Ok, I just finished the Air Boat sequence... absolutely incredible. It was 10 million times better then any vehicle sequences I've played so far in Halo 2.
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Ok, I just finished the Air Boat sequence... absolutely incredible. It was 10 million times better then any vehicle sequences I've played so far in Halo 2.
I've stopped comparing the two, because there really is no point. I'm trying to just enjoy them both.
HL2 is one of the few games I have gone into with high expectations that has surpassed those expectations and made me its bitch.
Actually, this is the one area of the game I didn't enjoy much. It just went on forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
Oh, it was huge, but it was fast and exciting the whole time.Quote:
Originally Posted by sethsez
i just caved and opened mine. prima did a great job. highly recommended.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
I didnt get too much playing in last night, but I'm halfway through anticitizen one, the last levels are incredible
Argh, I didn't get to play last night, had to work late. Still chillin' with Father Grigori.
Really, though, I don't see the Gamespot story complaints yet. What is wrong with the story during the first few chapters? You get teleported onto the train by the G Man ("I didn't see you get on..."), then shit goes down, your ass gets saved and busters get dropped.
here's an excerpt about hl1's development, by Ted Backman:
"I remember early on when Gabe had worked out what genre he wanted to do and asked me to recommend a concept artist. I remembered my friend's little 12-year-old skater punk brother who used to draw. I had always liked his work, it was really nice classical stuff, and I heard he had just graduated from the University of Washington art department. So Gabe called him and asked him to do a couple of sketches of possible monsters.
He came in, looking nothing like how I remembered him - he was no longer a little kid; he's now 6'2", all tattooed up, with various metal bits poking out of his body. He then openes up his portfolio and starts showing drawings of these really disturbing and unsettling looking creatures, not at all what I was expecting. They looked like deformed alien genitalia, except for this one that looked like a Cthulhuesque dog that had a fairly obvious phallus, and it looked like it was about to mount something. I'm thinking, 'Oh god, what have I done, this guy's a freak.'
Then in a very straightforward way Gabe asks, 'So, ahh, what's this underneath the monster, Mr. Friendly?' There's a bit of pause, then Ted comes back with 'That's his penis.' There's a longer pause, then Gabe says, 'Uh huh.'
I'm sitting there really starting to squirm but have no idea how to stop this train wreck. I'm just about to blurt out something and change the subject when Ted pipes up with, 'Well, I was thinking, what's scary to our target audience? A lot of them are 14-year-old boys, they've seen all the big brutish monsters with guns for hands already - that won't really do it - so I'm thinking what actual fears do they really have? So I decided to go with something that elicits a homophobic response.'
He then starts into a long detailed talk about how Mr. Friendly lurches about in a permanent reptilian sexual display, grabbing the player with these long tentacled arms, and pulling them toward itself until the point of fatal copulation.
After he finishes up, there's another long pause as Gabe continues to stare at the image. Gabe then looks up at Ted and says, 'Excellent, that's exactly what I'm looking for.' He and Ted then get into this excited conversation about possible psycho-sexual alien behaviors and clinical descriptions of disturbed adolescent sexual fantasies and I sit back, sort of stunned, looking back and forth between the two of them thinking, 'Oh my god, what have I done.'
From that point on, I didn't know where it was going to go, but I knew I didn't want to miss it. For me, that was the first day of Valve."
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Originally Posted by epmode
Why did you just spoil the end-boss for HL2?
:)
Fuck Valve.
I'm in Ravenholm.
Spiders scare me. Spiderlike things scare me. Valve can eat my ass for introducing these new headcrabs.