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"Chadwick" <chadwick110@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> McGrandpa wrote:
>> "Chadwick" <chadwick110@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1110447333.175907.217770@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com
>>> HL2's got some great set pieces and sections, such as Ravenholm, the
>>> buggy turning upside down, the gunship fight on the highway, the
>>> magnet, the dam, the strider/camera combination or the warehouse
>>> with the moving-suspended-platform. But it doesn't hang together as
>>> well as HL1 did. Sometimes it felt like there were several games
>>> all stuck together. Eg. The Bug Bait is a one-off section,
>>> Ravenholm is a little sub-game, the airboat and the buggy are
>>> driving games chucked in there. All very good in their own right,
>>> but a little disjointed?
>>
>> Well, not really disjointed at all. Different scenery to be sure.
>> Just like you'd see driving from Houston to Galveston (58 miles).
>> Same sorts of people, but some of the critters differ for the
>> terrain it seems. I'd say it all fit. I really enjoyed Ravenholm.
>> It reminded me of the HL1 mod They Hunger a lot. I also enjoyed
>> everything with the ant lions. En toto, the game made for quite a
>> ride I just had a hard time walking away from!
>> McG.
>
> My gripe is that HL1 seemed more like one long game than HL2 does.
> There are sections in HL2 which exist almost as discreet entities by
> themselves. For example, there is the airboat section, the buggy
> section, the antlion section, the zombie section (Ravenholm), the
> supergrav-gun section, the squad section. They almost exist in their
> own right as subgames. (As you say, Ravenholm reminds you of They
> Hunger, rather than HL. But you can't say the same about the rest of
> the game).
>
> In HL1 the monsters were generally always present (with the exception
> of the end bosses), not restricted to specific areas. Also the weapons
> worked everywhere, unlike the Bug-Bait. There were some parts of HL1
> where a specific monster type was used, but they were generally
> smaller areas and a single battle (eg. the ninja women).
>
> Yes, the different sections have been well stitched together (except
> entering Ravenholm) and perhaps it is more true to life to have
> different species in different habitats, but does it work as well for
> a game as it does for real life?
>
> Perhaps I am also comparing Far Cry, where vehicles form an intrinsic
> part of the game but are available throughout, not just for specific
> levels.
I felt HL1 definitely had it's 'sections' too. Some weren't quite as
clearly differentiated as in HL2. But Xan was
Thing is, in HL1 you
never really got out of Black Mesa premises until going to Xan. But
I see your point about the divisions in HL2. Makes it seem like it's
some 4 different gametypes. We should have had things where use of the
vehicles could overlap. And why aren't we advanced enough to go from
one end of the game world to the other at will? You can't do it though.
McG.
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