HL2 finished

[fivemack]

I've finished Half Life 2. It's beautiful, great effects and excellent set design from beginning to end, and I've enjoyed it all the way through, even if the action goes through interesting and obvious contrivances in order to move in a remarkably straight line. It got frustrating from time to time (the climactic Strider battle; the second defence in the prison), but never hopelessly so: I have a Gamecube which I have not touched for months, having spent hours failing to defeat Flaaghra, to handle the giant beetle in world two of Pikmin, or to creep sufficiently subtly into the Forsaken Fortress. It was absorbing all the way through; I haven't played Doom 3 for months because the game-play was getting too tediously repetitive.

It's also, as far as I can tell, impossible to re-sell, since the registration process has locked it to an account access to which is required to play any of my other Valve games.