OT-Half-Life 2 is a great…

[TNZ]

Half-Life 2 is a great game if you like games that do not run. Yes I have update my drivers and that steam thing (programme) said I should be able to play half-life 2 offline but it won’t run at all. On the plus side the box art is good and the art in the hint book is ever better. /threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif FYI My computer exceeds the recommended specs by a good margin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Talk to a person, not a program.

[Will]

Posting as much detail as possible about your system setup and any error Messages given in the game would help in figuring out what the problem is.

[Atrocities]

I have read that the problem has to do with the persons video card. If your card will not run Deus EX or Doom3, your screwed.

[TNZ]

Caution this post will reveal details of the story line in Half-Life 2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif


Half-Life 2 is in fact a good game: it does everything that a good FPS game should do. It also does it extremely well. But the game story line is just bad. Gordon Freeman is apparently world famous after the black mesa incident. So the fact that at the start of Half-Life 2 he has his picture taken by a security drone and this does not result in any response by the station security is very strange. Another thing is that the way Gordon joins up with the resistance run by his former black mesa colleagues. This is laughable. ‘Look Gordon Freeman is back. We haven’t seen him for nearly ten years so let’s tell him all of our secrets.’ That is just too strange. Oh, by the way, the sentence for working for the resistance is death or a trip to an off world labour camp. This makes their attitude even stranger. I really expected the game would have a more believable story line. /threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif

[Atrocities]

I have heard first hand that the graphics are simply the best ever next to Farcry.

To be honest, Farcry is my pick for game of the year. I have not yet bough HL2 because it is so over priced. And I hear it takes a long time to validate your code to play. And that if you do not have an ISP you cannot play. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif And no multiplayer. I smell a Sid Games sneak attack here. Lets release the SP game for $60.00 and then six months later release the MP game for another $60.00. WTF .... People are so stupid that they will accept this practice with open pocket books. We are all sheep in that companies lead us around by our noses.

[Fyron]

And no multiplayer. I smell a Sid Games sneak attack here. Lets release the SP game for $60.00 and then six months later release the MP game for another $60.00. WTF .... People are so stupid that they will accept this practice with open pocket books. We are all sheep in that companies lead us around by our noses.


And they wonder why piracy is so rampant...

[Atrocities]

Good point. But with HL2, you have to have an Internet connection each time you play so the game can validate your license each and every time you play. And this is just for SP.

[Spoo]

And I hear it takes a long time to validate your code to play.



It doesn't.


And that if you do not have an ISP you cannot play.



True.


And no multiplayer.



Counter Strike is the multiplayer. (Even though it's a different game entirely).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

TNZ said:
Caution this post will reveal details of the story line in Half-Life 2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif


Half-Life 2 is in fact a good game: it does everything that a good FPS game should do. It also does it extremely well. But the game story line is just bad. Gordon Freeman is apparently world famous after the black mesa incident. So the fact that at the start of Half-Life 2 he has his picture taken by a security drone and this does not result in any response by the station security is very strange. Another thing is that the way Gordon joins up with the resistance run by his former black mesa colleagues. This is laughable. ‘Look Gordon Freeman is back. We haven’t seen him for nearly ten years so let’s tell him all of our secrets.’ That is just too strange. Oh, by the way, the sentence for working for the resistance is death or a trip to an off world labour camp. This makes their attitude even stranger. I really expected the game would have a more believable story line. /threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif


http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

[kenster9119]

whole game completed in about 10 hours of play,no where near as good as the first and u cant even get a refund cos none of the shops will take it back.for £35 it wasnt worth the money.

[Atrocities]

Thanks Kenster -- Will wait then for price to come down.

[Mephisto]

You don't need a Online connection every time you play the game but you need one to set up a steam account, validate the product and download a patch of about 500 MB in order to play it. User without broadband: Have fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
I won't buy the game. When I buy a game I want it to work out of the box, not do register and download 500 MB. I won't support such sales behavior.

[Renegade 13]

500 MB!?!? That'd only take about... 50 hours of consecutive downloading on a dialup connection. That's hoping it doesn't screw up somehow during that time

[Alneyan]

It is your lucky day Renegade, so it will take a mere 48 hours for you! Just two days, non-stop, while battling Murphy. For this endeavour, you will be rewarded with a game only Lasting for a quarter of the amount of time you put in the download. Isn't that nice?

I guess the download requires you to use the game rather than a download managed as well, so no resuming or things of the like. But even if you can resume, 500 mo to download is quite ludicrous; it would be hardly acceptable even for a MMORPG.

[Suicide Junkie]

There was the whole pre-loading option, where the game downloaded itself over the Last few months.
If you bought it Online and did that, then now it just verifies your codes and decrypts the whole thing. (Very little internet activity, horrendous amounts of disk activity for an hour or two)

If you bought it B&M, you should have the CD(s) and not need to download very much (theoretically).

[Emperor Fritsch the Dense]

i enjoyed HL2. CS Source kinda sucks because the community is so damn elitest. for example i asked how to get a function in game to work (simple question) and the response was get lost newb! so needless to say i went to a different server. its a far cry from this game where i ask a question and i get well thought out responses. i guess age shows when it comes to games instead of trying to help others they flame.
Emperor Fritsch the Newb

[Instar]

Atrocities said:
I have heard first hand that the graphics are simply the best ever next to Farcry.

To be honest, Farcry is my pick for game of the year. I have not yet bough HL2 because it is so over priced. And I hear it takes a long time to validate your code to play. And that if you do not have an ISP you cannot play. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif And no multiplayer. I smell a Sid Games sneak attack here. Lets release the SP game for $60.00 and then six months later release the MP game for another $60.00. WTF .... People are so stupid that they will accept this practice with open pocket books. We are all sheep in that companies lead us around by our noses.


Farcry is indeed good, but Doom3! DOOM! DOOM! Sorry, was rabid for a bit.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ah! It's your fault then! (http://rotd.keenspace.com/)

So it's not worth getting it for the story...How about the mod capabilities?

[Mephisto]

Suicide Junkie said:
If you bought it B&M, you should have the CD(s) and not need to download very much (theoretically).



Unfortunately you have to. The 500 MB is needed for the CD-game! I couldn't believe it myself but a friend bought the game and asked the hotline about the Internet thing. The 500 MB info is from the hotline.