Yea, my same argument. People are hailing this as the best game of all time, and I just find it as a great game. But I do kinda wish I used the money to buy MGS3 or GTA
A. I am just repeating you here but the game is just way too linear and has no replay value. Once I finished I really didnt want to play again like I did with Knights of the Old Repulic, or Final Fantasy X. Those are games I could play to death... HL2 I couldnt, since there was little more than what you saw your first time around. It really is a somewhat mindless shooter, with some nice puzzles thrown in.
Also the ending was very[ dissapointing. There wasnt even a boss battle, it just abruptly ended. Even HL1 had that Nilianth (or however you spell it) to beat before you beat the game. There was also the fact that after the end of the game I was even more confused as to what the hell was going on than when I started playing. I
still dont even know why I was in city 17 in the first place... at least in HL1 I knew why I was fighting aliens. I really would've liked a part where you sat down in Eli's lab and they told you what happened. I read somewhere that valve did have parts like this but took it out because they felt it would bore the player.
I am also tired of all these damn cliffhangers... jesus, I swear I am going to blow up the next game developer that releases a game which has a cliffhanger ending.
Well, at least I think the game is better than Doom 3, which like HL2, had a great engine but a game that wasnt as revolutionary. But I actually enjoyed playing through HL2, while I couldnt even bother to finish Doom 3.