10 Video Game Sections You Didn't Know You Could Skip
9. The Lighthouse Battle - Half-Life 2
In Half-Life 2's mid-game chapter "Sandtraps," you'll get to the end of Highway 17 and reach Lighthouse Point, a coastal Resistance base which ends up being attacked by Combine forces. Gordon must then help protect the base during a lengthy, protracted shootout.
But creative players have found ways to skip right past this. The siege sequence is triggered by parking your vehicle in the area and approaching a Resistance officer who calls you over, but if you do neither you're able to sneakily circumvent it.
By either piling items up into a platform-like formation or grenade-jumping, you can propel yourself onto a grass verge in the area, which you can then follow around to reach a cave-like entrance nearby.
This entrance leads directly into the next section of the game, the famous antlion beach, while saving at least five minutes of your time in the process.