So, what is it that sucks about HL2?

[A user named cat]

I think it's quite possible that HL2 is more overrated than Oblivion. Both shit games and both crowned kings of their genres by dipshits. I don't know which one is more boring and unplayable without mods.

 

[Kaiserin]

Apart from steam, one thing really pisses me off in HL2 - arcadization.
It manifests in many things, among them are pattern-attacking bosses dropping glowy, beepy mines and relative harmlesness of APC fired rockets - HL1, while by no means realistic, at least had decency of turning Gordon into a freasy spot after he intercepted a rocked with his spectacled face.

I think that the game is a bit too short, a bit too linear, and ultimately feels too easy, even on the harder difficulties. By and large though, I find it to be one of the better and more memorable games released in the past decade.

It's a superb game.

I personally enjoyed HL1 more than HL2.

HL2's biggest failing was as a sequel to HL1

 

[racofer]

I think it's quite possible that HL2 is more overrated than Oblivion. Both shit games and both crowned kings of their genres by dipshits. I don't know which one is more boring and unplayable without mods.

Eh... and what genre would that be on Oblivion's case?

 

[Satori (original)]

WRPG

 

[A user named cat]

Yes, RPG obviously. Of course we can say it's an action adventure game. But I meant according to gaming media and its followers, you know... the ones who did the crowning.

 

[racofer]

Ok, just asking to clarify. It falls under no genre on these parts.

 

[DraQ]

I almost forgot:

Vortigaunts.
It's cool to have them as allies.
It's cool to see them performing awesome and unexplainable feats, or beat antlions HtH.
It's extremely uncool to have their alien-ness replaces by the essence of Yoda.

They should have made them as alien as they were in HL1, up to and including communication by clicking and whirring noises - give them translator widgets translating their whirrs into crude and impersonal English if necessary - that would make them understandable, but could even amplify they alien-ness.

 

[MLMarkland]

Shortly after HL2 came out, I was boating until I got stuck. I got off the boat, went forward, killed a bunch of soldiers, then I started being chased by a helicopter.

I spent hours upon hours being chased and killed by that FUCKING HELICOPTER, trying everything I could think of.

Then I read a walk-through which said that I should've never left the boat. So I attempt to go back to the previous level where I left the boat but its no longer there.

Haven't touched the game since.

Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program.