HL2 vs. Videos (where is all the stuff)?

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Hi everybody!

I have finished HL2 and was wondering where all the good stuff is that Valve has shown us in some of their various videos they released? Anyone remember the videos....?

Like for example:

1. Where this blue tentacle thing that grabs Alyx (the pic is still on half-life2.com)?

2. In one video you run though (obviously Ravenholm) and encounter some Combine. So you get into a building (which is actually in the game and you can enter but there is nothing special) and you block the door with a table and hide behind a washing machine because the soldiers shoot through the windows. Suddenly one of the Combine kicks in the door (all the stuff is flying through the room) and you have to get into one of the top floors.

3. Again in Ravenholm you are on a roof and Freeman throws a grenade under a small roof which then collapses and falls down on some zombies. Oh and then you can shoot at a cable and a giant steel beam swings down and kills some more enemies.

4. Okay so you are in the lab with Alyx and the Doc. Suddenly Alyx says something like "they found us" and Freeman should hurry and in that moment a wall explodes and you can see a strider shooting into the lab...

5. Again you are fighting against a strider in the streets and he uses his enegry beam to destroy part of a hotel. Then Freeman can shoot the huge H.O.T.E.L. letters with his gravity gun...

6. Freeman is in the prison and uses the pheromone to send the ant lions into combat. In one particular room (which you actually have to go through) the ant lions enter through one of the roof windows and after the fight one of the big ant lions comes running towards you...

These are only some of many examples. Am I missing something or did Valve really take these scenes out of the game (very disappointing...)?

Bye!
Josh
 
many of the things in the videos from E3 etc has been cut form the game...this must be the 200th thread about this!
 
It would've been pretty boring playing those areas if you already knew what was going to happen...
 
StardogChampion said:
It would've been pretty boring playing those areas if you already knew what was going to happen...

All the e3 2004 videos were there. And there you knew what to do.
 
Not in my game - lol. Well seriously this didn't happen and I tried everything to see if they would jump through the roof window...!?
 
1. Cut
2. dunno, not that far
3. Dunno, not that far
4. Proof of concept
5. Proof of concept I believe
6. In the game as far as I know, just not that far yet...
 
I don't think that the game would be boring if you play the scenes which have been in the videos. Second it's funny because most of the stuff from the Ravenholm video made it into the game - why did they exclude the combine soldiers and this particular cool trap? The whole level was (compared to others) because of only zombies as enemies quite boring. And again most of the other traps and scenes of the videos where in the game - so the argument it's boring to play parts already shown doesn't count in that case.

By the way, I love the storytelling of HL2, but I am especially disappointed that number 4 (see above) has been taken out, because this scene looked so scary and thrilling.

So don't get me wrong, I am maybe the biggest fan of HL2 (seriously), but I am not a fanboy and see things in a realistic perspective and it's so sad to hear that these things have been taken out...
 
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