Well, your post shows that you are obviously a troll, but I will reply any way, just as a notice to other people who might ACTUALLY have these problems.imaloony said:
Ill start this off by saying I beat half life 2 before I was just a kid on hard mode, and no walk-through what so ever, when it first came out, and I found none but one of the problems you faced, which were the confusing puzzles, which only one or two, were a problem for, and once I figured them out, it felt like a total "duh!" moment since the answer to the puzzle was right in my face.
"Firstly, lots of the enemies are just plain annoying. From the pimples hanging from the ceiling that snag you and pull you up to the head crabs that seem like the Infection form Flood from Halo on a permanent sugar high, to the Head Crab thing that THROWS crabs at you that reduce your health to 1 hit point, and the guy who throws them can take an unnatural amount of damage, often ranging from an exploded barrel and a grenade to 10 shotgun blasts. It almost seems like Valve tried their hardest to make the most annoying enemies of all time. Plus, those giant crawler things take a ton of damage to. For something that seems like a grape held up by three toothpicks, it can take an upwards of 8 rockets. I bet I could cut through that thing's leg with a butter knife, and it takes 8 rockets? Get out of here!"
1, its pretty easy to see the "barnacles" (just thought I'd point that out so you don't look like an idiot in the future) due to the hanging green tounge, and if you couldn't figure it out, you can both kill them easily and AVOID them.
2. head crabs came out WAY before halo, in the origional half life, and that "Head Crab thing that THROWS crabs at you" is called a poison zombie, or a poison head crab zombie. The head crabs it throws at you are called poison headcrabs, and they dont leave your health at 1, if you can get away from the zombie you can bring your health back up to what it was, (your suit even notifies you of this) and you CAN use your crow bar to hit them in mid air, no matter on what difficulty, and kill them instantly, or you could hit them when they crawl on the ground, that works just as well.
3. Ok this is deffinitive proof you are a troll,
"Plus, those giant crawler things take a ton of damage to. For something that seems like a grape held up by three toothpicks, it can take an upwards of 8 rockets. I bet I could cut through that thing's leg with a butter knife, and it takes 8 rockets? Get out of here!"
They are called striders, and while they do, do a lot of damage, they are easily out run on any difficulty, and any explosive will damage them. Now on to why you are obviously a troll because of this, it take 3 rockets/grenades/secondary smg ammo to kill a strider on normal mode, on hard mode it takes 5.
Now on to the next part, this will be quick.
"The plot is also nonsensical. Maybe it's because I never played Half-Life 1, but all I can gather is that Gorden Freeman is a very famous Scientist that is better trained in combat then any soldier on the planet. Other than that, I know there's a rebellion going on, and very little else. Often, I just walk along, praying that I'll hit a safe zone for long enough to collect a little ammo before being kicked out on my own."
No reason for you to say this at all since you basically say why YOU don't understand it.
Now on to the level design, another quicky
its called google.
NEXT
"Oh, and why is it that whenever you have a plot-important ally around, they can die? That makes me groan whenever Alex or someone else rears their ugly head, because suddenly things turn into an escort mission!"
On ANY mode, its pretty hard to get your ally killed, you would have to physically TRY to kill him/her. Another point on you being a troll.
In conclusion, your a troll, and on the off chance you aren't you are REALLY bad at the fps genera, and you need to turn the difficulty down and use a walk-through. Your probably a little too young to playing the game any way though, if your just started playing it.
