4th July 2003, 9:31 AM
4th July 2003, 9:34 AM
That...is so unbelievably awesomely realistic looking...I can't even....form a ....sentence coherent...to....it...describe...
I WANT IT NOW!!
I WANT IT NOW!!
4th July 2003, 9:45 AM
Half Life 2, along with Doom 3, is going on my list of games that will never run on my computer.
5th July 2003, 2:04 PM
Then.. buy an XBox?
5th July 2003, 4:12 PM
I knew Doom 3 was coming out on the Xbox, but I didn't know that Half-Life 2 was.
I do have an Xbox, btw.
I do have an Xbox, btw.
13th November 2006, 12:07 PM
In comparison to whatever computer you had in mid 2003, my computer, which hasn't changed since then, runs Half-Life 2 decently... :)
(what? I just played the demo for the first time today, and while the framerate isn't great, it's perfectly playable, and the graphics are amazing...)
(what? I just played the demo for the first time today, and while the framerate isn't great, it's perfectly playable, and the graphics are amazing...)
13th November 2006, 12:20 PM
Actually, both Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 ran on my computer although Doom 3 ran at a low framerate.
Half-Life 2 is awesome, by the way.
Half-Life 2 is awesome, by the way.
13th November 2006, 12:27 PM
Doom 3 doesn't, since I don't have XP... but Half-Life 2 looks better on this thing than it should, I'd say... sure, I'm just running it at 800x600 and medium settings, but even so it looks amazing.
... any way to turn on a framerate display?
(not that I'll be keeping it for long, I bet... it's not a hugely long demo and it's an insane 3.5GBs in size...)
Most of the games in Steam are either pay-to-own, stupid casual-gamer puzzle games, require XP, or require a better graphics card than I have, but the Half-Life 2 and Darwinia demos do work.
Oh... is my display messed up, or does it not tell you how much ammo you have left? There's an "ammo" thing on the bottom of the screen, but it's just an empty box... same for health, there's no numeric display.
... any way to turn on a framerate display?
(not that I'll be keeping it for long, I bet... it's not a hugely long demo and it's an insane 3.5GBs in size...)
Most of the games in Steam are either pay-to-own, stupid casual-gamer puzzle games, require XP, or require a better graphics card than I have, but the Half-Life 2 and Darwinia demos do work.
Oh... is my display messed up, or does it not tell you how much ammo you have left? There's an "ammo" thing on the bottom of the screen, but it's just an empty box... same for health, there's no numeric display.
13th November 2006, 1:24 PM
And in several months, new episode 2 comes out! Episodic content is... actually taking about as long to develop as the regular kind. So... what makes this any different than standard sequels that have been around since forever again? More cliffhangers?
13th November 2006, 1:24 PM
Quote:And in several months, new episode 2 comes out! Episodic content is... actually taking about as long to develop as the regular kind. So... what makes this any different than standard sequels that have been around since forever again? More cliffhangers?
Sorry, it's been delayed to next summer I think.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_e...id=6161505
13th November 2006, 3:11 PM
Quote:And in several months, new episode 2 comes out! Episodic content is... actually taking about as long to develop as the regular kind. So... what makes this any different than standard sequels that have been around since forever again?
There was six years between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2. The time span between Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 was only a year-and-a-half. The gap between Episode 1 and Episode 2 looks to be about one year. So, the time between Half-Life 2 and Episode 3 will probalby be between three-and-a-half and four years. So, to answer your question, in total the wait for the full episodic game will be only slighlty less than the wait for a "full" sequel, only the game is broken into parts that you can play during that four year wait.