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Martin_Bashir
11-01-2005, 01:40 PM
:hyper:

how amazing was that?!

i completed it over xmas and i have to say it was just incredible.

Deathmatch is wicked also, ripping toilets of the wall and heavin em at each other with the gravity gun.

Shit me up a fair few times did that game :nervous: :D

class :thumb:http://www.photo-sport.ch/diverts/jeux/soluces/half_life2/images/logobig.jpg
Replicant
11-01-2005, 02:40 PM
I agree, tis very very very good :thumb:

although I prefer CS source to Deathmatch :)
Mist
11-01-2005, 03:53 PM
Aye. good game. I am on about level 12. Zee graphics are super.
ShyBoy
11-01-2005, 04:44 PM
Completed it over the weekend :). Can I ask without spoiling though, what happens to the gravity gun near the end? I just got confused :( but was still immensely fun :D
MrG
11-01-2005, 04:59 PM
that thing that stole your stuff, sorta uber charged tyhe gravity gun
goat
12-01-2005, 02:50 AM
Bloody hell.

It's just Half Life 1 in high res kids.
With a shoddy anti-piracy system.

It's still just a shooty-gun-game.
Mist
12-01-2005, 10:31 AM
Originally posted by goat
Bloody hell.

It's just Half Life 1 in high res kids.
With a shoddy anti-piracy system.

It's still just a shooty-gun-game.

Can't say I had any problems with the anti-piracy system. And I never played HL 1 so don't care too much about that either.
ShyBoy
12-01-2005, 08:06 PM
Bloody hell.

It's just Half Life 1 in high res kids.
With a shoddy anti-piracy system.

It's still just a shooty-gun-game.

It's actually a content-distribution system - if you want a pirated copy of half life 2 it's amazingly easy to get one, with the source code being stolen and all...
MrG
12-01-2005, 08:16 PM
but its also easy to track who is using a pirated copy of half life, and not all of the source code was stolen

and saying its like half life 1 but with shiny graphics, thats like saying once you have seen one episode of a tv show you have seen them all, might be different content, but its still the same show, if you catch my drift

but the thing is that graphics are half the fun with something like this
ShyBoy
12-01-2005, 08:21 PM
but the thing is that graphics are half the fun with something like this

There is one part of the game where you are outside this building, with loads of your resistance mates, and you see these crablike things walking and killing them, and you can actually see the fear in their faces as the crouch behind whatever they can and just fire away in the futile hope it actually goes down, which it doesn't :p (because i ran away, thinking i couldn't destroy them)
MrG
12-01-2005, 08:22 PM
the bit where you first come out of the station into the open air, even when i had found out and realised where i was supposed to be going, i still explored to look at the graphics and play with the broken bottles, oh my its fun
Mist
12-01-2005, 08:58 PM
but its also easy to track who is using a pirated copy of half life, and not all of the source code was stolen

and saying its like half life 1 but with shiny graphics, thats like saying once you have seen one episode of a tv show you have seen them all, might be different content, but its still the same show, if you catch my drift

but the thing is that graphics are half the fun with something like this

yep. The graphics are very impressive indeed. The detailing on the models and the background objects is very good. I'm not sure how it scales down to lower end cards but with all the stuff at high detail it looks very realistic, which just helps with the immersion.

the steam distribution thingy also mean that everything is kept up to date with patches and stuff.
MrG
12-01-2005, 09:11 PM
mine isnt the bestest ended card, but shows most of the graphics up

tis bloody good i tells ye
Mist
12-01-2005, 09:16 PM
mine isnt the bestest ended card, but shows most of the graphics up

tis bloody good i tells ye

i wouldn't mind seeing a comparison to be honest to see how it scales. I put some pics on zee thingy (http://pics.livejournal.com/mrmist/gallery/00003f76)
Joey Potter
12-01-2005, 10:09 PM
I'm surprised there are so many recommendations here - I haven't played it myself but I know quite a few who have. Not particularly bad reviews but not amazing either, I think maybe there was too much hype.
Gavman
12-01-2005, 10:14 PM
the problem is i have been wating so long for this i just got bored of waiting and when it came out i just couldnt be bothered to go out and get it
MrG
12-01-2005, 10:23 PM
buy it online

online buying and shopping was only invented for the loafer
Infinite
13-01-2005, 01:40 AM
i wouldn't mind seeing a comparison to be honest to see how it scales. I put some pics on zee thingy (http://pics.livejournal.com/mrmist/gallery/00003f76)

I've taken a few pics. I'm running the game using a geforce ti4200:
One (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Patchwork_andy/outsidehl.jpg)
Two (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Patchwork_andy/insidehl.jpg)
Three (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Patchwork_andy/hl3.jpg)
Four (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Patchwork_andy/hl4.jpg)

I honestly couldn't tell you if Half Life 2 is the original with spiffier graphics but I do know that I've never really came across a level quite like Ravenholm before :nervous: