run-of-the-mill: opens gate to hell... helly stuff comes out.

And if you dont like the shoot, run, shoot, run thing... do you really not expect that from Doom 3?
All of Doom 3 consists of the following:
Hey... a health or armor pick up... I think I'll grab it...
ZOMG!!! Stuff jumps out from the infinite blackness!
Repeate 1000 times

HL2's story > Doom3's story
Simple math
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i know it's a fps, but, put it in perspective, HL² vs HL1, hl1 wins in storytelling (and everything else also).
 
Paul_Wakefield said:
....and werent the real half life 2 but nooo....i completed the game in about 6 hours...
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I'm sorry but this kind of sheer, unmitigated stupidity deserves a ****ing ban, because you clearly didn't play the game, "Paul Wakefield." 6 hours????? What are you retarded? Really should have thought of a more realistic number. Don't you have something better to do than talk about a game you haven't played?

As for "if you think this game is amazing open your eyes blah blah blah"-guy, my eyes ARE open, trust me on that. And on 6x aa and 16x anisotropic let me tell you, it looks damn....no, GOD damn good. Take your pentium 3 and go play some Wolfenstein or some shit.
 
feeling i got when i payed out hl 1 for first time was what happend to the rest off the world
hl 2 is exactly what if expected
i hope hl 3 is also what i expect.
atleast if it comes out i do got the idea there got plans for it because off the ending. :)
 
After reading all this posts I believe that people don't get that storytelling in games is not something like. To all those, who say that there is no story:

Does think that the characters should explain or elaborate more about the world and circumstances you're in?

Aren't you who is making the story?

Should there be cutscenes?

I believe there is a big misconception about what the story means in the game.
 
eh

The only thing I don't like about HL2 is the fact that it doesn't have Team Fortress Classic 2 in it.
I was really wanting that instead of another crappy CounterStrike.
I am currently almost finished with Ravenholm and I think that the singleplayer is exactly what I expected...and then some!
I still can't believe it plays sooo good on my piece of a pc.
 
i think the game is great and when you playing on medium no way you can finish it in 6 ours lol.

<?>..::ButcheR::..
 
To be fair, Route Kanal does get fairly dreary after a while. It's better the second time through, when you know what you are doing and where you are going.
 
i was astonished (not in the good sense of the word) when, riding the airboat, you break teh crates to get teh powerups !!!011 what is this, crash bandicoot ? jack and dexter ? that was completely out-of-context
 
Paul_Wakefield said:
Oh my god...seriously this cannot be it...what happened to the amazing graphics and physics......The first level is awesome before you get weapons...but after that they concentrate more on Wave attacks...infact its all run in blast the brown goo out of everything standing in your way...

The level design is poor aswell i was hoping the the 15 chapters shown on the new game bar were like prologue chapters....and werent the real half life 2 but nooo....i completed the game in about 6 hours...and now i feel like crying at the sheer average-ness of this game....the original kicks its arse.

What happened to the Aliens?! it was based more on shooting head crabs and humans then some rather grotesque looking alien...infact ...Where were the rather grotesque aliens!!!!!!

IS this valves way of saying...We're not releasing the REAL half life 2 for another year because of complications so were just gonna give you a half made poorly designed FAKE half life 2 while you wait! PLEASE GOD I HOPE IT IS!!!!!!!!

Half Life 2 - 100%...........disappointment
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ur 100% sick

hl2 is the best fps since hl1 its great
 
nagual678 said:
i was astonished (not in the good sense of the word) when, riding the airboat, you break teh crates to get teh powerups !!!011 what is this, crash bandicoot ? jack and dexter ? that was completely out-of-context
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Oh, and going up to a wall unit and holding E to heal your wounds is? :p Yeesh. I'm going to have to agree with WhiteZero: it's not a sim, it's not an RPG, it's a First Person Shooter. Why would you complain that there's too much shooting action in a game that's supposed to be designed around it?
 
Sean said:
Oh, and going up to a wall unit and holding E to heal your wounds is? :p Yeesh.
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Realistic explanation: nano technology. When you interface with the medkit, it injects nanobots into you which repair damage, and so forth.
 
Yeah. When I go to the doctor I always bring my keyboard, walk up to him and press 'e'. What's so weird about that? ;)
 
Man i came home today expecting to play a few more hours and i finished it in like 2 minutes. I couldnt believe that it was over already. I either played this game really really fast, or this game is really really short.

and i dont like the fact that hardly anything was explained since half life 1.

this sucks.

Oh well it was fun while it lasted.. wish it lasted a little longer though.
 
sHm0zY said:
...computer licks ass
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Was that an intended misspelling? :p

As for the first poster, I think you are wrong, utterly wrong, but that's just me...
 
Mac said:
I either played this game really really fast, or this game is really really short.

Oh well it was fun while it lasted.. wish it lasted a little longer though.
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To quote Tyrell from Blade Runner, "a flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
I also found this game short, but I would rather play 15 hours of this, than 100 hours of dark computer hallways or some other repetitive crap. Yes it was short, but think back in your mind how much you went through, how many areas and how much stuff you saw?
 
First, those of you bashing people with negative opinions, that's sooo dumb. Explain your side of the opinion, back it up if you can, and leave it at that.

I finished in about average time maybe 15 hours playing on medium and hard (I switched to hard with the striders and bosses and big battles... made it fun) and I can't WAIT to play again. Now granted, I thought it was too short, the questions they answered were mostly about the combine and such, not too much about Gordon and the others. I think that's good though, I like to fill in my own details. Hm, that's why I'm PLAYING a game instead of watching a movie. A good portion of the plot is being written AS I play, but there is still sort of that feeling of being on a rail or controlled, WHICH I THINK VALVE INTENDED!!! If you don't believe me, just watch the end scene a few times lol. Get into the game and think almost Matrix-y.

Graphics-So many times I just went "Wow" and stopped doing whatever to stare. Especially the end..... I've done that with Doom 3 and Farcry, both GOOD games, but not to the extent I just did.

Story: See above (I liked it, and want to add it leaves a lot of cool mod possibilities. Alternate dimensions kinda thing)

Sound: Amazing.... Except I kept getting "pauses" in game that were annoying. Deleting and reinstalling fixed it mostly.

Physics: Oh. My. God. Almost Perfect! I can't tell you how many times I laughed OUT LOUD in pure glee. There were so many just FUN moments in the game it was fluxing sweet. Gravity Gun..... Best weapon EVER MADE for fps.... Hands down...

My only complaint is the somewhat choppiness, which is more a bug with my computer and will be fixed (fingers crossed) and the lack of multiplay with the gravity gun, which I hope to remedy soon. I would like to start some mods, I AM a beginner but if anyone else would like to join me (new or experienced) I have some good ideas and have done levels in the past. PM me or email me (dleidlein at myself dot com)
 
Best game ever..period.

Anyone who disagrees should pack his bags and quit gaming in general.

This is not about opinions anymore, this are now FACTS..

I've never, NEVER been so impressed by a game.

Btw paul wakefield: Weren't you the one who couldn't log in to steam or something, or couldn't authenticate?

If true: It's a shame you start bashing on hl2 if you haven't played it..but even if you did: it's simply insane to say that hl2 is a dissapointment..
 
in defense of FPS and the story line.

Have you all forgotten.. hl1 changed fps forever. Set teh standards, tore down walls(heh), was f'ing amazing..

hl2... was in my opinion suppose to follow that tradition hl1 set with this immense and awesome story line heavily embedded into the gameplay, shaping its outcome.
NOT- a run and gun, this is a fps shooter not an RPG bullshit.. thats what IT was ALL about.. the story line embedded into single player (excuse my repitition from frustration /[however]it gets the point across).

i was thoroughly excited the entire time while playing hl2. i loved the game, i feel cheated that it did not introduce or follow the same kind of story line as hl1.

1.) not only did i not recieve any anwers from hl1 which i obsessed over.
2.) i barely touched any new weapons like i had thought up over how the weapons progressed in hl1.
3.) i barely met any new enemies and the enemies i did meet seemed copied from other forms of media and entertainment.. this has been discussed in other threads so i won't go in to detail here, its not the place.
4.)hl1 went from a start, a middle, a conclusion, and i felt like an anti climax - a new game, once i got to zen. hl2, didnt' have this extra set of discovery or twist
5.) i have no solid memories of "remeber when that happened?!?!?!?" from hl2.. i have a few from teh striders, cuase they were deffinitely awe inspiring. and from DOG when he picked up a van i was trying to get passed and totally whiped out everyone in frount of me, i was just like damn this thing kicks some serious ass. however, i could spend the entire day recalling certian events in hl1 that i remember, finding, or seeing and be liking, okay whats this how am i going to defeat it? such as calling in airstrikes.
to further illustrate the problem solving in every battle situation presented in hl1.. there were many times where i would turn the corner to see many marines talking/walking/standing... sometimes i would be spotted and dart back and think.. okay i saw a ledge over there and i remember this box over there... i'ma toss a nade to the far corner then dash across this.. just as a nade would land near me and set me on my path...
nearly NOTHING like that EVER happened in hl2.. never did i come upon a situation where i was giving an option and set out on a 'mini battle' it was all run through this map, shoot these guys, move on.

this only scratches the service of dissapointment.. dissapointment however does not mean it was a bad game, i loved it.

i signed up pretty much just to make this post adn defend it, so sorry its long.
 
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