happy half life 2 day!

[Asherr]

its midnight on the west coast and half life 2 should be unlocking for those of you who preloaded it.

good? bad? was it worth the wait?

[gauss]

boner boner boner boner boner boner boner boner

[TomDunne]

Beats me, because it's still fucking locked. Have I mentioned that I don't like Steam?

[MoP]

Mine started unlocking at 8am GMT.
My flatmate's didn't, until he rebooted. Odd!

85% unlocked... and it's 10 past 8... bloody slow thing.
Have I mentioned I'm impatient? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[KMan]

Yay!

[TomDunne]

Sheesh. Just found out that if you already had Steam open, it won't unlock. Need to restart Steam in order to begin unlocking. I'm sure this was documented absolutely nowhere...

3:15am, feeling crabby. Game had better be good /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[TomDunne]

Okay, been playing it for a bit. Too early to form an opinion, but the physics sure are fun. On the other hand, does anyone think the textures seem surprisingly compressed or low-res? Hm.

[lkraan]

Can't wait to play it! But first I am gonna finish NFS Underround 2 which I like very much.

Gamespot's 4 page HL2 review sounded good and came across objective. They gave it a 9.2
IGN gave it a whopping 9.7 and I felt that they were a little bit too happy to be playing the game at the Valve office /images/graemlins/smile.gif
With scores like that I assume that it will be good fun.

KMan...you have some disturbing avators lately /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Daz]

yeah I saw that 9.2 Gamespot. A significantly higher score went to Halo2, and that was dissapointing in my mind. Oh well, I guess I'll try and pick Half Life 2 up tommorow to see If it was worth waiting 5 years for.

[cochtl]

go to sleep your dorks /images/graemlins/wink.gif

its 430 am here in virginia and mine is still unlocking
. fun fun indeed ;/

ok its been done for a while now and after playing a bit i have to say it looks very awesome.

hell it is awesome. some of the textures in the world are a bit low res but as a whole the environments and charaacters are second to none i think. it certainly has more flair than stuff i have been playing lately.

coolness. i hope that it remains this way throughout

[Jes]

[ QUOTE ]
Can't wait to play it! But first I am gonna finish NFS Underround 2 which I like very much.

[/ QUOTE ]NFS-U2 looks a bit "uglier" in terms of the world-textures' quality, but beats it in any other way..

It's like a little bit of GTA3, with a portion of GT, and a bucketload of NFS! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[KDR_11k]

I got enough games to finish, I'll skip on HL2 for now.

[John Warner]

i'm going to wait untill i'm employed.

then i'm going to wait untill i have the money for a super computer. THEN. THEN. i'm locking myself in a room and quiting my job :O

[FatAssasin]

What kind of machines are you guys running this on? And how is it doing framerate-wise?

[adam]

Radeon 9200
1gb of DDR Ram
P4 2.6ghz

Runs like a fuggin dream...

[FatAssasin]

I'm wondering how it'll run with my GFX 5200 because I'm regretting getting the low end version. I had trouble with Doom 3, but I heard that HL2 is pretty scalable.

Other specs are AMD64 2.0ghz, 1gb ram.

[adam]

yah dude you should be fine. HL2 is really scalable. mind you im running on 800x600 but its still purdy.

[b1ll]

best fucking day ever
this game is mad, MAD, Im having hl 1 moment all over again, I love it.

[flaagan]

and what's so happy about, mistah smeeee~?
my entire friggin preload of the game at home had to be scrapped cause of a hdd error. so i redownloaded the game at 4am and ended up sleeping til worked started.. now at work, where i thought i'd preloaded it, I hadn't, and it's taken nearly an hour to get 3% downloaded. and this is on a supposedly uber-fast connection.. *grumble grumble*.. friggin crappy release of this game for me, which is the exact opposite of what it was looking to be up until the last minute.

[adam]

Don't fret flaagan, I have the DVD copy and it took a good half an hour to unlock the game files.