I love the end of Episode One. I found it to be very satisfying. You actually get to save some people, after all the time you spend wandering around watching the precious remnants of humanity get mown down by Striders.
The industrial age has been squashed. So much has been lost that humanity will never recover. We used up all the easy resources prior to the invasion, and the Combine have directly and indirectly seen to the leveling of our infrastructure. We can't pick coal, oil, and gold off the ground. The...
Yeah, the fools. They are supposed to post a new thread, and then get told to search for the thread that you didn't want them to bump.
Wait...what have I done?
Rolling with it. Steam is alright, even if it is just another government conspiracy to get me to pay taxes. You think you're...
Don't mock Shepherd. The man is a public servant. Do you talk about your mailmen like this? What if they had guns that grabbed people and ate them? Yeah, that's what I thought.
The Combine won't retreat, they are cut off.
Furthermore, how do you think these evil weasels conquered the Earth so quickly? They probably have city-sized synthetic spiders and dozens of moon-sized...pufferfish...synths. You'd better hope another portal doesn't get opened.
I was being sarcastic. I know perfectly well that most of us are too soft to survive.
Civil Protection is far too optimistic a fate for me. I'll be happy to make it through this with all my parts.
I am confident that ten years of random, obscene brutality, "surpression," and standing in line to consume the reprocessed organs of the dead will bring out the best in all these people.