Half Life 2
 

I just downloaded the E3 presentation (it's on FilePlanet, but I got it through BitTorrent) - it's 508mb, 25 min long. I am absolutely amazed. The environments, the graphics, the AI... WOW. This is going to be THE game when it comes out.

It looks life-like! Everything in the game is interactive. You can move anything and break everything... use everything against your opponents too. EVERYTHING! That's what describes this game. "Everything" you ever wanted out of an FPS. Shit, I haven't even played it yet.

Yes, I saw this the other night at my friend's house. It all looks very impressive.

My favorite part though, has to be how you can notice even the demo machine suffering from lag. Looks like everyone will be upgrading . . .

Re: Half Life 2
 

I've only seen the E3 video, and even that is very impressive. When the hover-jet-flying-thingie crashed to the ground and actually slid towards you, pushing cars and whatnot out of the way -- wow. Very nice.

hmmm.... Half Life 2.....

I've seen that video at least 10 times. I can't get over it. It's gonna be a thinking mans game.
Made me start playing HL again :D

This will be the first game I ever pre-order.

I need to finish building my new computer before this baby comes out!!

lol did you guys see the strider spear that guy in the end with its leg. oh man is this going to be THE GAME. can't wait.

whats the release date anyone know?

September 16th I belive. I know it's September for sure.

/me counts the days

just think of all the games that will come off this engine...

I just watched that too. It's unbelievable stuff.

Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels....Telekentetic Gun.....Duels.... heheheh

Those telekenetic guns look amazing....when the player ripped the radiator out of the wall and used it as a shield, my jaw hit the floor. And when it hurled the sign letters at the strider....very sweet. And it seems as if a lot of those scenarios can play differently almost every time...great replay value.

So many great things. I must have said "HOLY CRAP!!" about a hundred times during the vid.

I saw the video....just awesome, I want to get the game

sept. 30 for the release

I can't wait. I've never been more amazed by what a game can do.

Considering what the original half-life spawned I am heavily excited to see what this new version can do to the world of PC gaming.

That video is sooooo nice. The graphics requirements concern me though. I guess that my upgrade for DOOM III will be useful for more than one game! :D

Damn that guy's voice in the background of the movie constantly bitching (jokingly) about if his 486 would play that game. Next generation graphics will require a next generation system (or at least the video card and a helluva lot of RAM). Plus, now everyone that downloads the video gets to hear him. Grrr...

thanks man

I never really played half-life 1, didn't have much interest in it. I think the engine is sweet though, hope a lot of people use it to make kewl games.

Amazing physics eh?

Imagine the mod potential *drools*

I just downloaded bittorrent....could u tell me the link to the half life video, I wanna check it out. Thx.

The mod potential is great... but the modders maybe not. I imagine it will take a more significant amount of work making the models and environments to all be interactive with the new physics engine. How many modders will be willing to do this?

On the other hand, those who are willing to do it, will probably be Very Very good.


Another game with a pretty detailed physics engine imo would be Halo. Cars get knocked over, can be launched into the air with grenades, etc. It's pretty cool..

Halo.bungie.org has a lot of the videos of such things.

Oh damn... HL2 is going to fucking own so much ass.

Taking a look at the specs for the game, I thought of a line from Matrix Reloaded: "Hm, Upgrades." Oh, well.

Yeah... ok... I practically had to tape his eyes open to watch it... he kept saying... "I'll download it later..." and "Carefull what you download" (hes got 100gigs of space)

Anyway, glad i'm right as usual... this game will absolutely rock...

One of the great things about Half-Life was the traps that were strategically placed in the game. Like a rotating fan blade that hacked up head crabs or a gun turret to mow down the hordes of aliens teleporting in. And then to learn that in Half-Life 2, there's a whole town filled with booby traps, I thought there's going to be some serious fun.

Yeah... I cracked up when I saw the head crab bodies get hacked... and then crawl for you! Damn... its gonna be good...

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG


I can't WAIT

yep its omg
 

well based on sept 30 date they are setting that as ship to manufacture date so they meet the quarter deadline. I would expect it to actually make it in our hands the following month. I can't preorder because every time i preorder i end up seeing it in some other store before my preorder shows up. I too am excited about the mod potential. interestingly there is no indication of any type of multiplayer in the dialog. I wonder if there will be zero multiplayer and that teamfortress 2 will finally ship for multiplayer?

They have mentioned that the Source engine (their name for the HL2 game engine) will automagically scale down to your system, within reason of course. I think they said it would scale down to a P3. I'll see if I can find the post where I saw that and post it here. This is the closest thing I can find right now from planethalflife.com http://www.planethalflife.com/half-life2/

" While the new engine has all sorts of fancy features, it's still designed to scale and work on lower-end machines. Apparently a 700mhz processor and a video card capable of running DX6 is enough, although a 2ghz with a GeForce4 is recommended. Rumors about NVidia or ATI exclusivity are unfounded."

I read an interview with one of the developers where they were talking about modding. They said one of the main reasons that the game has taken so long is the fact that they wanting to make modding even more accessable that in HL2. Hopefully this is truly the case.

I'm looking forward to the new Day of Defeat and CS mods...weeeeeeeeeee

There's a good chance for a Mac version ... can't wait...

There's hope for a linux version too.

I'm hoping that mod support will better than in HL. Pain in the ass getting your favorite mod broken by a new SDK that isn't backward compatable to the previous version. I really hope they learned from they're mistakes.

If you noticed, before E3 Doom 3 was the hot topic. Now that we have all seen the HL 2 demo doom 3 even looks a little dated.

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/feature...710_2221941__1

Here's a little interview with two valve guys. I thought it was an interesting read. These guys really have a great philosophy on designing games.

holy crap dude

it looks so amazing. i can't wait for this, wow.

Good comic... :)

On another note... I dreamt I was playing HL2 last night... hmm... obsessed much?

My favorite scene is the part dogsbody mentioned when the player switches on the helicopter propellor and the zombies walk right into it and get their torsos sliced. It looks like you can make some real fun use of game's environment.