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Just played it through to the gravity lift. (Taking a break). Levels are so far identical IIRC from the X-Box version. Have had no lag time as some had feared (but I did install the 1st retail patch before I even started playing it).
PC= Laptop 1.4 ghz P-4 512 mb ram Vid GForce 440 to go Note that on starting up the game it warned me that it did not install drivers for my vid card but it works just fine. In case you did not know it already, the patching process was somewhat like Half-Life /Steam in a way. It was a ~3mb file install from within the MULTIPLAYER menu. Just start up an internet game and it will automaticly look to see if you need a patch, then, if you do it will shut down the game and download and install it for you. GAme play is much better than the X-Box version if only because of the mouse keyboard combination I am used to (I hate fps's on a game pad). I can see its going to be a long uptime for me tonite. I gave the PC Halo a go myself. The graphics feel like HL1 in the indoor areas. The outdoor areas look better because of the draw distance. In general the level design felt rather poor. I was never sure if I was revisiting some place I had been before because it all looked the same. The audio on the other hand was pretty good though.
Yeah, I've got to agree about the redundancy of the levels.
The outdoor areas. The cliff's, rocks, tree's and outpost's all seem to look too much "alike". Hell, I suck at outdoors areas and "I" can do much better in the Quake engine (sans trees and outposts that is). The indoor areas all seem to use the same textures as well (at least within the same level's (and the adjoining levels are real close if not the same it seems)). It will be interesting to see what the engines wpoly, epoly, shader and entity (ect) limits are. And the music tracks are quite absorbing. The fact that the HL2 source code was leaked is not that bad of a thing in and of itself. What's troublesome is the fact that the source will most definately be used to find glitches in multiplayer play.
This has two major ramifications: (sic)1) Valve will have to keep up with the exploits which means that updates will be many and often (/me imagines waiting in FP virtual line for 2 hours to get HL2_1.000010201010101010.exe) 2) Valve's new internet multiplayer-cum-instant messenger Steam will have to be updated in addition to the game itself. We can blame Valve for not protecting the code better, (encrypting seems to be getting more sophisticated *cough* Lavarand *cough*) but that would be pointless. The real problem is the fact that someone lives such a pathetic life that they had to steal the code (probably ONLY so they could get a leg up on their online brethern when CS gets ported to HL2) Fuck you for making it less and less fun for companies to make games. quotes from "The Family Guy" cartoon
http://maynardo.everydaylies.com/archives/002088.php "I Just Have To Share Some Hilarious quotes from "The Family Guy" cartoon "
Well, come on then, share them with us. I did post a URL - if it didn't show up for some reason:
http://maynardo.everydaylies.com/archives/002088.php shut your pie-hole, Family Guy is the best animated series ever.
they don't teach you anything in junior high nowadays, do they? You're fired! "Family Guy is the best animated series ever."
Well, I'd hate to see the worst!! "they don't teach you anything in junior high nowadays, do they?" dunno, that was about 25 years ago for me "Your Fired!" lol, I'm filthy rich, I don't need to work!! It does help if you hear the quotes in their usual context (watching the show).. but I find them amusing just reading them :P
http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm
Keywords: homosexuality, necrophilia, non-consensual copulation, Anas platyrhynchos Haven't seen it before? That's impressive. I've been seeing them everty couple of weeks for 3 years.
Just becuase you're a jaded internet asshole who's seen everything metlslime doesn't mean you have to be a complete dick.
Is #terrafusion down or what? I can't seem to join the room right. I end up in an empty room with, get this, me as an op. Where is everyone?
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