Half Life 2
 

I got it. Its bloody brilliant. I just need a good excuse why i can't go to work today. Any ideas?

No, otherwise i wouldnt be here. I unencrypted it this morning and set the resolution, set up my keyboard config.

I couldnt understand why it was talking, then i realised the "new game,load game options" screen has Combine Soldiers walking around talking to each other!

I wasn't going to get this today.......its on my x-mas list...........stay away from EB......I'M AN ADULT.....I CAN WAIT...................I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT............Is there a support group somewhere?

It"s Here! It"s Here! It"s Here! It"s Here! It"s Here! It"s Here!
 

Since Ichi beat me to this on the General forum, I'll do it here. ITS HERE! HALF-LIFE 2 IS HERE!!!

Expect screenshots, stories, and me acting like 15 year old who just touched a breast for the first time!

what is half life 2 about anyway??? is like halo 2 cause thats what heard so can i have some input

Gordon Freeman, the character you play in HL1, is now in a place called City 17, several years after the Black Mesa incident. The city appears to be under the sway of a totalitarian group called the Combine. Xen aliens abound, there appears to be a revolution of some sort, and i dont know any more, but you will hear from me after i have played it. TONIGHT!

thanks for the info ill probly get for christmas

got good bandwidth? Download from here, it is TONS of HL2 videos

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/halflife2/downloads/

thank god this is one addiction i dont have ..
Although i keep downloading the games ...
I just never play them ..

no both of my freakin computers suck is it gonna come out for the xbox anytime soon cause if it is ill get it then.........

I just grabbed this screenshot from the site i linked above. Tell me this isnt one of the most brutal things you have ever seen ina game:

Ha ! obviously you've never played Donkey Kong

Say "I got HL2"

They should understand.

You got me there. I forgot about the sheer brutality and gore displayed in it's 14 pixels of 2 bit color.....:)

The barrels...
The Ape....

The little italian guy....



THE HORROR.......

thats the problem with you young kids today, you're never satisfied , always after the next big thing ..

you have to learn how to kick back and relax, and enjoy 'old school' :)

You could just call in sick, like Sergio did for Everquest 2...After staying up all night and the next day (with no sleep) playing, he really WAS feeling pretty shitty...So, it wasn't exactly a lie.....Of course, it didn't stop him from continuing to play:rolleyes: :D

I keep reminding myself that i have next week off... so i am holding out.... Hey, i went without booze and caffeine for a month, so 5 hours wont kill me.

Much.

hey, here is another horrifying shot:

I had surgery and coulddnt have any blood thinner 2 weeks before or after.

It was awful.

wait till you have a kid !
I never drink anymore .. i dont have the energy !

I saw this game in action this morning... the few minutes I saw of it looks pretty good, and the sound is good to.

Im dying to go home. i cant fucking wait.....

The first few sentences from IGN's review.

I wanted to make this review short and sweet, but it's hard to stop writing, even when excluding facts that could potentially contaminate an exceptionally well thought-out gaming experience. There's just so much to say. Half-Life 2 is, simply put, the best single-player shooter ever released for the PC. It does so many things right in so many ways that it might be possible to write a thesis on the topic of Half-Life 2 compared to other single player shooters. What Valve has created is simply a masterpiece -- a work of art in the genre.

AHHHHHHH!!!!! 3 hours and 15 minutes to go.....

Good for you

Well.... Im home... And the Steam network is down, so i cant fucking play......


If i cant play tonight, i am going to hit valve up for a full fucking refund... this is sSUCH bullshit....

I read the install (retail disk version)needs to contact the steam network... guess it's anti piracy stuff.


no doubt the servers will be hammerd for the next few days, and since Valve always fail to comprehend, the amount of network usage that will be used at such a major time... it just goes to show they dont do things properly and get their networks upto scratch... look at what happens every major steam update, no one can connect for hours because steam's gone tits up.

Me too m8. Just got back from work & i can't get on. Played it for about 2 hours this morning it's awesome.

I cant rememeber the last time i was this pissed....

I have been overfilling the world with good karma today because i was excited about this....


Oh yeah, and Fuck Vivendi universal for making everyone on the fucking planet wait until the last minute to have it, including those of us who gave them their money a month early in good faith....

I would take great pleasure in getting a full refund and fucking them out of their profit. Assholes...

Oh, wait. i go thte steam version, so VU didnt get shit. HA!

this is one of the reasons why I didnt bother downloading it via steam... steam network is utter pap.

I've ordered it on-line and should get the HL2 DVD version nextweek.

Hey, they may even be online by then....

I bet the bean counters are going apeshit over this. "Wow! so many people, we are making a fortune!"

greedy fucks. i hope they choke on their soy lattes and end up gettin gbuttfucked by tastycakes with hammer in hell.

so thats what he's been up to....

http://www.makejoshfamous.com/mchammerlow.jpg

Funny what a difference a simple "a" makes in a sentance :D

Well, as you can tell by my change in mood, STeam came back online, and i am so happy, i am tired. HL2 rules.

There is a part where a combine soldier tells you to throw a can away. Throw it at him. it is funny. Trust me.

Ichi knows what i am talking about.

doom > hl2

I have played both now, and sorry, doom 3 kicks ass but hl2 is the greatest thing since the aqueduct.

Screenshots!
 

Okay, so steam finally sorted their shit out last night, so i managed to squeeze in a few hours of gameplay last night in hl2. here is a gaggle of screenshots i took.

To put it simply, this game is spectaular. if you dont have a computer that can handle it, go out and buy one....


NOW!!!!
anywho, here are the screenies(more available at scaredyet.net forums):
screenshots on SYN
http://scaredyet.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=170
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_010000.jpg
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_010001.jpg
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_010006.jpg
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_020013.jpg
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_020014.jpg

here is a great example of the bump-mapping in the game:
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_030015.jpg

The beloved HEV
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_tra...ion_050025.jpg

http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_canals_010034.jpg

Hey kids! look! A charred corpse floating in water! NEat!
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_canals_020041.jpg

remember these guys?
http://scaredyet.net/pics/hl2/d1_canals_010036.jpg

is it gonna come out for the XBOX cause my computer sux

Maybe, or a PS2 version. but with consoles, you will lose all of the cool effects. they may even have to dumb down the physics, but pray that they dont. They are spectacular.