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Half-Life 2 Episode One Delayed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-only-by-a-little dept.

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.

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  1. Conspiracy? by ucaledek · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. What's the story line, Kenneth? by hal9000(jr) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

    1. Re:What's the story line, Kenneth? by Grand · · Score: 4, Informative

      I have no idea how 'true' this timeline is, but I found it somewhere a while ago and thought it was a pretty interesting read.

      http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm

  3. Delayed by SailorFrag · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  4. Windows, Office, Ubuntu, Half-Life... by amliebsch · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about we post news articles when things actually do ship on time.

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  5. How can you not figure it out? by garyok · · Score: 3, Interesting
    G-man

    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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    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors - Plato