THE MAC GOD

Definitely a great piece!

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Vyk

Definitely looking forward to this. Though, my pocket book is not


*is gonna need to upgrade ye olde gaming machine*

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Ragman

I can't wait for this, but I'm afraid I need a new computer very badly in order to be able to see its graphical goodness.

zcwrx

I've been upgrading my hardware in anticipation...

YaWhateva

Dunno if you know about it but you can preorder Half-Life 2 at EB games now.

I think Half-Life 2 will kick Doom III's ass.

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MrGone

i need to see this

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bobstar

I believe this game will be a trend setter and a classic for years to come, just like Half Life

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TenDeuChen

must...see...hl2...video..now!!! can't wait for this...omg...it's going to be great...doom 3 won't be too shabby either though...

hope my p41.5ghz/geforce4 will handle them nice enough not to make me wanna get a fitter, happier, more productive machine...

(can anyone guess what i'm listening to...lol)

Nappa

Once I have HL2, Deus Ex 2, and Doom 3 I plan to hibernate in my apartment for an entire month. Good time to be a gamer.

YaWhateva

Your system can defenitely handle Half-Life 2, they made it with low system requirements, 700 MHz being the minimum. But the graphics are so amazing its hard to believe that 1.5 GHz with a Geforce 4 is the recommended system setup(which it is).

Arm

I almost don't even care about the game itself...that engine looks incredible.

What's really going to be interesting though is to see how long it takes for the community of HL (i.e. CS, TFC, DoD) to come out with hl2 versions. Also, it'll be interesting to see if the aforementioned new versions come anywhere near to the current ones in terms of popularity; I know a lot of mods have not retained the same numbers when switched to a newer engine (AQ2 to RQ3, for instance).

THE MAC GOD

well, galaxies is now shipping... just thought I would pass that along

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zcwrx

Minimum requirements mean nothing. But i do believe a 1.5 w/ at least a gf4 5200 should be ok. My radeon 9800pro & athlon 2700+ is a little more desirable.

zcwrx

Agreed.

YaWhateva

no the minimum requirements are a 700 MHz pentium 3 with a geforce 2 and 256 megs of RAM. what I said is what they estimate you can play the game on with everything set to full.

zcwrx

yeah if 10fps is ok.

YaWhateva

lol, but they did say that this game will require a surprisingly low end machine to play full, they are making it like half-life 1 so that everyone can play, at least thats what they are saying.

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zcwrx

Hard to believe by the video, but I read the same thing in CGW. That'll be nice for some, but I got my card and proc. just for games like this and I can not wait!!!

YaWhateva

me too. I just got my nice new processor just came in today.

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F2.8

I was at a loss for words when watching this video. The thing that really caught my attention is how they designed their speech engine. One can record a sound and the modeling/speech engine will move the model's lips to mouth-out the words fairly accurately. That is innovation!

I am building a box just for this game.... sigh, and I though I was beyond that!

nico

Definitely looks to be a promising game

Jack Ruby

The video looks awesome. Fuck John Carmack and his "I'm a genius, I'll do it all by myself" attitude. I admit, Carmack is a genius but if I have to choose between one genius programmer and ten really good ones, I'll take the second choice. All the work that's obviously gone in both the technology and the game itself has definetly paid off - id Software's "basement developer" philosophy clearly doesn't work anymore for first-person shooters.

The thing I love most though is the comeback of the old scientist, and of course - the G-Man. Say what you want about Half-Life's ending, but I loved how the G-Man sort of explained the story without giving you the underlying motives for what had happened. Let's hope this gets cleared up in HL2.

"Well, Mr Freeman... Looks like it'll be just like old times." =)

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Bonesaw

must replay HL. Nothing else good out right now worth playing.

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i saw part of the preview and it's freaking awesome! AWESOME! u can do so much stuff...so much freedom! almost better than vice city

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zcwrx

ALMOST!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!! Good one d00d!!!! HL2>any game yet.

Gortexfogg

I saw this movie at a lan party....wow. They gaming industry always says "Oh, this game will change gaming forever." Some games do that some, most games don't. If there was one game that was going to turn the industry on it's head, it is HL2. I can't even believe it looks soo good!

From311

I am a crazy DX player, and we (the rest of the crazy DX players) have been reading the Ion Storm forums to find out terrible news for DX2, like NO INVENTORY, and ALL weapons use ONE IDENTITCAL TYPE OF AMMO... BTW if anyone else plays DXMP then hit me up ingame, I am {Ø}Hydraulic.

I saw a video...of it from E3, the lighting (VERY cool) and the engine look amazing but gameplay is going to SUCK.

Also, is there a HL2 page I can get to for system requirements? I think all that has been mentioned here is about the video, and I'm on dialup! ha ha - so a 500 MB video won't quite do it for me.

PEACE (my first post!)

From311

Oh I forgot -

In addition to DX2 sucking, the user interface will be EXACTLY THE SAME for PC as for X-Box versions of DX2. This is because the people at Eidos and Ion Storm are little bitches and only want money.

DON'T BUY DX2!

TIO

I admit, I was dumbstruck at the HL2 video, but stepping back from it, there's really nothing there that's new; it's all just improvements on the same old ideas. The last big leap in FPS was the death of sprites; nothing new has happened since.

(Still, I can't wait to play it!)

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From311

Ha ha sprites were terrible - remember the old Doom and Doom 2? There were only 2 angles you could see the demons at, and only angle you could see dead bodies from.

Caser

all i have to say about half life 2 is COME OUT ALREADY

STOP HIDING...ITS SAFE TO COME OUT

hahaha

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acpower

it's going to be the coolest frikken game in the world

Looften

The graphics are impressive, but most of the really cool moments both in Half-life, and I'm sure in half-life 2, are the scripted ones. Scripted events depend more on the storytelling abilites of the creators than graphics of physics. It's all well and good to use fire extinguisers and helicopter blades, but if those items are placed there, it's generally intended for you to use them. No game creator in this genre is going to be surprised at they player's inginuity.

I hope Valve makes a game as good as half-life, but they haven't done much except sitting pretty for quite awhile. Lets hope they didn't lose their edge.

Jeff

I've been hearing rumors about delays to HL2. Wouldn't surprise me if they pushed it back to December.

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mrquackers

That's certainly possible, Jeff, but Valve itself has denied those rumors. And Sierra, which is where some people were reporting they got started, has said there's no delay at this point.

Other developers and publishers began sniping HL2 at E3, when I went to see them for various appointments. The cone of silence breeds skepticism, definitely. But I also got the feeling they saw their sales during the holiday sales period in danger of slipping considerably.

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portwineboy

I've been dling the vids from fileshack in the last week. Same stuff as the E3 promo vids but much better quality. The game looks completely amazing....but how will the storyline be? HL grabbed me because the storyline was amazing AND interactive. I may not have played a role in developing the story ala Deus Ex or Blade Runner, but I certainly felt like I was part of it.

Doom3, HL2, Deus Ex2...yep, I'll buy 'em all, but you know that they won't ALL be good. C'mon boys and girls, you weren't all THAT good this year, Santa won't be that nice to y'all.

My bet, one kicks ass, one looks great, one sucks entirely. No clue which way it will roll though.

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"One kicks ass": DooM3
"One looks great": Half-Life 2
"One sucks entirely": Deus Ex 2

Those are my picks.

YaWhateva

man i dunno, i think Doom3 and Half-Life 2 are gonna kick ass and look great in their own ways. Doom 3 will be more of a fantasy type of looking great and a scary, destroy evil monsters type of kick ass, whereas Half-Life 2 will look fuckin realistic as hell, and will be more of the half-life type of kicking ass.

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ningato

I am now the proud owner of a half life 2 playing machine. p4 3ghz 1gb ram ati 9800 pro 128mb. Man All these other games I play look fantastic now too. Now I just have to wait till christmas to get halflife 2....

Tickford

Cant wait for it....... I will be needing a new PC....

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