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Posted by Naklajat on Tue Apr 29th at 6:22pm 2008

I thought it would've been funnier if when citizens recognized Gordon they started throwing rocks at him for 'ruining their planet' forcing him to wear a disguise.


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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Tue Apr 29th at 6:31pm 2008

? quoting reaper47

? quote:
anybody who says HL2 relates in no way to HL1 is a complete imbecile.



That might be among the few things I never heard being mentioned about HL.

I almost found the ties a little too obvious. Like, what a surprise, BARNEY the security guard from Black Mesa is right with you in an obscure, Eastern European city. Just with DR KLEINER and ELI VANCE and everyone in the street is wearing lambda(R)-signs because the lambda(R) sector in Black Mesa was so cool and they all worship Gordon Freeman and know every detail about him like some kind of post-apocalyptic celebrity.

In HL1 you were some random dude who happened to have the only hazard suit. In HL2 you are a prophetic demi-god. That always bothered me about the sequel.

You'd be surprised :/ I've lurked somethingawful.com for years and the number of times I've heard that statement bewilders me. The supposed disconnect is not so much the returning characters and Gordon being a demi-god (I thought it was cool, considering you're one of the very few who know you had a hand in the destruction of Earth and their suffering), but things like the setting of City17, why Earth is enslaved, and the 'Combine coming out of nowhere' in the story. People complained that the Combine seemed random and unrelated to anything in HL1...





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Posted by Le Chief on Wed Apr 30th at 5:26am 2008

Yeah, I find all the Half-life games very scripted and that really bothers me. And the "OMG its Freeman, where all saved" attitude that all the characters have bothers me even more, Freeman is no big deal at all, and I would have a more enjoyable experience if at least some of the characters in half-life didn't notice him.


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Posted by reaper47 on Wed Apr 30th at 8:58am 2008

? quote:
I thought it would've been funnier if when citizens recognized Gordon they started throwing rocks at him for 'ruining their planet' forcing him to wear a disguise.


Exactly, lol

But honestly, I think I just dug the exploration part about HL1. You, the player, alone in the desert with a big secret to solve. You didn't even know what happened and never actually received an explanation (but - and that's important - you could feel that there was going on more behind the scenes).

In HL2 you never really felt alone, the secrets were about background details regarding the origin of the combine, otherwise it was pretty obvious. The mystery is only part of the story, the environments you visit aren't mysterious at all, you always know where you are and how you got there.

It's a different style. And I always liked the HL1 style. I liked it a lot.

I must say that the Episodes, as criminally short and cliff-hangerish they are, really brought back some of the atmosphere of the HL1 days without scarifying what they introduced with HL2. I really like the Episodes and the direction they're going with them.


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