Time to load up Half-Life 2 and episodes once again!

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Slimebeast said:

Mummelmann said:
Father Grigori is at the end of the Ravenholm level, I'd say somewhere around the middle but I can't seem to remember since its been a couple of years since I played it last.
The driving levels (both boat/jet ski and car) are what take the longest but there's a lot less content than in the levels you traverse on foot so its a bit deceptive.
By far the best level in HL2 imo is Nova Prospekt, which is after the Ravenholm level, you should really play it!
Episode 1 is slow paced and focuses more on bonding with Alyx while Episode 2 is epic in every sense of the word, its manic, chaotic and exciting as all hell!

Damn, so another game that I played halfways and then quit for some mysterious reson (like Bioshock, Resi 5, CoD 5, Doom 3).

I absolutley must replay it then. Someday. After all those other games + my growing back log. :/

I too struggled to make it through Bioshock and suffered the same fate with the even less engaging sequel. I loved System Shock 2, but Bioshock just seemed dumbed down, ugly, and slow paced. I say skip it if it didn't grab you the first time. RE5 has it moments, but if you stopped playing you likely didn't think it was great, so skip it too. COD W@W was fun, but forgettable- skip it. Doom 3 was great, for about 4 hours then it started to become a grind. WIthout the graphical wow-factor of playing it back in the day, I'm jsut not sure if there is much meat to it. Oh and skip the expansion, it sucked even back then.

 

Don't get me wrong I know that many of these titles are well loved, but if you stopped playing them it seems to me you didn't enjoy them then, why go back now?