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Half-Life 2 Ship Date Confirmed
An anonymous reader writes "Worthplaying has the scoop on the official going gold of Half-life 2. According to their information it has a confirmed ship/store date of November 16!" Gamespot has details on the ship date as well.
"Joygasm!"
Employee sick day.
and apparently it will be released on STEAM on the same date. I had hoped earlier since I purchased it through steam (to play CS), but alas, no early release for us STEAM-hogs...
Best FPS gaming site on the net... ok, well maybe not the best
I'm still waiting eagerly when the press release for HL2 going gold, goes gold. :)
Let's go for the gold!
And that sound was the collective voice of the geeks rejoicing!
Sigs cause cancer.
So I'll do a quick recap:
Needless to say, many more sources are reporting this already.
But to strip it down to the basics, just in case all these sites get slashdotted - it's officially gone gold (Vivendi Press Release), and it's coming out on the 16th November. Book the day off work Now!
Gamers Europe - Gaming News. Reviews.
Half-Life(R) 2 to Ship to Retail Outlets Globally This Holiday Season
/PRNewswire/ -- Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games)
today announced that Half-Life(R) 2, the sequel to one of the most critically
acclaimed PC titles in gaming history, will ship to retail outlets around the
world in November. The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve
Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16,
2004. The countdown to the highly anticipated retail street date has begun
around the world, as VU Games completes plans to ship localized versions of
Half-Life 2 simultaneously in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German,
Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18
"Half-Life 2 has surpassed our expectations in every sense -- its high-quality graphics, ground-breaking physics and immersive first-person shooter gameplay set a new standard for PC action games," said Bruce Hack, CEO of VU Games. Half-Life 2 will go down as one of the best-selling PC titles, and we are thrilled to deliver this ground-breaking title to the worldwide gaming community this fall."
Hailed as "...the best game ever made" by PC Gamer, Half-Life 2 earned a top-rated review score of 98, the highest score bestowed by the magazine in more than six years. The game has received numerous accolades for its technical excellence, captivating story and addictive game play, including more than 10 awards and nominations at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo. In addition to being named "Best PC Game" by 1up.com (Ziff Davis) and Gamespy.com, the title also received a "Technological Excellence on PC" award from IGN.com. CNNMoney.com stated that "Half-Life 2 will redefine what gamers expect from their games visually -- and the gameplay is a lot of fun as well."
The global anticipation for Half-Life 2 has reached unprecedented heights, as consumers around the world mark their calendars to buy the game at retail on November 16th. The Half-Life 2 product will include Counter-Strike: Source. VU Games will also release a Half Life 2 Collector's Edition that will include Half-Life 2 in DVD-ROM format, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, a free limited edition t-shirt, and a Half-Life 2 Prima strategy guide book.
The original Half-Life game was launched in 1998 under VU Games' Sierra Entertainment publishing label. It earned more than 50 game-of-the-year awards and has been heralded as one of the best PC first-person shooter games of all-time.
About Half-Life(R) and Half-Life(R) 2 In 1998, Half-Life revolutionized the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve's debut title was named "Best PC Game Ever" by PC Gamer and launched a franchise with more than eight million retails units sold worldwide. In 2004, Half-Life 2 will take the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original to new heights of realism and responsiveness. Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environments to the behaviors -- even the emotions -- of both friends and enemies. The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist, Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted and its population dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people -- people he cares about -- are counting on him. The intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve's new proprietary engine technology. Source provides major enhancements in the advanced facial animation system, physics, graphics and AI. Half-Life 2 will be available for the PC.
About Vivendi Universal Games Headquartered in Los Angeles, VU Games is a leading global developer, publisher and distributor of multi-platform inter
Seeing is believing
Of course CS is the most popular mod, but more people are awaiting other mods such as Natural Selection (my favourite) and DoD, as well as many others. I'm not in a rush to buy since I'm mainly a multiplayer gamer. Though it would be nice to play the game and experience the new engine. I'll probably end up purchasing it in the next little while, though I'll still be playing a lot of Natural Selection on the original HL.
...a great disturbance in the force... as if a million geeks shouted with joy...and then realised there's still a month to wait.
As Half-Life 2 sits on my computer preloaded, it brings tears to my eyes to hear this. Finally! Anyway, for the curious, if you preloaded from STEAM you still can't play it until Nov 16th unfortunately. You can thank Vivendi for that one, but at least you don't have to go to the store on the 16th, you can just wake up and play after a small download. I know I'm staying up till midnight.
Only released more than a year after the original release date of September 30, 2003. Now to buy a new video card (good thing I didn't get a 9800 Pro back when they were released, hey?).
I'll answer myself:
Gamers have been able to purchase (via pre-order) Half-Life 2 through developer Valve's Steam downloading service since last week. For those consumers, however, the game will not be playable until the 16th.
Wow great Valve. Not only do I not get a fucking CD, but I get to wait until the street release date too. What a bunch of fucking bullshit.
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
does anyone know when the steam downloads will be unlocked/available?
the same day?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I wonder if I'll be sick from school that day...
Had you fucking read the fucking agreement the fucking site gave you before you bought the fucking game, you would fucking know that you will be able to fucking download the fucking thing off of fucking Steam when the game is available in fucking retail stores (which we now fucking know to be on fucking November 16).
You fucker.
It has been to late. i am not wasting my money on this, Halo2 and GTA is coming out. HL2 you should have released it early....or not made such a bogus anouncement that is was coming out 2 years ago...
Deserving got nothing to do with it.....shuffle
of a million voices going silent and then nerdgasming...
in other news: hell freezes over, devil reports that snowballs make excellent torure devices.
/.er gets laid: "OMG man, it was actually better than coding perl at 1 in the morning!!!!!!"
pigs fly: new species of pigs found with butterfly like wings
and a
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
Sata: "Damnit! Who turned the AC on full blast! Wait a minute, we don't have AC..?!?!!"
...is my birthday! Best birthday present EVER.
Love sees no species.
anyway, I give it 72 hours to show up on suprnova
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
No wonder it took so long to release. They have a marketing woody.
Even blind squirrels find nuts now and then.
Boy, I really hope this game delivers, cause months after the doom 3 release people finally dare to admit that the game simply did not deliver without being called a troll. And that's an understatement; big parts of the game were simply no fun at all. Just an ordinary shooter with nothing new and different aside from the fact that it just looked damn pretty.
I can't wait for HL 2, Carmack has left allot of open territory.
Duke Nukem Forever to be released November 20th. Hell has frozen over; monkeys are flying out my butt and god, does it sting like a bastard. And stink.
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
that's completely the opposite of what Valve has been implying all along
This is clearly them caving into Vivendi. I, like the grandparent poster, am ticked at Valve. What a crock.
They told you this on their website, before you bought the game. It's not Valve's fault that you were too lazy to read it.
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This'll get said more than once, but blame Vivendi Universal - not Valve - for this delay. Or perhaps blame Valve's contract negotiators for letting them get stuck with this, if you must.
Either way, lesson learned for developers that want to repeat the Steam experiment elsewhere.
Xentax
You shouldn't verb words.
Freeman vs. Master Chief FvMC !! It's their war, no matter who wins, your wallet will suffer !!!
It's bloody cold down here in Hell. If Duke Nukem Forever goes Gold I'm moving to South America.
The Devil.
According to their information it has a confirmed ship/store date of November 16!
Kick ass, it ships on my birthday! I know what I'm getting now!
*WARNING* spoiler in subject
I have counter strike available to me so I am happier then someone doing their first line of cocaine :D
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Luckily I will be able to play this all thanksgiving break, and beat it before finals :)
The last thing I read from Valve about the whole situation is that Vivendi was suing them to stop them from releasing the game on Steam before the retail street date. Valve's original plan was to release it via steam many weeks before it was in the store to get people to sign up for steam.
The purchasing website says: "Purchase any one of the three Half-Life® 2 Steam packages listed below, start playing Counter-Strike(TM): Source(TM) immediately, and be ready to start playing Half-Life 2 the moment it is made available!" - not that I won't be able to play it until the game is in stores. The game is complete. It _should_ be available now.
I haven't seen anything anywhere stating that it would be available on steam the same day it's available in the stores.
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
Nov 9th = Halo 2 Sick Day Nov 15th = Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Sick Day Nov 16th = Half Life 2 Sick Day Nov 22nd = Nintendo DS Sick Day I just think my boss might figure it out....
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Really? The agreement I "read" was a coupon that came with my Radeon 9800 that definately implied that I would be recieving the entire game via steam for free before it shipped to retail.
Turns out I'm not going to get anything but an overrated video card.
Fuck it, Halo 2 is almost out. I won't have time for Gordun Shumway or whoever the guy is. You can't drag out a sequel that long and expect anyone to give a shit when it's out (Doom 3, HL2, DNF)
Steam purchases do not unlock until the very same day that the game releases in stores. This means that, assuming they make their expected ship date (hurry up on printing those CDs VUG!), HL2 will unlock on Steam on Nov 16 (probably at 8am or something) as well. Of course, CS:S is available on Steam right now...
:)
If you've already got an ATIHL2 voucher, redeem it through steam to get your Bronze edition free (HL2 + CS:S).
Another reminder: Steam does not include physical hard copies. Everything is a digital download from Steam. That being said, there is nothing that prevents you from copying and burning the steam cache files elsewhere so you don't have to redownload several GB of stuff on a reformat or whatever. The exception is the Gold package, which has a lot of physical goodies that are shipped to you (but not the game itself).
Don't forget to mail your HL2 postcard from the Gold package to 3drealms
I'm surprised this came as a surprise to anybody. The main reason to buy it on Steam early is to be able to play Counter Strike:Source right now. I feel I've already gotten my $50 of entertainment value from that just alone, HL2 is going to be like ultra icing on mega cake. If you don't like Counter Strike, then.. well.. what can ya say.
Is the retail version going to have Half Life : Source (the original game on the new engine) available?
It means the leak is at most a week away.
Well I'm at work right now checking slashdot for the third time this hour when I saw this. My heart almost stopped. WAHOO!!!! Plus I'll get half life source on the same day. I'm about to walk around the corner to ask for the day off.
I wonder if they use the same manufacturing facilities as Bungie's Halo 2? If so, we should be seeing the "0-day" copy floating around any minute now...
But hey, I knew this going in to the whole thing (even before I bought my card, I knew it was going to take a month or more after the game was available before I would get it), so I'm not complaining too much. Besides, the first patch or two should be up by then. Plus, I've got my free HL1 pack on its way, so I won't be too bored.
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
If Transgaming wanted to make some friends, they'd bundle their WineX/Cedega product with Half Life 2. Although I am no supporter of them, it would make their fiscal year in a month.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
Nov. 16th is my gf's birthday!!! I'll give her a present, go to a fine little restaurant, and while she'll talk about how nice our relation is, I'll hear this voice in my head: "What are you doing here, Mr. Freeman?"
This is torture!
"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance." Isaac Asimov
What I want to know is, when is a new TFC going to be available?
Je ne pa suis Master Chief?
Heh, ATI will prolly take a month to ship my free copy. *Free Half life 2 with every ATI video card purchase* --at least on my 9600xt
Whaaaat. I played Doom III when it was released on my Radeon 9600 256MB card with no problems. Ultra quality @ 1024x768, w/o AA and stuff which I really don't notice anyway b/c I'm too busy playing (and the game is too frickin dark.)
I didn't even know the 4.9 Catalyst drivers were out until 3 weeks ago
No sig for you!!
I'll be in Asia at that time... grrr
;)
Ah well, maybe I can just buy the Chinese Edition for a few dollars, just for the HL2 box in Chinese writing...
This isn't informative, it's completely false. Go through the Half Life 2 purchasing process and see for yourself.
Now I'm gonna have to complete Halo 2 in a week, and I can only play in the evenings as I have used all my holidays up.
Time for a fortnight long sicky methinks
CJC
Gordon Shumway, star of a certain Saturday morning cartoon called ALF, will most likely NOT be present in HL2.
So, to sum up: HL2 may have Aliens, will NOT have ALF.
I'll be so busy playing Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2 that I won't have time for your junk.
Every "decade-in-the-making" uber PC title has been a huge dissapointment to me. Too much hype makes gameplay feel like a letdown. I'm talking Black and White, Doom 3, Unreal 2, too many to list.
Will they charge 15 bucks more than every other PC title out there, expecting to gouge a little cash due to the hype, the same way they did with Doom 3?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
OMFG have you seen the Half-Life 2 trailer it's like slow then the music kicks in and and Gordon comes out and gets a gun and Gordon is like fuck this and HE KILLS ALL THESE GUYS WITH GASMASKS with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying alyx lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! SOME RANDOM SCIENTEST IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special VALVe PC disk that comes with EB games store.
I agree. Where is the value for the consumer ? I have to pay the same as the retail price but get nothing in return ? So, I'll go to the store and buy it just so I don't have to deal with downloading everytime I reformat and rebuild. Whether I read the license or not, what's the difference ? Lou Sir
Those of us who understood that all it was, was a pretty version of Doom enjoyed the hell out of the game
I understood that perfectly well but was still very disappointed because it was such a BORING game... I know there's not supposed to be a good or unique plot and you're just going around killing zombies... it looked so freaking good but got old very fast. After less than 5 hours of play I wanted to completely stop playing because I was so bored. Some of hte levels were pretty cool and it was pretty creepy in a lot of parts, but that wore off quickly. Very very disapointing game. I am definitely looking forward to the games that license the engine though - it's gorgeous.
Joseph?
I've been waiting for to Alien Productions to release "Alf's cat-apult rampage" since 1986 !
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Not that this release date was a huge surpise or anything, but I called it!
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It gets pushed back. Any takers? I'm good for 6 new DVD-R's ;).
I wonder if anyone has the ATI coupon for HL2 but no longer have the ATI vid card?
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"looked damned pretty" and "left allot of open territory." ?!
Carmack's the graphics system programmer, not the game designer. If it looks damned pretty, then he did his job, and he did it damned well. If the game gets tedious or boring at times, well... that's not HIS fault in the least.
I haven't seen anything anywhere stating that it would be available on steam the same day it's available in the stores.
You're being a petulant child. You'll have to wait until November 16th just like everybody else. You knew you'd have to wait for the retail release date and to claim anything else is just being obstinant and whiney.
The problem is that complete != available.
I had a feeling there was some double-speak in there. I favor getting the package with the DVD, because I'm sick of multi-CD installations, I want to encourage DVD releases, and because I don't care for downloaded installations when I can avoid them. It turns out that I'll probably be able to pull this all off with little delay over what the rest of the people are getting.
Hell, maybe even less delay. Lots of people will be installing their copies because of shipping time differences before it can be played on Steam. Doom 3 was arriving sometimes three or four days before official store release time. Steam buyers are gonna be pissed.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Anyone know that hardware you will need? The minimum requirements and the optimal?
I'm reporting you for posting fake news story. Everybody knows Half-Life 2 would never come out THIS soon. ;-)
No. Valve had stated in the past that the game would be available via Steam well ahead of its retail release. I'm not being "petulant" I'm just pissed off. They implied one thing and are now doing the other. I would never have bought the game via steam had I known this.
You knew you'd have to wait for the retail release date and to claim anything else is just being obstinant and whiney.
No. I'm just mad that Valve misled me and others.
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
I have long assumed that my machine doesn't have the oomph* to run first person shooters well. Therefore I haven't tried. Consequently, I have no idea what the icon for this topic is supposed to represent. It looks like a red ray gun from out of the 40s with the handle and the trigger swapped being stuffed into an automobile part. What is that thing anyways?
* 800MHz, 64M nVidia, 384M ram.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
FINALLY HL2 is gold!
But with all the delays, problems, false promises of release-date, I cannot conclude otherwise than some aspects of the development have been extremely poorly dealt with.
Someone should lose their job...
Pirated CD's can be had at ShanghaiCD.cn about the same time and used versions on ebay by Dec 1 from pepole who bought the game, but can't afford the video card or psu upgrade.
There are already free versions that don't require steam for CS source floating around. Rumours of them anyway.
Responsive to the community? There is rampant problems with a known exploit that crashes all clients connected to a server. There is 0 cheat protection and aimbots, wallhacks are everywhere. Nice token or not, i paid for a finished product and did not get one. CS:S is more like counter strike lite, only 2 models, very few maps, no dev tools. Have you played it? Do you know what your talking about?
Is.. is this a dupe? I swear I've heard this story before.
Also at Suprnova. Downloaded, tested, approved. :)
Let's see...
Halo2: Nov. 9
Half Life 2: Nov. 16th
World of Warcraft: Supposedly Nov. 16, but generally believed to be a week or two later, at least.
Perfect. I have a week to beat Halo2 a few times, and a week or two to beat HL2 a few times, then I can enjoy the MMORPG goodness that is WoW for months to come. Good thing I'm not employed right now.
On a side note, I better start eating carrots now, as my eyes are going to be shot from all the non-stop gaming.
repetitive and dull and repetitive
-nt
Delphis
The entire promise of electronic distribution is that you don't need to wait for manufacturing and distribution to get the product available nationally (or internationally). Having to wait for 'release dates' is silly..
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Well, I just saw HL2 listed in something that is called a "Sinterklaasboekske" in Flemish (it's an advertisement magazine send out by toystores to advertise their toys for Saint-Nicholas day). You could compare Saint-Nicholas to Santa Claus. So i guess the guys in red have a special deal with Valve.
Duke Nukem Forever just announced a release date of "Go F#@K Yourselves"
72 hours?
With the way Valve guarded HL2 source, I'd say it will be MINUS 7 days.
I think they're giving themselves extra time due to the fact that they intend to release localized versions world-wide on the same day.
OMFG, go to www.steampowered.com and sign up for a fucking account you nublet. Then register your CD key (in the box) and you get it the day it comes out (You can even download it in encrypted form now).
Fucking read the coupon.
He, strangely, wants the CDs fucktard. How hard is that for you to understand?
GTA:SA
I don't want to fit in, I just don't want to stand out
** I think they're giving themselves extra time due to the fact that they intend to release localized versions world-wide on the same day.** ..and? they say it's gone gold, that means it's off to the cd duplication, that the work is done, that should include any localisation they do.
what they're doing is that they're settin it on the sweet spot datewise to get as much sales as possible, like ms is doing with halo. not too early but not too late.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
A half-dozen Korean internet cafés owners down the street from where I live, put their razors and hair-dryers back in the cupboard, and hatched a plan to get out of bankruptcy centered around Nov. 16th.
Team Fortress still holds!
It was the first multiplayer shooting game i ever played. I played it first time as a quake1 mod on my Amiga1200 (using the ppc version on the stunning 603cpu.),and i still play it under steam ~ 10 years after.
Im willing to trade CS:source to TFC:source.
2fort5 for president !
I went to amazon.com to see about preordering there. Apparently, it can't be done. Oh well; I'll stop by my local games shop and file a preorder request on my way home tonight instead. If anyone can prove me wrong in the next hour, feel free to post a link!
i am a soviet space shuttle
ROFL you just made my fucking day
If you buy over steam the game is unlocked at ~12am PST Tuesday, i.e. Monday night.
YAY! HL2's street date is the same day as my birhday!!! Looks like I'll be getting it free!
No, you are reading that right. It does, infact, come with the box. Just the box. No cds, no dvd of the game. Just a box. Some people like a shiney box to look at I suppose. They will probably pack the other physical goodies inside (hat, stickers, postcard, posters, soundtrack). Just no game discs. You can always burn your own DVD of the steam cache files and make a nice cover sticker for it however..
The testing work is done. It still takes time to actually stamp the CDs and package them. Not to mention they need time to plan all the release parties. Games that are released worldwide usually do so on a staggered schedule. Heck, most games are never even localized until after they've already sold a half-million copies. The fact that they're so sure this will be a huge seller is the only reason they're willing to go so far to release it everywhere at the same time. But it means they will need a little more time than most games.
..."Gamespot has details on the ship date as well." Who needs more detail than "November 16!" anyway?
PRE-ORDER
.well PRE-ORDER as in . . YOU DONT GET IT NOW.
That means . .
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
boxes re pre-designed and most probably manufactured(and really, just manufacturing the cd's doesn't take that long), and all the localisation should have been done parallel with the original voice acting.
they've also got a bigger budget for all this crap as well, so it doesn't really fly that they need more time for it because "omg it's hl2".
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
and be ready to start playing Half-Life 2 the moment it is made available! -- Valve
what part of this says to you that you'll be able to play it as soon as it is gold? is valve speaking in code that only you can understand?
They implied one thing and are now doing the other. I would never have bought the game via steam had I known this.
They implied nothing, you inferred it. If you want to be pissed off, be pissed off at yourself for not reading carefully and inferring things were never stated, anywhere.
you forgot to add that Oct 26th will be a sick day for San andreas and another in mid december for gran turismo 4...
Shoooop. :. Ok I'm holding my breath now.
What, nobody else had compiled their own copy from the leaked source code?
Redundancy is good And also good.
Oh man thats great I'm totally gonna mail my HL2 postcard to 3dRealms. I really know that they are working hard on DNF and I really want to play it but thats just too funny.
Yeah right. Usually, people give other people underwears and sockets for birthday. If you're lucky, you'll get a copy of Tomb Raider.
Get ready to pay for HL2 with your own money. Best greek gift ever!
Gaah, this is the same release date as World of Warcraft! (zug zug) And the collector's edition sounds oh so tempting. This is a conspiracy by Blizzard and Valve to turn me into a Howard Hughes-like recluse(and finally build a new PC). Curse you, Valve, curse you! Wait a minute. . . Valve and Blizzard are both owned by Vivendi. The plot thickens. Oh, I'm on to you, Vivendi. And it's up to me and a half-Indian to stop ya!
worst sig ever. . .
Remember to look for HL2 in bargain bin around 2007
I need a raise.
I'd like to point out that Steam games are never released at midnight. In the case of condition zero it was almost a full day later before the game was playable.
Brian
she understands. ;-)
Sorry, I had to!
*rofl*
"Half-Life 2 has surpassed our expectations in every sense -- its high-quality graphics, ground-breaking physics and immersive first-person shooter gameplay set a new standard for PC action games," said Bruce Hack, CEO of VU Games. Half-Life 2 will go down as one of the best-selling PC titles, and we are thrilled to deliver this ground-breaking title to the worldwide gaming community this fall."
Wow, that's really ground-breaking! Maybe his Random Hyperbole Generator(tm) got stuck on a bad random seed.
I sadly heard the release date on my way back from classes (I've been watching the news for it like a hawk). But argh... It's released on the first day of finals week (quarter system, not trimester system).... Bye bye grades..... :-(
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
By saying that Vivendi Universal is the one responsible for this mess (as opposed to Valve trying to screw them out of their contract), you appear to know what has really been going on between the two. However, you are really just talking out of your ass.
If you think about it, it actually makes sense that Vivendi wants to release the game worldwide on the same day. If they stagger the release dates to get the game out sooner in the US, they will most likely lose more sales to Steam overseas as gamers eager to get their hands on it swarm to sign up.
Planes Trains and Automobiles? :)
Rental Car Clerk: Welcome to Marathon. May I help you?
Neal: Yes.
Clerk: How may I help you?
Neal: You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey fucking cheeks. Then you can give me a fucking automobile. A fucking Datsun. A fucking Toyota. A fucking Mustang. A fucking Buick. Four fucking wheels and a seat.
Clerk: I really don't care for the way you're speaking to me.
Neal: And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere, with the fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. And I really didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking hiway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want a fucking car right fucking now.
Clerk: May I see your rental agreement.
Neal: I threw it away.
Clerk: Oh boy...
Neal: Oh boy what?
Clerk: You're fucked
. . . in other news, hell has been reporting temperatures in record lows. Let's go to the dark lord Satan now for the weather.
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Wanted: One witty yet thought provoking
There's not even an SDK for Doom 3. Tell me, what mods have been "very active so far on Doom?" Meanwhile, Half-Life 2 already has several major multiplayer mods.
I wasn't wowed by Doom 3's graphics--sorry, pitch black stencil shadows just don't look real, especially when surrounded by monochromatic brown and green for 14 hours. Half-Life 2 looks more like the real world to me--ambient, bright, and visible.
And HL2 has outdoor areas! I wonder if id Software knows what those are?
Carmack has openly stated he doesn't believe in gameplay innovation. He thinks it's--to quote his words--"overrated." He didn't even want physics in the game until pursuaded by the other devs. And it's thanks to Carmack that we have a shitty sound system with no DSP reverb effects and only works on either stereo or 5.1 systems.
You underestimate the influence Carmack has as a part-owner of the company. Carmack likes simple games that show off his graphics engine technology. To break free from the "FPS in space" mentality would shatter the demo formula.
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I have one thing to say to you. "Break a leg."
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Nice try - it's a shock site, and this guy has made this post waaaaaay too many times before. MOD DOWN PLEASE.
if they're lying or not. Seriously, Doom 3 looked OK and all on my system, but it didn't run Amazingly. My computer's not much, just a 1.8 Gig athlon xp, 512 megs ram and a Geforce Ti4200. Still reasonably above the minimum. Doom 3 had very few open areas, and HL2 looks like it'll have lots. These seem to be what really kills performance. So is the HL2 engine that much faster? If it is, I'd say Carmack and co. are gonna be hurting.
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There ought to be a "Adamantium" offering of HL2 that includes a mod replacing Gordon Freeman with ALF.
I'd pay... oh about a million dollars for it.
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
Carmack makes the ENGINE. Its up to the other guys as to whats done with it. That the gameplay is repeditive is no more Carmacks fault than the modelers (who deserve congrats for the job they did).
Short and sweet ... will there be a port ... anybody know?
http://www.half-life2.org.uk/check.php/ says "There are rumors of a Linux CLIENT port, there will however be a server port."
Wow... I didn't know we had a Tourette-affected smurf. True diversity here, on Slashdot.
You know there's going to be some idiotstick hacker out there the day before this game is released, while the game is being shipped, and boom. Hacked onto the Internet. On release day, the stores are going to have their shelves stocked with the game and Valve is going to say, "Oops! We got hacked again! Now we must spend anoter 10 billion years recreating this game!" The harsh reality of idiotsticks that can't wait.
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These are EXACTLY the kind of idiots you will be encountering when playing counter-strike 1/2 online. Be forewarned.