Half-Life 2: Episode One Updated

Whatta hell...

This is not the way to go Valve :/

Whaa, video games are too hard, Ninja Gaiden made me cry.

How about letting Gordon bang Alyx, get her all satisfied and content, leave her somewhere safe and go back to kicking ass in solo? Hell, E1 would've been so much more enjoyable without the nagging g/f aspect going on all the time. Damn, Alyx, if you're that scared of the dark, why not just crawl on my back during the really scary parts?

I enjoyed that part...I found HL2 to be a bit too easy...and that part of Ep1 was a nice change of pace!

Oh wait, is it just me or steam has finally started the updates going from 0% to 100% instead of random% -> 100% ?

FFS, Bring Back Nightmare Mode! Here's my ranttake: most of us older folks, with jobs/responsibilities/schedules don't have the time or the inclination to spend hours upon hours of our rapidly dimishing 'free' time playing the same god-damned five minutes of a game over and over. Hence, I say bring back nightmare for all the 'twitch' players, and give the rest of us a break with the "stupid-hard" bits.

FWIW, I really liked HL 2, and I fully expected to like Ep 1 even more, and in generally I did- but seriously, that map sucked because IMO Valve wanted to do a 'survival-horror' kinda thing with it, but my experience was more WTF?! this is ridiculously frustrating!

Oh and by the way, I didn't enjoy this much in Doom 3, either. Except in Doom 3 at least, you could clock the monsters with a stopwatch, so it became an old-school 'pattern recognition' excersize, like Quake or Q2. You know, the old, "OK, when I step on this particular floor tile, these monsters will show up here, there, and right up there, so I just need to be ready for 'em..."

Y'know what makes it more OK, though? Good AI! I got really frustrated on veteran in COD 2 on certain maps, but I kept at it because every time I replayed those sections (usually trying a different approach/tactic), the AI would do something different, much like say, the Combine AI in HL 2. In fact, that made the 'escort' mission in Ep 1 a whole lot more bearable, 'cause I kept trying different things, and so did the AI!

What was so hard about the elavator part?? Just keep moving and use the explosive barrels/tanks to take out large groups of zombies. Alyx is near invincible so you don't need to worry about her. Also remember to use head shots on the zombies too.

As soon as I entered the area, saw all of the barrels and the elavator I knew some sort of hold-out event was going to take place. Valve even mentions in the commentary that they try and beat players over the head with clues that a big battle is coming up.

not sure I like my games being "patched" just because other people are having problems with areas/bosses. In fact, NO I REALLY DONT LIKE THAT IDEA.

Next person to say Ninja Gaiden was just 'challenging' and the elevator battle was super impossible hard gets slapped in the face by my cock.

Valve spyware FTW.

I just finished that part yesterday. Thanks for nothing.

Ya it was hard as hell, but i found it really fun at the same time. It was pure madness wait for that darn elevator. A auto-shotgun or a Jackhammer gun(whatever you call it ,from Max Payne) would of be nice. They placed a lot of exploding barrels on that level which should of helped

This part was fucking insane on Hard mode. I think I made it out with no ammo and 3 health, lol.

hmm 3 attempts in hard if I remember correctly, well perhaps a bit to hard compared to rest of the game weird thing to update though, and very late.

i just sat there screaming "this wasn't fun in doom 3 and it isn't fun now"

Oh man, I went crazy on that part. I hate games when your only strategy is hide as far as possible and shoot if something shows up.