Half Life 2 Episode 2 Final Battle

Read more about this video at: http://danielhaggard.com/70/the-art-of-narrative-in-half-life-2/

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• Half
• Life
• 2
• Episode
• two
• Final
• Battle
• Gameplay

[ale89515]

Finally finished the article. Yes, I do agree with pretty much everything. I remember the frustration I felt with the end battle was precisely how scripted it was. I remember that the Striders would even WAIT for the player to drive up to the building before destroying it... not to mention that regardless of where the striders came from they all eventually ended up on one path right outside the base. It's easy enough just to destroy them all right there.

[DanHaggard]

Thanks for reading... I think it would have been much cooler if they had just had the striders blow all the shit up - with the player wondering wtf if they hadn't been there to see it. For them they would get a kick out of going back through and replaying the scene. It's like valve doesn't think it's worth putting in if a player doesn't see it the first time. No doubt they are motivated by statistics which suggest players don't replay games.

[ale89515]

You're also right about the "focus groups." I afraid that fan feedback is going to kill Starcraft2 too. Anyway, the artist should trust his own vision and let the audience take it or leave it. Game designers are becoming too afraid of failure and are losing confidence in their own creativity.

[DanHaggard]

I guess it's starting to cost too much to make a game to risk failure.  Focus grouping a product becomes part of the best practice to ensure the success of a game. However, I would argue that it hurts the long term value the game will have to a player.

[ale89515]

Sorry to spam but to continue, it's so easy to know when hunters are going to appear because all of a sudden there is all sorts of crap to KILL them with EVERYWHERE... They went overboard in that respect really.

[DanHaggard]

I agree with much of what you say - I complained extensively about this in my blog entry which you can read - if you're interested - in the link in the text box to the right of the video.

[drewford98]

@ 0:23 TACTICAL NUKE INBOUND!!!!!!!

[ucswiftz]

The multiple stider battle I'd try in invicible mode three more times, it really hard!

Through the video you provide, I got to know take down the hunters first by woods, then it would be simple to bring strider down by magnetic mines than general three rocket launcher. And I also found that you can three took more more magnetic mines aside to preparation while you throw it failed to get immediately support not to wait for a long time to get new one.

[ILXROaChX]

I loved this part. I hate the hunters though. I just ran around tossing logs to kill them like he's doing :D

[luiscamara1]

@djd12 that alarm is used in modern warfare 2 too when tactical nuke is used LOl

[djd12]

I swear, that alarm is used in Spore.

[davidhaprov1]

what is the alarm name at 0:58?

[davidhaprov1]

no just buy the game

[JerNewbz]

I always just ran over the Hunters in the car. =/ Interesting way of killing them though.

Great video by the way.

[MasterOfYourAss]

Buy the episodic pack, or if you don't have HL2, buy HL2 complete, it's the same but cheaper and it doesn't include Portal or TF2.

[psyakill]

muy bien!!