Emotional reaction to the end of Ep 2 (Spoilers)

Sum people here just don't like you at all I guess.

How foolish of them :rolleyes:
 
If you didn't feel emotionally impacted by at least ONE scene in all four games (or any of the expansions), you are not a true Half Life fan.
 
Must say, my initial reaction was to laugh. I soon decided to stop though, thinking about the connotations of his death.
 
I was expecting it because I was told about it a while ago, but it still was quite sad the way all the sudden Eli's head just flopped and you really felt for Alyx at that moment, but the first time I was watching that scene the game crashed for some reason and I had to watch the first bit of it again.
Heh, it's like the game didn't like what was happening and didn't want to see anymore so it went boom.
It did make me feel quite sad.
 
I found it quite traumatizing.

The ending gave a very devastating and bleak ending, but not so much somber. For me it was a shock, and perhaps I was too caught up in the story revelations and subsequently was lulled into a false sense of security; that for once everything was fine and I'd embark upon a helicopter and the credits would roll. His death basically sent you hurtling back into the world of ultra-violence that I felt was most pronounced in the original Half Life 2, where human lives were oppressed genocidal playtoys. I felt Episode One and Two sort of dumbed down the despair felt so deeply in Half Life 2.

And yeah, I may have welled up a bit :(
 
Some time before Episode 2's release we all new that someone was oging to die. Playing through it for the first time I had completely ignored that fact and after reaching the final minutes of the game it came to mind; "Wait, shit. Someone was supposed to die." When it finally sunk in that someone was going to bite the bullet I became sort of reluctant to continue. When it finally happened I didn't have a feeling of surprise, sadness or anger. It left me feeling really, really shocked and awestruck. One of the most charismatic and all around good characters in the game had just been offed. Someone that over time I developed a strong attachment to after replaying Half-Life 2 and reading up on their history in Raising The Bar, something I don't normally do. This was a character whom I thought would be untouchable. That's the general feeling Half-Life 2 gave me that characters wouldn't just die off despite how bleak and violent the world around them was. It was a real kick to the gut.

For a while after that I wasn't able to look at any games in the Half-Life 2 arc the same way again. That was my emotional reaction.










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I already knew that it was going to happen (damn you HL.net!!!) but still I was quite shocked because it happend so suddenly.
 
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