A little rant about HL2

[puppy]

Be assured, I loved the game.

But I'd like to point out some annoying facts.

-god mode.
Are Barney and/or Alyx playing on God mode?

When the fight for the generator, the combines mow the entire resistance fighters that do cover Alyx. But she just plays with the buttons, not even bothered by the gun wounds.

Later, you and Barney and eventually a couple squad members are running through the Suppressors. Squd gets decimated, Barney stands still, gets hit by the suppressors 4-5 times and keep saying "watchout Gordon" "we got to get there gordon"

Who's driving?
Ok, I'm either on the airboat or the buggy, I'm going full speed and there's a curve ahead but I see no hands on the wheel.... how's that?

Snipers vs squad
I'm making my way thru Zombies and snipers, I have 4 squad members, we are inside that building and they obviously notice that there is a sniper because they yell "snipers" but they stand there waiting the headshot they deserve. duh!

squad vs doors
I need to run for cover time to reload. Why the *&%@ does the squad members have to be in the door?

I feel a little better now.

 

[we11er]

They can't really make Barney/Alyx mortal because it would make things too difficult. The AI isn't really up to scratch for them to stay alive.

No hands has been discussed a thousand times. Do a search!

Snipers... lol yeah I had the same thing - stupid npcs.

I didn't have much of a prob with squad members getting in the way actually, though I can see why it would annoy people.

 

[puppy]

oops. bad edit

 

[puppy]

No hands has been discussed a thousand times. Do a search!

Obviously, but I felt like putting all that was bugging my little self in one place. it's not like I did a post dedicated to hand models.

 

[jacen]

They can't really make Barney/Alyx mortal because it would make things too difficult. The AI isn't really up to scratch for them to stay alive.

at least barney isnt immortal
i played on hard and got him killed after i disabled the 3rd generator.
the game just ends like you have drove the buggy off a cliff.

 

[puppy]

like this? :

 

[kzi-]

yeh a few irritating bugs and ai performance. I have to agree.
then check this out, how my antlions are trying to rape the ship.
to bee noticed is that the antlions dont leave it alone and the damn thing wont explode, even though I'm nading it and trying to smash it apart with my crowbar (yes I have actually been standing on the ship trying to break it apart).
the thing is that ship wont get airborn until I blow my own antlions into bits with some nades irritating and funny at the same :monkee:

 

[burnzie]

http://www.actiontrip.com/rei/comic.phtml

This comes to mind...

 

[GiaOmerta]

http://www.actiontrip.com/rei/comic.phtml

This comes to mind...

LOL

Yup.

By the way, Alyx and Barney can die.

 

[Blublu]

I think the lack of hands is for the same reason that you don't see your body when you look straight down. If they did hands for the airboat they'd have to do the whole body, too. Because since you have a free look in the airboat (and the buggy) you could follow one hand up to the "shoulder" and ... well, I think you see what I mean.

 

[OJS]

I had alex die when i had a bug situation where alex spawned at the change of a map

she was killed (by my own turrets) after about half an hour of shooting at her

her body was full of holes

 

[ukfluke]

well alyx was mortal in the stolen build U would fail the mission if she took too many hits & died. They must of changed it for gameplay reasons...

 

[Thruster1]

Yeah - Alyx is definately mortal - she died will trying to open a gate in the plaza there - about 6 Combine blasting away at her while I was hiding behind the wall

 

[Draculas_Guest]

One very minor quibble I had was the lack of ability to 'interact' with Barney and Alyx.

In the original game, if you were to walk up to Barney and press the 'use' key, you'd get one of his typical comments (Why not, I didnt wanna die alone anyway. Roger that lets run like hell!). Even though it was limited, it gave the illusion that the two of you could co-operate with each other. i.e. in very dangerous situations, I'd sometimes get him to stay behind while I cleared out some of the bigger enemies so he wouldnt get killed, then go back and get him to tag along and cover me while I flipped switches and valves and things.

In HL2, you're able to do it with squad members, but if you try it with Barney, all you get is a blank face. I figure its because he's a main character now and has a larger amount of scripted dialogue that it was decided somewhere along the way to leave the feature out.
On the whole, I love Barney's role in HL2 as he had much more relevance to what was happening, but the lack of interaction is a shame because there isnt as much spontaneity. Barney seems disconnected in a sense because he stands there silently waiting for the next bit of script to come along.

 

[Gafnab]

I had a bug where on the bridge i got stuck under some metal I beams and just died nothing happend like getting shot or blown up i just died

 

[puppy]

I just tought of something else.

There's no fat people in the game.
not a single obese. well except 2 or 3 aliens you see in Citadel and perhaps "a benefactor" we get to see.

But no Combine and/or citizen and/or squad members.
Not even a fat Zombie. Even father grigory is just slightly large.

Oh and yeah!
All the people that where zombified by headcrabs wear blue jeans and a white shirt, all poison zombies are bald.

 

[Digital_Junkie]

I doubt there would be fat people in a society where food is "rationed". I doubt zombies would be fat either, they all looked pretty hungry to me.

And the zombies all had blue jeans and a white shirt because the headcrabs all had a meeting and decided that, as zombies, they would be working as a team and as such should dress like one.