Poll: Why does everyone think the Combine of the Half-Life universe are retarted!?

[SIXVI06]

What if the cross mutation made them more fragile? but able to spawn out of each others butts; which is the only way to explain their numbers.

And deep down inside, we all know Gordon Freeman is an avatar of Chuck Norris - just without the famed roundhouse kick; the gravity gun is actually a representation of Chuck Norris' fists. You know the world will end if the real Chuck Norris got hold of a crowbar.

 

[Zethos64]

The weapons that the resistance and Freeman were using were all stolen from the combine. I don't know about you but I try design the best weapons I can probably ones that could even pierce my own armor. Therefore the Weapons being stopped makes no sense.

And as for the combine being terrible. Most of the time you hit the from out of no where.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

The OP is...just...wow...I had to force myself to read that.


Suspension of Disbelief, said before.

And the majority of gamers would hate games that are more realistic, for example, if this was more realistic, you might have to unload to ammo clips from your pistol just to kill one combine, while they just have to aim at your head and keep pressing the trigger until they can stick their finger through the hole.

They tremble before the might of the powerful and holy Vortigaunt.

Spoiler

Hail.

Unrelated, Sanghelli would pwn the Vortigaunts back to Xen-just land the Shadow of Intent on them.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

To be honest, they need to receive an AI upgrade for the enemies, as they can be a bit dumb at times...
EDIT:

Why do people think the combine suck?

Because their AI is programmed to be less difficult than US Marines from HL1.

In the first Half-Life, US Marines were elite combat units that were very difficult to take down. They worked together, flanked you, and if you took cover, they wouldn't hesitate to use their grenades. Also, their accuracy with the grenades and their guns were ridiculous.

Combine, on the other hand, are pathetic in comparison. They don't take cover, they don't dodge your thrown items, they don't work together very much, and they make barely any attempt to run from your grenades. They just stand there and shoot at you with unremarkable accuracy.

While Marines were designed to be an FPS combat challenge, Combine were more-or-less designed to be fodder to your awesomeness, getting blown away and picked up by the super gravity gun, smashed by physics, and other things. The combine's threat to you is their numbers and artillery.

Let's not forget the fact that they perform several feats of stupidity, such as standing in front of you when you're drawing a car.

My favorite stupid combine moment was when a bunch of them were standing around, trying to snipe me with shotguns while I swung a giant cargo container cdangerously around them using a crane.

Ah yes, I did love those marines,
they kicked ass!

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

Also if they were as powerful as you want, the game would suck.

They could at least stop rappeling off bridges in front of moving cars, standing on hilariously rickety structures and humping exploding barrels. I never liked that HL2 couldn't seem to decide if it wanted the Overwatch to be a genuine threat or a bunch of pratfalling clowns to send sailing through the air.

True. It does make for some real comedy gold sometimes though.