THERE ARE EVIL ALIENS YOU MUST KILL THEM.
ALSO THERE ARE ZOMBIES.
ALSO STARSHIP TROOPERS.
In other words, you would describe Titanic as "Big boat sinks"
I don't play FPS games to enjoy the plot, I play them because I want to shoot things from a first person perspective.
Reviewer who doesn't care about plots saying the plot is unoriginal mkay
No, because Left 4 Dead is a zombie shooter. It doesn't even try to hide it. The whole plot of left 4 dead is "There are some zombies. Here are some guns. You want to go that way."
And the half-life series started about zombies in the first place. As said, it has a variety of enemies.
They are cliched and boring.
Manhacks are very original; enemies being used before that that weren't exact duplicates in the first place=/=cliched. And you can say boring about any game you want. Fighting a large number of powerful enemies, solving puzzles, even racing style play and taking down Striders (as you said) is one of the most exciting aspects of the game. "Boring" is an opinion, and if critics say it isn't boring, they mean it. Maybe if you play it through again multiple times, it gets boring. If you get bored doing the puzzles... grow an attention span.
Name another game that uses a crowbar that is not made by valve. I guarantee there is not one because a crowbar is one of the stupidest things to use as a melee weapon. I would rather be swinging a frozen sausage at them than a crowbar.
Sharp edge + weighty swing + awesome for ingenuity +
handy in the first place (see:Half-Life) = crowbar as a famous weapon.
. Then Narkro had to come in and suck Gordon Freeman's rooster praising it as the best game that ever existed
Well you support Halo so you suck Master cheif's rooster olololol!!1!
Also, it is not the best game that ever existed. I could name a few that are better IMO