Half-Life 2 -- A year later

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Well, it's been a full year after TEH BIGGEST GAME EVAR was released. Does it still hold up? Do add-ons like Day of Defeat: Source or the Lost Coast/Aftermath bits help?

One thing's for sure; the game showed how my radeon card didn't like some of the code, and would spit back little specules of iridescent color, which tended to alter the game a bit...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

Was FarCry actually good enough to trouble it?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

To trouble it, yeah. Not to beat it, mind. But it's very much worth a play.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

far cry:instincts on the xbox has a really annoying unskippable intro-training movie which you have to view a. each time you load the game and b. each time you skip out from one mode into another... which is a shame because the game is lovely... really gorgeous and immersive... the first FPS I've bought since goldeneye (though not the first I've played)... better than half-life 2? hmm I dunno...

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

I discovered Steam installed on my parents' computer... with TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC. So there's no chance their ATI Rage 128 32 meg card could run HL2 but... TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC. Too much fun.

― adam (adam), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

I love Half Life 2, and still play the single player game! It's the most fun FPS I've played since Soldier of Fortune, which everyone tells me is rubbish. I think they're mad.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

I think it's well understood that I despise these nausea-inducing, drab and darkly-rendered steadicam shootemups.

OTOH, I believe the Steam system was supposed to be some kind of revolutionary mod-community-empowering environment, and I seem to recall having a lot of interest in where it would go. What's the estimation one year on? Has a lot of great content been made available thanks to Steam, or is it still just a DRM headache for people living in fear of broadband downtime? Is this something you guys can get behind, or is it all worth it?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 3 October 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

they're working on releasing a few more games thru it, including this one:

http://www.ragdollkungfu.com/

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, and we've now had an ILG for two weeks. Hooray! they said we'd never last!

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday ILG!!

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.psw.ca/peter/mario_cake_small.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

i have been playing this. it's the best bleak future earth dystopia ever. i just got to the part where you play chicken with a train in your beach buggy.

― thomp, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

i love HL so so much

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091026094538/half-life/en/images/e/e2/Wallace_Breen_breencast_bust.jpg

Please bow you heads for a moment of silent reverence over the passing of Dr. Wallace Breen.

― requiem for crunk (kingfish), Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.