Ending of HL2

[L.S.D]

I just finish the game yesterday. I played the game on Normal difficulty.

Is the ending lame or what?!?

I can't believe it! Grrrr!!!!!

Edited December 15, 2004 by alexis

[Agozer]

Thanks for ruining it for me. Lol, j/k i already knew even though I haven't finished the game. But don't you dare reveal anything else or I'll strangle you.

Edited December 15, 2004 by Agozer

[L.S.D]

I am so annoyed that I have to post it!

An anticlimax

[alexis]

yeah thank for ruining for me too dude arghhh >=(, your topic has been edited so you don´t spoil it to anyone else

[Gryph]

Well from a gamer's perpespecive it can be seen as a lame ending but from a story telling and writers perpesctive it's a great cliffhanger. But yeah, it was weird.

[Madi]

i bet you halo 2s ending was worse! run sarcasam.exe ! " im gonna finish this fight" - BEST ENDIN EVERRRRRRR3!!!!!!111 - end sarcasam.exe

[Wizard]

Storyline wise, yes the ending was good (dispite my absoluate hate of it's poor continuity). But gaming wise, WHAT THE FRIKING HELL. As for Halo 2's. It sucked.

[Jaegermeister]

I hope the game ends not so quickly like Deus Ex 2.

[Agozer]

I hope the game ends not so quickly like Deus Ex 2. 

No, the game is quite long actually, if you take your time and don't try to speedrun through it.

[Wizard]

About 14-18 hours long depending how you play it. Speed running it is 3 hours >_>.

[Gryph]

It took me about 18-19 hours to beat. I'm playing through again with all weapons and god mode.

[Jaegermeister]

I hope the game ends not so quickly like Deus Ex 2. 

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No, the game is quite long actually, if you take your time and don't try to speedrun through it.

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Aktually I play Doom 3 , I play single-player game like these most only once time in a week , for 2 till 3 hours. *Fridays

I dont like it to pay 80 euros and more for a game that will be ends after playing 15 hours. ( Normal Difficulty). Deus Ex 1 , I needed ca. 40 hours , Deus Ex 2 was finished after 21 hours.

I play new games "extra slow" , so I have longer time fun with it.

Ok , I will buy HL2 in 2 - 3 weeks.

 

ps : Deus Ex 1 , I played 4 times till end , last times faster...(love this game) and I play only one game in Multiplayer modus , thats the good old "Soldier of Fortune 1 "from the year 2000.

[OverlordMondo]

You can get through it ini under an hour on a speed run. It was pretty awesome watching it actually, I'll post it or something once I acquire it.

[Wizard]

The speed run record is 2 hours and 55 minutes.

[Daeval]

Somebody shoulda put SPOILER!!!! or something in the subject.. Even though there weren't really any.. but this might be, so..

 

 

***SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!*****************

 

 

 

The ending was OK from a storytelling point of view, but not great. A great ending would have wrapped SOMETHING up, but still left the cliffhanger. This was just a deus ex machina of the worst kind. By the end of the game, you didn't know a single thing more than you did half an hour into the game. That is, unless it wasn't obvious that you'd be defeating the oppressive regime in some sense. You don't ever really find out how succesful you were. For an 18 hour story, that's not storytelling to brag about.

 

I get a kick out of the g-man thing, but at this rate, we'd need as many games as there were episodes in the x-files tv series to learn a damn thing about him/you. As it is, he's basically a cheap, but kind of cool, excuse to put you in whatever situation valve comes up with.