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Why does she have a cut on her face? What did I miss?

So glad people mentioned STALKER already. No final boss. Just a final goal. I felt the 'boss' bit of STALKER: Clear Sky felt tacked on. Deus Ex could go either way, there's a final antagonist, but you don't fight him, you complete one of a few tasks to defeat him. The sequel's the same way...

No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, while the bosses themselves were relatively simple shoot-a-person levels, had well done cinematic endings. Deus Ex, while not having a final boss per se, had good endings. But endings are one thing, bosses are another. I always felt the final boss from...

Aedn's not alone. HL2 is certainly a great advance in graphics. The facial expressions built into the engine? FanTASTIC. Just incredible. The realism in the simplest expressions of depression in the beaten-down citizens is wonderful. The realistic echoes off tiles and in city alleys are almost...

Ecco the Dolphin, the CD version, had some really nice (if perhaps a bit dated) ambient new-agey sound. It stands on its own musically. And since it's redbook, it spun in my CD player for years. Back in 1997, I took a summer vacation with some friends, went to Washington DC. We took a train...

Amen to that. But for console players who haven't been playing online Quake or Unreal Tournament or such, it's new ground. And hey, it has a story, at least, more than some FPS. But yeah, I'm playing the Marathons for the first time every, and boy howdy, letdown. I mean, I play old PC games...

IP? What, the storyline? Or did it exist before the game as a tabletop and I missed it?

I've lurked and read for awhile, but I finally registered for the forum for this thread. Half-Life 2 and its Episodes. Sure, it's pretty. It's an awesome technological jump. But it's missing much of the panache, depth, and most of all RESOLUTION of the original. There's basically one humanoid...