All the video's I've seen suggest it will be an interesting game... still, the thing that stuck most in my mind was the crane lifting the container and both shadows appearing... major flaw....

But yet in Doom3 characters cannot cast shadows on other characters yet in the PC Gamer Issue with Quake 4 on the cover they show screen shots of character shadows being cast on other characters. Both of which uses the Doom 3 Engine.

Now if ya want to get nitpicky....

still, the thing that stuck most in my mind was the crane lifting the container and both shadows appearing... major flaw....

You're serious? 2 shadows showing on a trailer for a game is major? How do you play any games and enjoy them if an extra shadow in a pre-finalized version of a game is that upsetting to you? I doubt if I was even aware of the shadows, I was too busy watching the action and the enemies...

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* Warhawk *
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I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

I downloaded some 700mb HL2 video from gamespy once...

All the video's I've seen suggest it will be an interesting game... still, the thing that stuck most in my mind was the crane lifting the container and both shadows appearing... major flaw....

On a related note, has anyone seen the new issue of PC Gamer? They played the full Half Life 2 at Valve HQ and reviewed it (also confirming that the game is, in fact, completely done and has been for a while now). They gave it a 98% score, saying "Surpasses Half-Life in every way. Arguably the best game ever made."

No, damn it, tell it to hurry up and get delivered.

Side note: How can anyone into FPS watch that ~20 min HL2 demo_trailer_full and not be excited about the game? The interactivity looks amazing! I don't care much about announcements and hype (except to poke fun at some of it), but, man, that video of gameplay looks cool.


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* Warhawk *
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These people are here to protect you. They are soldiers.

It won't make any difference..

They could easily give an official comment on whether HL2 is gold or not to stop all the bloody hype and rumors but they don't care.

Lombardi has said "the game isn't gold yet" every time when asked. I really don't see what you're complaining about.

Carmack should suggest hiding in a dark closet until just the right moment...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAAHAHAA

Very nice

Gabe - "Good evening gentelmen and welcome to Valve's Evil Layer. As you know I have assembeled you, the most highly skilled evil game developers, to stop our nemesis Vac's Powers."

George Broussard - "They're always after me lucky charms!"

Gabe - "No George, no one's after your Duke Nukem anymore."

George Broussard - "No it's true they ARE after me lu..."

Carmack - "Oh pipe down you fat wanker!"

Gabe - "Thank you."

Carmack - "I was talking to you."

Dr. Smart - "I don't know why all you PISS HEADS are flapping your WORTHLESS gums for. I can take care of this JERK WAD Vacs EASILY with my SUPERIOR intellect. Just give me some DAMN funding and I will CREATE a simulation so REAL Vacs will not be able to tell REALITY from my simulator's VIRTUAL REALITY."

Gabe- "Excellent, how soon can you have that ready?"

Dr. Smart - "SHUT UP! Do NOT address me DIRECTLY! Anwyays I can have it ready in 5 years, expect many DELAYS! And the graphics will look like THIS!"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/Drayth/screen-1.jpg

Carmack - *snicker*

Dr. Smart - "How DARE you criticise my abilities! I ban you from this conference room!!"

Carmack - *looks around the room then back at Smart*

Dr. Smart - "You creater of worthless mindless games that have an elegant and streamlined control scheme for worthless IDTIOTS who can't dedicate their lives to learning a REAL game!"

Gabe - "Quite this pointless bickering!"

Rockstar Evil PR Guy - "KILL ALL THE FANBOYS!"

Gabe - "No! We need them to buy our games! We're only looking to take out Vacs Powers who knows all about our evil plans!"

Evil McGee - "I know! I'll create a dark twisted version of...... hmmm.... Huckleberry Finn! And when Vacs shows up to buy it, because everyone LOVES me and any game I make, we nab him!" *Big Gleaming Smile*

The Spectre - "Great plan! All we need to do now is make sure there's an X-Box port, so lets dumn down the controls by..." *busts out calculator*, "83% and make all the levels the size of a telephone booth and we'll be raking in cash!!"

Evil McGee - "No evil bastard don't touch my IP!!"

The Spectre - "It's public domain you idiot! It's always public domain with you!!'

Gabe - "SILENCE!! You've made Mr. Barneysworth angry, and when Mr. Barneysworth gets angry people di.."

*Door at back of room explodes open!*

Dr. Smart - "Oh NO!!"

Evil McGee - "It's!"

George Broussard - *Tries to Swallow Doughnut*

Carmack - "MONOLITH ACTION RANGER FORCE!"

The Spectre - "NO!!!!"

MONOLITH ACTION RANGER FORCE - "DIE EVIL DEVELOPERS!!!"

- The End -

- ....or is it? -

This comment was edited on Oct 17, 09:46.

If they had to kill every rumor started about HL2 they'd do nothing but that.

The problem is all the kids out there hyping themselves to death.

Again this isn't Valve releasing information, these are idiots who basically are online Stalkers following every single little rumor they can get their hands on and reporting them to web sites which in return are posting the information.

Yeah, you're right, valve isn't releasing this information and all other rumors which popped up the last 18 months but you know what? They could easily give an official comment on whether HL2 is gold or not to stop all the bloody hype and rumors but they don't care. They only care for more hype and are doing their best to make the situation even worse because in the end, it's all free advertising for valve.

Again this isn't Valve releasing information, these are idiots who basically are online Stalkers following every single little rumor they can get their hands on and reporting them to web sites which in return are posting the information.

Ya know if Valve wanted hype then they woulda announced Half Life 2 when they started work on it over 5 years ago instead of having a media blackout.

I never tried this type of comment before, so bear(sp) with me if it sucks..."Is this the HL2 news post that makes the game get released"?

Don't know if I really need a spoiler warning but just in case...

***SPOILER FOR BLUE SHIFT****

Blue Shift advances the Half-Life plotline more so then is immediatly obvious. After all it explains how Barney and some of the scientists end up in Half-Life 2.

****END SPOILER*****

And btw here's something some of you may not know of...
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/135089.shtml

This adds the Blue Shift high definition pack content to Half-Life and Opposing Force for the steam versions.

On a related note, has anyone seen the new issue of PC Gamer? They played the full Half Life 2 at Valve HQ and reviewed it (also confirming that the game is, in fact, completely done and has been for a while now). They gave it a 98% score, saying "Surpasses Half-Life in every way. Arguably the best game ever made."

Who here didnt like know 5 years ago soon as Halflife got game of the year there was gonna be a follow up lol.

nuff said, they are the only company who made us wait this long to get out a product besides Freelancer.

Oh Mr Braben WTF is taking you so long as well as Scott Miller you guys are either lazy broke or too high.


Who cares about HL2 anyways I want Vampire.

This comment was edited on Oct 17, 01:39.

Years? It hasn't been 2 years since HalfLife 2 was first announced. So how can we complain about all the "years" we've been jerked around when it hasn't been even 2?

A year and a half...close enough.


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Nobody was surprised.... If they'd announced a title that wasn't HL2, that would have been a surprise...;P

HL2 is like spousal abuse, we get punched and slapped around for years, yet keep coming back for more.

Years? It hasn't been 2 years since HalfLife 2 was first announced. So how can we complain about all the "years" we've been jerked around when it hasn't been even 2? April 2003 they announced they have been working on it to everyone's surprise and they were releasing Sept. 2003. They slipped a year and some change and now are regarded as the "devil".

All your gone gold rumors are belong to us

*** "the pants Gabe Newell had on when HL2 went gold!" ;p ***

Dude, where can I get the pants? I mean, uh, the Fruit Fscker 2000 needs the pants. Gabe?