lizards said:
the end to half life 2 episode 2 (which was my favorite by the way) dont read this if your playing through half life now
you go through stuff that it would problay take a whole division of rebels to do, kill enough combine to fill all the graveyards in the US, kill obscene amounts of striders and hunters, save alyxs life, and finally launch that the rocket that (at this point anyway) seems to have saved and liberated humanity
only to have to oversized slugs come through a fucking window and kill eli, it was the biggest cock slap ive ever endured
I believe that was intentional, seeing as there will be a sequel. (I still have hope!) It sets up a desire to kill the giant maggoty thingies. I can't remember the name right now, but it'll come back an hour from now, when it doesn't matter. Players won't want to go and kill more combine, more headcrab zombies, more antlions. Even hunters and striders, while pretty awesome and unique, have become less of a special thing to us. So they're throwing a new, extremely powerful thing into the mix to persuade us to buy the next game.
That said, yes. Especially the way in which he was killed...I don't want to know what that's all about.