Emotional Leper wrote:Halflife 2 has a plot? I thought the entire thing was a physics engine demo!
Did you play the game? Plot: Combine dominate the earth, Freeman enters teleporter, makes Dr Breen aware of his presence, Combine alerted, Freeman attempts to escape City 17 and stop Combine, rescues Vance, some time passes and resistance fights back, damages citadel. Ergo, plot.
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Emotional Leper wrote:Halflife 2 has a plot? I thought the entire thing was a physics engine demo!
Did you play the game? Plot: Combine dominate the earth, Freeman enters teleporter, makes Dr Breen aware of his presence, Combine alerted, Freeman attempts to escape City 17 and stop Combine, rescues Vance, some time passes and resistance fights back, damages citadel. Ergo, plot.
I'm stuck in the mines after leaving Ravenholm? Sp?
Loremaster wrote:I finished HL2 Episode 2. Excellent stuff. The final Strider battle was amazing, as was the ending. A shame that nothing was really explained, however.
Still no revealing tibits, eh? Damn! Hopefully, Episode 3 will give us something satisfying, story-wise.
I’m starting to worry that Half-Life’s writers still haven’t thought up any shocking truths about stuff like the G-Man and Freeman’s nature. Maybe that’s why they’re holding back on details.
I'm really starting to get pissed paying $45 (plus shipping!) for a days worth of game! First HL took over a month! 2nd HL took over a week! EP 1 took a few days, and EP 2 took one damn day! AAAAARRRGGHH!!! I was so pissed, I thought I was maybe 1/2 way or possibly 2/3 thru the game when I "realized" it was the END! I HATE that!
Loremaster wrote:I finished HL2 Episode 2. Excellent stuff. The final Strider battle was amazing, as was the ending. A shame that nothing was really explained, however.
Still no revealing tibits, eh? Damn! Hopefully, Episode 3 will give us something satisfying, story-wise.
I’m starting to worry that Half-Life’s writers still haven’t thought up any shocking truths about stuff like the G-Man and Freeman’s nature. Maybe that’s why they’re holding back on details.
There is a little revelation about the G-man, and Alyx.
Esmer, apparently Valve are going back to making ful, not episodic, games. If they had concentrated on HL3 and let some 2nd part work on add-ons, we'd have HL3 by now. So they say.
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There are releasing Half-Life Orange Box soon and that will have Half-Life2, Half-Life 2: Ep1, Half-Life Portal and a multiplayer game but I can't remember its name. I still haven't play Ep1 yet but I would like to play the new two. And there is a plot to all teh Half-Lifes just Gordan never speaks.
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Esmer wrote:I'm really starting to get pissed paying $45 (plus shipping!) for a days worth of game! First HL took over a month! 2nd HL took over a week! EP 1 took a few days, and EP 2 took one damn day! AAAAARRRGGHH!!! I was so pissed, I thought I was maybe 1/2 way or possibly 2/3 thru the game when I "realized" it was the END! I HATE that!
Well, the package also came with Team Fortress 2 and Portal, as well as the original Half-Life 2 and Episode 1. But yeah--don't expect a full-length game, when it comes to the episodic stuff Valve is making. On the bright side, every bit of the Episode is tight and brilliant--no filler, like HL2.
Speaking of Team Fortress 2: man oh man, did they ever get it right! This game has to be the best-balanced multiplayer I've ever encountered. No one class is dominant, as each one has a weakness that another class can exploit. I'm also surprised how incredibly smooth it runs, despite the HDR lighting and cel-shading. It runs better than Day of Defeat: Source!
Team Fortress 2 looks great and Portal seems like quite a novel concept. As I haven't actually played Halflife 2, the Orange Box probably represents good value for me so I'll have to pick it up sometime. Must-have Xbox games are like London buses at the moment, so it might be one that I try and pick up at a discount in a few months time. I just don't have the time to play them all anyway, so I may as well spread out the purchases and save some money! Bioshock has started to appear in my local game retailers and I've not decided if I'll get Mass Effect straight away or leave it for the time being.
I picked up Sid Meier's Railroads! at the weekend and it's a ton of fun and has that addiction factor you always find in Sid's best games ("just one more turn" "I'll just get this line running properly" etc etc). Unlike Pirates!, which was just a tarted up version of the original, there are some significant changes to gameplay, making it more about the trains and less about buying businesses. I visited the game's site to download a patch and noticed that the original Railroad Tycoon game is available there for free download, in case any of you are interested in a trip down memory lane.
Q. Why do Communists drink herbal tea?
A. Because proper tea is theft.
I started playing Chrono Trigger, after a long hiatus.
I was near the game's end, but then I noticed that there are a ton of optional side-quests. I'm in the process of doing those, before I properly finish the game.
I downloaded Speedball 2 from Xbox Live Arcade last night. If Paperboy has taught us anything, it's that games from the golden era of yesteryear don't always age well, and it can be best to leave those happy memories intact.
When I first loaded up Speedball and started a game, I was quite shocked by how crude the game looked. Not the polished up Xbox graphics themselves, but the way the players moved around. The eight-directional movement really jarred against my analogue-accustomed senses. By the end of that first game, the old Speedball magic had started to take effect. The game strikes a perfect balance between button mashing and cunning and the pace of the thing is frantic. There's something about it that makes you want to start a new game immediately after the final whistle of the last one, a playability that endures even after 16 long years.
If the updated graphics aren't to your taste, you can switch to the original which I think I prefer the look of, but I somehow found it harder to win that way. It might be that the new graphics are full screen, and the classic mode is zoomed out a bit for resolution's sake. Like most of the Amiga generation, Speedball 2 is but an appetiser to that most anticipated of XBLA titles, Sensible World of Soccer. Speedball lacks the depth of that game, just like it always did, but still rivals it for playability and is well worth 800 Microsoft points.
Q. Why do Communists drink herbal tea?
A. Because proper tea is theft.
Hate to double-post, but man, I just racked up 150+ points on Team Fortress 2.
I was a Heavy Weapons Guy (lots of health and a minigun). Most of it was from fragging 10+ people in one charge. A medic would be behind me, keeping my health up. If a medic keeps healing, he'll eventually build up an "Übercharge", which makes you invulnerable for 20 seconds of sheer madness.
Ah, sheer madness. So far, The Orange Box has been my best investment all year.
I should have been playing Half-Life 2 about now. What's the deal with a retail boxed game that can't be installed offline?
When we got our current internet package from BT, they were in the habit of giving people a SpeedTouch ADSL modem--which is essentially an external dialup modem for ADSL connections, and it can only be used for one computer, which has to have software installed to use it. The final result being, our old, slow, not-quite-up-to-spec home computer is connected to the net, while my own PC, which can actually handle modern games, can't get access. So my copy of the Orange Box is, for now, essentially useless.
Murrin wrote:I should have been playing Half-Life 2 about now. What's the deal with a retail boxed game that can't be installed offline?
When we got our current internet package from BT, they were in the habit of giving people a SpeedTouch ADSL modem--which is essentially an external dialup modem for ADSL connections, and it can only be used for one computer, which has to have software installed to use it. The final result being, our old, slow, not-quite-up-to-spec home computer is connected to the net, while my own PC, which can actually handle modern games, can't get access. So my copy of the Orange Box is, for now, essentially useless.
thats the most whacked thing about Steam there is. should be illegal.
I'M INSIDE LAVOS!! The end of Chrono Trigger is nigh. Truly the best RPG I've ever played.
I'm going to play Final Fantasy VI after this. The farthest I ever got was the opera house, so I might end up liking FFVI more than Chrono. That'll be quite a feat.
Plot: Combine dominate the earth, Freeman enters teleporter, makes Dr Breen aware of his presence, Combine alerted, Freeman attempts to escape City 17 and stop Combine, rescues Vance, some time passes and resistance fights back, damages citadel. Ergo, plot.
First HL took over a month! 2nd HL took over a week! EP 1 took a few days, and EP 2 took one damn day! AAAAARRRGGHH!!! 
I was so pissed, I thought I was maybe 1/2 way or possibly 2/3 thru the game when I "realized" it was the END! I HATE that! 
Truly the best RPG I've ever played.