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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."
Seems like I've been waiting HALF of my LIFE to play it! In fact, it's taking FOREVER!
Wait...wrong game, nevermind.
As far as I can tell HalfLife 2 formula for success went something like this:
1) Strip out almost anything that made the first HL so good
2) Crank up the texture rez and add shaders
3) Bolt on a third party physics engine
At least it wasn't as bad as that piece of crap Halo 2. I have to wonder just how much cash MS had to hand out to get that turd the high reviews it got.
I certainly look forward to HL 3 though, and wouldn't touch another Halo. Yeech.
What - are you on dialup?
I don't even consider a computer which isn't attached to the internet to be a computer.
You can play hl2 offline once you have gone through the initial install.
I do have the latest and greatest. It still took forever to install, then it had to download like TWO GIGS of updates (yeah where I'm currently living SBC won't give me a great connection), then on top of that they game tells me I need to load the latest video driver. If I -hadn't- loaded the driver the game would have played fine, but with the latest driver the game hosed itself.
So I had to go install my backup and then -reinstall- the entire fucking thing all over again. That's like 6 hours right there and I haven't even started to play the game yet.
Woo Fucking Hoo. It's coded like a piece of shit. And you can quote me on that.
from 8ow on or year conTract.
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a dead ma8 Walking.
You do know that public opinion can be horribly wrong, correct?
Just because a buttload of Americans (and those are some pretty big butts)* decide that it's good that their privacy and freedoms are being taken away does not make it right.
And what is worse is that people will defend this position by going to the "Everybody Does It!" argument, and ridicule those who don't agree.
Hell** in a handbasket.
* Disclaimer: I'm an American, and my butt is huge
** Disclaimer 2: I'm an atheist, and don't believe in Hell.
This is a sig. Deal with it.
Ah yes, nerd braggarts.
Shut up, liar. If you had to look up what TSR meant, you never wrote anything to muck with them.
Idiot.
Liar.
Braggart.
FALSE NERD.