I was playing Half-Life 2 and I noticed online that everyone says the game is really easy. It wasn't for me, in fact, it was very hard. I was wondering why is was this hard since it didn't even have a choice for difficulty at the start. I then checked the options and it was on hard, and I thought they put it on default or something. I then remembered I put it on standard hard difficulty so i could play the Bioshock demo on hard. So yeah, I was hugely frustrated with this game up until now, but since it was at Nova Prospect, I kind of didn't want to set it to normal since I already got this far.
I usually always play on the hardest difficulty anymore. HL2's problem is they mixed in to much Platform stuff into a FPS. It's hard to judge depth and things when you have no peripheral vision.
Everyone says it's the weak link. I'm stuck on the Striders, on hard mode they kill you near instantly.
