Half-Life Episode 2 (Contains spoilers!)

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Man, can't wait!

yeah there's even an achievement if you can smuggle the gnome into the rocket.

i thought ep 2 as a whole very entertaining, more so than portal (though i really liked the last parts of portal). took me about 6 hours to complete aswell, but that's what you can expect from episodic content. the story is really well told, more so than ep1 anyhow. i really loved the scenery and especially *spoiler?* the mountain houses down the snake path */spoiler*.

without going int more detail, i am very satisfied with this purchase, and really looking forward to ep3 (which will probably take another year and a half). also, with some of the references to aperture science, i could see ep3 converging with a sequel for portal.

good thing I have retarded resolution or I wouldn't be able to see your massive image

I believe he meant the huge resolution image you posted on you'r thread, 1600x is a huge image to post on forums...

not really, if you want to show detail. Get a bigger screen

One screen that big isn't a problem, it's when there's masses of them posted...

Anyway, I wont bother with this yet, going to wait untill all three episodes are done and then buy them as a trilogy.

I read at Interlopers that the German version of the game is censured

You don't see any blood when you shot the combine and the bodies disappear right after you kill them...

I don't have any censoring but on the other hand I've not bought my obox the "normal way"...

That's said enough on that topic - I've just finished it and it is pure awesome! The ending is so tragical and the new g-man revealings o_O

I think it was great, definitely much better than ep1. Havn't tried portals yet. think i may do that now

Just keep the spoilers the fuck outta this thread, plz!!

Just finished it, took about 5 / 6 hours solid play. Sad ending.

ah... shit.. erm, could you edit the thread name to, like "spoiler warning", or somethin'?! pretty, pretty please?

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Cons:

-I have no idea what is going on. I played Half-Life 1, and Episode 1. Still, I didn't know where we were going to, what the hell is White Mountain? Who is the new doctor guy who appeared from nowhere? Why are we launching a rocket? The plot seemed very skippy over alot of details.

-Hunters are such bullshit to kill.

-All somewhat predictable. By that I mean nothing ever comes simple. You get in an elevator, and you know it's going to break or crash. It's easy to predict what outcome will happen.

lol if you only played those then it's not valve at fault for not providing all the information. Everything is there to be understood, you've just missed sections of it, or missed people talking which provided answers.

Magnus, the doctor fellow was at Black Mesa and was competing with his own team, directly against Kleiner and his team. Remember the microwave you blow up in Half-Life 1? That was his casserole inside that you waxed.

White Mountain is the location of the rebel base, lol star wars. It's a Missile Silo where all the eggheads are prepping a rocket to launch and close the combine super portal that the Citadel opened.

Seriously man, listen next time.

I love the Kliener dialog about Apature Science and their lack of safety

I'm just annoyed that we've got to wait for up to a year now for Episode 3. I want more man, I need my fix!

The game is awesome, the entire orange box is awesome, very impressed so far