Can I have one negative opinion about Half Life 2?

While i love the game the AI is incredibly retarted,half the time they pop up,run to the exact same location every playthrough and then just stand there shooting at you.AI on first game was better IMO

[QUOTE="enterawesome"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"] Though to be fair, Halo and Red Faction never really tried to have realistic guns physics... and the guns in Half-Life 2 felt much weaker than the guns in Halo 2, imo, having recently played both.DarkLink77

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="enterawesome"]Well, some of the human weapons in Halo 2 emulate real-life weapons, to an extent. Regardless, the guns in Half-Life 2 never felt weak for me. The Combine assault rifle really packed a punch, the shotgun is excellent, the magnum feels really powerful, and the Gravity Gun is just amazing. The pistol and the SMG are all that feel kinda like airsoft guns. It's not really the guns fault either, it's just the enemies absorb the bullets like sponges, and don't really react to being shot at.enterawesome

Terrible AI. There you go.Stevo_the_gamer

Yes, the gunplay should had been better.

The protagonist never shuts up

skinny_man_69

I was bored to death trying to play it. Didn't like it at all.

My main gripe is probably the dring sections and maybe the enemy A.I's.

[QUOTE="enterawesome"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"] So instead we should be complaining about the fact that the enemies don't react to where we shot them, and seem to be able to absorb bullets Quake style, eh? I see what you did there.DarkLink77

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The gunplay is pretty weak, imo. But everything else about it is good.

brandontwb

the dudes just stand there and take bullets in the face like idiots.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="enterawesome"]:P It's not that they should react really realistically to being shot at, but even the grunts in Halo: CE were affected by bullets. That's the flaw we should be calling it out for! enterawesome

Yeah... it's like the AI suddenly realizes. "Oops, I'm dead. Guess I should fall over now."

The Combine apparently have the best armor ever. The Spartans from Halo would be jealous.

My fav game last gen. Really love the whole series, but there are some things I didn't like:

1. Gunplay is a mixed bag. Only Colt .357 and Combine AR2 Rifle are satisfying enough for me.
2. Combine soldiers are too easy, compared to HECU soldiers from Half-Life 1. Those were badass.
3. After reading Half-Life Raising the Bar book, I felt that HL2 could be much much better if some of the original ideas for the game were implemented. I like the 30's 40's art-deco prototype look of the game more that Soviet Bloc one that we see in the final release.

And 4. I don't like where the series headed in ep2. Really, lush forests? Where the hell my barren post-apocalyptic wastelands?

[QUOTE="SilverChimera"][QUOTE="enterawesome"]CS is just one game though. Did Halo 2 have really realistic gun physics? No. Did MGS3? No. Did Red Faction 2? Hell no. All these games came out around the same time Half-Life 2 did, but they don't get criticized for such modern features we should only expect from current gen games, so why should Half-Life 2?enterawesome

• The weak gunplay (even in 2004, it was pretty bad, IMO, when even Halo 1 felt better).
• Bad AI: I don't really need to explain this one. Anyone who's played it will tell you that it had bad AI.
• Story: It's good. Nothing amazing or mind blasting. Like TC said, the story itself wasn't that impressive at all, but it was the storytelling and presentation, which were spectacular.
• Vehicles: I don't know if it was just me, but the vehicle sections seemed a bit dull, other than some escape segments in Route Kanal.

Don't get me wrong, I love Half Life 2 and it's episodes. Episode 2 is the second best single player FPS I've played, the first being Bioshock. It's just that people give it so much praise (and yes, it deserves a lot of it) but it gets free passes on its issues and people who bring them up are hated on.

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]Terrible AI. There you go.Human-after-all

Most of the Half-Life games stories do suck, its mainly the way in which it is presented that is good.

negative opinion? No EP3... yet!!

Actually, I thought it was bad for its time. Halo had very good AI when it was released and I thought it was far better than Half Life 2's. SilverChimera

The vehicle sections were bad. That's my only big complaint with the game.

i have to agree, the story is nothing special. Plus, that one boat part of the game is wayyy too long. It should have been just taken out altogether or atleast shortened.

I hated the vehicle sequences in HL2. They were also so drawn out.

mr-krinkles

I have the Orange Boxx... And.. I can't stand to play it for more than an hour at a time. Its kinda lame :(

The gunplay is pretty weak, imo. But everything else about it is good.

DarkLink77

HL2 has one huge drawback: multiplayer. There is none. How sweet would it be to have Gravity Gun battles? Yeah, at the time it was probably too much for any decent rig to handle over a network, but I find that since it has no MP it really detracts from the value of the game. True, the older versions have CS, but that's a different game all on its own, so can't give HL2 the cred for it. The only other gripe I have with the game would also be praise, that it never truly feels like a shooter game but more like an adventure game, which I like and at the same time don't entirely. But that's being nitpicky, it's hard to really find any serious flaws with HL2.

HL2 has one huge drawback: multiplayer. There is none. How sweet would it be to have Gravity Gun battles? Yeah, at the time it was probably too much for any decent rig to handle over a network, but I find that since it has no MP it really detracts from the value of the game. True, the older versions have CS, but that's a different game all on its own, so can't give HL2 the cred for it. The only other gripe I have with the game would also be praise, that it never truly feels like a shooter game but more like an adventure game, which I like and at the same time don't entirely. But that's being nitpicky, it's hard to really find any serious flaws with HL2.

Basinboy

Half-Life 2 Deathmatch is free to anyone with a ATi or nVidia card. Just saying incase you wanted to know.

why limit yourself to one thing

heres a list of bad things i didnt like about hl2

- theres not enough weapons

-action is repetitive

-graphics are amazing, but some open world areas are bland

-story is nothing special, especially compared with hl1

-gordon freeman is quite possible the worst main character of all time, guy has no character, all i know is that hes some geek on the boxart

-lack of enemy diversity, for the first half of the game, you are shooting combines dressed in black, second half, you are shooting combine dressed in white

-gravity gun is overrated, i would much rather smash my opponent to death with a crowbar

- the helicopter boss battle in the water was rediculously stupid

thats all i can think if right now, this is not to say that hl2 is a bad game, but imo its insanely overrated.

Story is fine in HL2.... Episode Two however has an absolutely brilliant story. :D

why limit yourself to one thing

heres a list of bad things i didnt like about hl2

- theres not enough weapons

-action is repetitive

-graphics are amazing, but some open world areas are bland

-story is nothing special, especially compared with hl1

-gordon freeman is quite possible the worst main character of all time, guy has no character, all i know is that hes some geek on the boxart

-lack of enemy diversity, for the first half of the game, you are shooting combines dressed in black, second half, you are shooting combine dressed in white

-gravity gun is overrated, i would much rather smash my opponent to death with a crowbar

- the helicopter boss battle in the water was rediculously stupid

thats all i can think if right now, this is not to say that hl2 is a bad game, but imo its insanely overrated.

It doesn't make any sense, really, but the amazing thing about Half-Life's story isn't the story at all, it's the way the story is told. That seamless, no-break style was new to gaming with Half-Life. Half-Life created a new form of immersion by never breaking away, never reminding the player that they're the player; the fact that the game never breaks from the first-person perspective is still, to this day, a classic signature of the franchise.jalexbrown

The story is pretty good, but not like GTA IV or Final Fantasy VII great. Its the presentation that makes it so good, as well as the voice acting, key moments, and mystery.

SPYDER0416

The story is boring an fairly hard to fully understand without playing the first game

The gameplay isn't all that special.

The main character is one dimensional

Theres a chase scene that basically goes on for hours with nothing really coming of it

Horrible boat driving part.

I'm sure the HL2 fanboys will destroy me for this.

[QUOTE="brandontwb"]I think it's pretty cool actually. "Arrival into city. Wandering...wandering...wandering..blow of reactor...(hl2)...escape city 17 (episode one).... get to the lab (episode 2). Yes, I do simplify this a tad, but the story is really not much more deep" Sounds to me like you don't even know the basics. Gordon created a portal where interdimensional authoritative beings come out from and control earth. Being in a world where the combine are trying to get you and being defended by long time friends and people who know who you are. ImageChef

why limit yourself to one thing

heres a list of bad things i didnt like about hl2

- theres not enough weapons

-action is repetitive

-graphics are amazing, but some open world areas are bland

-story is nothing special, especially compared with hl1

-gordon freeman is quite possible the worst main character of all time, guy has no character, all i know is that hes some geek on the boxart

-lack of enemy diversity, for the first half of the game, you are shooting combines dressed in black, second half, you are shooting combine dressed in white

-gravity gun is overrated, i would much rather smash my opponent to death with a crowbar

- the helicopter boss battle in the water was rediculously stupid

thats all i can think if right now, this is not to say that hl2 is a bad game, but imo its insanely overrated.

Brian_Zoso

The story is boring an fairly hard to fully understand without playing the first game- hard to understand at first yes, but boring, a bit

The gameplay isn't all that special. -the weapons weren't very varied as they only had two functions but the variety was epic for me

The main character is one dimensional - valve said gordon freeman didn't talk because if he did it would ruin the immersion

Theres a chase scene that basically goes on for hours with nothing really coming of it- kinda agree, although it was very nice for my eyes

Horrible boat driving part. - kinda agree too

I'm sure the HL2 fanboys will destroy me for this.

Well most games theses days don't have that good of a story anyway, though presentation is top notch for some.

It's not HL3.

Driving sequenses were boring, really boring.

Gunplay could be better, havent really evolved (except for gravgun)

Story isnt going anywhere, just tell us who Gman really is etc. stop milking us with episodes. Just finish the saga already!

remeber this game came out back in 2004... so obviously it will age gracefully. The fact that maxed out it still holds its own above the best current Gen console titles. The gun play was great at the time compared to farcry and halo (only games i really played) oh UT2004 but that feels completely different :P. The story to me was more about you doing something than actually being the story. I think it imeresed you more when it wasnt you really playing as the character you were some what more the character.

Oh also Fallout 3 was boring as ****. Obvlion was loads better for the fact that the combat system worked for it back then but fallouts shooting was terrible, VATS sort of helped it making it more interesting but the same was just incredibly dull and long winded.