Popped a couple of Achievements that I liked, too: Just runnin’ and gunnin’, with no more driving sequences (so far). Episode One plays just like Half-Life 2, but–to my happy surprise–is much more focused and direct, with little room to get lost. Gordon and Alyx, now armed with some vital computer data, have to make it out alive. Also, looks like the world has gone to rubble. I guess, in some manner, I know how the previous game ends, but the opening cutscene with the aliens, um, making sexual gestures with Alyx was particularly disturbing. Without knowing how Half-Life 2 concludes, I quit to the main menu and started up Half-Life 2: Episode One, and boy was I confused. So, I did something I hate to do: I skipped ahead. The switch will not turn on, and after looking around online, I found some other Half-Life 2 players frustrated with the same problem. So, I have a hard save from the beginning of Nova Prospekt and an autosave moments before the switch is to be flipped reloading neither worked. I figured my journey through a linear shooter wouldn’t need it.
And unlike Fallout: New Vegas and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, I do not make a thousand and seven saves. The worst is that the game autosaves a millisecond before approaching the switch. I even tried throwing a computer keyboard at it. When it’s on, it should turn green and open some doors. You eventually stumble across an alien that was tortured to death, and a switch upstairs that opens the main gate, which I assume leads to the level’s exit. We’re indoors, at what looks like a security prison of sorts. You just toss this weird, alien ball at a group of them, and the antlions pounce like it’s feeding time. In the Nova Prospekt level, Gordon Freeman has a bunch of antlions on his side, which make fighting off armed soldiers a lot easier. Especially considering how long it took me to get to the Nova Prospekt level, which I’d estimate is about three-fourths of the way through it all. Mostly because I can’t seem to find a way around it save for starting Half-Life 2 over entirely, something I’m not interested in at all. I keep running into these horrible glitches, but this one’s the worst.
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