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Geek Culture / Half-Life 2 Countdown Begins

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Jeku
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 15:49 Edited at: 16th Nov 2004 15:49
We will all be playing it in.....

*drumroll*

12 minutes!

(it's about dang time)

Please post with your impressions of the game, but NO SPOILERS or you will get in my bad books

I have to go to bed now because I have a job to go to, but I will play this game tomorrow night. Good night and have fun playing the game!


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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 15:54
Everybody Dies.

(oops)



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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 15:55 Edited at: 16th Nov 2004 15:55
5 minutes!

I have work in the morning, i'm drunk and about to piss myself.

This is the life.

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 15:59
Hmmm well the Steam web site is down! I can get onto the service, but there is nothing relating to HL2 on it yet Pre-loading still says "when it's released".

Bah.. come on Valve, get some new servers!

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:03
I have no idea how they will notify us by Steam-- my idea is that it will send to each of the clients one at a time, and there must be at least a million people waiting to be activated. This could take a while


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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:07 Edited at: 16th Nov 2004 16:07
Activation taking all day.... meh

BTW restart steam

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Jeku
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:07
Sorry about the double post, but, apparently in order to have the game unlock, you must SIGN OUT then SIGN IN to Steam.

Like I said before, I can't do this tonight.... *cries*


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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:10
Well in these many minutes of activation... I would like to express how much I hate steam.

70%.... 71%

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:15 Edited at: 16th Nov 2004 16:16
82%... for the last 3 minutes, why does valve torture me so?


goodbye... activated!

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:31
Ohhh, finally!! It's now unlocking

If you get stuck with Steam doing nothing, just keep signing in until it starts to unlock HL2. It does it as soon as you've signed in, so if nothing happens - logout and try again until it does. Took me a few attempts, but it's working now.

Cheers,

Rich

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:32
I'm still not sure if I am going to buy Half-Life 2. I like to try games before I spend $50 on them. And I really just want to play Counter Strike anyway so I don't know if it is worth it to spend $50 to play CS.
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:46
I have just gotten my HEV suit...

But the intro is nice... and there is a "Catch me later, i'll buy you a beer" reference.

I am impressed with the physics on the "roof" and you will shortly notice that.

No killing yet, and i already give the game a thumbs up

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 17:29 Edited at: 16th Nov 2004 17:49
Still waiting for posty to turn up...

[EDIT] 9:45 - posty delivers game. Yipee!

Boo!
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 17:36
Well, I am convinced.

Gameplay wise, best FPS I have ever played (so far). Story wise, not to much yet, but very in depth.

The only thing I am bitching about so far, is loading times. They can feel excessive. But the explosions making "Your ears ring" the way everything sounds, they way it looks... I'm amazed.

And after killing a couple combine, i am convinced they took some training lessons from the Black Ops.

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 18:56
Well, I have just gone through hell on a wave runner (one of those boat things, and yes you do drive it), and I must say Half-Life 2 is turning out to be one hell of a game.

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 19:10
cool, now i can get a pirate copy of hl2

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 19:20
HL2 kicks ass. The gravity gun is alot of fun too.


Buy it
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 20:34
Wow, I played alot today, already into Ravenholm, I can play for about 1 more hour then I have to go to sleep... err work

This is a great game.

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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 20:43 Edited at: 16th Nov 2004 20:53
Quote: "cool, now i can get a pirate copy of hl2 "

yay! give me one too!

no I cant play it my pc suck...

how about a screenshot?

edit:

no, wait! I CAN play it see here:
Quote: "Half-Life 2 System Requirements

This Page has been viewed 31887 times since March 2004!
The full spec readout is a little loose for now and probably will be until close to the launch date for Half-Life 2, but by all accounts VALVe has implemented a scaling system that should allow the game to run on some very modest pc configurations. The following is about as low as you should go.
700mhz Processor
128 mb of RAM
64 mb Video Card
PC Gamer magazine even said, \"More amazingly, HL2 will not only take advantage of the next-gen capabilities of a P4 3Ghz-level system running the newest DX9-powered 3D cards from NVIDIA and ATI, but it\'ll also reportedly be fully scalable all the way back to a mid-range PC running a DX6-compatable TNT card.\" While this remains to be seen, and trying to run Half-Life 2 on minimum specs will certainly detract from the overall experience, gamers with aging hardware may not be left out in the cold come September 30th.

(http://halflife2.filefront.com/info/HL2_Requirements)
"



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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 21:46
Quote: "Wow, I played alot today,"


Hurry up Amazon, I need my fix of HL2!


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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 01:03
It's out today! Order YOUR copy today!
UK Coders - have you seen that advert of it?

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 01:41
Yes - One problem I've found so far is that Steam is too busy to register users.

And it takes agees to unlock the files.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 02:29
I havent had any trouble with steam. I got really far for one sitting, im back in City 17, having left Kleiners lab about 30 minuts ago. Its been a while since I slept and I wasn't able to keep playing.. I had no idea what was going on.


Buy it
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WORST INSTALLER MESSAGE EVER!!!!!

to take adavntage of steams features your valve games and any other mods you have installed will be converted to the steam format and stored in your steam directory.

after this conversion process your computer will need to be connected to the internet to play any steam games.

if you do not have an internet connection then press cancel to exit this installer, otherwise press continue.

so thats that then!, no HL2 for me!, maybe in a few years when they release it on budget and remove the DUMB steam garbage, sod!!!.

<SUPERRANT WARNING

I hate it!, I can`t believe it!, the CD installer says it`s gonna remake all my valve games (HL, Gunman Chronicles, Blue shift, Opposing force etc) into steam format, and then I have to be online every time I play a freaking valve game???????????????? on a laptop?, in the middle of nowhere with no net when I go out working on site? (we have to do something evenings)
sod this, I knew it was gonna be a heap of c**p, taking it back tommorow, they can stuff HL2, every time some greedy git goes over the top <RANT RAGE SCREAM!!!!!!!>

cretins.

very very very disapointed ...... Mentor.

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Well I'm truly pi**ed off. First off, game crashed half way through install because it could not find a file on DVD. OK, a quick wipe would probably sort it, but no retry option is given, simply an 'ok' button which rolls back the install so you have to start installation all over again. OK, a quick wipe of the brand new DVD and it installs fine.

Then you have to run all this Steam stuff which is SOOOOOO SLOOOOWWWWWWW at doing anything. Get through all the registration stuff for it to go away for a bit and then decide my username already exists. Why not tell me that at the start! So a few username changes later and I get to the next hurdle.

I can't play the friggin game coz steam is either busy or their server has gone down.

Guess game will have to sit on shelf for a few days whilst initial registration avalanche is over. What a joke.

Back to playing Myst IV I guess...

Boo!
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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 04:33
Funny how they never seem to prepare no matter how staggering the pre-order figures... Blizzard had the same basic problem when Diablo II came out, Battle.net was a nightmare of lag. The installer sounds pretty awful too. Really, Valve...

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It is a shame about the Steam problems, as it is not actually a bad idea as a service. I made sure that I set up my Steam account a few days ago, so that all I need to do is register my CD-KEY.


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Quote: " WORST INSTALLER MESSAGE EVER!!!!!

to take adavntage of steams features your valve games and any other mods you have installed will be converted to the steam format and stored in your steam directory.

after this conversion process your computer will need to be connected to the internet to play any steam games.

if you do not have an internet connection then press cancel to exit this installer, otherwise press continue.

so thats that then!, no HL2 for me!, maybe in a few years when they release it on budget and remove the DUMB steam garbage, sod!!!.

<SUPERRANT WARNING

I hate it!, I can`t believe it!, the CD installer says it`s gonna remake all my valve games (HL, Gunman Chronicles, Blue shift, Opposing force etc) into steam format, and then I have to be online every time I play a freaking valve game???????????????? on a laptop?, in the middle of nowhere with no net when I go out working on site? (we have to do something evenings)
sod this, I knew it was gonna be a heap of c**p, taking it back tommorow, they can stuff HL2, every time some greedy git goes over the top <RANT RAGE SCREAM!!!!!!!>

cretins.

very very very disapointed ...... Mentor."


That lowers my chance of buying down to 0, unless there's a hack.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 05:09 Edited at: 17th Nov 2004 05:14
it must be a bad idea, otherwise it would work , thats the difference between good and bad ideas, good ideas work, bad uns don`t, since I have the DVD (and I`ve calmed down a bit) I decided to try and install it on my older PC (cos I don`t want my existing games disabled) I am realy annoyed theres no way I could use it on the laptop though, steam is a terminaly dumb idea, whats wrong with just releaseing the soddin game as normal?, too bluddy clever by half all this online activation, it`s starting to annoy me somewhat, first winderz, then Pro and now a game for crying out loud, I feel like I`m trapped on "planet of the incredibley dumb sheep", bunch of flaming feebs, GRRRRR!! (please note I have only calmed down a bit.....total calm will come MUCH later, I am that annoyed)

Mentor.

ps: Ilya!, youre a genious!, I love you! (in a manly, good buddies, non sexual way that is ), time to lock "halflife steam hack" into my searchbot

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I thought that the activation process was a one-time thing.


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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 05:16 Edited at: 17th Nov 2004 05:17
HL2 crashed on me - unfortunately it was a reset computer job.
Steam crashed too...

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Can't you just remove the old games, install HL2 then put the old games back on?

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not according to the installer, couldn`t tell you for sure since it DON`T WORK YET!!!! been at it a couple of hours now and it still won`t register or anything, Valve might be smart coders, but they sure are dumb at public relations, there must be half a planet full of people want to rend em limb from limb at this moment.

Mentor.

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Quote: " I thought that the activation process was a one-time thing."


It is. Once activated HL2 can be played offline


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Quote: "It is. Once activated HL2 can be played offline"

Still annoying that it'll compress all my Half-lifes if I install it.
...and that I can't even look at the files for HL2.

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Just wondering but does any one knows just how many people pre-order the game in the world?
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One trillion
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Heard 2 million somewhere... What a joke, I can't even log on to Steam. Probably cause some little punks thought it would be funny to attack the main Steam server.


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Yeah, no loggy into steam. Servers are so overloaded, they can't handle the load and we have to suffer.

Steam + single player game = big F' up

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given up, will try again tommorow, some of us have jobs to go to, time for bed, night, (sob!..I will dream of HL2...always just out of reach .... in a cloud of STEAM)

Mentor.

PS might sue valve, the release date is obviously wrong

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 06:33
Well i was having fun, while playing it....

Sadly i belive the reason we are so screwed is because in the US this is the time all the kids get home from school, or work, or they're days, and now everyone is trying to log in at once.

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Oh you can play Steam games without being logged onto Steam. Once you've made your Steam account and all, check the Save My Password and the Save Account Info on this Computer. Of course you still have to log into Steam to unlock HL2 in the first place


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I've not come across this registration problem.
Maybe the Pre-load version is different the DVD one?

I don't actually have the boxed copy yet, my brother was suppose to pick it up today; but last night i had a monster Monkey Island Marathon. All 4 games in one day, which was bloody fun!

Decided to activate Half-Life 2 about an hour ago after readying all of these 'horror' stories felt it would be best to wait.
Clicked on Purchase, Entered my Key-Code, it spent 5minutes downloading something; like it always does when I click play. After that it booted up fine.

You can play it without steam running. Just have to run it from the Cache directory; There is the option if you right click on steam to place on desktop which sets the link automatically.

Something I'm interested in seeing is what this actually looks like on other peoples computers; when everyone here got Doom3 they were showing tonnes of shots of it, but there aren't any for Half-Life2 yet. So... c'mon!


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I finally got game running couple of hours ago but then a work client phoned up with some problems we wanted sorted out!

Been playing for about an hour and am quite impressed so far. Not done too much yet except playing around with objects. Just got to the first action puzzle but I'm too tired to play any more.

Boo!
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Awesome, finally got onto Steam and unlocking now. At last!!!


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It's an awsome game, so lifelike it's kreepy, I mean the characters are so, so detailed, and they look at you and you actually feel like they are looking at you, plus they lip sync perfectly. Counter-strike source, is amazing as well, a whole ton of fun, I have actually been playing CS: source more then HL2, because it is so addicting.

Guns arnt the problem, people are the problem, shoot all the people and guns arnt a problem anymore.
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Quote: "but there aren't any for Half-Life2 yet"


I think its because they would rather keep playing. I sure most of them would prefer to keep playing and rupture their kidneys than go to the toilet


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Wow, good. Really good. Ravenholm just scares the crap out of me.


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You guys say HalfLife2 comes on DVD, does that mean you need a DVD drive to run it?

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DVD or 3CD Versions are available. upto you which to get.
I ordered the CD version way-back, simply because my DVD Drive is kinda crappy... always powers up and makes that god aweful noise cause it's at like max speed for 5minutes each time it accesses.


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