I personally do not think that Shades bases his opinions about real games on experiences from playing games on BYOND.
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I haven't played on a BYOND game in ages, except for the Drawing one, and I got booted off right away when I drew a human phallaus.
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Well, Half-Life is the kind of series that gives more questions than answers in their sequels. :P
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Shades wrote:
I got booted off right away when I drew a human phallaus. Are you really surprised? =P You gotta admit, that's really asking for it. | |
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.
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Crispy wrote:
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?
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Why did you even reply? This thread is like a week old.
Let me explain to to you so you understand me.. I don't give a <font color = green>[Flying Bunnies]</font> about fan mods. | |
with worldcraft you can make your own levels, fill them with the G man then shoot the crap out of him!!!
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Since when have any games had good endings? Most of them are bad. Some are good, but most are bad. Really. I mean it. Bad.
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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.
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It's matter of opinion actually. There is no good or bad ending. It depends on who the player is. THEY think it's good or bad. -Chuckle.-
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Mega Zero x wrote:
Your coolness is automaticly 0 for playing HL2 xbox and hl ps2 and not hl pc and hl2 pc 8-D Considering I've only played the PC version of both, my coolness is still zero because I play video games. | |
Shades wrote:
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.