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Half-Life 2, observations (mild spoilers)
Dec. 30th, 2007 07:31 pmNot done with the game yet, just making commentary.
Point Insertion: Dude, wait... what? Let's see, everyone is blue uniforms, obquitous cameras and mooks with shock sticks, guy on a MegaPixelTron TV giving speeches (voiced by Robert Culp!) Yep, standard issue Dystopian Future.
Red Letter Day: There is something very sick and wrong about a scientist making a pet out of a creature that eats peoples brains and turns them into zombies with bad hats!
Route Kanal: Worst Level Pun Ever. And would it kill the designers to give poor Gordo a briefing on why the Vortigaunts are nice now?
Water Hazard: Cause we'll have FUN FUN FUN /'til the toxic waste eats all our skin awaaaaaay!
Black Mesa East: So you guys have built (semi) working teleporters, a tractor beam, a combat robot that thinks it's a dog, and you need me to lead the resistance?
"We Don't Go to Ravenholm": I can see why. But the idea of using headcrabs as terror weapons is certainly effective. The Half-Life designers are very good at designing relatively low level threats that immediately draw your fire because they're LEAPING AT MY FREAKING FACE!
Highway 17: It's as pretty as Myst/Riven, especially the railway bridge, but with the occasional machine gun battle.
Sandtraps: God I hate Ant Lions.
Nova Prospekt: God I love Ant Lions.
Entanglements: Hate, hate, hated That Fight in the prison. Only time I've had to use God Mode in the game to get through something. Where are my sweet Ant Lion minions when I need them?
TBC
Point Insertion: Dude, wait... what? Let's see, everyone is blue uniforms, obquitous cameras and mooks with shock sticks, guy on a MegaPixelTron TV giving speeches (voiced by Robert Culp!) Yep, standard issue Dystopian Future.
Red Letter Day: There is something very sick and wrong about a scientist making a pet out of a creature that eats peoples brains and turns them into zombies with bad hats!
Route Kanal: Worst Level Pun Ever. And would it kill the designers to give poor Gordo a briefing on why the Vortigaunts are nice now?
Water Hazard: Cause we'll have FUN FUN FUN /'til the toxic waste eats all our skin awaaaaaay!
Black Mesa East: So you guys have built (semi) working teleporters, a tractor beam, a combat robot that thinks it's a dog, and you need me to lead the resistance?
"We Don't Go to Ravenholm": I can see why. But the idea of using headcrabs as terror weapons is certainly effective. The Half-Life designers are very good at designing relatively low level threats that immediately draw your fire because they're LEAPING AT MY FREAKING FACE!
Highway 17: It's as pretty as Myst/Riven, especially the railway bridge, but with the occasional machine gun battle.
Sandtraps: God I hate Ant Lions.
Nova Prospekt: God I love Ant Lions.
Entanglements: Hate, hate, hated That Fight in the prison. Only time I've had to use God Mode in the game to get through something. Where are my sweet Ant Lion minions when I need them?
TBC
