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Oh my fuck. The black spiderheadcrabs made me stop playing for the night. They are absolutely disgusting and naaasty. Im going to bed. Love it. |
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There's a fucking Doom moment of complete darkness. FUCK! |
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Still trying to "update" the stupid thing... Compy spex are: 1.8 G processor 512 M Ram umm.. ... and I updated my nVidia GeForce card, though I don't know what architecture it has. *crossing fingers, still bouncing tennis ball off the wall* |
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your specks are good enough to play methinks! |
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what's nice about that level is that you are forced to use the gavitygun, because you don't have enough ammo. love that gun! |
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oh for fuck's sake. If it's not in tomorrow's mail I'm going to buy another copy off steam. I can't cope with this. |
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mm, i seem to have a athlon 1600 and ati wdm theater audio and video. the opening of doom3 played aprox. with 1 frame per second. im pretty sure i wont do :( |
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i hope you know that you turn your flashlight on by pressing 'F' on your keyboard. its quite handy. |
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It was on but it was dark as hell still. |
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that must be like the fourth time you made that joke. |
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Ravensholm was very, very cool. the gravity gun proves yet again that the physics engine is the real star of this game. throwing those blades is great, but for some reason I much more enjoy splattering zombies by smacking them in the headcrabbed face with a nice fat radiator..! |
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i try to cover each halflife and doom3 thread :D |
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can I just reaffirm how great this game actually is? **SPOILERS** I had just finished Ravensholm and when I got dropped on the beach in that buggy, with all the Ant-Lions, a brief and light moment of tiredness came over me - oh god, not another airboat-like mission.. but it's not like the airboat chapter, no, it's just GREAT!! :D |
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*spoiler* I got so pissed off at whoever dropped my vehicle on the ground. The whole time I was in the air I was hearing antilions underneath and gunmen trying to shoot them, but it sounded like there were at least 10 down there, and I was thinking "oh god please dont drop me down there yet" surprise fucker! got my ass dropped UPSIDE DOWN into a orgy of antlions during mating season! Weeeee! |
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ha ha!! **ALSO SPOILER** I had the same thing! and then she dropped me and I was kind of lying there going "SHIT!" and then she goes "FLIP THE CAR AND GET OUT OF HERE!!". yeah, THANKS..! :) |
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hahaha those ant-lions are crazy. |
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They aren't as crazy as super-agile-zombie-things, but those goddamn antlions just keep spawning up with no stopping. |
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**SPOILER** * * * * * * You "extract" a pheropod from a queen antlion, making all the antlions loooove you :) And they make good allies. *** |
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That loud flatlinening beep that the CP make when they die is genious. Especially when the radio chick reports his death. |
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yeah but it also kinda sucks knowing that they can pinpoint your location after you kill one of them, the only thing that could make this game any better is if they implemented a 'sneaking/hide in shadows' option. |
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(1/2) So I beat HL2 singleplayer... after only 2 days. The period up until playing this game was the worst period of my life, as the game took about 8 hours to finally install due to Steam being the giant retarded piece of shit that it is. Luckily I felt a lot better once I started playing the game. I was incredibly impressed with the graphics/physics/gameplay (I mean, who isn't?) but, rather than talk about all the great things that everyone has mentioned a hundred times, I'd like to talk about the things I didn't enjoy from my 2nd dose of Gordon Freeman. Once I realized how ridiculously short the single player campaign is, and how unrewarding the ending is, I stopped seeing stars from the amazing graphics and physics and started to think about the actual shortcomings of the game. I sincerely feel like something big was missing from this game. The storyline didn't grip me at all like the first one did. I'm not sure why, but I never really felt like the mission I was on was extremely vital, or even urgent. I don't know, but to me it seems Valve relied on visuals rather than storyline to hook the player this time around. Also, the fact that you STILL cannot go prone, or shoulder (aim down the sight) the weapons is a major flaw in my opinion. If any of you have played Call of Duty or Chrome among a few others, you also probably have noticed how strange it feels to play a shooter that doesn't allow you to aim down the gun like you're actually planning on hitting your target. I mean, honestly, no person with any experience firing weapons runs around hip-shooting all the time; it's just far too inaccurate. While this may seem like nitpicking, I feel that for a game that was trying so hard to emulate the real world, the simple ability to not lie down to take cover or shoulder guns makes the environment still seem unnatural, almost forced. |
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(2/2) In that same respect, I was also disappointed by the game's almost total lack of open-ended level design; for the majority of the game, there was only one way to go or one way to compelte a certain objective. That did not sit right with me at all. With the physics in the game being what they are, where is the ability to destroy/change the terrain????? I want to blow holes in walls to get around the CP defenses rather than just charge them head on every friggin time. One of the things I was so impressed about from seeing the demo movies was how much all of the NPC's seemed to react to everything Gordon does. For example, stare at Alyx for too long and she'll call you on it. However, every attempt I made at this in game, the NPC's would just take 10 steps in the opposite direction and utter an almost frightened "sorry Gordon." Yet again, I felt as though the environment wasn't very receptive to the player, which detracted slightly from the game experience. All in all, Half-life 2 is a great game; hell it's the best game I've played in a long time, but for how fucking long I had to wait (6 years since the release of Half-life), I really thing Valve could have, SHOULD have done more. I don't think making the single player last longer than 2 days is too much to ask for, either. My Rating: 8/10 |
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I'd like to take a minute to explain why I think the storyline is a piece of dogshit. The plot of the original Halflife centered on a warp between two dimensions being created and lifeforms being sucked through to earth, while the the science team tries to undo the damage they have done, and the government special forces try to cover up the entire thing, which includes aiming their sights at Gordon Freeman. At the end of the game when you kill the Nihilanth and the G-man takes you on the train ride and tells you you'll be working for him from now on, it sucks for you a bit, but the game still feels complete. This time around, it seems that killing the "mastermind" of the alien invasion has done absolutely jack shit and now the "Combine" are in control. Not only are none of the alien attackers (besides headcrabs which I don't consider invaders because they were just lifeforms that got sucked through like everything else) enemies in Half life 2, only one of them, the Vortigaunts is still around, and somehow they now speak perfect English rather than alien grunts and are on YOUR SIDE. **SPOILER** What's worse, even once you beat the game, you never even get to find out who the "Benefactors" of the Combine are, how they are still in power even after you killed the Nihilanth and about 400,000 bad aliens in the first installment, where the Combine came from, or why their technology is so markedly different from the Alien technology on Xen in the first game. And if all that wasn't bad enough, Dr Breen is the only character you can be certain is a bad guy, but Valve doesn't even have the fucking decency to let you see him die, as time is frozen by the ever-annoying G-man just as his protective-orb thing is about to plummet to the ground.... |
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(Continued) Or is it really plummeting? maybe it's making a fast though controlled decent and hes actually just going to retreat to the next Citadel and start causing problems all over again. What I'm getting at is that the problem with the story in HL2 is that the little plot it does have is too convoluted to be rewarding, for me at least. I just hope some killer single player mods are made, because the as capable as the Source engine is, it can't hide a game's lack of believable story. |
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The game was far too short, I think they were probably forced to get it on the market before it was finished. It was aesthetically pleasing and fun for the 2 days that it took me to finish it. I do not believe it lives up to the original though. Certainly not "the best game ever" or whatever these junk magazines are saying. |
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I fucking hate the bugs, even tho they are my frieds but still they give me the creeps. |
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I couldn't agree with you more. |
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How many hours did it take to beat the single player campaign? Though I don't mind FPS' to be a little on the short side. Like 'em slightly-longer-than-short and sweet. I can only take so much fragging and walking forward. |
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Just finished it too. Yes, it was a short game, but as Ophecks said, longevity isn't something I expect from an FPS, and I have played much shorter. Yes, the plot was thin, the ending disappointing and there were parts that felt overscripted, but I still think the positive aspects of this game, the unbelievably realistic physics engine, the best graphics I have ever seen, the sense of complete immersion these things give you from the moment you first take a look around the first level, outweigh the negative. I still think the game marks the beginning of a new era, the Source engine is a massive achievement and I'm really looking forward to seeing what people will do with it in the future. |
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Even though the physics engine was ? It was impressive, but it was not valve's doing. |
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i hate it because i cant get it working.I have installed the game right.But when i shall start the game it wont start it just says:Unable to Authenticate original disk within time limit.I have read there is many other people who have experience the same thing |
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"“Havok has been working with Valve for almost three years to deliver breakthrough physical gameplay. Havok 2, launched at GDC 2003 incorporates all that we have learned from working with each other, particularly in the area of character control and ragdolls”, said Dr. Steven Collins CTO, Havok. it would seem they have been working together, influencing and helping eachother along, instead of the one just using the other. |
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What's the multiplayer/online/steam functionality of HL2 like? I've got a copy, and the game's fucking awesome (been playign it all weekend instead of doing work - heh, my eyes are all bloodshot), but, ahem, yes. I'll end up buying it anyway, but it'll be further justified if the online capability makes it all that much more worth it. |
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HL2 has no online form of itself. they packed a reworked Counter-strike with HL2, based on the same Source engine. it shouldn't be too long before modders have made an online version of HL2. the plus points of HL2 on the Steam system is that patches get downloaded automatically and you can basically download the games you purchased on any computer that you install Steam on and log in under your account. Friends is a service within Steam with which you can see if you're friends are playing any Valve game online (and you can talk to them, even if they're in-game) and where they are playing that game, etc. so you're using the cracked HL2? apparently Gabe Newell (head honcho at Valve) has said that this cracked version is a crafty ruse by Valve to catch and ban people from playing their games: "We're running a bit of an experiment. We're keeping track of the accounts that do this and will be shutting them off." (from ) this, ofcourse, sounds very improbable. how this could be technically possible eludes most of us, seeing as this crackz0red version will hardly be played online, now will it? |
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you can actually play HL2 online in itself, just create a server through console and have people connect to your ip - you can do deathmatch with custom maps - or even work through the actual game in a sort of cooperative sort of way. if you check some hl2 forums or search on google, you can find the commands to start a server. we did this at a lan last night, very fun stuff :) |
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Hey, I didn't say anything :-) And that's just a rumour anyway. Valve wouldn't crack their own game, however, it is possible they're tracking popular torrents of the crack. This means they can do two things: a) Keep track of the IP's that are downloading from the torrent b) Keep track of the Steam usernames that try to login with a cracked HL2. However, a is stupid because lots of ISP's use dynamic IP's, and to track down individuals this way is an incredible amount of work as they can't actually find out theirselves. b is also stupid because the proper crack disables steam completely and you never even /need/ to login. I'm going to buy it anyway, even though I've almost finished... er, my 'friends copy'. Horribly addictive, should be doing more work instead of playing games. Eyes are bloodshot as hell /again/ - I think this is the most captivating game I've ever played. |
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A co-op would be really nice. Anyone down for this, post here or add 'pchrome' to your friends list. |
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Question: Why the fuck do I have to wait 10 hours while steam updates just to play Half Life 2, which already has the offline version unlocked?!?!?!?!? If steam was a physical entity, I would fucking shit on it. |
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-) I wish I would've purchased through steam so that I could get HL1:source, and the rest of valve's catalog. :( -) We definately need to plan a massive xlt deathfestivus sometime soon. -) |
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shit, what's your connection? i connect at 28.8 (31.2 if im lucky). i will be receiving the grail tomorrow, hoping the installation procedure will go smoothly. |
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well, its supposedly broadband (it's free internet through my appt complex), though it usually downloads at around 7-10kb/sec... in a word, it's horrible. But yeah, after an hour+, it's still frozen at 30% updated. I seriously just don't fucking believe this.... what was valve thinking with steam? IMO, they really dropped the ball on perhaps the biggest game release ever. |
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Yeehar at last, got this free with G/card I bought a year ago!! Just gotta wait for it to ship from Canada now, wonder how long that'll take, another year maybe? |
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By the end of January Two Thousand and Five I expect to have acquired a P4 3.0 GHz system with 1GB RAM. Seeing as it is my moral duty to have experienced this game at least once, I expect this thread to remain bumped for eternity. Yours sincerely, me |
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horrible? sounds like heaven |
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It seems terrible! Becoming one of those passive button mashing movies like Final Fantasy! Pretty, but I want a game! gimme street fighter wooo! haha. |
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I beat it last night. The last stages are really fun (i wont spoil it), but I was hoping they would reveal a lot more in the ending (which was crap). |
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the installation went of without a hitch, half an hour i was in. damn what a fun game, i'm cruising about in that water craft at the moment, so fun! |
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I haven't completed this yet. Damn my lack of time. |
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i am currently in control of the ant lions, awesome. love that alien dude "free man". |
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I finally finished it. now I can read the last 60 posts (I pretty much stopped reading this thread when people would start writing 6-post reviews of the game). |
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