The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: SgtFury on December 20, 2004, 08:01:30 AM
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: SgtFury on December 20, 2004, 08:01:30 AM
Maybe its just me but this took the fun out of HL2 slightly.
Up to this point its been a fight for survival, especially when going up against striders and the likes. But then suddenly they give you an overpowered gun that can pull anything around and flings people like dolls, but not just that they give you a recharger that puts you to full health and full shields every 100 meters!!! WTF!
Does anyone else feel this was strange?
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Malevolent on December 20, 2004, 10:11:03 AM
Well it was awesome. I didn't mind it since it was fun. It was more of a kind of an award for going through the rest of the game. Besides they took a lot of stuff out of the game, so they might of needed a filler to get to the end.
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: That Annoying Kid on December 20, 2004, 11:15:34 AM
nice 1111 posts malev :p
they give you cool stuff that heals you and makes you pwn and it accompanies the upgraded grav gun
man that is hot, and I can see valve doing that
I think I'm going to try and play HL2 today, hopefully zer is up for me whoring one of his comps :ph34r:
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Mr.Bill on December 20, 2004, 03:41:08 PM
I was watching my brother play, and he being nub, died many times. So I dont know if its crazy easy, but its certainly not the hardest part of the game.
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: SgtFury on December 21, 2004, 03:35:00 AM
How did he die? When ever I got low on health I ran back to the machine and healed. Thing is as far as I could tell each of them was unlimited. Admittedly when I first saw the Strider that killed me :)
Woot 100 posts :D
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: 2_of_8 on December 21, 2004, 10:11:02 PM
I only died by falling off the ledges :D Stupid combine, never invented handrails.
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Mr.Bill on December 23, 2004, 09:51:50 AM
Well, as I said, my brother is newb :-D
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Diablus on December 23, 2004, 10:49:47 PM
its as hard as it gets!
your gordon freeman owning all
in the citadel your gordon freeman with a 200 HEV suit and a super gravity gun.
It's likelike Steven Segal getting more than a bloody nose and a scratch on his cheek after taking on 100 bad guys with rocket launchers and machine guns and whatnot in one of his movies... its just impossible!
your not meant to lose!
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Malevolent on December 24, 2004, 10:39:46 AM
Noooooo, don't mention Segal! His name could spoil someone's HL2 experience.
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Legionnaired on December 26, 2004, 11:58:41 PM
The game is designed so that you get more and more awesome as the game goes on. First you're dealing with standard CP troops, then headdys, then Military, then Choppers, then Shock Troops, until finally you're shooting down a half dozen striders before you can say "Zero-Point energy manipulator." What's more, you're given more and more weapons through the game and put in situations, that though your survivability may not go up, your asskickery does.
It's a logical progression, and I think it's awesome. At the end of the game it is easy to stay alive, and you move around and just kind of flow, concentrate on blowing things away. It becomes a natural, practiced, conditioned procedure, grabbing a soldier and throwing him into his squadmates, using energy balls to kill scores or soldiers at once.
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Fewlio on December 29, 2004, 08:08:35 PM
To show off the wonders of the UBER GRAVGUN! Well at least that's the only reason I can think of.... I mean everyone loves the gravgun and everyone wanted to be able to gravgun everything... Why not give the players a level where the gravgun can do everything they want it to? The only thing that made me mad was when breen gravguns you and you LIVE!
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: 2_of_8 on December 30, 2004, 11:39:50 AM
I don't understand why someone would die after being gravgunned, as in simply lifted up. I'd like the combine to die only after I fling them down the pits of the citadel, or after a whack them a couple of times against a wall. That'd be fun.
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: A Boojum Snark on December 30, 2004, 02:36:39 PM
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The only thing that made me mad was when breen gravguns you and you LIVE!
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Three words for you, fool: Hazardous Environment Suit. :D
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Mr.Bill on December 30, 2004, 03:53:33 PM
My guess would be is that the way the grav gun would lift you, is by your atoms, and if your atoms would be moving, it wouldnt work right Id guess, sO I'd assume that your atoms just stop when the grav gun picks you up, and that would most likely be fatal.
pure guessing here
Title: Why in the citadel make it so easy to stay alive?
Post by: Diablus on December 31, 2004, 12:42:00 PM
Im guessing the force of the pull factor must be like getting hit by a truck.. (ask X-S-Z why and he'll explain)