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#3307382 - 05/31/11 12:31 AM Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs...  
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#3307396 - 05/31/11 12:58 AM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Not bad work.

One of the best games I've ever played.


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#3307401 - 05/31/11 01:03 AM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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yep, brings back alot of memories.

#3307643 - 05/31/11 12:36 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Even for its day the graphics were a bit dated, but it didn't matter.

I think the last time I played it was about 6 years ago, but it was still good.




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#3307652 - 05/31/11 12:55 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Very cool. It would be a nice feature to see the animated hands and actions from the fp persective in the game.


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#3307662 - 05/31/11 01:10 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I played Half Life Source a few years ago and enjoyed it. I never did play the original.


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#3307703 - 05/31/11 02:20 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I loved HL2, never played the original.


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#3307704 - 05/31/11 02:21 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: 20mm]  
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Originally Posted By: 20mm
I loved HL2, never played the original.
I played and finished HL 2 at least 3 times. Yup, I liked it too. biggrin


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#3307728 - 05/31/11 03:20 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I sure hope the Black Mesa mod sees the light of day.


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#3307732 - 05/31/11 03:24 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I will be most curious to see what's coming next from Valve. Portal 2 just recently came out so will they be making a Left 4 Dead 3? Maybe Half Life 3?


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#3307734 - 05/31/11 03:27 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Will Half Life 3 become the next Duke Nukem Forever? biggrin


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#3307735 - 05/31/11 03:31 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I sure hope not. Would be neet to see what their next generationg source engine would look like. Half-Life 3 looking like the BF3 engine or CryEngine3 would be something.


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#3307741 - 05/31/11 03:42 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Coot]  
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According to Valve, there are no plans for a new version of the Source Engine. They will keep updating and improving on the current version.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/37672/Valve-No-existing-plan-for-Source-Engine-2

#3307754 - 05/31/11 04:05 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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The Source engine doesn't have the eye candy of Crysis or the latest Unreal 3 games but it still looks pretty darn good and it runs great on my non-uber PC. smile


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#3307790 - 05/31/11 04:55 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Definitely Valve is pretty good on sticking with an engine that works on a wide range of hardware and looks pretty decent too. I'm not so sure I want a L4D3 though I think that game has jumped the shark unless they drastically change the gameplay and many other elements.


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#3307838 - 05/31/11 05:48 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I think the source engine is great. I think Half-Life 2 is one of the only games I can think of where the game's minimum requirements not only were spot on, but peformed very well at the same time. I think HL2's minimum requirements was something like a 2.4GHz machine, 568mb ram and a Geforce4 Ti card. Sure enough in 2004 when it came out my pc was exactly what the game listed as minimum requirements. What suprised me was that I think I had most all graphics set to high and it still had great frame rates. Hard to find that type of scenario anymore.


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#3307848 - 05/31/11 06:01 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Indeed. I'm glad to hear they'll stick with the same engine. Great performance and visuals on my lower end machines.


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#3307894 - 05/31/11 07:11 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I played and loved Half Life. I have a confession though. I have never played HL2 despite the fact that the orange box is sitting in my CD rack on my computer desk. I will have to rectify that!


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#3307896 - 05/31/11 07:15 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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Half Life 2 and the two Episodes are worth your time, if you enjoyed the original. From HL2 onward, you can tell they feel the pressure to build up the new characters, whereas the loner feeling in the original Half Life was the key to it's haunt.

The weakest link is HL2: Episode One, but only by a bit IMO. It decently bridges the gap directly into the FANTASTIC HL2: Episode Two. Some incredibly vivid moments in Episode Two.


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#3307900 - 05/31/11 07:21 PM Re: Here's somethin' for the old school Half-Life'rs... [Re: Brennus]  
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I heard it was great. I'm just spending most of available gaming time with tactical sims. I used to be big FPS'er though.


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