I disagree completely. HL2 is the greatest game ever made. The story is amazing - just take a look on the Steampowered forums and you will see HUNDREDS of discussions about the story. They have found a perfect balance of giving you information and keeping you guessing.
The characters are some of the most lively and interesting in any video game. I really have no idea how you thought they were simply "questgivers" when the information they provide about the story, the wonderful writing, and great voice acting make them so memorable and important.
I think what we have here is a case of CODitis. You can't pay attention for more than a few minutes at a time and call the game boring because you aren't patient (really, the game only takes about 10-12 hours to beat and there weren't any parts that didn't provide some kind information towards the story if you actually paid attention, it isn't like your grinding for hours and hours and hours). If you just want to look at the pretty colors on your TV and see big explosions then play most other FPS games. HL obviously isn't for you. The reason you think the game is "dull" is because you aren't THINKING about it, you are PLAYING it as if it were any other game. Instead of going into a room and just viewing it as a room you need to look at the machines and parts scattered around and consider what they were used for before you came. If you just run by everything without thinking about it then yeah, it will be dull, but if you actually paid attention you might realize how great the setting and story are.
Also, the gameplay is great even now. I play through it a couple times every year.
hoola
Yep, that sounds incredibly boring to me. Doesn't sound like it's well designed if you can only appreciate it by imagining what random machines did in the past. I'm playing Resistance atm (brilliant game actually), I suppose I can stare at the walls and imagine what they looked like 20 years ago. 
Log in to comment