Half Life 2

SicTimMitchell · Post by **SicTimMitchell** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:39 am

Unless this game falls apart very quickly from the beginning, ths is every bit as revolutionary as Half Life was in its day.

And yes, ID was smart to release Doom 3 first. It's blown away so far.

There's a world in there.

OMG ICKHOR · Post by **OMG ICKHOR** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:28 am

Will probably pick this up today. What kind of system are you running? Does it run OK?

I'm kinda worried, as I have a 1.6ghz XP, but a decent video card, an FX 5950, everyone says that the video card matters a whole lot more, and doom 3 ran fine, but I'm kinda worried about it.

Minute · Post by **Minute** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:24 pm

One of the most graphically impressive games I've ever played. The storyline that they picked up is really interesting. And the ending definately leaves you wanting more. Definately recommend it.

Minute · Post by **Minute** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:27 pm

Oh btw, you should be fine Ickor. There's a few times that it gets fairly thick, but I think you would be ok. And you can of course turn the graphics down a notch if necessary.

P.S. I was reading that they had over 40 different factial muscles. You can tell too, the opening scene alone is amazingly impressive.

OMG ICKHOR · Post by **OMG ICKHOR** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:35 pm

I just care about CS:source, not interested in single player at all. Just picked it up, working on getting it to run in linux now.

OMG ICKHOR · Post by **OMG ICKHOR** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 6:17 pm

New CS succeeds 100% at being exactly like the old CS, would have been nice to see some new gameplay elements, but it's still nice.

Riggen · Post by **Riggen** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:19 pm

I was totally blown away by how fluid Half Life 2 is. Half Life: Source is also a lot of fun. I'm gratified to see that they kept the beam system intact. I hope to see lots of companies licensing the Source engine, and using it properly.

SicTimMitchell · Post by **SicTimMitchell** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:04 pm

Ick,

The graphics stress test leads me to believe that CS:Source got a graphics overhaul.

Am I wrong? (I got turned off to CS in the early days of TKers, but I keep thinking about giving it another shot.)

Riggen · Post by **Riggen** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:00 am

CS: Source does look better than the original Counterstrike. The feel of the movement physics is also subtly different.

SicTimMitchell · Post by **SicTimMitchell** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:54 am

Also, Ick, I think you'll be fine with that card so long as you have a gig of RAM.

I upgraded to a gig recently and my performance across the board was greater than my upgrade from a GeForce 5200 to a 6600.

SicTimMitchell · Post by **SicTimMitchell** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:55 am

Oh, and one more thing:

Seems about equal to Doom 3 in hardware grindage. Maybe even a little better.

Riggen · Post by **Riggen** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:26 pm

The Source engine's physics and control responsiveness appear to be decoupled from framerate. This helps the game feel a lot smoother, even in less than ideal performance situations.

I have more respect for John Carmack than any other single person in the gaming industry, but why he couldn't have done this with his graphics engines is beyond me.

jookkor · Post by **jookkor** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:22 am

any word on if natural selection 2 will be made for the new engine?

thekons · Post by **thekons** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:22 am

http://www.natural-selection.org/

Thats the website for it jook, not much there atm though.

jookkor · Post by **jookkor** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:16 pm

ya its been down heh so I have no clue whats going on with the mod. One of the greatest mods ever for any fps btw!

SicTimMitchell · Post by **SicTimMitchell** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 9:14 am

Little further in, a caveat:

If you hated the "boat" level in Tomb Raider 3, a good four hours of gameply is similar at level 3 in HL2. (Only with much, much better puzzles and less frustrating.)

It's like they stuck ATV:Offroad or Waverunner in the middle of my FPS!

I like it, but I can see it not being for everyone.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:43 pm

I was kinda sad when I finished the "boat" level. It was a lot of fun.

Ofjnir · Post by **Ofjnir** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:18 pm

I am more partial to the driving portions of the game than the airboat, but I thought both were well crafted.

thekons · Post by **thekons** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:30 am

Well, I beat the game in 3 days, about 20ish hours played, overall, I think it ruled. Now I can play CS:Source, I didn't let myself play it until I beat single player.