[floppydisk]

The storyline for half-life doesn't make much sense. Aliens from another dimension, okay. Evil head of the breakthrough scientific project, okay. Guy with a suitcase that dissapears and doesn't get hurt when you shoot him, not okay.

The best theory I can come up with is that this is a matrix-like reality built to test Gordon's abilities (who is really a super-soldier, or some other nonsense like that).

Anyone else have an idea about it's story?

[BiggSpiffy]

well i havent really played it, but it seems like just another, aliens-invade-earth-so-kill-them first person shooterr

[floppydisk]

It's good. Real good. Plus, I know your computer can play it. It's cheap too, and has Counter Strike for free. If I was you I'd go buy it used.

[barend]

i spent this quarters game allowance on GTA:SA
and the last one on VTM:Bloodlines
(plus nostalgia games and the like...)

i'll grab HL2 eventually though, and like what i have tried so far...

[Slade]

Apparently, getting a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from MIT makes you instantly both the luckiest man on earth and a better shot than the entire army.

You're a scientist working on theoretical stuff (teleportation, specifically) when you cause a resonance cascade which creates a portal into the dimension Xen, allowing a bunch of vicious monsters to pop out and kill everyone at the Black Mesa Research Facility. *shrug* Not that hard.

[floppydisk]

I don't mean the basic storyline, I'm talking about how the G-man fits into the story...

[Slade]

Ah... He apparently exists outside of time, I think he's part of a race of beings that goes around trying to manipulate others into achieving goals for them. He recruited Freeman via ultimatium, which makes me not trust him, but he's apparently a good guy in the second one. And the Vortigaunts work for him too. "We serve the same mystery" they say.

Or he's a hack, as pictured here.

[SimeSublime]

The ending to the first game was such a let down. I was so dissapointed. I haven't played the second game, though I've seen a bit of it. My opinion is that Troika made much better use of the engine. Go VtM:B.

[floppydisk]

Ah... He apparently exists outside of time, I think he's part of a race of beings that goes around trying to manipulate others into achieving goals for them. He recruited Freeman via ultimatium, which makes me not trust him, but he's apparently a good guy in the second one. And the Vortigaunts work for him too. "We serve the same mystery" they say.

Or he's a hack, as pictured here.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ah, thanks. I've been forgetting to check up on that webcomic.

[Slade]

Bloodlines uses Havok too? Thief 3 does, though you'd hardly notice, since HL2 is much more fluid. But you can't be a shadow in the night in HL2, having messiah status amongst the masses and wearing a bright orange HEV suit.