> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 5:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Just Beat "Portal" > > i was a little disapointed with ep2 > i played it on medium, should have done hard. > seemed a little hat in hand to me. but then again, i love shooters. > tf2 is incredible! would like to have a hof get together one evenning.
I actually kind of like that. Although even on normal I am having some trouble at the end here... saving the base form the striders. I've got three down but those next (maybe last?) two keep handing me my ass (the hunters more than the striders actually). Still I never thought about the game the in terms of difficulty - it's a really engaging story with really interesting locations. In most other shooters I often just get bored really fast and end up entering God Mode just to see the end quickly. "Doom 3" and "Return to Wolfenstein" were both like this for me - within the first hour or so you've seen the same thing over and over and over and over and over. "Doom 3" was especially brutal in this regard I thought. Not only did you have to fight with the utterly ridiculous mechanic of the flashlight but it was just plodding hours of: 1) Enter a room. 2) Either lights go out or you fall into a hole. 3) Get attacked by monsters that have appeared out of nowhere. 4) Return to step one. But I've never felt that way about any of the "Half-Life" games (or "Bioshock" or "Resistance" for that matter). You just can't over-estimate the appeal of a well-told story. The gravity gun is a tremendous asset. I've found so places in the three games where you can give yourself an edge using it interestingly. For example in the "disable the gun" mission on Episode 2 (where you have to destroy the gun while Alyx fixes the car) I was able to carry a file-cabinet from one of the out buildings and use it as a shield throughout the level. It wasn't _needed_, but it did help. Later when I was able to destroy the gun I actually missed the fact that the explosion had blown an escape hole through the wall: I ended up building a staircase out of the shelving and boxes which I used to climb out of the window I had fallen in through. The only game that's come close to this kind of improvisational freedom is "Bioshock" with the TK Plasmid... but even then there really wasn't that much to actually grab. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244736 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
