This was a complete waste of time, not only that this was the sign that Valve just didn’t give a shit anymore. What do you think of the Half Life 2 episodes?
I think episode one is coolAnd episode two is still the best sp fps of all time howeverbeit
>>730631970Dogshit, and why we didn’t get a finished third game. Episodic shit has always been cancerous
They’re alright but don’t really add much new
I loved them, but the last time I played them was nearly 20 years ago now so I'm not sure how they hold up.
Ep1 is just filler with nothing new. Ep2 is actually fun with great level design and the Hunters are a good addition.
>>730631970it was mid but worth playing through to get to episode 2. episode 2 fucks.
>>730632305Yeah. They kinda wrote themselves into a wall with Episode 2’s ending. Kind why they changed it in Half Life Alyx.
That back and forth escort section in 1 near the end was something you'd expect from low budget games.
>>730631970I love Ep1 because now I can just play it and have a Krystal gf by my side the entire time
>>7306382391 felt really low budget
>>730631970It had that cool fight when waiting for an elevator and an awesome soldier+zombie shootout in a hospital I think
>>730638680>and an awesome soldier+zombie shootout in a hospital I thinkAlyx grabs a shotgun and you and she shotgun your way through that hospital. My game glitched out after that and she never ditched the shotgun after that segment was complete, so she kept it to the end of the game.
>>730631970I've literally replayed this recently and all I can remember is Kleiner's "have sex" speech and the dark underground areas with zombies. Everything else is very forgettable. Episode 2 is way, way, better, but really they should have just made HL3 instead
Bought Orange Box, quit somewhere near the end of Episode 1 because I was trying the "shoot only one bullet" achievement.
I think hl2 is mid, ep1 is dogshit and ep2 is actually very good but never delivers because of the god awful cliffhanger fuckyou ending.
I thought Episode 2 was pretty fun. At the time, it added flashlight shadows, and I thought that was really neat. Episode 1, eh. Valve said "We have to make sure the players like Alyx. If you don't like Alyx, you're not going to like Episode 1." Well, I don't like Alyx.
>>730640017For me it was the ever-increasing focus on the Gravity Gun. Yes, I get it, you made a cool physics engine and want us to play around with it. My early adolescence was spent with Gmod 9 and 10, I know all about it. But replaying it now I just want to blast Combine with my AR2, but Episode 1 has the Super Gravity Gun, the "antlions in City 17" segment that you have to plug holes up with, more hoppers, Zombines that try to kamikaze you, and the notorious One Free Bullet achievement.Then Episode 2 has new explosives, Hunters (which are only weak to impact and disintegration damage and resistant to bullets and explosives), and Magnusson Devices and a Strider gauntlet that requires extensive use of them. I just got annoyed with the Gravity Gun by then.
>>730631970Don't know, I played a couple hours and got bored. From a gameplay perspective, I just prefer HL1 so much more. HL2 wasn't nearly as fun, but I'm a zoomer so what do I know.
