Half-Life 2

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 17, 2004, 11:59 am

Ok its been out for more than a day and im suprised no one has posted anything. What Ive heard so far is that it completely destroys doom3 and halo2. I know at least some of you bastards have it, out with the details!

Kargyle · Post by **Kargyle** » November 17, 2004, 12:43 pm

Mind blowing. Doom3 is probably on par graphically, but the game play and atmosphere in HL2 is a step above any other FPS game.

I haven't played Halo2, so I can't make a comparison there.

I will say this. If you were only going play 1 FPS this year, HL2 would be my recommendation.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » November 17, 2004, 6:30 pm

I got it today, its fucking wonderful. Only problem is my computer seems to be crashin during loading. Reckon its my GFX card.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » November 18, 2004, 5:07 pm

Is it playable at all with my GeForce 4 MX 420, cheap-as-fuck graphic card? Have 2.6ghz processor and 512 ram.

Trias · Post by **Trias** » November 18, 2004, 5:27 pm

i compared my comp stats to others playing hl2 via the steam network

and it does appear people are downloading at least when having a geforce 4 mx...i can't say it will work though, really not sure

the game is fucking awesome btw, granted i've only played 30 min so far

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » November 18, 2004, 11:57 pm

downloading as we speak....

noel · Post by **noel** » November 19, 2004, 12:06 am

Installing as we speak.

Also charging my new MX1000.

Edit: As an aside, I think Steam is a heaping pile of shit, and the fact that I have to wait indefinitely to unlock a piece of software that I purchased makes me unhappy.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » November 19, 2004, 1:16 am

I almost bought this through Steam earlier this evening then I realised I don't wanna waste an extra 49.95 for 5 days of play until WoW goes retail.

TheDarkreigns · Post by **TheDarkreigns** » November 19, 2004, 3:32 am

Bought it day of release. Beat it after 2 days. Fun game but a little too easy.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » November 19, 2004, 1:16 pm

noel wrote:Installing as we speak.

Also charging my new MX1000.

Edit: As an aside, I think Steam is a heaping pile of shit, and the fact that I have to wait indefinitely to unlock a piece of software that I purchased makes me unhappy.

Mine's still working great! It may take a day or two to adjust from the MX700 to the MX1000 completely with the slight change in form.

Laser rules. Optical is outdated and anyone that still uses a ball mouse should take that ball out and shove it up their ass!

Happy Friday.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 19, 2004, 1:52 pm

Edit: As an aside, I think Steam is a heaping pile of shit, and the fact that I have to wait indefinitely to unlock a piece of software that I purchased makes me unhappy.

Its the way of the future, get used to it.

noel · Post by **noel** » November 19, 2004, 6:16 pm

Animalor wrote:I almost bought this through Steam earlier this evening then I realised I don't wanna waste an extra 49.95 for 5 days of play until WoW goes retail.

To clarify... I purchased the software in the store. I brought it home. I installed it. The installation took a little bit. I clicked on 'Play HL2', and then I had to wait AT LEAST 20 minutes for Steam to let me fucking play it.

That's fucking stupid.

So far the game looks great, plays great (though my character feels like he's sliding when moving on normal ground a bit more than my taste) sounds great, and is a lot of fun, but I'm not ready to crown it as the greatest FPS evar yet.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » November 19, 2004, 6:25 pm

That's because there was a supposed patch after the game was packaged and shipped -- and the sliding afaik is the suit

TheDarkreigns · Post by **TheDarkreigns** » November 19, 2004, 11:16 pm

The only problem I had with the game was the fact that I wasn't able to use my 4 speaker surround sound. Needs a fix for that. Other than that was an excellent game but I have to say it definitely wasn't the king of all FPS.

valryte · Post by **valryte** » November 20, 2004, 5:59 am

Laser rules. Optical is outdated and anyone that still uses a ball mouse should take that ball out and shove it up their ass!

Track ball here baby! You know what I love the most about my Logitech trackball. It's also a security device. No one can fucking use my computer because they can't deal with the track ball

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Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » November 20, 2004, 8:51 am

valryte wrote:
Laser rules. Optical is outdated and anyone that still uses a ball mouse should take that ball out and shove it up their ass!
Track ball here baby! You know what I love the most about my Logitech trackball. It's also a security device. No one can fucking use my computer because they can't deal with the track ball -

Damn right, trackball fo' life!

Kguku · Post by **Kguku** » November 20, 2004, 8:53 am

I've been using the trackman marble since it first game out. I upgraded to the USB version of it as soon as it came out too.

Post by **Xouqoa** » November 20, 2004, 2:45 pm

I don't understand the point of Steam.

If it's for security, it doesn't work. It's quite easy to go out and download a working copy of HL2 from anywhere already, and it's only been out a few days.

Acun · Post by **Acun** » November 20, 2004, 8:50 pm

Dont you also get the new Counter Strike with HL2?

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 20, 2004, 9:56 pm

yes you do

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » November 21, 2004, 9:06 pm

....thats it.

I've played for 2 days, and thats it! Im shite at games, it should take me 4 years to complete one without cheating!

Loved the graphics, story-line was fantastic, but they could have gone in so much more. Eh, lets hope they bring out good add-ons (bareny and stuff) and hurry up with the new one.

valryte · Post by **valryte** » November 22, 2004, 2:27 pm

Hey Cotto, did you play with auto-aim on hehe

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » November 22, 2004, 2:31 pm

no

...yes

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » November 24, 2004, 1:16 pm

Legitimate purchasers are always the ones that lameass copy protection inconveniences the most. It's always been that way.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » November 24, 2004, 2:02 pm

Aslanna wrote:Legitimate purchasers are always the ones that lameass copy protection inconveniences the most. It's always been that way.

Same with DVD movie buyers these days. HD movies are better quality but you can't buy them legally so you can buy a DVD and then record the better copy off of HBO-HD for actual viewing.

Ebumar · Post by **Ebumar** » November 25, 2004, 2:12 am

Was too short. Fucking amazing game though. The engine was awesome. I can't wait to get to the modding stages.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » November 27, 2004, 8:23 pm

I'm trying to get my hands on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. It uses the same engine as Half Life 2. With the exception of some AI issues etc, people seem to be loving it. Anything that uses the HL2 engine is worth at least a look at this point.

If I can track it down and play it, I'll post a review.

Ebumar · Post by **Ebumar** » November 28, 2004, 7:53 pm

Yeah, me too. I've been playing the pen and paper vamp since I was 15. So I'm all about the video games.

Whats your opinion on the new eddition of vampire? I like it - a lot of people hate it, but its only because they are stubborn and lazy.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 9, 2005, 3:01 am

Winnow wrote:
I'm trying to get my hands on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. It uses the same engine as Half Life 2. With the exception of some AI issues etc, people seem to be loving it. Anything that uses the HL2 engine is worth at least a look at this point.

If I can track it down and play it, I'll post a review.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platfor ... loodlines/

Almost 4 months laters I installed this game and it's pretty good. Awesome graphics. They made good use of the Half Life 2 engine. The voices, music and atmosphere is pretty good. Nice range of powers to use.

It's max res is only 1600X1200 so I wouldn't buy it as it won't fill up my 1920X1200 screen. Still looks good in 1:1 pixel mode.

It's worth checking out if you find it on the newsgroups. 3 CD's. Use Alchohol 120% to virtually mount the first CD to play after installing. Best dancing I've seen in a game from models (not saying much for games but they don't look completely retarded) at the Asylum club in the game combined with a good mp3 soundtrack makes for nice atmosphere. This game scores high for sound effects.(and automatically high for graphics with HL2 engine)

Fash · Post by **Fash** » March 9, 2005, 11:24 am

hl2.... the best game engine ever developed, for the worst game ever concieved.

hl2 and doom3 are interchangeable there.

noel · Post by **noel** » March 9, 2005, 11:35 am

Fash wrote:hl2.... the best game engine ever developed, for the worst game ever concieved.

hl2 and doom3 are interchangeable there.

Seconded.

Personally I think HL2's engine > D3's

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 9, 2005, 1:09 pm

noel wrote:
Fash wrote:hl2.... the best game engine ever developed, for the worst game ever concieved.

hl2 and doom3 are interchangeable there.
Seconded.

Personally I think HL2's engine > D3's

Third'd

I haven't looked hard, but I don't see a lot of games being developed using the HL2 engine. Bloodlines showed some real promise. The special abilities of the various vampires had some nice special effects. A lot of items are photorealistic.

I haven't played HL2 multiplayer. Does the engine perform well in online/multiplayer mode?

Fash · Post by **Fash** » March 9, 2005, 1:15 pm

Winnow wrote:I haven't played HL2 multiplayer. Does the engine perform well in online/multiplayer mode?

i played counter strike source multiplayer on the hl2 engine.. it ran incredible.

hl2 >>>>>> doom3

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 9, 2005, 1:37 pm

Fash wrote:
hl2 >>>>>> doom3

Seconded

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » March 9, 2005, 1:38 pm

Tough call.
HL2's physics + Doom3's graphics would be a pwn game.

But.. HL2>D3.

Counterstrike, otoh, is great with the source engine.

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » March 9, 2005, 5:04 pm

Counterstrike is just a filler for me until DoD Source is released..

unless Brothers in Arms multiplayer is really really good.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » March 10, 2005, 12:15 am

Erolz NTurnet wrote:Counterstrike is just a filler for me until DoD Source is released..

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » March 10, 2005, 2:20 am

Any word on DoD release date? And what servers do you guys play CS:S on?

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » March 10, 2005, 12:54 pm

well i play dod all the time. So that above statement is false. So far dod is in closed beta and only open to a couple of people. The next phase is probably going to be another closed beta but with a lot more people.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » March 10, 2005, 1:04 pm

I play mostly on FY maps.
Name on frineds is "Akaran".. I go for whatever server is up, open, has a map I like and people playing on it when I log in.

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » March 10, 2005, 1:31 pm

On gametrailers.com, there's two movies of DoD:S you can view if you search for them. It's nothing but really crappy video of someone running thru Avalance and Flash though.

If you want to find me, just go to gametiger.com and do a search for doodoobrown. Usually I'm on a server called [TRU] Fun | Virginia FF ON or something like that.

cid · Post by **cid** » March 10, 2005, 2:18 pm

Here is a great server for cs

http://www.cs-collective.com

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » March 10, 2005, 3:09 pm

Erolz NTurnet wrote:On gametrailers.com, there's two movies of DoD:S you can view if you search for them. It's nothing but really crappy video of someone running thru Avalance and Flash though.

If you want to find me, just go to gametiger.com and do a search for doodoobrown. Usually I'm on a server called [TRU] Fun | Virginia FF ON or something like that.

theres a thread on the official steam-dod forums that links to a ton of videos of dod:s. A lot of them are just people playing around with the ragdolls though

edit: Also, steam friends sucks with with passion of a crack whore. I use xfire all the time. http://www.xfire.com . It does what steam friends does and more. Plus *gasp* it works all the time. My name on it is MassDestruction.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » March 10, 2005, 4:14 pm

i'm rellix2 on xfire

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » March 10, 2005, 5:02 pm

Yeah Steam sucks. I haven't been to the Steam forums in a loooong while and my friends list had been down even longer. Logged on for one map last night and got fed up with the asshats. So instead, I watched the first half of the BSG miniseries while playing EQ2.

I really need to get Netflix so I can watch Farscape or something.. oh yes, and a life would be nice too.

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » April 15, 2005, 9:03 am

I finally bought this last night, and all above statements about its greatness are true. It runs better on my box with full settings than Doom III, which kinda pisses me off, but it is what it is....but on the box the requirements are lower than Doom's, so I imagine it is just how it was programmed. My system is a 3.0ghz P4, 1gb ram, 6800 ultra, SATA HD....and like I said, turn it all on, no problems.

The reason I decided to buy it lastnight, is because Gamestop had the DVD version for $50. I have so many game CD's laying around, it is nice when companies release a dvd version. And no, Gamestop does NOT have the regular version any cheaper, it is still $55...so it pays to buy the collectors edition.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » April 15, 2005, 10:34 am

Could have downloaded it through steam for 50 bucks - no CD/DVD

noel · Post by **noel** » April 15, 2005, 4:22 pm

Question for the CS fans...

Do I need a separate copy (license) of HL2 to act as a CS:Source dedicated server? Or could I install HL2/CS:Source on an separate box only to act as a dedicated server?

Thanks in advance.