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No, just means that you won't be able to play until this night, if you're downloading right now...

I just started my HL2 download this afternoon, it starts out around 300mins, but gradually goes down too 100mins as it progresses. However, once it hit the 100min mark, the timer has since only been going up, and now it's up to 220mins! What's the deal with this? I was downloading it steady, why now is it deciding to stop downloading?!

HELL.
****ING.
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The responses I've seen toward the game so far on this and various other forums, are quite overwhelming. From the sounds of it I would not doubt if this directly effects the direction all first-person shooters will take from this point on, as the original HL did.

bah.. i'm forced to wait until my debit card arrives before I can order it I'd get bronze from a store but i want silver.

We lost the sticky.

I played a bit more on my laptop in C++ class earlier. I wowed everyone away, even the Doom 3 fanboy. :p

Well, I'm thinking about getting it. But as I am currently still looking for a new video card, will it run at all well on a GeForce 2? The GeForce 2 runs CS:S fine, but I don't know if that is any indication.

Or maybe someone knows when the X800 cards are coming out? I did some research because I was thinking of switching to nVidia, but I really don't want to have to install a new power supply just so I could run a graphics card that draws more power than my entire computer does currently...

*Keels over and dies with the sheer gaming brilliance bleeding into his eyeballs*

OH MY GOD!

Get a 6800GT. Runs fine on my 300W PSU.

Doom 3 doesn't have jack on this.

Damn straight!

Kyle - HL2 runs the same as CS:S on my comp. If CS:S runs well, HL2 might.

Surprising though, that it runs on a Geforce 2. Must look like crap. :p

Bah, got to wait a few years

Ok...am I the only one not really impressed? Ok, I am going to be honest from the beginning, I bought HL2 for the mods that are inevitably going to come out for it. Sure, I planned on playing SP, and yes, I started playing it today. But am I the only one that feels like it is all overly scripted? Like, sure, you don't have to shoot and break the board and knock all the guys shooting at you off the bridge and down into the water, but if you don't, you won't have enough ammo to actually kill them effectively. That's how it's been thus far. Sure, I haven't played too much (an hour or so)...but here's hoping it gets better. It sure isn't engaging right now.

If you bust up those damn floating camera thingies before it takes your picture, they don't spot you and they don't come after you.

I just got home and STEAM ISN"T WORKING. I can't log on, it won't come up or anything. I've been jumping around ALL DAY for this, and I get home and can't bring it up. I'm ready to kill someone, oh heck yea.

you guys sound quite.... pathetic. I CAN WAIT the few days until HL2. YOu WAttCH me COntrrOL mYSElf. YOU WILL SEEEEEEE..... . oh boy i want it, i want it now. i want it. i NEED it. i wants it NOW. *buys it* *woot it*




*WOOT *

just got back from my mates house hes running it on
2 gig proc
256 ram
64mb radeon 7000
and quite decent framerate
minimum gfx settings tho

Running it at school here on my laptop.

Centrino 1.5 ghz
512 mb RAM
Mobile Radeon 9200, 32 mb dedicated memory

Runs perfectly fine at 1280x800 at recommended detail settings (medium everything, high quality models).

Is there anything special about Half Life source? I started a new game up, was happy about the new menu screen, and started playing - didn't see any difference in anything.

Yes, and if I had 800 dollars lying around, I just might consider replacing my comp. However, since I pay rent/food/utilities/car payment etc... every month, and I have to pay tuition and books for my next semester of college here pretty soon, I don't exactly have all that much extra money lying around. :p

Isn't this game an alien/monster shooter? Meh, I'm not fond of those games. Unless I'm the alien/monster.

Oh yeah. Guess who's got Half-Life 2? That would indeed be me.

I know I said I would wait until Friday, but...

This is seriously the greatest game I've ever played.

because you know you want them

I willing to wait a few weeks until I get my 3.4 ghz, 256 MB ATI Radeon, 1 GB RAM s3xtop before I play this game.

I can run it on minimal settings now . . . but . . . .must play .. . . . . must stop urge . . .. .. . . .........................

Falls over and faints.

I won't have a machine capable of running it until six months from now :/

It's Hlaf Life on the Source engine. Nothing new, just an upgrade to the graphics.

Call it an inflammatory post, but this game beats Halo 2 over the head with its own arms. The weapons (outside the standard military weapons) are great and original. The grav gun and the bug bait put Halo 2's piddily energy sword to shame, leaving it in the dust.

Graphics aren't a really fair comparison, as Halo 2 is limited by the limitations of the X-Box, but I've no doubt that Half-Life 2 looks better than Halo 2 would on a PC.

There are a whole new slew of enemies (unlike Halo 2), between the gunship , the Combine soldiers , female and male antlions , the new zombies , and the new headcrabs . Even the old zombies themselves have an upgrade when the headcrab may pop off after the zombie dies and continue attacking .

The levels are well-designed, as well, and the game keeps you involved, unlike Halo 2, in which I felt bored, simply trying to get this level done so I can get to the end. In Half-Life 2, it keeps me involved -- the combat is fast and intense, and I always cackle with glee when I send millions of antlions to their deaths against two turrets .

The only reason I'm taking a break is that my eyes can only take so many hours (read: nine) of gameplay before I start to feel it. 10/10 for this one (so far).

hehe

http://sajn.phearwear.com/HL2/

Enjoy.

Add some AA and AF and those would look 10x nicer.

I would, but at the moment I have a 9600XT Asus and a 1.7GHz AMD. I'm getting a new processor next week, so we'll see.

I suggest the 2800+ from AMD, or the 3000+ if you can afford it (yes I'm talking about XP)

We're actually getting a AMD 64 3000+. Along with a new Gigabyte mobo.

some people can't do AA or AF and still play the game

Words cannot fully descibe my instant love and admiration for this game. It's just...

...beautiful!!!

Screenshot + No editing + Desktop = Sex

Looks good. But I can wait a few months.