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Half-Life 2 Delayed?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @06:23AM from the just-a-little-while-longer dept.

Cirrus writes "Gamers had a bit of a disappointment when they found out that Doom III would not be available this year as previously hoped. Well, now it appears that Half-Life 2 will not be shipping until December. As a Half-Life fan, I can say that I would rather have to wait a couple months than sacrifice the quality just for an earlier release date." Update: 07/30 18:17 GMT by CN : There's an update over at Shacknews that says that Valve is still on schedule, so maybe I (and several other sites) totally jumped the gun on this one. Here's hoping.

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Re:Internet Journalism at its Finest by Zathrus · 2003-07-30 06:39 · Score: 3, Insightful

As opposed to the unsubstantiated rumor that it's delayed in the first place? From such a highly regarded news source as Gamespot (which is where the "story" broke)?

Yeah, that's journalistic integrity right there!
Better a delay... by Randolpho · 2003-07-30 07:16 · Score: 3, Insightful

... than a buggy game. HL2 is worth the wait -- as long as it's not vaporware.

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1. Re:Better a delay... by wickedj · 2003-07-30 07:34 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  I agree with you. Just look at Blizzard's Starcraft. It originally used the Warcraft 2 engine and the images were changed to represent space. It looked horrible. Then they pushed the release waaaaay back and came out with one of the best games for pc ever. I think a little delay will only help the final product in the end. Of course, there is no evidence that there is a delay, but just in case.