Quote: "Typical Raven. What a joke.
Raven, in this thread you claimed to have already played a full version of HL2:"
A post from what, a year ago; you know how much could be changed since then?
Also if you cared to read properly, I had 3 episodes; the game has 12... so typical Chris, your spoutin' and linking without reading. no doubt just skimming.
no matter what versions I can get ahold of... I much prefer FULL OFFICIAL RETAIL versions of games.
I have the preview release of Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness on a few discs from there; I still went out and bought what was jokingly called the retail.
Further more a game is no sodding fun to play online if the only guys you ever play with are people with hacked illegal versions or the developers. And talking about the game is also a waste of time because no one has played it; so who the hell else can have an opinion on something that is just a video?! Well?
I'm a social gamer, I like playing things, playing with mates and talking about the experience. Further more alot of games will have alot changed during development... a good example is Doom3 which totally changed from Alpha->Gold; There were alot of things which were cut from the full title.
Creature used to hunt you, and weren't so many. Doors and Area of the level could be ripped apart and some of the station were interactive. (hell some of that stuff was in the leaked alpha) Now compare that to everything which was basically script driven in the full game... I have a feeling alot of taken out just so the X-Box version could retain some graphics and Box players wouldn't bitch that they're totally different gaming experiences.
Can you imagine what it would've been like if the PC version had monsters bursting through walls and doors at will; but the X-Box only had scripted events where that happened?
Quote: "Just wanted to add, i love the way that post was a year ago, and we we're talking about the "Extra 4 months" we had to wait."
heh, yeah... plus the obligitory year it appears
Quote: "HL2 SDK this week, but Source Engine SDK tools already released."
yeah they released them a lil while back when XSI HL2 Edition was released; they don't really mean alot without the SDK or an environment to test them in.
you have to admit this is all a total joke, even more that the entire script for the game was released with CS:Source.
everything about Valve has been a joke; and really thats part of why the anticipation is totally gone.
i'd of thought a while back getting my hands on some of the new preview stuff would've helped excite me; and it did, but then the whole 'court case' crap started and well... just can't get excited about crap like this. or atleast i can't.