Half-Life 2 Episode One Delayed 72
Folks looking forward to their next fix from City 17 will have to wait a few more days than expected. The last time a release date was announced, they were aiming for April 24th. Now folks are going to have to wait for May 31st for the expansion to the hit game. From the Eurogamer article: "You're on top of an exploding building, okay, so how do you not all die. It answers a bunch of those questions. It also raises some questions about what the G-Man's real role is in the Half-Life universe, so there are some surprises there for people". Here's hoping it is worth the wait.
I see the pattern here! (Score:1)
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Play Oblivion... (Score:1)
Conspiracy? (Score:4, Funny)
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I think that part of the game's brilliance is not letting us know who the G-man is, who he works for, what he does, etc. Look at all the speculation online as to the truth. Gaming guides for HL2 have a "Spot The G-man" checklist. Things like that wouldn't exist if we knew what his real role is.
It also reminds me of a story I heard about Raymond Chandler. Shortly after "The Big Sleep" was made into a movie, Chandler was asked to explain the many double crosse
What's the story line, Kenneth? (Score:4, Insightful)
So I am a big fan of Half-Life and Half-life 2. It's the only game I play when I have time, but I never got the story line. I think the Valve floks know how to make a fun (Ravenholm still gives me the creeps), interactive, addictive game, but the story line, such as it is, ain't too compelling. It's too bad too, because I think they did have an oppty to have a more interesting story in the game and the components seem to be available to provide more puzzle solving manilplate the world more.
Re:What's the story line, Kenneth? (Score:4, Informative)
http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm [members.shaw.ca]
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Re:What's the story line, Kenneth? (Score:3, Insightful)
The overall problem the parent posts are trying to bring up is the fact that a HUGE amount of 'backstory' (for the lack of a better word) doesn't exist IN GAME. Even the link you showed is full of flaws and is largely extrapolated.
Under the supervision of researchers Eli Vance and Dr.Kleiner, crystals are retrieved from Xen, and organisms are analyzed.
In Half-Life 1, the scientists reacted to the headcrabs as if it was the first time they had seen them. With the exception
Re:What's the story line, Kenneth? (Score:2)
Who said it was accidental? And who said your objective was to kill the daemons? Half the time you're simply trying to survive one way or another (Fall back to HQ, rally with a unit trying to call for help, regroup at Delta Labs.)
a variety of aliens from other worlds working for either the combine or allied with you,
What variety of aliens? All the enemies in the game were either mutated/brainwashed humans or Xen wildlife
Re:What's the story line, Kenneth? (Score:1)
The books explain everything.
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The war for Earth is over. But the battle for the stars has just begun...
Battle for the stars? Wtf? I thought the whole story revolved around daemons from hell. I'm pretty sure the books are non-canon.
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This is justified by the Opposing Forces expansion, where you see scientists experimenting with Xen crystals and aliens. There's even a Headcrab Zoo. It's still speculative, because particular scientists were never named, AFAIK.
I'll agree that timeline page is pathetic resource by and for idiots, due to the lack of footnotes.
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Delayed (Score:4, Funny)
In other news, water is still wet.
Of course, when they *do* finish, their games tend to be pretty great. So I don't mind.
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excelent (Score:1)
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Windows, Office, Ubuntu, Half-Life... (Score:4, Funny)
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Oblivion (Score:2)
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Oblivion?
Hahahahahahaha!
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As usual (Score:1)
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My guess:
Episode 1: they're finishing off the coding, but a majority of each piece is complete. Enough to put them together and start refining.
Episode 2: they're laying out the storyboards, perhaps some concept art for new enemies and locales. Maybe their starting new artwork for th
HL breaks the mold (Score:3, Funny)
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When should we expect... (Score:1)
Goddamn. (Score:2)
I'm hooked on HL2, and it's like shooting up in front of a recovering smackhead when he says that. Damn him and damn Valve (but I'll buy it anyway).
Half-Life 2: Episode One? (Score:1, Interesting)
Half-Life 2 has come and gone...but now we're getting Episode One? Wouldn't Episode Two be a bit more fitting.
Re:Half-Life 2: Episode One? (Score:2)
I couldn't agree more - although the original title of Half-Life: Aftermath actually made a lot more sense, since it is obvious that it is the aftermath of the Citadel blowing up. That, and it allows creating jokes about Valve having games named after the C&C Red Alert Expansion packs: Counterstrike, Aftermath, which soon be followed by Yuri's Rev
How can you not figure it out? (Score:4, Interesting)
Gordon Freeman
Jeez, do you guys need a map? He's a time-traveller pimping out his own past ass to himself and his anarchist buds from the future so shit happens the way they want. Why do you think he's going to so much trouble to make sure Gordy's always in the right place at the right time? And why he always knows where one step ahead of Gordy is?
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Iraq
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Al Qaida
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"This proves that Iraq has ties to Al Qaida."
Re:How can you not figure it out? (Score:1)
Well, that or Government-man.
But then again, the moon landing was probably faked, so what do I know?
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So naturally he threatens to kill himself (Score:1)
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Re:$20 for HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT (Score:1)
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why release just one at a time? (Score:1)
Ahhh, episodic games (Score:3, Interesting)
I think I'll pass on this up and coming trend.
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I think Valve figures that if World of Warcraft can get people to pay fifteen dollars each month, they can get ten to fifteen for an episode of HL2. Some people are much more willing to shell out some, small amount of cash every now and then, rather than 50-60 dollars relatively seldom.
This way, people are also getting their fix more often.Re:Ahhh, episodic games (Score:2)
I like being able to occasionally go back to my games catalogue and pull out a game I bought 10 years ago and install it and play it. I'm scared of Steam (and by extension, other DRM systems).
Don't care (Score:2)
No thanks. I'm not interested in my system calling into the net every time I play, even every time I want to design a map.
Despite my enjoyment of HL2 (yes, I bought it, yes, I finished it) STEAM simply pissed me off too much.
HL was great. HL2 was brilliant. STEAM was idiotic.