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The Real Half-Life 2 Thread
November 12th 2004, 20:46 CET by Anonymous After countless delays and marketing blunders which kept Half Life fans and ATi customers around the world on the edge of a nervous breakdown, the long anticipated, game play redefining and hyped up beyond belief Half-Life 2 enters the arena. Please discuss. ,,aamMMMMMMMMMMMMMma, aNNNMMMMMMMMMMMMM' ''MN, ,aNMF' '""=MMMMMmI" IMNN ,aMIF _____ '""=MMIF" .aMMI' .aMF' IMMMn 'IM| '"""INF .aMF 'IMM. 'MMNNNNF AMF .XNM, 'MMNNIF NMI ANMNA 'MMMF INM ANIF"VIIA NMMF NMI AMIF VNA MMF 'VIIA ,AMIF VMA ,,a .AMF VIIA ,NMF VMMMA ANIF VMA """"""' '"""'' ANIF 'VMA,, ,AMF' '"MMA,,. ,,aNMIF" '""\NMMMmmmmMMNF"" """==MM==""" |
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Most of that kind of game is stats-based monster customization. There'd be minimal involvement in the battling; I'd rather your treatment of the monsters influenced it's behavior more than have the monster directly controlled ala Monster Rancher. An Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon like community with the stat-building, animal raising backend would be cool. |
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Yeah, that all sounds cool. I just think the robot main character wouldn't work with the "fuck anybody" game mechanic. Unless part of the backstory is that he's a decomissioned military rape-bot. UAC! Fuck yeah!
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Well, the fuck like mad aspect of the game wasn't an idea until earlier in this thread. The idea I had for the game was as follows: You start off leasing your land from a greedy landowner. You progress through the game making money by farming, raising livestock, odd-jobs, what have you. After you have enough money to upgrade your livestock pen another recently freed robot comes to you and tells you how to make big money (the monster fights). You raise a few monsters, your barn gets upgraded with the profits (which unlocks monster types not available before 'cause your old barn was too small to raise an abominable snowman in), and eventually you buy the land outright and overthrow the greedy landowner. Something like that. I'm better at drawing than I am at game design, obviously. |
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If you put your monsters in the same pen with your livestock, or you don't build reinforced fences, the monster should go on a rampage. I would love to help out with this game, but unfortunately I have nothing to offer except Ideas. UAC! Fuck yeah!
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Why do I get the feeling that this sort of game already exists in the form of some underground Japanese hentai dating-sim type PC game? |
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Shadarr, all I've got is ideas and sprites. |
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Well then, we just need some coders, level designers.... Actually, I could probably do level design if I had the time. But I don't. UAC! Fuck yeah!
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I could do coding or level design... ...If I knew how to do either of those things. "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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Do you have Advance Wars 2? Start using the level designer and you should be up to speed in about a week. UAC! Fuck yeah!
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Aye, I do. I still suck at making maps. "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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LAME Today is March 21, 2003--the start of the second war in Iraq, which is a fitting parallel to the battle Newell is about to start with the announcement of Half-Life 2 and its release date. Like the second American offensive in Iraq, Newell's battle will begin today with a shock-and-awe campaign of spectacular visual firepower--the first demo of the game. Unfortunately, the parallels don't stop there. From the perspective of many fans, Newell's battle to release Half-Life 2 will also end up being a campaign filled with misinformation. And at times there will seem to be no exit strategy for Newell, no clear sense of when victory--the release of the game--will be achieved. "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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The rest of the article is good. Just that opening is mega lame. "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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Maybe instead of creating maps from whole cloth you could just set the game in your neighbourhood after the apocalypse, and base your levels off that. UAC! Fuck yeah!
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#60 Squeaky The rest of the article is good. Just that opening is mega lame. Yep, I'm reading it right now. Great article. Mac OSX--UNIX For Girls (tm)
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Yeah, pretty good. And Gabe just isn't that fat. When LP says he's bringing Armageddon, he brings fucking Armageddon. - Caryn, 6/01/2004
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I love the bit about arresting 'Axel G'... classic. "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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Shadarr, that sounds brilliant. We'll base the game solely on real life. Everyone knows that real life tedium makes for excellent play mechanics! |
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Everyone knows that real life tedium makes for excellent play mechanics! So you guys are going to make Shenmue 3? Comment Signature.
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That's a really interesting article and well worth reading and everything, however for those who haven't clicked yet, it's TWENTY-FIVE FRICKEN PAGES LONG. It also just occurred to me that Valve missed an opportunity by not releasing HL Source last week, give people a sort of warm-up for the real thing. An' much repec' to my man Prostyle. My topic is now in limbo, I might rework it and post it or maybe just trash it, it'll never live up to the hype anyway. MP3 Of The Week: Air - La Femme D'Argent.mp3 (?)
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And either way, rework or trash, I won't be using my ascii art logo. So just as a big I-told-you-mine-was-better to Anonymous: _,,..............................._ ,,-'' . . . . . . . . .___ . `. _,-'. . __......._ . . . . . |__ \ . . \ ,'. ._.-'' `'-.. . . . . ) |. . | ,' ._,' `-. . . . / / . . | / . ,' '''''''\ `.. . ./ /_ . .: ,' ./ | . . `. `. . |____|. ./ ,'. .' '--- . | \. . . . / .' ..' |. .\ \ . . . / | .| '. . \ '. . . ./ |. | ,' . . \ \ . . / |. | /. . . `. '.. . ,' |. | / . .,\. .| |. . / |. | / . / '. . \ |. .' |. | ,'. . / `. . \ | . | | .\ / . ./ | . ._.--\ / . | \ .\ /. . .' \. . . \ / . / \ . \ ' . .,' \ . _,.- /. ./ \. `. ''''''' \,,-' ,' . / `. . `. /. .,' \. .`. ,-' . / `._. `-._ _,-' . ,-' `._ . `'--......--'' . _,' `-._ . . . . . _,-' ``--......,--'' MP3 Of The Week: Air - La Femme D'Argent.mp3 (?)
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yotsuya (#31): So, m0nty, can you recommend any brands of lube for Scott Peterson? He's going to need some. I recommend Vegemite. |
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I thought Harvest Moon was a FMV game where you played a detective, circa '94. Oi... Google tells me 'Under a Killing Moon' is what I was thinking of. Killing... Harvest... oh the line is so blurry! The Tex Murphy games are great :) The only FMV bases games that I really enjoyed....especially Pandora Directive...mmmm... |
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I just hurt myself while eating an apple. Children are the future. That’s why they must be stopped today.
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#71 Sgt Hulka I just hurt myself while eating an apple. You are supposed to check for razor blades before you bite into it. The media doesn't educate, it sensationalizes. That's why there's no learning curve, just repeated bouts of gross stupidity. Bailey
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You're an asshole. (directed at no one, I just love this link, and will link it over and over) www.dailyhowler.com is the single most important website that Americans should read every day.
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#73 McBain How many times has that been linked here now? 5? 6? "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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I don't care. You're an Asshole. www.dailyhowler.com is the single most important website that Americans should read every day.
"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." |
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#68 Why exactly is it better than mine? Because it's yours, I guess. There are some misaligned bits in my logo, I agree, but I had to rush it out to beat the competition and PC wasn't made to accommodate these 'forms of art'. <let the bitching commence> |
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I hope I made a good impression of a pretentious asshole. |
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Fuck you. It's a great place to meet girls!
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Anonymous: Duh, obviously because it's mine. I'm not sure you fully grasp this smack-talk business. Yours does get points for being nice and compact and it does look good if you squint, but the "2" is really indistinct if you don't. Oh, and the tt tag is your monospace friend. MP3 Of The Week: Air - La Femme D'Argent.mp3 (?)
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,,aamMMMMMMMMMMMMMma, aNNNMMMMMMMMMMMMM' ''MN, ,aNMF' '""=MMMMMmI" IMNN ,aMIF _____ '""=MMIF" .aMMI' .aMF' IMMMn 'IM| '"""INF .aMF 'IMM. 'MMNNNNF AMF .XNM, 'MMNNIF NMI ANMNA 'MMMF INM ANIF"VIIA NMMF NMI AMIF VNA MMF 'VIIA ,AMIF VMA ,,a .AMF VIIA ,NMF VMMMA ANIF VMA """"""' '"""'' ANIF 'VMA,, ,AMF' '"MMA,,. ,,aNMIF" '""\NMMMmmmmMMNF"" """==MM==""" looks awesome in OpenCrap! "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas ... And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."
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Aaaah, undocumented features. |
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#80 OMG, it's Elvis! |
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Can't you guys make a 'goober chat' thread to discuss your silly console games instead of hijacking this one? Anonymous's claim that he just finished half-life2 and it sucked is something we're going to be seeing more of...not because it actually will suck, but because right now there is a ravenous horde of morons downloading the old leaked beta version on bittorrent probably thinking it's the full version. So get ready for an onslaught of morons like 'anonymous' judging the game from that unfinished version. Personally I've never been tempted to download the leaked version. I don't even want to see it. I'm just waiting patiently for tuesday when I can play the real thing. |
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I haven't played HL2 yet, I was just attempting to hijack the hijacked thread back to HL2 discussion. Does it make any sense? |
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It reminds me of when Star Wars Episode 1 came out and my best friend downloaded it and watched it on his computer. It was a badly compressed low rez scan of a handheld camcorder recording. It looked really bad. So when my friend told me he thought it sucked I asked wtf is wrong with you? You haven't really seen the friggin movie, your opinion doesn't count. Every time I hear someone say that Ep1 had crap speacial effects or whatever I think of that and wonder if they saw it in a theater or watched the same crappy scan my friend watched on his PC. |
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I saw it in the cinema. It still sucked. |
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#86 I bet they were screening the camcorder encode Eyegore is talking about in your cinema. |
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Regardless of all the hate over Jar-Jar and midocloriens or whatever, criticizing the movie on it's bad visual effects that were state-of-the-art at the time is bullshit. Even if you hated the movie for a dozen reasons the special effects can't be one of them. Ditto AOTC. Some people are just that way though. You can take the best of anything and they will proudly announce that it sucks, just because that's what they do. |
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criticizing the movie on it's bad visual effects that were state-of-the-art at the time is bullshit I thought the special effects made the movie suck, but because it leaned way too much on them. Also, while the CGI may not have been bad at all, I thought they showed very little creativity with the ship and fighter designs. Especially the Naboo fighters looked like a 5 minute job. Would you like to supersize or... BURN FOR ETERNITY?
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An update: Best Buys are selling it today, according to at least one store employee and a good number of people who have been there. Wal-mart and CompUSA are also on this list. If they don't unlock it now, they're asking for it. There have already been stories of seeing people bitch to employees over HL2 not working, because neither the store employees or the customers know anything about Steam. |
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If you go to Best Buy to pick it up, be sure and look for any DS kiosks. Supposedly they started showing up in stores this week. Dood.
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hey girls, im browsing this site in links and i must say, that ascii logo posted by dumdeedum looks superb. a fine specimen of the modern symbolic school of ascii art. |
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Anonymous just punk'd Anonymous. |
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Dethstryk: that's the store's fault then. They knew damn well not to sell it prior to the 16th. I have a hard time accepting that anyone could achieve this miraculously high level of stupidity. - Caryn
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I hated Star Wars 1 the Suckass Menaca, and Star Wars 2 Attack of the Love Story. I hope III rocks, and I like the new trailer. Here's to hoping Lucas grew a pair. Children are the future. That’s why they must be stopped today.
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I rather enjoyed Eps I & II. |
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#94 Neale Dethstryk: that's the store's fault then. They knew damn well not to sell it prior to the 16th. I agree, thought it's going to make every party involved look bad. |
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#93 Do you expect me to take seriously the opinion of someone who posts under 'Anonymous' ?? Do you? |
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