Half-Life 2 Comments by Kristan Reed
The original game had a decent Half-Life, and this one looks like it might too...
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It's almost like walking into GAME on Friday and finding Duke Nukem Forever on sale.
That's a likely as finding Lord Lucan in the queue in front of you with Team Fortress 2 in his hands... It does seem to have caught everyone off guard, first the crowbar teaser Edge had and now this flood of stuff. Good, make the game then hype something you can show rather than promise the Earth every year and don't have anything to show for it. |
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There's going to be a lot of pissed of magazine editors out there.
They get the biggest gaming exclusive of the last couple of years and it gets leaked 2 weeks before their rags go on sale! I really am excited about this, Doom3 I'm interested in because it'll show off the technology we'll be seeing in games for the next few years, but I'm not particulary bothered about playing the game itself. |
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/Moonswalks across thread/ Shaaaaaaaamon. /does some more dancing/
Sep 30th is a Tuesday....I bet they make us UK monkeys wait until the Friday. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be drawn into getting all excited, but DAMN I'm excited. Someone get me some ice. Quickly now. Ooooh. The only time you'll hear the gaming community being enthusiastic about getting a repeat dose of crabs. |
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There's going to be a lot of pissed of magazine editors out there.
One of the mags, not sure which one, has at least hit the newstands of America, the other has just fallen foul of early subscriber copies. Ho hum there's plenty of people who'll pick copies up to actually get a decent look I suppose. Anyway isn't print supposed to be dead! :-P |
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"Taking place sometime after the events of the bizarre ending of Half-Life, the sequel is set in City 17, a fictional Eastern European location that has been overrun by an invading horde of spindly-legged aliens"
Er .. this all sounds strangely familiar... *coughs* |
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LaundroMat
23/04/03 @ 14:34
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What with Valve's commitment to the mod community, wouldn't it be an interesting first to let people develop mods for the PC as well as for the XBox? Theoretcially, such a thing could be done. I think.
Or maybe they could just watch as the PC mod community develops, and then pick the best ones out, adapt them to the Box, and then offer them via a Live update. On publishers: I guess Valve's in a very luxurious position now. The publishers'll be coming out of the Valve offices with their pants way below thier knees. |
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BradlayLaw
23/04/03 @ 14:36
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I'm kinda pissed. I was all up for giving up on Windows forever and getting a nice PPC970 powermac when it came time for my next upgrade but now I have to get a new pc :(
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I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't have a publisher yet, or at least it didn't until fairly recently. Valve could afford to do it by themselves and they'll get a cushy deal now - probably even cushier than if they had signed up with someone at the peak of HL mania.
Remember the original HL is about 5 years old and think of how various publishers fortunes have risen and fallen since then... much smarter to sit and wait till the game is nearly finished and then let the fight commence. My money's on Activision, though. |
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Amazing how the "in game" shots look absolutely nothing like the grainy "Starship trooper alien through the jail cell bars" shot though, innit.
I wondered about that too, but the gun you're holding in the grainy pic is also in some of the other pics, and it's held exactly the same way. So it seems it's all in-game after all. Nice :-) |
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prettyboytim
23/04/03 @ 16:08
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Interesting that it's being distributed via shops and their Steam system. They're gonna need servers from God Himself to be able to handle the load though - they already got fucked over by a simple CounterStrike update. Just think about how many people will be hitting their servers an 0:01am on the 30th...
On the other hand, it does mean that us Eurogamers won't have to wait for the boxed version to hit our shores... |
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Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like installing HL again and giving it a good play through with all this news of the sequel?
Way ahead of you there mousey. Currently deep down in Blast Pit. And I've been playing through saving as many people as possible. At one point in Office Complex, I had 4 Scientists and 4 Barney's all standing in the same area. :-) |
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Moonbender
23/04/03 @ 18:03
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Um, I'm not complaining, but curious: isn't this feature violating a couple of copyrights? Or did you ask PC Gamer US and CGW US for those scans? :O
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