Half Life 2 story guide

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:27 pm

http://members.shaw.ca/storage_4/hl2story/

very interesting. having just completed HL2 and being left with a lot of unanswered questions. I like the way the plot seems to be told in incidental details that are easy to miss.

best FPS in recent history though, no doubt about that.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:43 pm

far cry was be++er @ssh@le

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:00 am

I saw the Half Life story guide/timeline a few weeks ago and it's quite good.

I just finished the game a second time on Hard mode. There's so much stuff I missed the first time through. Must have counted at least a dozen g-man sightings. The striders were way the fuck more difficult with their beam attacks. There's other things I can't remember because it always takes me a week to play.

Far Cry and Half Life 2 are the best singleplayer FPS's released in the last few years. Far Cry is dead as far as multiplayer is concerned. But if the mod community embraces HL2, and with the recent release of DM and the SDK (I'm so glad the wait was a matter of weeks rather than months) this shit can really take off. Oh, and Steam better not fuck everything up.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:04 am

I played it on hard my first (and only, so far) time through, after hearing reports that it was an easy game.

The storyline reminds me a bit of Donnie Darko's - you can't possibly understand it by watching the film/playing the game by itself, you have to get a guide or do some outside research to understand what's going on. Kind of frustrating, but intruiging at the same time.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:05 am

How very Lynchian.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:21 am

Comprehension of Donnie Darko requires outside assistance ? Based on my own experience with the film, I'd have to disagree.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:27 am

I need outside assistance to whack me off.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:26 am

Naaah, that version was for pussies. Here:

axelgreese · Post by **axelgreese** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:28 am

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:08 pm

rofl.

That's gold.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:43 pm

The last one is amazingly funny.

Ortchel · Post by **Ortchel** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:27 am

Yep, that comic sums it up pretty well.

Where does this site get it's information anyway? It sounds like one fan's conjecture and bullshit to me.

"I believe that G-Man is an agent of an interstellar rebel alliance (assuming a human form)"

Oh, okay.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:36 am

Oh yeah, I rather trust big sites like gamespy.

Ortchel · Post by **Ortchel** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:37 am

Did they have their own history of Half-Life?

I wouldn't trust them either. Bullshit is bullshit no matter which bull it comes from.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:43 am

Well, the interstellar alliance is speculation(read: bullshit), other info is from raising the bar or prima strat guide.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:29 pm

ortchel wrote:Did they have their own history of Half-Life?

I wouldn't trust them either. Bullshit is bullshit no matter which bull it comes from.

Can't you read sarcasm?

Sovy Kurosei · Post by **Sovy Kurosei** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:18 pm

While escaping, Wallace Breen comments "But I can't teleport there, this host body won't be able to handle it." This convinces me that Wallace Breen is not a human.

Since it was not addressed in that FAQ, and to the contrary states that Wallace Breen is a human, I'd have to say that the story guide is bullshit.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:14 pm

AFAIK, he says something like "I can't survive there! ... a host body?", so he is a human.

Well, you can get the GCFScape tool and extract audio files... anyway, who cares about that old fart.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:38 pm

Interesting

Sovy Kurosei · Post by **Sovy Kurosei** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:15 am

My bad then.