Gordon Freeman Wishes he was Turok
I rented The Orange Box today, since I absolutely loved Half-Life 2 and have heard nothing but praise for Portal. I am not enjoying it at all.
I started with Portal, since it's the main reason I rented the game to begin with, and it's not really doing anything for me. I usually like puzzle games, but I'm just not having any amount of fun at all when I play it. I'm just kind of annoyed the whole time. I'm sure ti wouldn't be as bad if the hype wasn't through the roof.
After being disappointed with Portal I decided to play Episode One (since I've already beaten HL2). I'm not having any fun with this one either. Writing it out makes me feel like a whiney bitch. But I'm probably a little over an hour in and I don't even have a gun yet (except for the gravity gun, but I'm sick of it). It's even more obnoxious because everyone I kill has guns, but they dissolve when they hit the ground. You know what makes a shooter fun? No guns, that's what. Also lots of jumping puzzles, where if you fall you die and have to start over. Jumping blindly is tons of fun in a first-person game. I feel like I'm playing Turok on N64, only without Turok's cool yell as he falls. And without badass weapons.
Again, I don't like complaining, and I'm not overly far into either game (judging by what I've read I'm over half done with Portal and 1/3 through Episode One). I'll give them another shot tomorrow, and if it doesn't get better I'll just say fuck it and play COD4. It hurts more because Half-Life 2 was so awesome.
Now I want to play Turok. Maybe I'll rent the new one tomorrow, if I bring back The Orange Box. I want to kill dinosaurs with a knife. Turok is the John Rambo of wherever Turok is from.
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