[ZylonBane]

gets sneaking suspicion that Stryke wants HL2 to be like GTA3...

[Stryke 9]

[never played GTA3]

[played GTA2 for about fifteen minutes total, and felt that it was a ripoff of half a dozen better games]

If I wanted a game to be set in, say, space, would I be wanting it to be another System Shock or Doom? There's kinda a difference, y'know. And the "collateral damage" isn't the only drawing point, it's just a bit of nonlinearity for when you start feeling bored and sadistic. In other words, a perk. The city setting allows for freedom of movement that being in some hole in the ground doesn't.

Besides, I like sniping in my shooters, and how do you do that without rooftops? Or windows, or something else that puts you a fair remove away with a wide FOV, at least.

[Turnsky]

*hopes they put crossbow back in hl2*

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
...ISyndicate...

Nooooo!!!! he said the Word!!!! the one I tried to forgot for all these years!!!
"I will not dig up the Syndicate CD and DOS disks, I will not dig up the... ah, found the CD, cool! Now the DOS disks."

[Turnsky]

sydnicate, syndicat wars.... good times:nod:

[Turnsky]

Pulled this from planet halflife, should give us some idea what to expect.. i think

More Half-Life 2 Rumors

More Half-Life 2 info continues to leak out, here's some of the highlights:
Half-Life 2 is scheduled for a September 30th release.
Yes, you're still Gordon Freeman, and yes, the story assumes you went to work for the G-Man.
Half-Life 2 takes place in a European city called "City 17."
Headcrabs will be back! Although some of the Xen aliens will be your friends?
Barney is back. And so is Half-Life's original writer, Marc Laidlaw.
While the new engine has all sorts of fancy features, it's still designed to work on lower-end machines. Apparently a 700mhz processor and a video card capable of running DX6 is enough, although a 2ghz with a GeForce4 is recommended.
The girl in the promo art is named Alyx, a daughter of a scientist who factors into the story somehow. She's not playable.
Scripted Sequences will be more interactive.
Half-Life 3 is planned, so expect another cliffhanger ending.

[01010]

Originally posted by Turnsky
Pulled this from planet halflife, should give us some idea what to expect.. i think

 

You should see the articles those tidbits are pulled from. Also, the picture of the GIANT alien attacking the city is more than slightly impressive.

[Slasher]

This article has a screenshot I don't believe has been seen anywhere else plus a little overview of HL2.  (from BluesNews)

http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/23/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

[Stryke 9]

Lie to me, Pinocchio!

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by 01010


You should see the articles those tidbits are pulled from. Also, the picture of the GIANT alien attacking the city is more than slightly impressive.

it's not like that sort of thing hasn't been thought of before:

"and slowly, but surely, they drew thier plans against us"

on another note, i'm really surprised valve kept the development out of the public eye for so long...

[neo_hermes]

where are they going.

[Turnsky]

dude, you really need to brush up on your H.G. Wells

[neo_hermes]

yes i do. what book is it from

[Turnsky]

"the war of the worlds" it's legendary.

[Stryke 9]

Yeah, except that those obviously aren't the Martian warmachines. For one thing, they're traditionally tripedal (don't think that was in the story, but I don't remember), for another, they never flew (which WAS in the story).

[Turnsky]

actually the were tripods (check the back row for a couple), and that's from the 'Jeff waynes the war of the worlds' pc game.. and they never flew in the book, those flying units were created for the game for the sake of unit diversity..

..

the movie had the flying machines, only because they lacked the technical expertise and the budget, to create walking tripods

[neo_hermes]

Oh yeah war of the worlds. i read the tripods already

[Visionism]

That actually wasn't a bad little pastiche of Wells although its far from John Christopher's best work. For that you have to read the Prince in Waiting trilogy. I'm actually scared to read that again since I'd probably find the style too juvenile and it would ruin all my fond memories *sniff*

[Stryke 9]

Oh, yeah, I've read The King in Yellow.

Oh, wait... something about a prince and waiting...



DEATH....

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Lie to me, Pinocchio!

watching porn flicks again, heh?