Half-Life 2 is out!!!

[Kassiopeia]

I found a good site with some speculation on the story here: http://members.shaw.ca/storage_4/hl2story/

I'm not entirely in agreement with it, but it does provide a lot of factual information I've missed. In my case the jury is still out on a few things.

There's some good evidence there too, like: http://members.shaw.ca/storage_4/hl2...newspapers.jpg

Spoiler:

It always gets me, no matter how bad or good the story otherwise is, to see a newspaper headline like that. "EARTH SURRENDERS". Damn.

[BustaMike]

Good thoughts on the story... but they fail to address one pretty large thing IMO.

Spoiler:

Towards the very end when you see Breen talking to the slug thing, he mentions something about needing a new host body. I'm not sure Breen is actually human at all anymore. This is not addressed at all in that link

[Kassiopeia]

Oh, good point. I was thinking of sending a complimentary email to the author, I'll ask him that one at the same time too. I would hazard a guess, though, that

Spoiler:

the Combine overlord ("advisor") was only talking about having Breen's consciousness moved from his human body to another one - something probably common to the overlords, but to Breen this was an abhorrent thought, which made him refuse it, even if it meant trying to survive in a finished Combine world.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Sava
Your hero Bill Gates is a college dropout

Harvard Business isn't quite a community college in games design.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Dissident


I just can't believe it was selling for over $50. They are part of the trend of new games raising their prices . I really don't want to pay over $50.

At current exchange rates I've been paying over $50 for a long while.

New games today (in the UK) are cheaper than they were a few years back due to the proliferation of internet merchants.

[Father Beast]

Just got the latest CGM and they gave it 5 stars, so I guess that hands on preview masquerading as a review wasn't that much of a fluke after all.

[Zero]

HL2 hasnt impressed me yet.

[DrSpike]

Have you played it yet?

[Guynemer]

Just finished it.




That.

Was.

BADASS.

Goddamn. I think I'll go through it again, this time on the hardest setting. I the GravGun.

[Solver]

You mean you didn't play it on hard the first time through?

[CapTVK]

My my , this HL2 thingey sound pretty exciting! If I get around to a new pc I might take a look.

[MattH]

Yeah, it was fun... until I realized there was ony 1 type of enemy for pretty much the entire game. I mean really... after the 1000th CP killed the game was worthless to me. And no sniper rifle- what's up with that?

[Solver]

The crossbow is a more interesting variation of the sniper rifle. And all the environments where you fought were very different.

[MattH]

Originally posted by Solver
The crossbow is a more interesting variation of the sniper rifle. And all the environments where you fought were very different.

Well... the citadel and prospekt were fun environments. But there were hours of climbing similar looking stairs in similar looking buildings.

[Zero]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Have you played it yet?

Ive played about 30 minutes of single player so far. I havent tried MP.

The crossbow is a more interesting variation of the sniper rifle. And all the environments where you fought were very different.

Crossbow is a broke attempt to combine benefit of sniping and rocket launching. Gay.