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?

boner boner boner boner boner boner boner boner

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

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? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Yay!

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 [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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.

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 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
With scores like that I assume that it will be good fun.

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

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.

go to sleep your dorks [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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

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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! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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

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

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

Radeon 9200
1gb of DDR Ram
P4 2.6ghz

Runs like a fuggin dream...

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.

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

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

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.

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