HL* has moved slowly to a character based plot. Most games are "things" plot based. Superweapons, prototypes, invasion, etc.. .. And HL* its evolving to a history about characters. The evolution its slow, the first step whas Blue Shift, Intended or not its a step to build strong characters (barney).. and OP its a step forward, and HL2 its a whole new dimension.
Notice this will also atract more womens, because often womens are more interested on people than things, so HL2 will atract more female gamers. I suspect.
Draco wrote:
I remeber one thing my dad said about the game after the ranting about how much steam sucks(it was his first time using it, he finished HL years ago and never got into the mods). He asked me "What exactly are we supposed to be doing in this game? Like in HL you had to get out, in Doom3 we had to stop the demons, but in this game we are just being shunted from location to location and being forced to do things. I like to know WHY I'm doing things" (well exuse the bad wording, it is the gist of what he said)
well I had no answer for that, what the hell are you doing in HL2. I guess you are just GMan's pawn. The story isn't really about the ending, the HL story was always about what happened around you, and you were just some guy trying to make it out of a situation(one that was forced apon you) alive.
-Draco
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