Also, did you know that most of the games on BYOND are based off of what some fan made of a previous game out somewhere? Unless you exclude animes (I think they make up a majority of the fangames), they do make up a majority of the games on BYOND.
Y'know, unless you don't play games on BYOND, you have most likely played some "unofficial" recreation of a game.
Yeah I thought that too. It wasn't so much that it was a cliffhanger and that nothing got answered, it was just a really weak ending. If the G-Man had of been setup better it might have at least been interesting.
Although I was pretty bored by the end anyway. Xen (or what ever the alien world was called) didn't interest me much. I found all the jumping stuff just made the gameplay feel really slow.
All in all after I was done I felt like they'd put that ending and the G-Man in at the last minute to replace a real ending that was scrapped for some reason. I really doubt that's the case but if someone said it was they wouldn't have to work too hard to convince me.
If you're talking about Half-Life 1, the G-Man is in the game before the end, several times; always in an inaccessible area behind a window or something. Kinda creepy to see this guy in a suit calmly walking and observing in the midst of the chaos around you.
the G-Man is in the game before the end, several times; always in an inaccessible area behind a window or something.
That's actually what I was talking about. He doesn't seem to interact with anything so it's like he was just thrown in at random intervals.
I do understand what they were going for with him, I just think it hit a snag somewhere and instead of being a mystery it was just an odd thing you see then push to the back of your mind and keep on playing.
It doesn't require you to care about something a fan makes, it is just going out and trying a game and seeing if you like it. It isn't anything like a ten year old making a new evild dead movie in his basement, it is more like a group of developers, mid-teens and older, working on a project that could be incredibly fun. Games like Counter-Strike started from an UNOFFICIAL group of developer and were just so good that Valve picked them up, so why fight the idea that other unofficial games might be awesome?
I'm partial to the ending of Super Mario Bros 3. I think they tied up all of the loose ends very well and ended it on a great pseudo-cliffhanger for the sequel.
Anyways today I started on Half-Life 2 for the Xbox. I really like how the explain a lot more of the first games story in it. It is a lot more cinetamitc then the first game for sure.
I wouldn't get my hopes up. I beat it yesterday and it's nothing special. It's better than the first by far but it's still sort of stupid.
I think a big part of my problem with it is I'm just not attached to the characters at all. I really don't care what happens to any of them. I guess that's one of the drawbacks of playing first-person shooters back in the days when you were just a guy with weapons running around killing monsters/aliens/Hitler.
It was a very cool game though. I wish they had of done more with vehicles, although I guess it's a good thing when the developer can implement something without feeling the need to justify it by using it every ten minutes.
Also, did you know that most of the games on BYOND are based off of what some fan made of a previous game out somewhere? Unless you exclude animes (I think they make up a majority of the fangames), they do make up a majority of the games on BYOND.
Y'know, unless you don't play games on BYOND, you have most likely played some "unofficial" recreation of a game.