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Half-Life 2 Release Candidate
[Sep 16, 2004, 7:09 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

A short post to the Half-Life 2 Fallout Forums by Valve's Gabe Newell indicates a release candidate for Valve's upcoming shooter sequel was submitted to Vivendi Universal Games for approval yesterday. Thanks Andrew.

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Re: Am I alone?
Sep 17, 2004, 14:36

MeatForce

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Re: Am I alone? Sep 17, 2004, 14:36

Sep 17, 2004, 14:36

MeatForce

Yeah, I'm betting nothing is going to "top" Doom3's monster closets, 1994-era ammo traps, and the ever so immersive flashlight/weapon schism. Plus things like having to exit the game to find a code off the internet.. Nothing will ever come close to the kind of immersion Doom3 has..

I was just going to say something similar. Doom3 had a shit-ton of stunningly immersive sound work done on it. Sound-wise, it was quite an amazing experience.

Sadly, it had an even bigger shit-ton of stupid, illogical and annoying immersion-breaking gameplay contrivances such as the ones you mention (and there are plenty more, to be sure).

It's a damn shame id clung so stubbornly to their 'old-skool' ideas, because there were quite a few instances in the game where they really could have been innovative/creative, but just didn't. Their little 'menu system' stands out as something truly unique, and even that was completely under-utilized! D3 was hugely over-rated, IMO.

Actually, WTF am I wasting words on that thing for?

HL2 thread -- HL2 is going to be incredible!!

(Please put the welding gun in it ((even if it's just a c_var you can toggle)) You could make a game that was just the welding gun, a pile of barrels and a puddle, and it would be the greatest game evar