[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
And you call yourself a gamer. Next you're gonna say you never played E2150 or Stars!

I never played E2150 or stars. oh, wait, I played the E2150 demo. No comment about that thing
And no, I don't call myself a gamer, if it means I have to play every and all obscure games that are out every months. I figured playing at least 10 different games per year since the good old days of pong and arcanoid was well enough. Bah, if you want, I'm not a gamer anymore, I have played one game for the past 6 months: warcraft3.
Ah, no, I forgot, I'm playing Project Entropia and Eve Beta right now.
Which leads me to: anybody playing one of those two above?

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael


Neither was I, Mssr. Paranoid. I was referring to your blanket accusation that the thread was bashing HL. From what I read, I didn't see any bashing, just a fairly well reasoned series of explanations of why people didn't like it.

Quit being so sensitive.

just for my defense ( and for the sake of your Opinion Wars ), saying that HL is pointless is not exactly what I call a reasoned explanation. I can see many points to HL-> it's fun, at the point it was quite beatiful, so it was nice just running around ( yeah, I'm that kind of guy, I like to look at beautiful gi... things ), I didn't feel as much excitement as fighting the marines in any other FPS, save for a couple others, the feeling that you were acting in a movie, with all that stuff going on ( ok, it's completly beaten by, say, renegade now, but the game is what, 3, 4 years old? ), the fact that it was fun, etc etc etc.
Just defending poor old HL ( even tho I'm not a HL maniac, just played through it once, and otherwise just played Day of Defeat with my class every noon at lunch pause when I was at my 3dsMax formation )

[Turnsky]

i quite enjoyed HL, ... it was one of the first "decent" fps games i got ...after i got bored of duke and shadow warrior....

also, i never played CS at all much(don't hit), as i only Recently got myself a computer with a large enough HDD, (YOU try, spending 4 yrs with a 3.2gb maxtor) as well as the obligatory network card

although as for sheer fun, nothing beats blasting grunts with a scorpion tank in halo..

what's also fun - sticking det. packs to people in red faction....:devil:

[Nico]

Originally posted by Turnsky

1)although as for sheer fun, nothing beats blasting grunts with a scorpion tank in halo..

2)what's also fun - sticking det. packs to people in red faction....:devil:

Why renegade owz:

1) blasting nod soldiers with a mammoth tank or a mlrs

2) yeah, sticking C4 to people is fun

3) tired of walking? jump in the APC passing by, or get yourself an orca ( flying is coooooooooool )

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by venom2506


Why renegade owz:

1) blasting nod soldiers with a mammoth tank or a mlrs

2) yeah, sticking C4 to people is fun

3) tired of walking? jump in the APC passing by, or get yourself an orca ( flying is coooooooooool )

And my personal favorite Mammoth-tank destroying tactic: having a teammate lay 20 proximity mines on you as a NOD stealth soldier, and then simply running up against the side of the tank.

...boom....

[Nico]

Originally posted by Sandwich


And my personal favorite Mammoth-tank destroying tactic: having a teammate lay 20 proximity mines on you as a NOD stealth soldier, and then simply running up against the side of the tank.

...boom....

that I never thought about!!!! Excellent

[Petrarch of the VBB]

You don't have to play all sorts of ancient and obcsure games to be a gamer, you just have to play and enjoy games.

People who play games until they can complete them with the moniter turned off are not gamers, they are morons.

[Stryke 9]

What's all this about people who enjoy games being gamers? That's like that crap about sports not being about winning- that's loser talk!





With the monitor turned off? DUDE! I've GOT to try that!:D


Blind Avenger!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

If you really want to show off your skillz, try playing a game (maybe OFP:Resistance) with the monitor and the speakers turned off.

[tEAbAG]

Holy ****e, Stryke 9!  Never seen anyone who's even heard of stars!, let alone played it!

I liked half-life(except for Xen) and OpFor expansion was one of the best games ever.  It creamed every game ever made in the value department 'cause of the extensive mod support.  I still play Day of Defeat religously.  Lets just hope that lightning strikes twice!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Only trouble is that there aren't enough SP mods for HL. I am only on 56k, so don't play online games very much, not at all really. The only decent SP mod I've seen in ages was Poke646.

[tEAbAG]

Try They Hunger, or Hunger; I can't quite remember the title, but its something like that.  There's like three episodes of it.  Its a zombie blasting good time.  Quite good.  You can find it on fileplanet if your brave enough to weather that storm, and I think PC Gamer had it on one of their demo discs.

[pyro-manic]

YES! good one, tEAbAG!  They Hunger is bloody brilliant. It's the best SP mod I've played for HL. Another good one is USS Darkstar, and Counter-Life is quite good as well - you get CS weapons for the HL single-player game!

Half Life is one of my 5 all-time favourite games, along with FS2, System Shock 2, G-Police (Playstation) and Hidden & Dangerous.

Deus Ex is cool, but ugly ( I just don't like the graphics - sorry)

Another kick-ass game is No One Lives Forever and the sequel. They're funny at the same time as being top-notch shooters.

The C&C series has to be good as well, but Renegade was crap (SP, never played MP), and Ground Control is great.

I REALLY hope it is HL2. Unreal 2 was pretty, but pretty dull, and Doom 3 is going to be more of a 1st-person Resi than an out-and-out FPS. Duke Nukem Forever keeps disappearing, so HL2 is the only real hope for the genre at the moment.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80


'This is not a crowbar'

(in reference to: 'Ce n'est pas une pipe')

LOL, have you by any chance read "Godel, Escher, Bach"? Or did ya see the drawing somewhere else?

[Carl]

when i saw the advert, my first thought was "half life"

i think i'll trust my gut on this one. 20 quatloos on half life.

[Stryke 9]

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto...

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by tEAbAG
Try They Hunger, or Hunger; I can't quite remember the title, but its something like that.  There's like three episodes of it.  Its a zombie blasting good time.  Quite good.  You can find it on fileplanet if your brave enough to weather that storm, and I think PC Gamer had it on one of their demo discs.

Mmmm, they did (I have that issue in my cupboard, in fact). They Hunger is my favourite mod, incidently.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Originally posted by Kamikaze


LOL, have you by any chance read "Godel, Escher, Bach"? Or did ya see the drawing somewhere else?

heh, the real-life couterpart featured in the course of art history I took

[01010]

I'm not sure of the validity of this but I found it on another forum (they exist!)...

At long last! The sequel to the best PC First Person Shooter of all time has been announced at a press conference with Valve in NY this afternoon.

Having been present at this meeting of developers and media, I got to witness the first running preview and in-game demo to leave the walls of Valve's Design Studios since development began way back when, after the release of Half-Life. And I must say, I was no less than awestruck!

At a glance, you could mistake this game for a DVD movie. The Half-Life 2 engine, built from the ground up, and boasting cinematic quality graphics at blistering frame rates, looks like it will easily topple Doom3's engine before ID even releases it!

The Dev team showed us a demo of a working alpha just to prove that the game's cinematic-style graphics were in-fact, being rendered real time. It was nothing short of amazing, especially considering that it was cutting 70fps in highest detail on a 1.7ghz processor and Geforce 4 Ti4200!

"We've tried to accommodate for the widest range of users possible. We felt that allowing gamers with lower end PCs to play with the highest settings would greatly increase the multiplayer potential and encourage the online community to really get behind Half-Life 2." commented Willam Sykes, source programmer.

As some people may also know, the tactical aspect of Half-Life 2 has been greatly increased over its predecessor. Weapons are now fully functional with gun jams, dirty barrels, overheating and weight. For example, in any in-game mission, one is expected to clear bullet casing jams, hold weapons steady (counteracting against weight) and perform maintenance tasks such as stripping, cleaning and polishing of weapons.

The Team are excited with the new tactical aspect which includes missions of the following varieties:


Radio operator missions where you take on the role of 'behind the main lines' support crew, skills in tuning radio frequencies and counter-acting for static will be essential in giving the fighting troops accurate bearings on targets


Co-ordinating scouting missions into unknown regions. Again, these require the player to stay at base with a radio and satellite uplink, communicating with fighting soldiers during battles.


Weapon Maintenance missions are completed before every main mission. In these preparation segments, players must ensure their firearms are fully functional and well kept. Failure to successfully maintain one's weapon reults in demotion and 'less action' in main missions.

Of course the above is only a TASTE of whats to come in the retail package. Expect a lot of the features that made HL1 so popular, like the adventure aspect and of course, slaughtering a LOT of ultra high resolution baddies! While I looked on at valve's demo, I thought it a shame that these baddies were ceasing to exist by Gordon's well-maintained firearm, as they were so extremely detailed it was a pleasure to watch them! The models were so realistic in-fact, that whilst watching the demo, I noticed the following:


All models have rising and falling chests/areas where lungs are used (this is helpful when you are unsure if enemies are dying, dead, sleeping or pretending!


All models are fully destructable in an unlimited number of ways. Say goodbye to shooting the whole head off an enemy. Depending where you hit it, the skull will fragment accordingly, and differently every time!


The sheer detail is ridiculous: actual hair/fur (not textures), sweat, dirt, cuts (can be made anywhere and of different severity Eg: a cut on the skin, right up to a limb coming off or an opening into the abdominal area etc)



Along with the overwhelming abundance of eye-candy, this game has quite a few never-before-tried features incorperated into the adventure.

Players may be at first shocked to find that Valve has taken the standard mouse look of FPS and added in a 'turn head' type feature. This feature allows the player to look around while keeping the body and weapon aimed in a particular direction, and is controlled by the mouse (as are the body movements). This system, for example, will allow the player to observe an environment around them whilst still keeping a weapon trained on the many prisoners that are taken during missions.

Keeping in line with the new weapon detail systems (cleaning, unjamming, maintaining etc) a sidebar will be added that will allow the player to access his weapon cleaning kit quickly by toggling and then using the mouse to grab and apply tools to clean the firearms. After battles, it is quite common to 'take 5' and make use of the weapon maintenance kit in a quiet corner. The most impressive feature of the weapon maintenance kit is that the player will take control of the tools with the mouse. For example, when cleaning the barrel of a firearm, the player must move the mouse back and forth to move the wad inside the barrel. Players must also take care not to spill cleaning solvents with the mouse when applying them. Move the mouse too fast and you'll waste some good fluid.

Our first look at Half-Life 2 was an exciting experience to say the least. The team here at Deepgame Online News are looking forward to the inevitable flow of screenshots and movies that will spill forth from Valve's Studios over the coming months, and will keep you up to date with all the latest developments as the title progresses.

Keep an eye out this Friday as we will be releasing the first screenshots of Half-Life 2 for all to marvel at

That makes a tingly in my pee pee.

[Corhellion]

I...I...It...my...god...sounds...godly...

...better....than....the...D3...engine?!?!...DVD quality?!?!

...whoa...

*stands looking at the preview in amazment*

Can't...wait...