Valve=FAIL
Playing episode 2 of Half Life last night will be the last time I open the orange box. You have failed Valve. Yes this "critique" is years late as this game has been out a while, I am here to tell you that this game is(was?) way OVER HYPED Valve is not GOD and does not deserve your praise. There are errors which I find unforgivable not to mention UN-fun.
1. Gordon Freeman is NOT some 600 pound obese whale!! So why am I getting caught on EVERYTHING?!? Mainly door jams. Unless I line up the cross hairs so that they are in the direct middle of the doorway I get "stuck" and cant go through. When I say middle the term should not be used relatively, but completely 100% in the middle of the left and right door jam. And forget walking over some random trash in the game NOOOO, its impossible. "Oh this shard of a box I just smashed cause it was in my way, I can’t step over it?.....REALLY??.....it's like an inch tall!
2. AI stands for Always Intheway. How many times has the AI been so close to me that I can’t move so I can't run out of the way of enemy fire? How about every time there is AI around, at least Alyx will kill stuff. It seems like all the other AI are shooting blanks....or paper balls or something. Here is a tip: when the game gives you people to control point them to the area of heavy fire and watch them die....then breath a sigh of relief.
3. Killing anything other than a zombie or police/soldier is a chore. Chore is the correct word people, chores are boring, never fun, repetitive, and sometimes difficult. I played Half Life 2, ep 1, and almost finished ep2. I stopped at the part where I am throwing 'Magnusson balls" at the AT-AT rip-offs. Why did I stop at that part? Well it really sucks when I have to hold some sticky bomb with the grav gun, can't run, can't shoot and when I get close enough to throw it some hunter shoots the bomb negating all the work I did to get close enough to the strider. Killing one or two in this new unconventional way is exciting, but killing a whole swarm of 12 or so is tiresome, irritating, and very frustrating.....just give me some rockets you jerks!!
4.MOAR STORY!!! Less fetch. It seems like I am doing a fetch quest every 5 minutes. In episode 2 the main story/point is to get to White Forrest and launch some rocket. But is seems like I never move in a "straight" line. I am always veering off to help someone, plug something in, send a transmission, or climb a building only to come out on the other side 10 feet away...only with less ammo and health. This may not bug some or any of you, but I find it very irritating that I rarely move forward it's usually up then down, since ep2 is so short it's not as bad, but it was like this all the time in Half Life 2.
Why; I wrote this cause all I ever hear about Valve and Half Life is praise. Yes PORTAL was awesome, but notice I never mention it nor TF2. Half Life 2, ep1, and ep2 are far from perfect so please stop saying they are!
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2. AI does suck. It isn't the best, but that is cause the game was made in 2004. AI got in the way at times and didn't kill everything FOR YOU like other games. Sounds like you suffer from a problem suffered in part 3.
3. You suck at video games. Maybe you should try killing the hunters first and then killing the bigger guys? And if you are relying on AI to kill everything for you, you might as well watch someone play it or watch it on YouTube. When you want to play a game yourself, come back to the Half Life series, it holds no grudges and welcomes you with open arms.
4. In order to get places, you have to do things...ok I got nothing here, I didn't notice your complaint in the game on this topic.
Half Life 2 is just awesome. It isn't perfect, I've had glitches before but it is one of the best shooters around. Suck it up and stop failing/sucking.
PS: Sasha and I would like to meet you on the 360 battlefield!
I can't even really respond to this so called "critque". It's so far fetched and alot of the problems are human error..not the game.
Maybe if you weren't so out of touch and actually played the game when it came out in 2004, you'd realize hwo good of a game HL2 is.
I'm going to have to say, you should STFUAJPG, and get off DTOID. Because this post fails so hard, i can't even really,...I just.
Nevermind. Just leave, please.
You should try the PC version, it's what it was made for so I suggest giving that a shot if you can.
...sappin muh sentry!
3. Simple solution, shoot the Hunters and use the fucking car. They give you guns and a car for a reason.
The others however I can understand your frustration.
please try the game on PC some time. I think you'll find it far more enjoyable.
Really, I just think you're bitching for the sake of bitching. So you can feel unique that you didn't like a game everyone else did.
A lot of us aren't saying the game is perfect. We just think it's really, really, really good. It was an experience we had that was far better than any we've had all year, and I'm really sorry you're insulted by that.
I think your own expectations are clouding your judgement and not allowing you to enjoy what's good about the game and instead making you focus on the very minor things that are bad, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
Normally when someone uses that word they mean a popular game, but no, HL2 is the only game I have ever played that is truly deserving of that word, loved by so many, considered the greatest FPS of all time 4 years later, given many accolades.
And yet it was one of the most boring and mediocre shooters I have ever played, it plodding, the guns sounded like toys, horrible vehicle sections and a gimmicky gun that took center stage once you got it.
BUT KILLER PHYSICS YO.
After everything I heard about Half Life 2, I expected more, I have never been more dissapointed and HL2 is probably my primary reason as to why I refuse to listen to reviews anymore.