Recent content by DrAbysmal

They could have the chopper make an emergency landing somewhere and maybe include a The Thing-style spooky arctic base, where you have to scrounge around for something to get the chopper running again or a snowmobile or something, running into some creepy crawlies along the way (snow antlions...

The story with workers seems to be that they dwell exclusively in the nests, thus we haven't seen them until now. They only surface near the end of the area because you have stolen the extract and they're very angry about it (much like how the guardian, who normally protects the eggs, decides to...

It would also seem to me that the advisor's telekinesis would allow it to avoid projectile attacks... if you fire a rocket at it, it's not going to just float there and get hit, it's going to grab it and throw it back or deflect it. Probably the same with bullets too. There has to be a way to...

- Enough with the antlions already. Are they really the only Xen species besides headcrabs and barnacles (and the one ichthyosaur) to still exist on Earth? It sure seems like it... not even the inclusion of the bullsquid-like Worker could freshen up their section of the game. Zombie sections...

Personally, I rarely used the SMG at all in Episode 2 - if anything I used the attached grenade launcher more. The same with the magnum, I didn't really bother with it for the most part. Another thing that I thought was a little silly is that you find the RPG in one of the hidden radar caches...

I tend to believe that the advisors, peeved that the Striders failed to prevent the rocket launch, came intending to kill everyone and only Dog's intervention stopped them. One thing I thought was interesting though is how the advisor originally only pins Gordon and Alyx to the wall and leaves...

Gordon doesn't need a voice really, the supporting characters are well built enough that when something happens with them, the emotions that Gordon would logically feel are the ones that we ourselves should feel. At this point having Gordon talk would be a little tacked on and I don't think...

Rebel in the forest during the final battle: "One time, back in the city, I saw a guy take out a Hunter with his bare fists!"

I know the snipers do if you throw a grenade into the window they're in.

On the subject of achievements, I was ripped off on the "Pedal to the Metal" one, I beat Dog in the race to White Forest hands down and got nothing. Has this happened to anyone else?

That car looks pretty fugly to me, but maybe that's the point, and it is just a concept. These Hunter critters sound interesting, but from the looks of it, they might be the only "new" enemy in the episode, which would sort of suck. But it's still early yet. I really hope there isn't a...

Some new critters. Not necessarily old Xen friends (although bullsquids would be nice), but I think a break from zombies would be nice. I'd say from antlions too, but the trailer pretty much shoots that down immediately. No constant sidekick. That was done in Episode 1, and while I'll be glad...

Above average. A few parts got on my nerves (antlion garage, escorting citizens, using the dark energy balls got a little old after a while, too), but otherwise I really enjoyed it and I'm not disappointed in dropping 18 bucks for it at all. The length was not an issue for me, it went about four...

You can see that normally in the game by looking through a pair of binoculars. It pans the area, so you see G-Man and Odessa talking, and then when it pans back, you see G-Man walking away. I don't remember exactly where the binoculars are, though. I think there's a bug involved with this, where...

It's an ancient secret going back to HL2, you can noclip to a lot of places you're never supposed to be able to walk around in, even the area where the Breencasts originate from. All of HL2's "cutscenes" take place in the engine, so they're always on the map itself, usually just really high in...