Comments on: half-life 2 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/06/half-life-2/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/06/half-life-2/comment-page-1/#comment-98431 David Carlton Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:53:20 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/?p=781#comment-98431 If you like sandbox games but would would prefer to spend a couple dozen hours instead of hundreds of hours on one, I recommend Bully. If you like sandbox games but would would prefer to spend a couple dozen hours instead of hundreds of hours on one, I recommend Bully.

]]> By: Stuart Marks http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/06/half-life-2/comment-page-1/#comment-98375 Stuart Marks Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:51:04 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/?p=781#comment-98375 How can you save "more often than is healthy"? I thought the point of saving was to preserve your health. :-) On game-playing and plot, I think Doom was early enough in the FPS genre that it didn't really need a plot. The introduction of plot came later. Halo certainly has a more intriguing plot than the Doom/Quake series, its graphics and music are fantastic, and the necessity to scrounge for alien weapons made for an interesting variation on the usual another-pile-of-health-and-ammo-around-the-corner. But some of the levels got to be VERY repetitive. I also also surprised how quickly I finished Halo. I think I got through it in -- a wild guess -- 20 hours or so. This compares to GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas (a different genre, yes) where I've spent hundreds of hours on each. And I'm only 1/3 of the way through San Andreas. I don't have a machine capable of playing GTA4 yet, which is just as well, as I don't really need another time-waster at the moment. :-) How can you save “more often than is healthy”? I thought the point of saving was to preserve your health. :-)

On game-playing and plot, I think Doom was early enough in the FPS genre that it didn’t really need a plot. The introduction of plot came later. Halo certainly has a more intriguing plot than the Doom/Quake series, its graphics and music are fantastic, and the necessity to scrounge for alien weapons made for an interesting variation on the usual another-pile-of-health-and-ammo-around-the-corner. But some of the levels got to be VERY repetitive.

I also also surprised how quickly I finished Halo. I think I got through it in — a wild guess — 20 hours or so. This compares to GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas (a different genre, yes) where I’ve spent hundreds of hours on each. And I’m only 1/3 of the way through San Andreas.

I don’t have a machine capable of playing GTA4 yet, which is just as well, as I don’t really need another time-waster at the moment. :-)

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