Half life 2

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:21 am

Skipped the last page as it became boring as hell.

Now why havent anyone mentioned Ravenholm? nobody goes to Revenholm

That was one of the best parts of the game. An entire practiserange city for your gravity gun. Chopping zombies with the saw thingy over and over again just added to the excitement.
And for the nerds completing the game in 13 hours, Wth? Get out more, use the hardest setting like I did. There is a world beyound your computer.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:03 pm

MR Snake wrote:And for the nerds completing the game in 13 hours, Wth? Get out more, use the hardest setting like I did. There is a world beyound your computer.

Ah, assumptions like these are so . . . refreshing.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:35 pm

Seriously though, if you play the game 24 hours in a row and complain about how you finished it in 1 day, it's your fucking problem.

That's like people sueing McDo and KFC because they're fat.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:35 pm

I was unaware that the game was supposed to be played beyond 13 hours.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:06 pm

That avatar... naaah.

Well, you can play it second time, and once more after that. Game which you complete and put away isn't worth the money for me.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:18 pm

The only reason I'd have to go back is to look for G-man sightings.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:50 pm

MR Snake wrote:And for the nerds completing the game in 13 hours, Wth? Get out more, use the hardest setting like I did. There is a world beyound your computer.

Hang on... get out more and enjoy the 'world beyound [sic] your computer' by playing the game on a harder difficulty so that it takes longer to finish? Does this make sense in Bizarro land? Get back on your banana boat!

Aneurysm · Post by **Aneurysm** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:22 pm

Hum I think I know what he is trying to say. And yes I use the hardest difficulty setting when I live my REAL LIFE.

Forty-six & Two · Post by **Forty-six & Two** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:50 pm

y0 brotha, life is tuff on tha streets, it da reel thing man! Its da REEL thing! w0rd

fizzlephox · Post by **fizzlephox** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:25 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:Seriously though, if you play the game 24 hours in a row and complain about how you finished it in 1 day, it's your fucking problem.

That's like people sueing McDo and KFC because they're fat.

I completely agree. I do think however no matter how short-lived it is still a great experience and the mod community will embrace it more than any game before it (besides its predecessor). Valve's also helping in the war against piracy and that's a good thing for PC gamers who want more resources invested in our medium.

Man I haven't posted here in a long time... I remember the times with Stainless, Neondingo, NuclearGhandi, other people who I forget their name at the moment, and also when I wasn't just some dumb fuk. My beloved post count is gone!!! Oh well.

boywoos · Post by **boywoos** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:39 am

What was your name beforehand?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:02 am

Yeh, NuclearGhandi was coolyo.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:03 am

Oh my. NuclearGhandi totally sucked.

fizzlephox · Post by **fizzlephox** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:59 am

boywoos wrote:What was your name beforehand?

Alphawulf122, I posted a bit but didn't post or spam enough to be very memorable. I remember.. someone named Megatron I think. He had an Avatar everyone thought were sentinels from The Matrix but it was actually a stack of coke lids. Something like that. It was a major revelation at the time.

edit: I even remember the old RPG planet days that went something like

boywoos · Post by **boywoos** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:15 am

The name does seem vaugely familiar, welcome back.

Susan, NG was a dick.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:48 am

I still post here, just no-where near as much as I used to.

Personally, I think the online registration is just a pain in the arse. I'm all for having to register a product online if you intend to play multiplayer, etc with it, but making me have to connect to the net to unlock some singleplayer game I paid for is annoying as all buggery. Especially if I need to go out of my way to install modems and drivers to do so. That, and the relativily small amount of play time are the reasons why I havn't gotten a copy yet. I think I'll wait till it drops down to some nice price that covers the inconvenience of having to fiddle about with my set up.

Burnov · Post by **Burnov** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:01 pm

Personally, I think the online registration is just a pain in the arse. I'm all for having to register a product online if you intend to play multiplayer

I agree.

Currently the PHL forums are flooded with complaints that a recent patch that -you- must update like it or not, has essentially forbidden people from playing Source games (CS or HL2) because they can't connect to steam to update.

None of the games will work until they are finished updating. There appears to be something wrong with the update screen when you launch the game, it doesn't show it right. Check the monitor, that will give you a much more accurate indication of your update progress

This is fucking ridiculous.

More fun with steam:

Why is it that HL2 makes an absolute shamozzle of your hard drive? I mean, I have to defrag 2 or 3 times before each play, just so the damn stuttering doesn't get too bad. And there are two HUGE HL2 files that WON'T defrag at all! There is so much 'red territory' on my HDD because of HL2 you would think it was a Republican state in a US election!

No other game has caused my HDD to be in such a mess. Is there a way around this? Is it something that can be addressed in a patch? I'm guessing it's due to the way HL2 and/or Steam reads files and does its thing with them, but I'm no expert in these matters...

In Reply To #2
Yeah STEAM makes a mess of you HD... I installed W-XP yesterday, did a defrag, and it was very clean,. no file fragment's anymore,.. not 1

But after I installed STEAM (sigh) and HL2 etc etc,.. My HD was one big red zone!!!! It took 1 our for it to defrag, and it was nice again. But then I played it a couple of time's and my HD was a big red zone again,..

it is because all the files are encrypted to 128 bit

All this indicates to me that Valve is content with pissing on their customers by putting the security of their product before anything else. Even making the game run properly or even at all on the computers of the people who gave them money for it.

Valve in it's current incarnation, with all this steam idiocy. Is a very shitty company.

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:45 pm

Aneurysm wrote:Hum I think I know what he is trying to say. And yes I use the hardest difficulty setting when I live my REAL LIFE.

Hang on a goat-buggering minute there, matey! Are you telling me REAL LIFE has user variable difficulty?? I didn't see that mentioned in the fucking manual and if I find that I've been playing REAL LIFE on with Stress and Frustration set to Max Bearable for the last 39 years when I could have been taking it Easy, someone is getting a chainsaw enema for Xmas!!

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:45 pm

The new HL2DM is very nice. They preserved HL2's physics, which is a huge plus after the joke that is CS: Source. You start with the gravity gun, which is kinda cheap if you ask me. I miss the laser trip mines more than ever.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:42 pm

I am about to try HL2DM now. The original HL DM I spent loads of time playing, I hope this new one is as good.