I just have to say this is the most amazing game EVER! :D :D :D

I knew someone would start a thread. Yep, tis the best game I've played in a long while. I'm at the prison at the moment. Very well made game, very very well made game. This definatly wipes the floor with Halo 2.

Super Mario Bros. was better back in the day.

halflife 2 walks over halo2, its reallly cool i have just passed the prison

i have to get it some time, hopefully i can get a copy from one of my friends with broadband

Thor, you are probably the only one who would dare to say that they are in prison :p

ANyone else finding the AI to be lacking?

I certainly was disapointed to run into an invsable wall within my first hour of play (Taking the Airboat through the Tube by the Wreck with the 2 Missile launching Car type things.
I got to the ramp you need to use by jumping my boat over the wall using the rubble as a ramp instead of blowing the Red shipping crate open and driving in through that and hit an invsable wall on the ramp!!!! it disapeared when i blew the crate on the other side of the map!!!
Very dissapointed so far but great physics and Graphics!!!

Thor, you are probably the only one who would dare to say that they are in prison

Can't be that far behind can I?

Yeah there's a few niggles and the AI is alright but I'm only playing it on easy (to get a feel for the game so my team can start on our mod) but I'm sure the AI is amazing on the most difficult level.

And I love the industrial music that plays when your on the hoverbike. That made my day

I will be getting Half-Life 2 for free (because I have bought 9600 XT card). I do not know when it will be send to me. Do more people here get it like this, please can you report when you get/got it?

That much better than halo 2? Hmmm. May have to get it.

I have enjoyed halo 2 so far though its not groundbreaking or anything. You guys playing the halo 2 campaign in co-op mode? That is much funner than single player.

Sorry for these stupid questions:
Are you talking about PC or Xbox? Is Halo2 available on PC? Is half-life available on xbox? can you really compare xbox graphics to pc graphics?

Half Life 2 is PC only at the moment but there are plans to launch and XBox version. Halo2 is XBox only with no official plans for a PC release but we all know that's coming.

And you can compare the two as the XBox is just a PC with gamepads. An outdated PC I might add. It was old before it came out.

So is it even a fair to compare the two games. I mean you can by 2 xboxs consoles for the price of a graphics card (alone) that can run halflife. Alright maybe I'm exagerating on the cost of graphics cards but you can't compare the cost of hardware required to run the 2 games. Obviously, we'd expect PC games to be better. The fact that console games even come close in quality to PC games puts them ahead IMO. -- (sure we use computers for other things too but we don't need $200+ graphic cards and 1G ram for "other things").

There's no such thing as "other things" to a gamer.

w00t, just completed Half Life 2, I is proud. Ending was shite but the game in all is amazing

How long did it take you???
I have played it for about 6-7 hours

My friend just phoned me saying he has a problem installing halflife2 it says

'error 1335. the cabinet file 'hl22.cab' requred for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the cd-rom, or a problem with this package.

a few minutes into installation could anyone help him???

I WANT TO HAVE IT!!!! Damn fuckers in Austria send it on its way yesterday, I hope I get it tomorrow. Can't the post company deliver faster?


Oh, if anyone thinks it is strange that I ordered it in Austria, I can only answer, it is impossible to preorder the German version (and the English version) in Germany itself because it is rated 18+ and no company goes through the hassle of checking all the IDs of those who order the game.

youll get your chance dreamy, any day now.......

Took me....uhm...jesus...about 20 or so hours...I think :bugeye:

What part are you at now, I'll tell you roughly how long you have to go?

About time it came out! I'll see about getting it for Xmas/Hanika, my brother owes me for getting him Doom3.

I thik I'm going to get Half-Life 2 for Christmas. I might buy it now and ask for a different game for Christmas. I remeber playing Half-Life a LOGN time ago, I'll have to download it and catch up in the meantime.

So is it even a fair to compare the two games. I mean you can by 2 xboxs consoles for the price of a graphics card (alone) that can run half-life. Alright maybe I'm exaggerating on the cost of graphics cards but you can't compare the cost of hardware required to run the 2 games. Obviously, we'd expect PC games to be better. The fact that console games even come close in quality to PC games puts them ahead IMO. -- (sure we use computers for other things too but we don't need $200+ graphic cards and 1G ram for "other things").

I find the price well worth it, at 4 times the resolution of an Xbox, with Anisotropic filtering, Antialise (Halo on PC can’t run with Antialise), Direct x9, Halo on PC looks far far better then on Xbox and Halo on the PC looks like shit compared to some other PC games! Not to mention the free games you can get with a PC thanks to pirated software downloading, considering all the games I have pirated it has more then made up for the price difference of the video card and extra ram!

Are you confessing to committing crimes, Fetus?

Have you guys fought the Tripod robot? I think they call it a Strider.

Anyhow, there's a trilogy of books by Christopher John called the Tripods, where aliens conquer earth and rule it by riding around in giant tripods. They also control people's mind by sticking metal shit in your head.

Anyhow, those tripods just reminded me of it.

OMG!! I just got to that part those things are freaking crazy!! WOW! I love this game!

i just passed the prison

They ain't tripod, they're...quadpods and take a helluva lot of rockets to take down. And it ain't fun trying to take out 5 of them with no ammo, you have to sacrifice your men to steal their ammo.

Ah, just passed the prison, you're about 2/3 of the way there. Now it get's hard for you Ghost ;)

Are you confessing to committing crimes, Fetus?
And what law has he broken?

He's just admitted to pirating software

That depend on what software I admitted to pirating, I did not name names did I?, for all you know there was no copy rights on it. :m:

He's just admitted to pirating software
Ah the "pirating software" law, of course...

Wow, just completed HL2, I have to say, it has one of the most gripping single player campaigns I know. That's why I played it through in two days, since I just got it Friday afternoon.

Damn, that game is so much fun. Good work from the programmers. :D :D :D

Doom2 was good, but not great, even disappointing. Was HL2 as great as you expected it to be?

it was i just completed it exellent game

Half-life 2 was better than I expected. I feared that it might be a cheap seconds part that would always be overshadowed by the first game... this was definitely not the case. I think it was better than HL and it was worth buying.

yeah i agree, most games that are a sequel are crap butthis game was way better. I love when you have to carry things toa place then drop itasaweight.

Yes, they are really using the physics engine for a good effect. Never had this in another game.

iwonder how hl3 is going to turn out!!!

This game is brilliant on so many levels. The cosmetics are amazing. The sounds are the best they can be and even the code...man, the code...they've turned code into an art form. I lvoe it and it's so much fun to mod with.

Almost completed it for the third time on hard mode...will take me up to 4 times. I'm hooked

yeah im on my 3 time completing it too, addictive!!

Hmm, I have to go build some multiplayer levels, I really like playing with the physics engine.

if they call it half life 2 it should be at least twice as good.

(too much wine)

It's more than twice as good. Put it this way, I hated HL1...I love HL2.

I loved HL1, how could you have hated it? Best 1ps plot ever was HL1.

i love the both of them but i must saw hl2 is the the best

I doubt it could have a plot better then HL1’s.

yeah i agree

I just bought Half Life 2. Bad news is I can't run it, because right now I'm sitting behind a firewall which won't allow Steam to open the appropriate ports to set up an account. This is very annoying, to say the least. I don't suppose anybody knows a way around this...?

I will be moving house in a few weeks time, so it might just have to wait until then.

How about temporarily removing the firewall? You know, for a few minutes? Or are you worried all those hackers that are on stand-by 24/7 waiting to get at your goods may strike? lol

It's not a personal firewall, Thor. I don't control it.

Doesnt it say 'permit' 'disallow'???

I just bought Half Life 2. Bad news is I can't run it, because right now I'm sitting behind a firewall which won't allow Steam to open the appropriate ports to set up an account. This is very annoying, to say the least. I don't suppose anybody knows a way around this...?

I will be moving house in a few weeks time, so it might just have to wait until then.


http://www.zensur.freerk.com/ :cool:

I say he should bitch slap the mofo

Thor, again, it is not his personal firewall, he's on some shared filtered access or something. He'll have to outsmart it, by setting up his own proxy. Depending on the owner of the firewall, not entirely risk-free, though. It's considered 'hacking' by some people... some of the smarter spyware and trojans do the same to your firewall btw.

Once inside they turn off all your security, or just the required gates. James's luck is: he's already 'inside', so to speak. He wants 'out'. So he has to make the firewall think it's sending info to 'allowed addresses' (and ports) both inside and out, and noone in the systems dept the wiser.... ;)

Anyway, Steam has banned 20,000 illegal copy-owners already:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4041289.stm

yeah, i read about that, and i still dont agree with Steam being the way forwards, i hope it dies

This patent is based on a firewall idea, originally, but could theoretically be extended to Steam, meaning: to avoid litigation they'd have to cough up dough they don't have or want to spend...

United States Patent 5,987,611; "System and methodology for managing internet access on a per application basis for client computers connected to the internet ".

(tech note: if it uses 'TDI monitoring' in any way, it's up shit creek - narf. )

A movie of someone playing Halflife2 he finished it in 2hours and 30 mins and thats how long the film is.


666MB - Dont recommend to download if you havent played and finished hl2
http://www.gamershell.com/download_7744.shtml

Watched that video, shouldn't be hard to accomplish when you know where to go and what to do. Still, why should I play it through that fast?

It's possible to tunnel ports that are blocked through other open ports, however you would have to know which ones are open and allowed.

As for Halflife2.....

Well for all of you that were complaining Halflife2 now has a Demo out, I believe you can now download the Demo through Steam... so no more whinning.

Ending was shite but the game in all is amazing

I was not very satisfied with the ending of this game too, on the other hand I am because it's the best game-ending in a while. I downloaded hl1 just to get to know this g-man (the man at the end with the suitcase) and understand the plot a little more. I am anxious for half life 3 but unfortunatly that will take a while :(.

I'd give halo 2 a 7,5 or something and hl2 definatly a 9 to 10.

i got to the part where you are on the river in a buggie, but it keeps saying node graph out of date, then ai disable when i load it again, forcing me to load from the start of each level, i have almost given up on it

Searching the www.steampowered.com (Http://www.steampowered.com) forum deals with most problems.

simply over the past couple of months there have been a few engine updates to fix a few problems like stuttering etc. When you startup Halflife 2 you might not have Steam logged in with the automatic update turned on, this means you could have a Map which came with your retail CD which is now out of sync with the map thats downloaded from Steam.

To fix the problem you will need to make sure that Steam has updated all it can update to bring your engine and maps into a compatible state. Of course make sure you are online when you do this.

The actual warning should read "Node Graph our of date. Rebuilding..."

i dont have steam, i tryed to make it work but gave up, im using a cracked version on a copy of the game :p

Yeah, vslayer, I got banned from Steam because I tried the game out using the original cracked serial then bought the game. So now I have to use the cracked version. Good game, but I refuse to buy any more games from Valve after all the bans they did to paying customers.

well i guess thats what you get for straling the game.. dont you think?

Anyways, i-net connection dependant (not online) games suck. I mean... If I lose my connection then screwed little me and I can not even pass the time with my game.

but steam only needs to be online for the time it takes to validate the files and then no need to be online... i personally think it is really awesome. playing at release was one of the coolest expirences ever! knowing that however many people were getting off the train at the same time you were was great!

Yeah, vslayer, I got banned from Steam because I tried the game out using the original cracked serial then bought the game. So now I have to use the cracked version. Good game, but I refuse to buy any more games from Valve after all the bans they did to paying customers.

after trying to use steam on HL1 there was no way i was going to pay for anything that relied on what has to be the shittiest program since windows, hence the reason i got a copy.

where did you get your crack? mine must be from a different version