The reason why you have to go to Ravenholm is that when you pass by the door to Ravenholm Alyx shivers and says "We don't go there anymore". That's why you go to Ravenholm.
Why exactly did we have to go through Ravenholm?
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There was no reason to even start to go to Ravenholm. What did they have outside? A battalion of soldiers? Maybe two? That's not really that scary when you've already fought through twice that many just to get to the base in the first place. Doesn't Eli get captured as a direct result of you fucking off to Ravenholm rather than staying to defend, so you have to go into the Citadel itself to rescue him?maddawg IAJI said:
The Combine soldiers are after you. The Resistance is a bonus at best. Freeman is the figure head of the resistance, he is seen as the Guy. The guy who will turn the tides and win the war etc etc. Now what happens if this guy dies? Morale drops, troops lose the will to fight and your resistance is crushed because your tank with feet guy ran out of gas and was turned into swiss cheese, not by a battalion or two, but by a never ending wave of Combine Soldiers barreling at him with Plasma Rifles, and thats IF he stayed inside.Amnestic said:
For all we know, if he went outside, he's stuck in a canyon, with an air ship doing passes around him while picking away at him with it's main gun. It doesn't matter how many he killed along the way. Along the way, he picked up new weapons, grabbed some health, found some ammo and had the pleasure of cover. Not to mention that a large portion of those kills, were while you were going 40 in an air boat with an infinite amount of bullets spewing out of a machine gun.
Ep. 1 shows us that the Combine's technologically-superior helmets didn't do much to protect them- the headcrabs just took off everything above the jaw. I don't think a vintage half-sphere of steel only kept on by a leather strap would put up a better fight.Serenegoose said:
Because Actual bombs are expensive and throwing a parasite in a tube and launching it out is a hell of a lot cheaper and is guaranteed to cause panic.Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
True, but their helmets don't stab headcrabs to death whilst they try and latch on.The Rogue Wolf said:
You can kill them with bullets easy enough, impaling ought to work. 
I'm pretty sure it's because it was the only way out of Black Mesa east.
Also, Alyx tried to tell you NOT to go into Ravenholm.
Also, Alyx tried to tell you NOT to go into Ravenholm.
Don't they first latch on at the face, not the tip of the head? And how can you be sure if your helmet won't get knocked off as it is latching on?Serenegoose said:True, but their helmets don't stab headcrabs to death whilst they try and latch on.The Rogue Wolf said:
Dude, you're asking the wrong question here. The real problem isn't to do with space, it's to do with TIME. To demonstrate:spectrenihlus said:
When you go into Black Mesa, the sun is just going down. When in Ravenholm - which can't take more than twenty minutes or so for most people, surely - it's night-time throughout. You escape through the tunnels, and then end up outside in broad daylight about ten minutes later.
So how the heck did you get from evening to midnight to mid-day in about half an hour, total? Apparently Gordon's HEV suit has more powers than even we knew. It can speed up the passing of time.
VALVe wanted to scare the shit out of you with zombies, let you throw some saw-blades around, then let you meet "Father Grigori" which I believe was also what most people called Rasputin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin] back when he was, you know, alive.
What I want to know is why aren't there more operational vehicles? I would have circumvented the creepy creepy place as much as possible, and used a motorcycle to do a backflip and land and keep going, too!
OK, maybe not a motorcycle, but still, he could have gone around the town. It didn't look that big, and not having to do physics puzzles would prolly save a lot of time.
OK, maybe not a motorcycle, but still, he could have gone around the town. It didn't look that big, and not having to do physics puzzles would prolly save a lot of time.
The once they've shown it happening (in HL1) the headcrab leaps from behind, over the top of the head, sinking their claws into the chest, and latching onto the entire head in a single motion. In HL2, you see a man briefly wrestle with a headcrab, and it's trying to latch on by grabbing the entirety of the head (from above) in a single motion. I guess it could knock the helmet off, but if you secure it properly... That said, it might just survive anyway. They seem to be pretty hardy creatures (3 bullets to kill!) and they take a lot more to put down once latched onto a zombie, so they evidently become semi-symbiotic, rather than purely parasitic, as the host increases the crabs ability to endure punishment.maddawg IAJI said:
I've overthought this, I know - I'm a massive geek when it comes to sci-fi. I'll get into arguments about hyperdrive, empire vs rebellion, dr who, whether Flere Imsaho is cooler than Skaffen-Amtiskaw, and whether you can drive off a headcrab with an old german helmet.
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Seems like a lot of people answered the question already, but I must say, Ravenholm is indeed one of the more memorable parts of the game, even though the transition into it pretty much screamed out "We want a dark and scary level!!!" from the developers...
Gah, I miss the days where such things weren't made as obvious...
