Half Life blah
After nearly three months I've resumed my chew-through of the three Half Life 2 games that come with the Orange Box. Finished Episode One yesterday (which is really the second part of the story, after the eponymous main game) and am a good ways into Episode Two now. I definitely get the impression that these games would be more fun to play a year apart from each other, the speed at which they're published. Clearly, when I come to the current episode's Zombie Level or Antlion Level or Turret Defense Scene I am to think "Hooray! I have missed doing this!" and not "Enh, I did this yesterday."
My biggest complaint involves the Vortigaunts. These are the spindly, naked, psionic alien critters who are allied with the human resistance, and they have a more overt presence in Episode Two than in the earlier games. In the main game, they are all delightfully voiced by Louis Gossett Jr., but in Episode Two, they're portrayed by some guy who is trying to sound like Louis Gossett Jr. and ends up sounding more like the Cookie Monster. On top of this, the writing seems weaker than the previous games' scripts. The Vortigaunts' dialogue seems informed less by Kosh and more by Whorf, now. Oh well.
O the suffering. I still enjoy it quite a bit!
My biggest complaint involves the Vortigaunts. These are the spindly, naked, psionic alien critters who are allied with the human resistance, and they have a more overt presence in Episode Two than in the earlier games. In the main game, they are all delightfully voiced by Louis Gossett Jr., but in Episode Two, they're portrayed by some guy who is trying to sound like Louis Gossett Jr. and ends up sounding more like the Cookie Monster. On top of this, the writing seems weaker than the previous games' scripts. The Vortigaunts' dialogue seems informed less by Kosh and more by Whorf, now. Oh well.
O the suffering. I still enjoy it quite a bit!