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maaan, Half Life 2 is haaard
Jul. 13th, 2008 09:52 pmAs my ridiculously unproductive weekend draws to a close, I'm up to the fan-boat level. So I haven't gotten all that far yet. I actually resorted to looking in a walkthrough because I couldn't figure out how to get past the fire barricade. Turns out there's just a ramp off to one side. Which is good because driving the boat full speed into the fire didn't work as well as I'd hoped. I'll bet I would've found the ramp by myself eventually if those guys didn't keep shooting rockets at me all the time >:(
On the plus side, I killed my first headcrab zombies!
Gordon is not very good at swimming. Maybe his super suit is heavy or something. I'd just like him to be able to tread water, so I can stay on the surface and look around for a minute, without having to steer upwards continuously or keep pressing A to stop him from sinking. I mean, Mario can do it. He can't hold his breath for very long either. Then again, he can take a lot more machine gun fire than I probably could, so I ought to cut him some slack.
I like the controls. Except I always have to switch it to inverted mode for the steering stick. I don't know why. I think old school games where you had to steer with the d-pad like that were inverted. That's just what I'm used to. I don't know if I'm just more into FPSes now but the controls seem a lot more intuitive than in Halo. Then again, whenever I play Halo, I'm like "wait, which button is 'jump'?" and my brother deliberately tells me the wrong one and then kills me. And we share a laugh. I've never played Halo by myself (i.e. without my brother killing me a lot); in Half Life, I can actually switch guns and shoot from cover and stuff!
On the plus side, I killed my first headcrab zombies!
Gordon is not very good at swimming. Maybe his super suit is heavy or something. I'd just like him to be able to tread water, so I can stay on the surface and look around for a minute, without having to steer upwards continuously or keep pressing A to stop him from sinking. I mean, Mario can do it. He can't hold his breath for very long either. Then again, he can take a lot more machine gun fire than I probably could, so I ought to cut him some slack.
I like the controls. Except I always have to switch it to inverted mode for the steering stick. I don't know why. I think old school games where you had to steer with the d-pad like that were inverted. That's just what I'm used to. I don't know if I'm just more into FPSes now but the controls seem a lot more intuitive than in Halo. Then again, whenever I play Halo, I'm like "wait, which button is 'jump'?" and my brother deliberately tells me the wrong one and then kills me. And we share a laugh. I've never played Halo by myself (i.e. without my brother killing me a lot); in Half Life, I can actually switch guns and shoot from cover and stuff!
