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Bill Van Buren Talks Half-Life 2
node writes "Pixel Kill has up a summary of the talk Bill Van Buren recently gave in London on the development of Half-Life 2. It's an interesting insight into some of the design decisions that resulted in such a fantastic game, plus there are some bits about the direction they're taking the upcoming expansion."
Half Life 2 = 1 whole life
this got modded up to four? what is the slashdot world coming to?
anyways, am i the only one highly disturbed by nude digital characters in white socks? nudity i can handle, but the socks just kills it for me.
guess the socks were too hard for the modding community, at least they got the important parts right, huh?
Why yes it's true... even geeks can kick ass in the video games and movies created by geeks. Why just the other day I imagined I took out an entire cell of terrorist ninjas who had formed an alliance w/ alien invaders.
W. Mitty
Would I develop a pathetic geek crush on Alex?
/. readers will develop a geek crush on as little as two flesh-colored pixels.
I can't speak for you, but I know Netcraft has shown that 82% of regular
The exact opposite effect can be seen in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Lancelot comes to rescue Prince Herbert. Due to the very wide field of view, you can see him coming for quite a few of the camera shots leading up to his surprise attack on the guards. It really ruined the effect for me and killed most of the suspense that had been building up.
Am I the only one that saw an *anything*.cx and thought a minute or two about actually clicking on it?
Sir,
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Your reply to the parent post was measured and straightforward offering the facts of your experience and your conclusion that Valve's business decisions would likely keep you from purchasing from them in the future. Please do not post like this again.
In the future, USE MORE CAPS, when you want to make a point (acronymns like DRM do not count). Also call the public "stupid", anyone who disagrees with you "stuipd", anyone who responds to you should be an "asshat", and the moderation system should be attacked as well. Also, in this particular instance you should have called for Valve to GPL all of their software, and for the government to sieze their assetts and distribute them of Open Source gaming projects to rectify their attempt to steal some sort of fundamental rights to have other people's software property on your terms, not theirs. In the future sir, please write like you are mentally unstable, uninformed, and possibly suffering from some sort of brain infection.
Kind Regards,
A Concerned
All kidding aside, nice post.
"The first several hours of game play are incredibly lame. First you have the 5 Cd's you have to put in your computer."
This is why god invented the DVD, which fixes this problem.
"Then when you START the game you have to wait an hour for it to do something. What, no one knows, but you just get to watch dialogue box after dialogue box."
Your hyperbole is the worst thing ever.
"Then of course there is the TSR they put on your system that is always connected, whether you are playing or not. If MS did this, there's be lawsuits!!"
I stopped starting Steam, until the game is started. Works fine for me.
"And then, when you finally get past all that crap, the game tells you to download the latest Nvidia driver, WHICH DOESN'T SUPPORT THE GAME AND CAUSES IT TO CRASH INSTANTLY!"
That would be an NVIDIA problem, wouldn't it, not a Half-Life 2 problem?
I've installed the game, I played it happily, and it's a fantastic game. You have posted no problems with the game.