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Half-Life 2 Going Gold on Monday? [updated]
Warrior-GS writes "According to GameSpy, Gabe Newell has announced that Half-Life 2 is going gold on Monday. Numerous retail outlets have Sept. 1 or Sept. 2 as a shelf-date for the game, so a gold announcement now seems to mean those dates are fairly close to reality." Given that HL2 is already available on Steam, this doesn't sound too far-fetched. Update: 08/28 19:27 GMT by T : Kraiger writes "According to HL2 Fallout the announcement of the futuristic FPS, "Half-Life 2", going Gold is a complete hoax! According to HL2 Fallout, the announcement from Gabe Newell, a Valve Software employee, was created by someone who was able to guess the simple password of "gaben" for Gabe's forum account."
As seen on the forums " UPDATE
After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell’s account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake. While we can't be 100% certain at this stage, all indicators point towards someone hacking the forum account. That said, all Gabe's previous posts on these forums are quite legitimate.
We apologize for the confusion and will be investigating further. Theoretically, an IPB forum account should be very difficult to hack. Well, that was the theory at least. We'll keep you updated. "
The admins of HL2Fallout have already stated that they feel this is a hoax. The "Gabe Newell" post came from an IP which Gabe has never posted from before. For right now, they're erring on the side of caution.
... will go "gold" in December... 2008.
Its been on preorder for me for a month now. I'm not a big gamer but HL was such a gripping game to play and the mods are so good they definitely brought a new dimension to gaming for me. Heres hoping its as good as its predecessor.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
The latest from Amazon UK is that it will be available from 1st November. It was being reported as 3rd September up until yesterday. (Needless to say, I've got a pre-order in with them).
-MT.
-MT.
There are so many coupons floating around, Do they really expect to sell any copies of this game? Seems to be they've already "sold" it when they took the money from ATI.
I may be a bit sensitive to this because one of the other games I looked forward to (Battlefield Vietnam) had a set of conditions to use the online anticheat system (to my knowledge mandatory for Internet gaming) that were intrusive enough that I just shelved it. I just want to buy it and play it, not open my use of the software up to unwarranted scrutiny.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
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http://www.csnation.net/comments.php?id=7475
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php
All the info you need to know this is probably fake.
Gabe also said that the release date for HL2 was going to be September 19, 2003.
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I think it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the release to be availiable on Steam once the game does go gold. Concievably, once they make the final build it could be up in a matter of hours. Since many people already have most of the game downloaded, this could mean that they could also be playing the game within hours of the final build being made.
SIGFAULT
...for the US mens basketball team.
This going to be an improvement over the version I downloaded back when the source code was released?
Hopefully a lesson was learned then, if you use microsoft products (like outlook/express) then you are SOL.
... that was Sept. 1 of this year, or next year? Just wondering.
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
Do you happen to work for s2games, or not realize that half-life and half-life2 do NOT share the same game engine. Or have i just been hooked by a troll?
If they don't share the same engine that's even more reason for it to work on linux and mac.
I am sick of appologists for MS-only products. One good game on mac would decimate all the competition and EASILY pay for itself. It is good economics, the only reason people wouldn't do it is because of myopic bastardry.
Finally I could go install that central heating control system in hell since it had started freezing there, and then the lord of lies calls me to cancel the order
Pigs have just flown. Details at 11.
Let's hope that it's not as bad as Doom 3 in matters of interactivity. Do you remember that, after the first Doom there was Duke Nukem, where you could interact in a lot of ways with the 3D environment. There were more things to do, special weapons, cameras, holoduke etc. That was then. But now, in 2004, the level of interactivity hasn't increased at all. With some exceptions, like Deus Ex and System Shock, it's still the same game as 10 years ago. Has gameplay been replaced by hype?
Seriously, Valve can kiss my ass.
... they JUST figured that out? For a game that was supposed to be ready last year?
- They lied about the release date last year until the last possible second.
- The lied about what the expected system requirements would be. Until very relecenly they were quite low
- Steam is funtionally spyware. It obtrusive and unnecessary. We already have a "content delivery system" - it called FTP.
Usually all I hope for, when I game is troubled like this, that it is fun in the end. Not in this case. I hope HL2 sucks and it's a major black eye for Valve. I'd rather have an un-fun game be released; it's a fair trade to see Valve get what they deserve.
I'm not too bothered about the eye-candy side, I'm just hoping the gameplay and narrative sides of the game live up to the original Half-Life. If they do, then I'll be a happy camper.
-MT.
-MT.
Oh no, not another camper...
word.
D3 scared the crap out of me too in a few places, but in the end it turned into pretty boring monster bash.
HL2 seems to have a much more interesting plot and more varied gameplay.
Well how do you know that until you play the game? HL 1 was very immersive I can only guess that it will be that much better. In fact playing Doom 3 feels very much like HL1 story wise. And yes I know Doom 1 had the general idea first.
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Regarding graphics its not D3 but it pretty darn good looking.
http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/492/4
The thing is D3 is all about cramped indoor environments. Hallways and Offices etc. HL2 looks to be much more in the vein of cityscapes and outdoor areas which after D3 will actually be VERY refreshing. Don't get me wrong I'm still enjoying being scared by D3(and yes headphones are the ONLY way to play!) but I'm kind of over the whole walk into dark room, have imp jump out at me. The formula while still fun gets really stale 2/3 in. And fuck are those half-baby half fly things annoying.
Anyway while Valve has really pissed me off with the delays I'm still very much looking forward to HL2. That and hitting people in the head with a crowbar. HL2 is looking to be pretty different from D3 and that's a good thing. My nerves couldn't take another creep and get scared jump fest.
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Just what does "Going Gold" mean?
:)
Pre-sold x copies?
Code ready so CDs can be mastered?
Available in shops to buy?
Cracked and available on bittorrent?
Bullshit.
"Brrr! It's getting cold down here!"
The Chronic *WHAT* les of Narnia!
I could see it going Gold on Monday to be honest...
I mean, if you're looking at a November 1st release date, and about a month of making the retail boxes... Assuming the Nov. 1st release date is accurate of course...
I had a woody and everything.
Now I have a chance of finishing my thesis before my funding runs out.
CounterStrike: Condition Zero went gold twice before it came out. HL2 is gonna be so much better, it'll pry go Gold 3 times!
The funny thing is.. I DO INFACT work for S2games. Well i DID. I was a senior artist as S2 on savage. Left on good terms, they're all great folks.
BTW i did not write the anon post.
I have to say that after looking through the screenshots from the link there, the engine behind HL2 doesn't look a patch on the Doom 3 engine. In fact, closer to GTA2! The vehicles look pretty angular, and the characters more "cartoony".
You're confusing artistic interpretation with the ability of the engine. Either one could be used to render, for example, The Simpsons quite easily, but where it's limits lay are the real tests.
I think their kinda late for an april fools joke.
Tons of people play Counter Strike, and they all complain about how outdated CS is. I think everyone really wants to know if CS2 is going to be ready at the same time as HL2, because thats where the real market is.
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have you seen the facial detail and animation?
it blows Doom 3 out of the water and over the horizon.
Doom 3 environments looked good, but I wasn't really impressed with the characters.. Many suffered from a commic book look: tiny head big body syndrome.. And facial expressions were poor and cartoony.
I think the key to the success of CounterStrike & Half Life is that these are not Ultra new age , system hogging games.
They run on moderately powered PC's as compared to Unreal and other system heavy games.Thats what created the mass apeal as a larger amount of people can play them.If they follow the same principle i think It should do better than the first part.
Lord of the Binges.
let them burn in hell as the only system that you could play on it is a windows os, how uncool
Whatever. When Half-Life came out it choked my 233 non-graphics-accelerated PC. For at least a year after PCs were still being sold without any decent graphics cards.
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Does anyone have any info on when TF2 will be released?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
You can already get the hardware - it just _priced_ like it's weight in gold. ;)
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
The only content on steam are things like textures, sounds and maps (things that wont change before the release). No executibles download. The point of this is so that when the game comes out, people can get it really quickly because they will only need to download maybe some scripts and the executable.
Could I get one of these cakes delivered?
While some of what you said was true, there is probably no way in hell that someone with a GF4MX can see all the wonderful things on someones face in HL2. In doom3 each rendering pipeline for each card practically looks the same. HL2 will just be a slow mess on anything not ATI.
Gabe also pointed out the Duke Nukem Forever will be out in time for Christmas!!!
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I can't wait!
That is part of the reason. Hell, they even work on the computers at my school!
Marvin knew: "Think of a number, any number..."
Uh, clearly written by somebody who has never had anything go gold... Before something is going gold, you have release candidates. You test the release candidates intensely, and if you find no bugs, then it goes gold. So you can't say on Friday that you are going gold on monday, unless you already know you have no bugs, in which case you already should have gone gold...
If this were real, he would say that they had a release candidate. The difference between an RC and Gold is testing, which is what will be happening between now and Monday...
have you seen the facial detail and animation?
Actually, yes I have. It is almost as good as the Doom 3 facial animations. But I would certainly say the facial geometry of the HL2 models is significantly worse than the models for Doom 3. Not only that, but the unified lighthing system for Doom 3 accentuates the geometry making the faces incredibly lifelike.
Doom 3 face screenshot
Half-life 2 face screenshot
Doom 3 certainly blows HL2 out of the water, and HL2 hasn't even been released yet. And Carmack is already working on Doom 3 engine updates, some of which will significantly help in texturing skin to make people look as close to a photograph as you can get with this technology. Non-unified lighting will significantly hurt HL2 in the "engine war" if you can call it that. Pasted textures on low-geometry faces is not going to cut it, especially when directly comparing it to Doom 3.
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I'm curious how many people there are like me who received a voucher with their ATI card for Half-Life II over a year ago?
Now, we get (no - are forced) to login to Steam to sit like everyone else and try to 'preload' the game. Needless to say, preloading is impossible- Valve has capped their servers and apparently did not plan to scale them accordingly for this.
So I could care less when the game goes Gold. I'm just curious why they chose to open up preloading to everyone when many people purchased graphics card that included half-life 2; and found out a couple months later that Valve can't maintain network security and our included copy will come in a year or so. I think preloading should have been opened for those who had their vouchers already to pay them back for the deal gone wrong.
I wonder if postloading (ie, after you pay) will be capped in such a way that very few who have all day to click the preload button will be successful too? Wait...I did already pay...hmm...
somebody guessed his extremely obvious passwordp ic=4221&st=360
http://members.lycos.co.uk/lemmingzappa/Post.JPG
http://www.hl2fallout.com/forums/index.php?showto
http://ipod.fresh27.net/
http://www.hl2fallout.com/forums/index.php?show
maybe this is how his email account was hijacked last year during the leak of the source code last year.
There also was a demo available for Half-Life (not sure if it was available before it was for me but holland is always slow with game releases) wich would have told you if it the game ran on your hardware.
Your second machine ain't much better for games. Celerons are office machines. Not meant for games.
This post isn't meant to put you down. I just want to point out that you have to buy the right hardware. Sure cyrix and celerons are cheap but they are also jokes for gaming. You would have been better of with AMD. (Certainly warmer)
Don't buy "cheap" office hardware and expect to play any games. Better to either save up a bit OR buy cheaper real hardware. Those cheap processors leave out features that games need. Need more in fact then a few extra mhz.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
No, not my legs, the other thing - I can't feel anything from the tiny shrivelled part of my heart that still cared about HL2. It just doesn't look that great, and the sneak peek previews haven't exactly been raving. That, plus the near total silence from the developers other than the gfx card 'bundling' debacle, and it's two thumbs meh from me.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I have the preload already. It was only about 1 GB, but I can see where that's large enough to be at least the core game. As far as the game note being ready, there are a bunch of torrents floating around that are supposedly *not* the beta, but the final release. Those are almost 1.2 GB is size, so I'm doubtful that those are the real deal. But what I'm wondering is: Have any of you scurvy dogs grabbed the torrent and tried it?
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
From later on in the "gold" forum post..
Gabe Newell
Valve Software
Posted: Aug 28 2004, 10:35 AM
Maybe he shouldn't have used 'gaben' for his password. Come on Gabe, you could of thought of something better than that
Back then I was a very, very broke high school student and cheap "office" hardware was all I could afford. In fact most of that hardware was given to me by friends who knew of my desperate need for it. You're 100% right about it being horrid for games, but that was the point of my post... trying to be amusing in the sense that college kids eating all-ramen diets is also amusing. ;)
And while I will certainly admit the second machine wasn't very good either, it was about a billion and half times faster than the Cyrix, and more than enough to run the orginal Half-Life.
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
I remember when HL came out and I ran it on my 233 non-graphics-accelerated PC without problem. Since the levels were all divided up in small segments, even loading wasn't that bad. Maybe you were just running it at too high a resolution.
This is very annoying - this game has been hyped for LONGER than Doom 3, and all of these options are available except for the most important one: Actually being able to PLAY the game!
I don't care about your Gold, Plantinum, Plutonium Enriched Gray-scale Spiderman UPC edition release - PLEASE just release the game and please stop 8====> teasing us!!!
Sure it's a small market, but apples aren't. Lets say they sell 10k apple copies. 10k x $90 is a fair few programers
Computer games on the Mac cost $90?! Well, even if they do, $90K isn't even going to get you two developers with the talent to work on a project like HL2. Maybe not even one.
Of course you are missing the small detail that all Doom 3 cutscenes are rendered in realtime.
I ran HL on a Cyrix "166" (i.e. 133MHz) in software, it was quite playable (at 320x200). The later added Voodoo allowed the game to be played at 640x480.
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This should be modded Overrated or Redundant.
This game is nothing like Doom3; it is NOT graphics intensive. It's more cpu intensive due to greater use of physics and AI.
This game was demoed last year on high end hardware at amazing speeds. The "leaked" source ran beautifully on my machine then (an Athlon 2000+ with a 9500 Pro and 512MB RAM). CS:Source is playing NOW at cybercafes around the country on normal hardware (I personally played it on athlon 2500+ with an NVidia FX something-or-other).
I'm personally resigned to this game being VERY underwhelming. We've been hearing hype on it for years, and it was pretty damn cool last year... I think it'll be really damn cool, but I don't think it will be revolutionary or anything. I also know it won't spur nearly as many upgrades as Doom3. Which is odd, because I think this game will be so much more replayable than Doom3. Once you are done with Doom3, there's little incentive to play again from all the reports I've read.
IANAL, but I play one on
GTA2 was top down sprites with a little 3d environment, what are you talking about?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
1. Everything in Doom 3 is rendered in real-time.
2. The NPCs look as good as the Doom marine as you are looking at them more than you are looking at yourself in the mirror.
Perhaps you should be comparing unified lighting versus non-unified lighting!
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I haven't been able to get a clear idea on exactly what you get with the Collector's Edition. I've heard that it may contain HL1 redone on source engine and TFC redone as well. But no confirmation on that. I certainly would love that if they were included though.
Half Life was a fairly rig-intensive game when it first came out, and CS was in fact even heavier on systems. In some cases, playing CS required special tweaking, if your computer didn't have enough memory:
CS uses more RAM than HL and TFC, so those with 32megs of RAM are having problems. In your command line, set -heapsize 32000 -- or try other values, smaller or larger -- depending how much RAM you have. (from counter-strike.net) The reason CS is popular is because it is a great team mod with an appropriate reward system for playing well ($$$), and takes away some of the repetetive running and gunning that results when you respawn constantly. Also, it was based on an engine that was made very popular by HL, so a lot of people were able to start playing without buying a new game.
Years later, CS is still popular, despite it's aging graphics and hardly updated gameplay. Yes, now anyone with half-way decent hardware can play it, and that may add to its popularity, but that is not the source of it. It was something new, and the rest of the gaming world has yet to come up with something that seriously challenges it in terms of mass appeal.
I didn't think, after playing CS since the first betas (I quit playing after 1.4, as it had been too many years of the same game!), that I'd ever find fast-paced quake/unreal based game fun again. I was wrong, though--Onslaught is very fun.
-Dan
My PII/266 with a RivaTNT handled Half-Life just fine. And I had that system before HL even came out.
I think the only game that came out then that would choke my system was Trespasser.
Sigs are for losers
10k x $90 != $90k
10k x $90 == $900k
Should get you two developers. Even those overpriced western ones.
And, in related news, the Duke Nukem Forever team has announced plans to rush ahead with their much-anticipated release to meet or beat Valve's release date for Half Life 2. More details when they emerge.
The date of release at this point really depends only on two variables. When Vivendi Universal would lie to release it vs. when Valve would. VU would like to release it in november to pad their quarter 4 earnings report. Valve and by this I mean Gabe N.,would like to release it in September. When it is released is dependent on how much pressure Valve can put on VU. They actually have quite alot since I'm sure that they haven't signed anything regarding publishing of HL3 and can always offer to take their business elsewhere
That would totally rock!
Ever heard of Direct3D?
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Mod this guy up.
And proven false, there are things in this story that still don't add up. Just look at the release dates, who here has heard of a game going gold on Monday, getting all the CDs pressed, games boxed, collector's edition stuff gathered together, shipped so that it will be in all the retailers hands so that there will be no unfair early selling advantages on/before the date, and then have the game 3-4 days later be released?
I sure haven't, from my understanding that it takes at least half a month to get to the point were the game has gone gold to shipping and in the stores. Doom 3 went gold on July 14th, and wasn't expected to hit the shelves until August 2nd. A 3-4 day window is a huge potential for disaster, and given the way Valve has been bitched at for missing and changing dates I doubt that they would announce it with that time frame.
Also while the game is undergoing pre-loading, from my understanding it is just the parts that are final (i.e. sounds, some textures, etc) and still leaves Valve open to sending out the final stuff. So while there is evidence of HL2 making some progress, it doesn't mean that the game will be shipping soon.
Cartoony?!?, you're playing D3 and you think the Characters in HL2 look cartoony?!?!? Hell the Characters in D3 look like playdough characters with a plastic sheen filtered over their faces. Have you even played CS: Source? Even the characters in that are more real then the characters in D3. That and if you really want to be scared you'll play Silent Hill 4 in the dark at midnight with a damned good 5.1 surround sound system. Of course if you're sacred of D3 you might have a heart attack but oh well!
Erm, 10k x $90 = $900k.
why do people think that half life is based on the quake II engine? Half Life 1 was based on quake I, Half Life 2 is a completely new engine.
There was never any mention of any release date? Just it saying it was going to go gold (and when does someone preannounce it is going to gold?)
.. And I have a moderately-aged AthlonXP at 2100Mhz with a GeForce 4ti 4600. Game runs fine. I mean, sure, it doesn't run like Quake of course, but the game is so far beyond Quake 3 in graphics tech and it still runs fine. The great thing is, when I upgrade my computer it will look even better!
If you play games, you must know that you'll need a fairly recent machine to play new games. But I'm sure HL2 will run just fine on my machine. Maybe not at maximum quality, maybe not at maximum resolution, but it will run fine.
I'd much rather see more games that push the technology to the limit over games that cater to the people that keep on buying two year old technology to save a few bucks.
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I guess my HW specs are only good enough for trailers. Wait let me rephrase that. My PC is only good enough for LAN gaming, with all the eye candy set to low, and with 'monochrome' set to 'Y'.
Does anyone have the old trailer anywhere? (The one that was previewed in one a them Expos or E3 or QuakeCon or whatever).
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Started with the old 386dx/sx and I guess my bitterness blinded me. Just saw cyrix/celeron and went preachy. Sorry.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
If they follow the same principle i think It should do better than the first part.
Well, what did you think those delays were for?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
If you write "testlight" too many times youll go blind.
Doom 3's models look like shit. The humans look like pointy eared trolls and their facial features are overdone. I don't see too much difference between the facial animation however.
Nevermind I'm not fond of Doom3's lighting. Ooo! Everything has shadows!11111oen
Yeah, if only I could fucking see anything. Nevermind that Doom 3 couldn't do an expansive open environment if its life depended on it.
from the story at Gamers.com
...Half-Life 2 in stores around September 13th at the absolute latest.
Regarding the outdoor environments: What the heck do you base that opinion on? Have you played the Doom3 monorail ride? IMHO, that's a pretty feckin' impressive outdoor scene.
About the character modeling, I guess it's a matter of taste - I kinda liked it.
The only thing I was a bit disappointed in was that NPCs couldn't cast shadows on themselves or each other. A real player shadow would have been nice, too.
Don't whistle while you're pissing.
Besides fan speculations, there hasn't been much said about it besides Gabe's vague "The third is the collector's edition SKU with lots of cool bonus stuff for people who like cool bonus stuff."
So it is anyone's guess as to what the CE will contain, along with the rumored HL: Source it might include a music CD, a making of DVD, an official Half-Life 2 crowbar, Source versions of the HL add-ons, or maybe a head-crab figurine. Until they release more info or the game gets released, all we can do is guess.
Hit Fileplanet and look around for an "ultra ultra detail" mod. It enables self shadowing, but god help you if you don't have a godbox.
As for the engine wars, I find Half Life 2 far more beautiful than Doom 3, and I'm saying this having played through all of Doom 3.
A password of "gaben"!! It looks like he hasn't even learned the basics of network security following Valve's network breach
Actually, I would say that HL2 has slightly more polys in its characters, at least around the face, in the in-game models(not the normal map ones of course). A major complaint charged against D3's characters is that they have a "conehead" look where the edges are noticably angular, while HL2 seems to have enough detail to avoid this for the most part. I would put this down to D3's use of processing-expensive technology like the normal maps and per-poly collision detection, which necessitates slightly lower detail in the models. Future D3-based games, though, with more optimization and better target hardware specs, will probably be able to blow by this restriction.
This just means that the forums will be shut down for six months while they reconfigure it to only accept passwords at least six letters long, in accordance with Valve security policies.
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You are what you think.
he is a former Microsoft employee.
Ok, I know that retailers usually give dates that are incorrect, and my main point was addressing the write-up's claim of the release dates being close to reality.
Also I didn't get to see the original post, so I have no clue if it any dates were announced.
and when does someone preannounce it is going to gold?
Yeah, most just announce it when they are sure it is done and has been sent off to the presses. Announcing it when it did makes it so easy for them to go "oops, we found an error, so it won't go gold on Monday!" Wouldn't be surprised if this fake poster's intention was to give Valve even more PR problems, I think they wanted this to become a big delay that would push fans and others over the edge.
How would you feel to hear that after a long period of waiting and delays, it is announced that highly awaited game XYX is going to go gold on Monday, only to have it delayed yet again? I think a lot of people would be very pissed, and that was the reaction that the false poster was going for.
Ever heard of OpenGL?
What a dumb ass, you think Gabe would have learned at least something about security by now, espeically taking into account past events. Well, once a Microsoft employee, always a Microsoft employee.
- Create a hacked account
- Post an outrageous claim
- Wait
- Retract outrageous claim
- Profit
Note that the above sequence will get your product listed *TWICE* in most major gaming news sites. It's just a publicity stunt. We all know Half Life 2 will not be released for another year atleast. Move along, citizens.I mean, seriously, you think with the huge number of script kiddie half life fans not a single one of them tried that simple password until now?
...DNF?
Circumcision is child abuse.
I wish Slashcode would let "no text" really mean no text!!
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I posted this story at 2am what happen?
> According to HL2 Fallout, the announcement
> from Gabe Newell, a Valve Software employee,
> was created by someone who was able to guess
> the simple password of "gaben" for Gabe's
> forum account.
Suspicions were raised when the same announcement also noted how much Gabe "loved to take a nice hard one up the @$$."
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
So Gabe had a weak password on his forum account. Hmmm. It's quite possible he had a weak password on his PC, and that's why he got "hacked" and we had to wait so long for HL2. Nice. I bet the combination to his luggage is 1-2-3-4-5.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Gabe Newell ate him.
According to http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html:
"ATI Radeon 9600 Series 58,022". That plus my original post = 100K.
So your post is completely false.
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
Here's the deal.
IF it was to go gold on Monday why wouldn't they post a PR that it was going to?
The Steam preload is a desperate attempt at ginning interest in a game that must be more buggy than XP SP2. (or DOS 4 for that matter...)
I think we are months away from a release. Maybe 6 months before it aint buggy as shiite.
Here's a tip.
Play Far Cry.
Play DOOM3
Play with yourself, (solitare)
Do anything but sit there thinking HL2 is going gold monday, cause it aint happenin.
I remember the 3do. They had a game called "Way of the Warrior", that was going to kick all a$$ known to man. Month after month went by and when it came out it sucked long and hard.
Ahhh, mammories.
I heard alot about the ATI/HL2 voucher and naturally thought that the combo of ATI's excellent graphics and HL2's voucher would deliver the most incredible gaming experience ever.
;) Try a sticky note, they work for me. Keep it under your keyboard that will help!
Anyway, on with the review!!!!!!
Basics:
Well the voucher from outward apperance is basically just paper with words on it. The words mention HL2 and really get you revved up to start fraggin gibs, if you know what I mean.
Graphics:
Here's where eye candy meets the butt cheek. The voucher is in super high rez three d. I was plaing my voucher on a P4 2.4G with 512MB and a Nvidia TI-4200 and the voucher rocked. Once I get the card installed I expect the voucher will run much better.
Sound:
I was a bit disappointed with the sound. The voucher stays pretty quiet unless you wave it around a bit. I suppose tearing it up might make a nice 5.1 RIIIIP noise, but I am holding off on that for now.
Gameplay:
You folks who love the control of the original half life games will instantly feel the same realism when holding the voucher. I mean, it really feels like a voucher, it is like you are really there...holding it. Clearly they took a lot of time making sure the voucher felt smooth and realistic.
Overall and conclusion:
Overall there is nothing to complain about with the voucher. I have held other vouchers and none can compare to the look and feel of the HL2 voucher. Really nothing quite comes close to holding it and looking at it, and waiting. Waiting is the best part. The endless waiting. I love it.
The best part, I suppose, is thinking about all wonderful gaming moments I have had playing FARCRY, UT2004, DOOM3, and others, like nox. Such great times, and I owe it all to HL2 not coming ou. Thanks valve. Thanks gabe. oh, btw its gaben
Doesn't it seem like a somewhat bad idea for HL2 Fallout to reveal Gabe's password to everybody? If he is the type of person to use the password "gaben" on one account, he is probably the type of person to use the same password "gaben" on all his accounts. Somebody should really advise him that the whole world now knows his password, and that he should change it immediately (preferably not to "gnewell").
it's just be a port of the windows code to macos. most engines i've seen let u specifiy Direct3d or OpenGL even GLIDE! So i doubt it would take much time or effort to port it over.
With most mac games it seems its done after the game is released when the developers have a little left over time.
And everyone else in the war agrees Kerry was there.
How many times can people fall for the same marketing trick. Infinite.
So they use unpatched outlook, don't update their virus scanner's dat files and have easy to guess passwords..
I smell another delay with a silly excuse.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
I don't think id was really concerned about facial expressions and comic book style models...I think they were more interested in creating an enviroment to make the user paranoid, scared, and ready to jump at any minute.
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