Probably you like games with linear plots.. Half Life its not for you then, This game compares more like a mystery movie or book where as you go you get clues of whats going on and youve to arrange them like a puzzle on your head to understand.
I find very interesting how game designers tell the same plot from different angles from different characters on half life, blue shift, oppossion force and Half Life Decay, they all give you clues on whats going on and all he parts of the mystery puzzle fit perfectly.
Probably you had so many overspectations on the game that you where psicologically closed to the storyline, missing important details and dialogs on your crazy run through the games for finding what was going on. And what do you mean you dont know about "combines", what you expected, a formal introduction? suppossely your character was stuck in a no aging chamber since the first episode.. youre not supposed to know whats going on as fast as you start playing, dont be silly.
Probably if you checked the game manuals you wouldnt have any need for consulting wikipedia... yet the game is not finished yet with one more, and final chapter is about to unfold, there, you should finish to understand completely the story.
Anyways, for those like you who didnt payed attention for the story details, or just to lazy to play it, there are some plot summaries in internet, theres a pretty fair one at http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Image:Windows_logo.png
"You only get fractions of the events happening, and they are limited to the "actual" time" <-- so wrong, the whole game yells about past events so much.
"I thought Gordon had a family, imagined "Half Life" to be some obscure thing happening in that universe I thought maybe he was infected by some strange alien disease/weapon, and was living in some kind of half life " <-- then you probably also thought guybrush threepwood was an egiptian emperor who woke up one day from his thomb after a tsunamy flooded africa. Read in wikipedia what does half life, the mathematical symbol, means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life The game was named like this as, after all, youre supposed to be a scientific toying with this kind of stuff.
I was reading some coments from the creators who agree with fans that trama would make up a good movie, but they are afraid that holliwood screws it up badly the same way they do with every other thing it touches.
by the way, there are no movie scenes in Halflife, the storyline is everywhere as you play.
What I can conclude is that, again, you dont like too complicated plots and you enjoy linear trama more. If youre not the "detective" type, then this game was not ment your you. Im not a hardcore gamer, but I can say I enjoyed half life's story, and yes I would recomend it to Mr Gilbert.
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Posted by Dhex on Feb 1, 2008 ten to eight pm
I find very interesting how game designers tell the same plot from different angles from different characters on half life, blue shift, oppossion force and Half Life Decay, they all give you clues on whats going on and all he parts of the mystery puzzle fit perfectly.
Probably you had so many overspectations on the game that you where psicologically closed to the storyline, missing important details and dialogs on your crazy run through the games for finding what was going on. And what do you mean you dont know about "combines", what you expected, a formal introduction? suppossely your character was stuck in a no aging chamber since the first episode.. youre not supposed to know whats going on as fast as you start playing, dont be silly.
Probably if you checked the game manuals you wouldnt have any need for consulting wikipedia... yet the game is not finished yet with one more, and final chapter is about to unfold, there, you should finish to understand completely the story.
Anyways, for those like you who didnt payed attention for the story details, or just to lazy to play it, there are some plot summaries in internet, theres a pretty fair one at http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Image:Windows_logo.png
I was reading some coments from the creators who agree with fans that trama would make up a good movie, but they are afraid that holliwood screws it up badly the same way they do with every other thing it touches.
by the way, there are no movie scenes in Halflife, the storyline is everywhere as you play.
What I can conclude is that, again, you dont like too complicated plots and you enjoy linear trama more. If youre not the "detective" type, then this game was not ment your you. Im not a hardcore gamer, but I can say I enjoyed half life's story, and yes I would recomend it to Mr Gilbert.