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Half-Life 2 Episode One Delayed
Folks looking forward to their next fix from City 17 will have to wait a few more days than expected. The last time a release date was announced, they were aiming for April 24th. Now folks are going to have to wait for May 31st for the expansion to the hit game. From the Eurogamer article: "You're on top of an exploding building, okay, so how do you not all die. It answers a bunch of those questions. It also raises some questions about what the G-Man's real role is in the Half-Life universe, so there are some surprises there for people". Here's hoping it is worth the wait.
The game will be released Q3 next year. Many gameplay vids before that.
...so now what I am supposed to do for the month of May?
Maybe the G-man doesn't want his role revealed. I wouldn't doubt it'd be too hard for him to take out a few programmers everytime the release date nears.
"You're on top of an exploding building, okay, so how do you not all die. It answers a bunch of those questions. It also raises some questions about what the G-Man's real role is in the Half-Life universe, so there are some surprises there for people"
So I am a big fan of Half-Life and Half-life 2. It's the only game I play when I have time, but I never got the story line. I think the Valve floks know how to make a fun (Ravenholm still gives me the creeps), interactive, addictive game, but the story line, such as it is, ain't too compelling. It's too bad too, because I think they did have an oppty to have a more interesting story in the game and the components seem to be available to provide more puzzle solving manilplate the world more.
That's because linux can do it better so who cares?
oh, wait, wrong delay.
Valve pushes back a release date.
In other news, water is still wet.
Of course, when they *do* finish, their games tend to be pretty great. So I don't mind.
i live at my school, hence a boarding school. this is good for me because it is exactly one week before i come home for summer. i wont miss out on alot. i know most of you are upset, but this is good for me.
As an american High School student, I'd like to officially apologize for my generation.
How about we post news articles when things actually do ship on time.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Good, that will give me a chance to finish Oblivion before it comes out.
As usual, the article mentions that Episode 2 is already in development. Why can't they finish the first one before starting on the second one? How is that even possible?
I mean, in other FPS games, you're a space marine or some variant. In Half Life, you're a theoretical physicist. It gives hope to one such as myself, who aspires to be an observational astrophysicist.
..the code leak?
The worst bit is that Gabe Newell has said it took him 7 hours to finish. Not because that's a bad time, but because the fucker already played it and is waving it in our faces.
I'm hooked on HL2, and it's like shooting up in front of a recovering smackhead when he says that. Damn him and damn Valve (but I'll buy it anyway).
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Does this title make no sense to anyone else?
Half-Life 2 has come and gone...but now we're getting Episode One? Wouldn't Episode Two be a bit more fitting.
Gordon Freeman
Jeez, do you guys need a map? He's a time-traveller pimping out his own past ass to himself and his anarchist buds from the future so shit happens the way they want. Why do you think he's going to so much trouble to make sure Gordy's always in the right place at the right time? And why he always knows where one step ahead of Gordy is?
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I did RTFA' but $20 for a "episode"? I don't know about the rest of you folks but $20 does seem to be a bit much. Maybe if it was long enough, say at least 3/4 or 2/3 of HL2. I mean, HL2 came out about ~2 years ago and they still want $40 for it through Steam (Yeah, I know you could probably get it cheaper elsewhere)
i honestly don't see why they're releasing these episodes serially. ya, it may generate a buzz for the next release, but why not just release as they're completed? heck, if there were 20 episodes out, i'm sure it'd keep quite a few people busy and antisocial for a very long time. what's so good about the HL storyline is that it's so completely open. they can create episodes that add little bits and pieces and have the community do some detective work and piece everything together. really, to me, and i'm just speaking for myself, the real interesting stuff is when you have to hunt down the clues and when they all come together to create a more rich and enticing story line.
Half-Life 2 cost what, $60 new? It took me many many hours to beat it, and it takes something like 15 hours with god mode on to beat (40 hours without). So $60/15 = $4/hr for entertainment (or $1.50/hr). That's pretty damn good in my book.
It'll make you forget about Half Life
I'm a little curious then as to how he would threaten to either kill his past self or hire him as the G-man does at the end of the first game.
One tenth of the game for one fifth of the cost!
I think I'll pass on this up and coming trend.
One word: STEAM.
No thanks. I'm not interested in my system calling into the net every time I play, even every time I want to design a map.
Despite my enjoyment of HL2 (yes, I bought it, yes, I finished it) STEAM simply pissed me off too much.
HL was great. HL2 was brilliant. STEAM was idiotic.
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OK, for the slow to catch on, his name is derived from being the only male character in the game wearing a g-string.