the only thing that annoyed me with HL2 is that there`s Earth gutted and the population reduced to almost nothing apparently partialy as a consequence of the Black Mesa incident, and everyone goes around saying "hey! your Gordon Freeman arn`t you...gosh! can I have your autograph? touch you? kiss your feet?"
WHY?, even the soldiers in the original HL thought Freeman was a saboture, the scientists thought the anomalous materials lab had messed up, the surviving security guards wanted to "get their hands on the person who caused this mess" etc, so the survivors of the human race should have heard it was all Gordons fault from the people who survived Black Mesa (hey! he messed up the sample insertion), they should be wanting to rip his sodding head off, he at least partialy destroyed the Earth all on his own, (at least thats the official viewpoint)
so why does every one run around like he`s their long lost boyfriend come to save em?, last time he was let loose he screwed up the planet, was partialy to blame for an alien invasion, not to mention headcrabs, sticky tongues and bullsquids being everywhere, Black Mesa being destroyed (as far as anyone knows), and from what the G-man says at the start, he was partialy to blame for the Combine taking an interest in Earth, I mean, Gee! thanks Gordon!, your a pal!
If I was a survivor and realised who he was I would have redesigned his head with a pipe or phoned the nearest CP unit and told em where he was, pushed him into a pit of headcrabs or ANYTHING before he destroyed the rest of the planet, I mean, look at the ending of HL2, NOW it looks like he just went and Nuked City 17 and its survivors with the Citadels dark fusion reactor just to stop one old loone "escaping", not to mention killing Elie Vance, his daughter and the rest of the resistance, he shouldn`t be let out without a keeper
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other than that, HL2 was ok, but the makers of steam will hopefully die in extreme pain over a long period of time
I have played Halo, but it suffered from sameyness and repeated maps, from reading descriptions of Halo2 (where you seem to keep being a Covenant or Masterchief alternatly) just the concept sucks! totaly!, I would never want to play as Covenant, it screws the continuity, like you where suddenly playing as Cortana or something, WHY!??, WHY would you want to play any sort of Covenant?, thats just a simple hack to make the game look different and add some extra weapons at no extra cost imo, lame tatic, by all accounts the GFX where no better in Halo2 so I plump for HL2, despite that never to be sufficiently dammed steam system.
Windows: 32 bit extension/graphical shell for a 16bit patch to an 8bit OS originally coded for a 4bit CPU, written by a 2bit company that can't stand 1bit of competition, now available in 64bits.
