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10-24-2004, 10:39 PM
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Location: New Mexico
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definitely not as harsh requirements as doom 3 but in my opinion the graphics are better.
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10-25-2004, 09:06 AM
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Location: San Francisco
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10-27-2004, 02:45 PM
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Location: San Francisco
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Embracing the goddess energy within yourselves will bring all of you to a new understanding and valuing of life. A vision that inspires you to live and love on planet Earth. Like a priceless jewel buried in dark layers of soil and stone, Earth radiates her brilliant beauty into the caverns of space and time. Perhaps you are aware of those who watch over your home And experience of this place to visit and play with reality. You are becoming aware of yourself as a gamemaster... --Acknowledge your weaknesses-- |
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10-29-2004, 11:56 AM
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halflife source isn't the original game in the source engine, i was very disappointed to find that out. the only real differences you'll see are the water effects and some physics improvements, but without the gravity gun to play with, and with the fact that the game wasn't designed with physics in mind it won't matter a lot. the levels, even the textures, are the same from the original, except for some slight quality upgrades that came with the halflife blueshift addon (higher quality models, guns, etc), though all still very much of the halflife 1 engine.
not that has any effect on my choice to buy the deluxe edition, but it bummed me out. |
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10-29-2004, 12:40 PM
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Location: Canada
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I'd like to know where you found this info? From what I've heard, Valve completely redid the game in the source engine. Please provide linkage or proof at least(Not that Im trying to say you're wrong), I want to know whats going on.
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10-29-2004, 12:53 PM
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Psycho
Location: Canada
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My bad, turns out you were partially right tooblekane. I did some hunting on the Halflife2.net forums and discovered that HL:Source will be the same textures, Blue shift models, and all the effects (Including physics) of the source engine, but thats it.
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10-29-2004, 04:03 PM
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Location: Canada
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Im really hoping your right. Valve's "collectors edition" just doenst seem all that appealing anymore. I was perfectly willing to shell out an extra $20 for the original Half-Life if it was totally redone, but not if its just got pretty water and physics. Hell, I might still just so I can get HL2 on DVD instead of CD, but its not a sure thing anymore.
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10-29-2004, 04:51 PM
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Psycho
Location: Canada
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It is available in stores as far as I know, but you might have to hunt around to find it. EBgames has it available for in store pickup if you order it online, although thats only in the states.
Im still leaning towards the deluxe/collectors edition because of the DVD as well.
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10-29-2004, 06:58 PM
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Heres the bad thing currently about getting Half-Life 2 tho. If you purchase it like i did, and get it via Steam, you have to download it. Recently, like last weekend, i added another western digital 74gb raptor to the one i have, and for obvious reasons, i set them up together for raid. In doing that i lost the half life 2 preload and counter strike source that i had on my drive at the time. Now, even tho im a registered user and purchaser of the "Silver" Package, the server is so busy, it wont let me download anything! I get this message "The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle any more pre-loads of half-life 2. Please try again in a few hours".
They really should put please try again in a few YEARS, because ive tried at random times over the last few DAYS and i cannot download a game ive bought via a internet streaming delivery service. My advice to you, buy the game in a STORE. Screw buying it through steam. |
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10-29-2004, 07:15 PM
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Psycho
Location: Canada
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Oh forget Steam. I hate it, I was planning on buying through the store. You can get the collecters edition DVD through stores as far as I know which I think Im planning on doing.
In summary. Steam = poop
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10-29-2004, 09:54 PM
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Yeah I honestly am regretting purchasing through steam just to "have it that second". Ill bet it comes out on tuesday, and like every other game, id just pick it up on the way home. Now im stuck with no hard copy ( will you be able to burn hl2 from steam to a cd or are you forced to keep downloading it ? ).
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11-05-2004, 11:34 AM
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Location: Phoenix
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Retail just saves you the time of downloading, but steam saved you the time of installing on day of release and just unlocks it. I <3 Steam
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11-13-2004, 05:16 PM
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Location: Kingston, Ontario
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Well the game does come out on the 16th, but if you preordered the biggest package, you will not get it uintill the 17th
 Thats the one I ordered so I got to wait an extra day...I find that to be bullshit. But hell I still get the game Quote:
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11-13-2004, 07:59 PM
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Location: New Zealand
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The Collector's Edition is nice and all but the packaging is absolute crap! It's in an oversized thin card box with a nasty corrugated cardboard inner which opens like the old school PC game boxes, in side that is the T-Shirt which is just jammed in alongside a jewel case with the mini Prima guide. It looks more rushed that Enter the Matrix.
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11-13-2004, 09:23 PM
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Location: Phoenix
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I dont follow this at all... The game is released the same day no matter what package, both normal and CE are released the same day. There should be no waiting involved, if there is its whoever you bought it from's issue.
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11-14-2004, 06:36 PM
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Sultana ruined my evil persona
Location: Los Angeles
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http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=344
I thought there'd be more talk on this here but I guess blar is the only one to buy it early. I kinda figured it would be sold early just like Doom 3 but I guess the Steam authentication comes to play (no pun intended) here.
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11-14-2004, 08:19 PM
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Location: MI
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My Friend (who's highly addicted the HL and has bought the Gold Edition as well as Pre-ordered the Collectors edition) picked up a regular retail copy on Saturday at Best Buy down the street from my house. He installed it and of course got the "Thanks for installing the game. It will be ready to play the moment it is released" message. So he called Valve and left a message complaining that if the game is supposed to only become available on the 16th why was he able to buy it early. A Valve representative called back within 5 minutes of leaving the message asking for specific info on where he bought it and how much he paid for it. The Valve rep (named Chris) stated that they were trying to collect as much info as possible from early buyers so that the would be able to go to Court on Monday against Vivendi for not being able to control their retail outlet sources.
To be continued I suppose.
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11-15-2004, 02:30 AM
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Location: Tacoma, WA, USA, Earth
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- it wasn't "released", it was sold prematurely by some dummies at some stores and it just snowballed from there. It will be "released" on the 16th, when Vivendi officially gives the green flag and Valve turns on Steam activation - the copies being sold right now cannot be played until the official date anyway |
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11-15-2004, 03:19 PM
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Location: Stormwind, The Eastern Kingdoms, Azeroth
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OH FUCK.HL2 Review @ IGN
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