>>715708747
It is a pacing issue of a sort, since BM very much uses HL2 as a blueprint. While HL feels more like an adventure where at times you might struggle for progress, BM feels like a theme-park ride. Even HL2 suffers from that same issue, but at least Valve knew how to keep things varied. BM sticks too close to the original's level design to pull that off. It's kind of trapped between worlds, in a sense

>>715714237
They're only 3 hours long if you get lost. Thankfully the masterful level design makes that completely impossible