I hate vents too. They seem pointless. But isn’t your profile picture a heavy in a vent?
I don’t think any vent is big enough to hold a heavy. It’s some sort of grating (I didn’t take it I found it on the TF2 wiki).
Ep1, the damn game kept crashing over and over and over and over at certain parts…like where you save the citizens
Just because you can’t play it isn’t a reason not to like it.
Never crashed for me.
Shitty rig methinks.
Apprehension.
Especially the beginning. Always a turn-off for me.
Protecting the launch pad from the striders, and Alyx from the AntLions was a chore…
The game had too many moments like that 
I’m shocked to see how many people disliked Xen, that was the highlight of the game for me! Not that it was the most fun part, just that I thought that it was definitely one of the things that made the whole game memorable, and for that I applaud it. I thought it felt very cold, lonely, and foreboding – it definitely gave me that eerie very-far-away-from-home, “you’re not in Kansas anymore” vibe – and in that aspect I thought it accomplished its job very well, despite the crappy graphics people always seem to complain about.
The most boring sequences for me were probably Power Up and On a Rail. They just felt very repetitive. I don’t think I’d change them to make them more “action packed” or anything though. On a Rail just needed the eerie music that the level started with to keep playing through most of it, and it would have been fine, IMHO. Power Up could have used some more ceiling collapses or Gargantua roars, just to keep you on your toes, and I probably wouldn’t have gotten bored as fast. I don’t know.
Also, the same goes for every part of Surface Tension following the Dam scene. :retard: runs and hides
The issue with Xen wasn’t the atmosphere (which I agree, was awesome) it was the shitty jump puzzles that they added. They took an amazing FPS and tried to turn it into a platformer. Rest of the game is stunning though.
When the train crashes or when you’re traversing the underwater part?
I loved the train crashing, eh, kinda. The underwater parts were boring. BTW cheap way to kill the icky is to spam it with your pistol…great way to conserve crossbow ammo…but who cares you get captured in a few :\
I liked the freezer area, thought it was interesting, and the area right before that up until the black ops and getting captured.
I didn’t really care for Interloper [mostly], lambda core, and some of blast pit…but it was great level design for its time. captured my mind.
On a rail, really repetitive and thus boring.
Interloper was awesome, in-fact all of Xen was awesome, why do people not like them?
You mean those really exciting moments, you didn’t like those did you :brow:
i loved thsoe bits, although I did get annoyed with them at first…
Sounds like most of the parts that you guys hate are the parts that make you love the game in the end.
For me its On A Rail!!!:
I loved the game and got up to there but with horrible brightness on my PC, I couldn’t see anything and eventually gave up on the level after a while. Came back to it a few months later and I didn’t know which way to go cause it all looked the same :@ !!! So i restarted the game and kept getting stuck over there and at Blast Pit over and over again to the point where I memorized all the levels up to On A Rail!
HL2 - the level where you strategically place 3 turrets around the room!!! Took forever to finish that!!
Ep2 - Pretty much the whole game had something missing. It wasn’t paced very well.
I like to mess around with the chapters I don’t like (in HL) with grenade-jump/satchel-jump/tripmine-stairs abuse. 
Especially with Xen.
Am I the only one who loved On A Rail and Xen? The only part of Xen I hated was Gonarch and the one with all the big boids flying around. A few less ass-rape-happy vortigaunts in the factory would have been cool, but, nonetheless, I still loved the factory (Interloper?).
ANYWAY: Disliked levels
HL1: Stupid boid level mentioned above
HL2: Beach sequence. Not that it’s hard or anything, it’s just boring after the first time, and I find myself just running across the sand to get it over with every playthrough, unless I’m feeling especially dedicated.
EP1: The whole underground area. Other than the 3-story car-park and final lift arena, I hated it all for some reason. The dark atmosphere was awesome, I just didn’t like the level for some reason
EP2: OMG! I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time I do the final level, with all the striders, I’ll take down the first two or three, and then, while I’m taking down the second or third, or whichever one it is, a strider will spawn northeast of the sawmill, and move impossibly fast to a location about a GODDAMNED MILE AWAY from the sawmill, and obliterate it. That’s the only achievement I can’t get. Goddamned strider. I’m seriously thinking about cheating in, spawning magnussons all over so I don’t have to wait for one to spawn or stop to pick one up, then turning off cheats and restarting the game to take that fucker down.
I know I keep getting off track, but I loved the sequence with Alyx dead and all the antlions and vortigaunts. It was fun, didn’t drag on, and had neat music.
There’s just so many parts of half-life that I loved that trying to name one that I hate always brings my mind by so many other things, that I just can’t not let be made known.
Reading more posts: I add to my own justification for why I enjoyed On a Rail: I just love trams. End of story, that’s what made it enjoyable for me… Sad, I know.
HL1: Can’t think of anything, I even liked “On a Rail”.
HL2: I didn’t like Nova Prospect that much, but more because of the setting than because of the gameplay.
EP2: Defending the launching platform got dull after the 5th strider accompanied by hunters or so.
i have to say i had a positive (< hate that word) attitutde (<that one 2) towards Hl and Hl2. even on a rail was fun for me…with hax. My favorite part is Anti-citizen 1, cuz all the citizens fought back at the big-bad combine. You have to admit you loved to see the Breen-screen fall, when the rebels got to it. The episodes were kinda bland to me. Both episodes were focused mostly on the combine, and it realy sucked out the classic, hit-the-zambie-with-that-crowbar feeling you get exclusive to the HL series. Hell, im pissing my pants waiting for Ep 3 to come out, but will never say the Episodes really got into the series.
I know I already posted here, but you guys reminded me that the boid level in Xen has got to be my least favorite. So what’s the “correct” way of doing it? Riding the pillar or butthole-cannon? Can’t remember which route I took originally, but I know I tried them all and didn’t have much fun 