Marc Laidlaw has released his Half-Life Episode 3 plot

[wumpus]

I just don’t care about any of that. I kinda stopped caring about the Half-Life story about 1/3 of the way into Half-Life 2.

@Telefrog

But at launch? Man, Half-Life 2 was amazing. It’s chock full of concepts and gameplay that influenced the industry for years. It was crazy good.

Nope. It wasn’t. You done been Laidlawed.

(Although, to be clear, I’m not saying HL2 was a bad game per se, just that it wasn’t nearly good as HL1, which is a very high bar. Basically HL2 is wildly overrated.)

@Telefrog

In hindsight, there’s a lot of goofball in Half-Life 2.

The goofball was plainly visible while playing Half-Life 2. Hey, let’s quote me from 2007!

Is it just me, or does Half-Life 2 completely suck now?

I was never that enthused about Half-Life 2; I still think it’s a pale, overwrought shadow of the game Half-Life was. But after playing Episode 1, which at least held my attention, I am surprised how little enthusiasm I have for Episode 2 after loading it up. Let’s see: I start with no weapons. Again. I get the novelty, sorry, I mean gravity gun and have to soldier on with that a bit. Physics Combat 101. Lucky for us someone left all these explosive propane tanks lying around near enemies. s…