txa1265
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I disliked Half Life 2 back in 2004, and stopped playing it around halfway through. It was so obviously just one long engine demonstration with very little of what made the original Half Life interesting. Well, the original Half Life wasn't that good either, but the first couple of hours were amazing - and then it devolved into a standard shooter.
It really DOES get better in the back half, but I wasn't so enamored back in 2004 either - I found there too be way too much filler and obsession with gimmicky physics and annoying mechanics. The fact that they have kept updating the engine is cool (looks great), but the rest of it only becomes more obvious with age ... I have failed to finish the last few times I started ... I've made it further than I have for several years, but I dropped it this weekend.
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