So mygame kept crashing loading the very first level. I wanted to cry. Not knowing what to do, I did the only geek thing I could think of: I simply posted my tears on Shacknews. But within minutes a Valve guy showed up asking if he could help. Then Erik Johnson himself popped in and started troubleshooting. I practically had Valve guys fighting over who could help me fix the problem first. And all this at like 2am in the morning. That's some pretty sweet support kids: they tracked ME down instead of me having to beg them to help.
"but requiring to register your legally owned purchased product to just play SINGLE PLAYER is absurd."
When you make you own awesome FPS, you can decide hwo you want authentication to work. The real silliness is that despite all the bitching about hypothetical situations, virtually everyone that is complaining would have absolutely no problem installing and authenticating the game. Heck, most could just buy it over Steam. So it's all a tempest in a teapot.
That was a rumor started by... what else: crazy overzealous fans. They aren't going to let one or two stores screwing up mess up their worldwide distribution plan.
It's how they wanted to do copy-protection. If you don't like copy-protection, fine, but I don't see what's so wrong with making it internet based, anymore than forcing people to have 3d acceleration.
No way you coudl typo it the same way twice. And Default can't even be typo'd without hitting a completely different part of the keyboard. "Defeat" is all on the left side. "Default" requires a "u" and an "l" from the right side. Less you have a non-qwerty board.
Ever tried Natural Selection (free mod for Half-life). You get to be the overhead view as the commander, other players are your troops, playing as FPS players. Not very complicated as RTS's go, but the social interaction aspect (a mike is a MUST for a comm) makes it frickin awesome.
Seriously. I just moved about six states over for a couple of months. I find a computer with a DSL connection, install the tiny steam platform file, download all my games, and I'm ready to go. Now THAT'S cool: my ownership rights to play their games can be used anywhere in the world, anywhere I go. All this for (currently) just 49$ when I first bought HL. Can ANY game claim as much added value?
Yeah, HL was th bomb for sound. And this article guy is sort of mistiming his complaints: all the big next gen games are going to be doing some amazing things with sound. HL2, Doom3: all of them use really sophisticated environmental effects and some GREAT sounds. HL2 is even taking the HL1 idea of silence... then music that kicks in at key moments, to the next level, with music that adjusts in intensity and changes themes and so on in response to what the player is doing.
I played the alpha. It was pretty good, with fantastic atmosphere (even with slightly glitchy shadows and low-res level textures, the normal maps are a visual coup). But I can also see how the gameplay could get old fast. While the game offers incredibly moody visuals, the actual gameplay seems very dated. I'm sure they'll have some innovative things cooked up with creeping along in the dark or with the flashlight as some reviews have described, but I think Halo2 and HL2 are going to offer a lot more as far as a neat and new gameplay experience, both SP and MP.
How you can see that and claim the US is decades ahead of everyone else because you have so-called supercarriers, I don't understand.
Supercarrier battlegroups. Nine of them. Another on the way. This allows us to project the full brunt of our forces, air, naval, cruise missles, troops, just about anywhere in the world within a matter of weeks. Not that it matters, since we have enough long range planes and refueling aircraft to create a network of uncontested air power over any place in the world within hours.
Well inside a decade from now, the UK will be running a carrier with an air wing of 40-50 planes, much of it comprised of the most advanced multi-role plane in the world. Three years later, we're due to have a second new carrier.
Oh, really: two whole carriers?! Tell me, are any of these 40-50 advanced multi-role planes stealth planes? Does Britian even have such planes on the drawing board? As great as British jets are, they are dwarfed in numbers, speed, flying height, and undetectability, and so on, by the full range of U.S. air power. They wouldn't stand a chance in the air. Which is a moot point, because before any of those planes even get in the air, the carriers would be at the bottom of the ocean thanks to unmatched US dominance in subs. This isn't about arrogance, this is just what a ridiculous amount of overspending on the military will buy you.
You're basing your claim on an article in the NYT...?Here you go Like dealing with facts instead of pointless bravado? This is just a reality, deal with it. It isn't arrogance, it's just a factor of the world at the moment. And a negative one for everyone including us, not a positive one.
But this is all wrong because, what.... you'd rather I'd cite the Guardian?
As for your confrontational tone, you might like to remember that we're on the same side
How's this for a confrontational tone: you're clueless. I have no interest in the US fighting Britian or in comparing whos dick is longer. In fact, if you pulled your head out of your ass for a second, you'd see that my ultimate point is that the US is massively overspending on its military, that it's competing with enemies and technologies that don't exist even in the most implausible conflicts imaginable (like one with GB) and aren't much threat anyway, that because of this misguided focus, it's ill equipped to fight the atual wars its likely to get into. And it's encouraging its enemies to focus on unconventional weapons where they might have some hope in competing. And you call this bravado, arrogance? A criticism of American military policy?
You claimed that US military tech is 10-20 years beyond everyone else.
And I'm right. There was an article recently in the NYTimes describing these things. The fact that the carriers are old is of no consequence: it's the fact that we have supercarrier groups that can basically cover any place in the world and are virtually unmatchable in naval warfare that's the problem.
Bottom line, the US spends a lot more money on firepower than anyone else, and has a lot more of it, but I stand by my statement that claiming the US is decades ahead of everyone else technologically is just arrogance.
Think what you want. But the reality is that we have weapon systems and in quantities that nobody else has or will have in the near future. It doesn't much matter how closely matched in armor or firing power tanks are (and, to be sure, British tanks are the closest you'll get to US tanks, and tanks aren't exactly an area of our biggest advantage) when we can take out all your satelite communication or vaporize your tanks from air with near total control of the sky.
Actually, it's rumored that after HL2 comes out, along with all the ports of old games, HL1 stuff IS going to be released openly. It's all well and good that id gpls its old games, but the they have the luxury of profitting from new engines and platforms by the time they gpl their old ones. Valve is still on their first game/platform.
Really sounds like something is wrong with your system. I used to have problems and cursed Valve... but then I found out that my memory had some minor static damage that was causing the problem. Got new memory, and everything was hunky-dory.
Personally, I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that run a business, but can't be bothered to read things like EULAs. End users know generally what they are entitled to, and business owners usually know that there is a lot more involved. This guy obviously didn't bother to figure out what was a legal use of the product under the terms of sale.
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So mygame kept crashing loading the very first level. I wanted to cry. Not knowing what to do, I did the only geek thing I could think of: I simply posted my tears on Shacknews. But within minutes a Valve guy showed up asking if he could help. Then Erik Johnson himself popped in and started troubleshooting. I practically had Valve guys fighting over who could help me fix the problem first. And all this at like 2am in the morning. That's some pretty sweet support kids: they tracked ME down instead of me having to beg them to help.
We America, vote good! ha ha! Vote DVD2004, big joke! Now where my lardcake...
"but requiring to register your legally owned purchased product to just play SINGLE PLAYER is absurd." When you make you own awesome FPS, you can decide hwo you want authentication to work. The real silliness is that despite all the bitching about hypothetical situations, virtually everyone that is complaining would have absolutely no problem installing and authenticating the game. Heck, most could just buy it over Steam. So it's all a tempest in a teapot.
That was a rumor started by... what else: crazy overzealous fans. They aren't going to let one or two stores screwing up mess up their worldwide distribution plan.
Geez, gamers today have like, the biggest sense of entitlement I've ever seen. Whatever you desire, little prince!
It's how they wanted to do copy-protection. If you don't like copy-protection, fine, but I don't see what's so wrong with making it internet based, anymore than forcing people to have 3d acceleration.
Uh, no, vivendi won't sue you. No one will sue you. You can't play the game until Tuesday, and that's that.
Apologies for the link to timecube, but you appare to have been educated stupid.
You couldn't even re-bind the keys to the standard ASD+mouse configuration.
No way you coudl typo it the same way twice. And Default can't even be typo'd without hitting a completely different part of the keyboard. "Defeat" is all on the left side. "Default" requires a "u" and an "l" from the right side. Less you have a non-qwerty board.
Day of DEFEAT. Seriously, you've been playing it all this time and you thought it was Day of DEFAULT?!! :)
Actually, it uses a VERY heavily modified version of Havok: Valve and Havok actually worked together quite a lot to improve both companies' products.
Uh, did you read the article? Valve will be adding all their new games with no increase in price. If that's not a sweet deal...
Ever tried Natural Selection (free mod for Half-life). You get to be the overhead view as the commander, other players are your troops, playing as FPS players. Not very complicated as RTS's go, but the social interaction aspect (a mike is a MUST for a comm) makes it frickin awesome.
Seriously. I just moved about six states over for a couple of months. I find a computer with a DSL connection, install the tiny steam platform file, download all my games, and I'm ready to go. Now THAT'S cool: my ownership rights to play their games can be used anywhere in the world, anywhere I go. All this for (currently) just 49$ when I first bought HL. Can ANY game claim as much added value?
HL2 is going the pull-out-all-the-stops audio route as well.
Yeah, HL was th bomb for sound. And this article guy is sort of mistiming his complaints: all the big next gen games are going to be doing some amazing things with sound. HL2, Doom3: all of them use really sophisticated environmental effects and some GREAT sounds. HL2 is even taking the HL1 idea of silence... then music that kicks in at key moments, to the next level, with music that adjusts in intensity and changes themes and so on in response to what the player is doing.
I played the alpha. It was pretty good, with fantastic atmosphere (even with slightly glitchy shadows and low-res level textures, the normal maps are a visual coup). But I can also see how the gameplay could get old fast. While the game offers incredibly moody visuals, the actual gameplay seems very dated. I'm sure they'll have some innovative things cooked up with creeping along in the dark or with the flashlight as some reviews have described, but I think Halo2 and HL2 are going to offer a lot more as far as a neat and new gameplay experience, both SP and MP.
How you can see that and claim the US is decades ahead of everyone else because you have so-called supercarriers, I don't understand.
Supercarrier battlegroups. Nine of them. Another on the way. This allows us to project the full brunt of our forces, air, naval, cruise missles, troops, just about anywhere in the world within a matter of weeks. Not that it matters, since we have enough long range planes and refueling aircraft to create a network of uncontested air power over any place in the world within hours.
Well inside a decade from now, the UK will be running a carrier with an air wing of 40-50 planes, much of it comprised of the most advanced multi-role plane in the world. Three years later, we're due to have a second new carrier.
Oh, really: two whole carriers?! Tell me, are any of these 40-50 advanced multi-role planes stealth planes? Does Britian even have such planes on the drawing board? As great as British jets are, they are dwarfed in numbers, speed, flying height, and undetectability, and so on, by the full range of U.S. air power. They wouldn't stand a chance in the air. Which is a moot point, because before any of those planes even get in the air, the carriers would be at the bottom of the ocean thanks to unmatched US dominance in subs. This isn't about arrogance, this is just what a ridiculous amount of overspending on the military will buy you.
You're basing your claim on an article in the NYT...? Here you go Like dealing with facts instead of pointless bravado? This is just a reality, deal with it. It isn't arrogance, it's just a factor of the world at the moment. And a negative one for everyone including us, not a positive one.
But this is all wrong because, what.... you'd rather I'd cite the Guardian?
As for your confrontational tone, you might like to remember that we're on the same side
How's this for a confrontational tone: you're clueless. I have no interest in the US fighting Britian or in comparing whos dick is longer. In fact, if you pulled your head out of your ass for a second, you'd see that my ultimate point is that the US is massively overspending on its military, that it's competing with enemies and technologies that don't exist even in the most implausible conflicts imaginable (like one with GB) and aren't much threat anyway, that because of this misguided focus, it's ill equipped to fight the atual wars its likely to get into. And it's encouraging its enemies to focus on unconventional weapons where they might have some hope in competing. And you call this bravado, arrogance? A criticism of American military policy?
You claimed that US military tech is 10-20 years beyond everyone else.
And I'm right. There was an article recently in the NYTimes describing these things. The fact that the carriers are old is of no consequence: it's the fact that we have supercarrier groups that can basically cover any place in the world and are virtually unmatchable in naval warfare that's the problem.
Bottom line, the US spends a lot more money on firepower than anyone else, and has a lot more of it, but I stand by my statement that claiming the US is decades ahead of everyone else technologically is just arrogance.
Think what you want. But the reality is that we have weapon systems and in quantities that nobody else has or will have in the near future. It doesn't much matter how closely matched in armor or firing power tanks are (and, to be sure, British tanks are the closest you'll get to US tanks, and tanks aren't exactly an area of our biggest advantage) when we can take out all your satelite communication or vaporize your tanks from air with near total control of the sky.
Actually, it's rumored that after HL2 comes out, along with all the ports of old games, HL1 stuff IS going to be released openly. It's all well and good that id gpls its old games, but the they have the luxury of profitting from new engines and platforms by the time they gpl their old ones. Valve is still on their first game/platform.
Seriously: 30,000 a year GASP: generally the price of ONE employee (with benefits)!
Really sounds like something is wrong with your system. I used to have problems and cursed Valve... but then I found out that my memory had some minor static damage that was causing the problem. Got new memory, and everything was hunky-dory.
The people who did it are, now, Valve. Same difference.
Personally, I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that run a business, but can't be bothered to read things like EULAs. End users know generally what they are entitled to, and business owners usually know that there is a lot more involved. This guy obviously didn't bother to figure out what was a legal use of the product under the terms of sale.