Hmm, didn't somone E-mail a Valve member and they said they would be adding the crowbar? I'm pretty sure I saw that E-mail on this forum or another if it wasn't a fake.
Anyway, tripmines are the one weapon that I would like to see, tripmines were in HL2, just you couldn't use them.
The...
Honestly, what a stupid topic.
Everything is ripped off everything else, you could make thousands of connections of one thing being 'ripped off' another.
It took me about 16 hours, that's a lot longer than most FPS's take me, and for the most part new things kept getting thrown at you, which kept it exciting.
Well, I only had one problem with the game, I didn't particually mind the lack of weapons (though I would have loved a few tripmines) but what really bothered me was the lack on enemies.
What happened to enemies like the Garg, the hydra, the assassins, the four legged thing with the nut...
Personally, I thought it was a great story, the ending was totally unexpected, there is a lot of unanswered questions, but I'm really, really looking forward to HL3 now.
Few of my thoughts (spoilers)
Plenty of depth from my point of view, Valve seem to know where they are going with...
It's funny that he says it has a dissapointing story, since every over review I have read says the story is great.
I'm going to assume too many console games make people lose the ability to understand a story.