Alyx is remarkable. You are in the Black Mesa universe. And it's appropriately horrifying. But in a perverse way, and this is probably a generational thing, I

Alyx is remarkable. You are in the Black Mesa universe. And it's appropriately horrifying. But in a perverse way, and this is probably a generational thing, I found the original PC-era Half-Life more immersive. Just could not stop playing until I reached the end. And was always rewarded with a narrative that got weirder by degrees. I think it was the novelty of getting stuck and seeking out trustworthy walkthroughs from some anonymous dial-up era phpBB forums ;)