Official Half-Life 2 discussion thread.

Mutant Headcrab · Post by **Mutant Headcrab** » 2004-11-15 10:38am

With less than 24 hours left till it's release, I decided to go ahead and start up the thread for it. So, who all is ready to start playing come midnight?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-11-15 10:43am

What eez thees Haff live you speek ov?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-11-15 10:53am

I wish, but I haven't got a third of the machine needed to effectively run that hoss.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-11-15 10:57am

Color me as one who gives....this much................................................
(.) about it. I'm not installing that Steam monstrosity onto my machine.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-11-15 11:09am

MKSheppard wrote:Color me as one who gives....this much................................................
(.) about it. I'm not installing that Steam monstrosity onto my machine.

Steam has long since gone from evil to wonderful and functional.
Don't get me wrong, I was very much against steam, I was in the first closed beta for it, it was a real mess back then. Though on the up-hand we did get to try out new versions of DoD... and CS. It crashed, it was slow, it took forever too connect.

Now it's great! Even dial-up folks can use it... just so long as they don't load games through it.

I myself most likely won't get much time in until tuesday afternoon, got an important test tuesday. Which means between today @2pm and Tomorrow at 3am I'll be devoted to studying.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-11-15 11:10am

MKSheppard wrote:Color me as one who gives....this much................................................
(.) about it. I'm not installing that Steam monstrosity onto my machine.

Steam is around 40x better than when it was first released, Valve learned their lesson from the first few releases and its now pretty much seamless

@#$%@$@ Preorder getting here on Thursday

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-11-15 11:19am

Joe wrote:I wish, but I haven't got a third of the machine needed to effectively run that hoss.

It can play with even less than half the requirements of Doom 3.

EDIT:
By the way, I know exactly when the delivery is supposed to be at Gamestop. So I'll be waiting for my copy of the precious.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-11-15 11:40am

Well it's cheaper and there is a bunch of extras in the silver package so I guess I'll be getting that one.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-15 11:41am

MKSheppard wrote:Color me as one who gives....this much................................................
(.) about it. I'm not installing that Steam monstrosity onto my machine.

Steam kicks ass.

Only thing I have against it is how it torments me - "A locked copy of Half-Life 2 has been preloaded onto your computer"

GAAHH!!!

Labs tomorow mean I won't get to play it until after lunch though T_T

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-11-15 12:09pm

Now it is on my computer... Have to wait till tomorrow evening to play... Damn work... Would look suspicious to be "ill" at work... <grrr>

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-11-15 12:13pm

Joe wrote:I wish, but I haven't got a third of the machine needed to effectively run that hoss.

Me too, sort of. I've pretty much got all the requirements except for the graphics card.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-11-15 12:13pm

I'm getting it when I get a new PC at Xmas. I've waited an additional year for this game, another month or so won't kill me.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-11-15 01:14pm

What are the various packages (silver or whatever) you can buy, what do they come with and how much?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-15 01:21pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What are the various packages (silver or whatever) you can buy, what do they come with and how much?

See here

I was very tempted by Gold, but went with Silver. I need the money for other stuff

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-11-15 01:24pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What are the various packages (silver or whatever) you can buy, what do they come with and how much?

Gold includes: A number of HL mods redone in Source, 3 posters, the soundtrack, a City-17 post-card, the official strategy guide (apparently a good read) and some other stuff.

Silver includes: IIRC, the source mods, and something else. Halflife2.net might have more info.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-11-15 01:34pm

Okey, and tommarow, at midnight EST or PST(not sure) the NDA will be lifted, which means a deluge of movies, reviews and all.

Curses all of you for getting it tommarow, I will be getting it only Friday, with RTW stuck in.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-11-15 02:55pm

Ace Pace wrote:Okey, and tommarow, at midnight EST or PST(not sure) the NDA will be lifted, which means a deluge of movies, reviews and all.

Curses all of you for getting it tommarow, I will be getting it only Friday, with RTW stuck in.

PST, all game companies use PST. I guess it's because they live there or something crazy like that.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-11-15 02:58pm

Probebly, though some places use EST or GMT.

Then PST, 10 hours back, so for once, if the mods allow, I will post my GS pass in HoS, to allow everyone full acess to stuff who wants it

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-11-15 03:15pm

Ace Pace wrote:Probebly, though some places use EST or GMT.

Then PST, 10 hours back, so for once, if the mods allow, I will post my GS pass in HoS, to allow everyone full acess to stuff who wants it

Assuming you mean Gamespy, that's a good way to get your account disabled.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-15 03:44pm

Here is a review Here

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-11-15 03:50pm

Gamespot gives it a 9.2. But it confirms that the only official multiplayer is Counter-Strike. Damnit! Who else wanted Gravity Gun fights?

EDIT: Ha, beat me.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-15 04:01pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Gamespot gives it a 9.2. But it confirms that the only official multiplayer is Counter-Strike. Damnit! Who else wanted Gravity Gun fights?

EDIT: Ha, beat me.

I agree, I would have liked to of seen that.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-15 04:29pm

Why the sudden posting of reviews? Over here PC Zone reviewd it last month.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-15 05:34pm

What? It isn't out yet?

*Pokes countdown timer*

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-11-15 06:20pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Gamespot gives it a 9.2. But it confirms that the only official multiplayer is Counter-Strike. Damnit! Who else wanted Gravity Gun fights?

EDIT: Ha, beat me.

The gamespy review I just read said the same exact thing. But you know what, I'd wager that by the time we are done with the single player there'll be a map/mod out which makes FULL use the gravity gun.