It’s funny because he hated Alyx as much as I did… all the forced exposition.
Forced exposition wasn’t really the problem, though, it was the complete lack of interesting gameplay framing that exposition which makes it a slog. The firefights are straight up boring, which is unforgivable in a First Person Shooter. And we’ve discussed how cough awesome the vehicle sequences were.
But, y’know, there were some physics puzzles and stuff. And a robot dog!!
