Half Life 2
Posted by: Not For Me on 29 December 2004
GOt this for Christmas.
Not being a PC mag reader there are a couple of observations / questions.
What is all this Steam business about?
I have never know a game take so long to install and load. You can go and make a cup of tea whilst it slogs through it. Perhaps I need to soup up the Games PC?
I like the way you can pick up and chuck things about. I haven't very far to date.
DS
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*** And all the little children said "Nang Nang Nang ***
Posted on: 29 December 2004 by Steve Hall
Did you get the CD/DVD version, or download it from Steam.
Steam is a remote application download service provided by the authors of HL2. I think this will be the future of gaming as it cuts out the distributors.
Nearly finished it, been playing to much CounterStrike:Source
Posted on: 29 December 2004 by Tim Jones
DS -
Yes that is the most irritating thing about it. God help anyone who thinks you can just install it on a PC without good broadband...
Tim
Posted on: 29 December 2004 by Not For Me
Steve / Tim,
I installed from the DVD - I tried on my dial up laptop, not a chance.
It is broadband or nothing for this it seems?
DS
*** And all the little children said "Nang Nang Nang ***
Posted on: 30 December 2004 by John Channing
Can anyone recommand a good games controller for playing Halflife 2?
John
Posted on: 30 December 2004 by Tim Jones
DS - you have my sympathies. I did wonder how they could squeeze such a big game on to a single CD.
John - keyboard worked fine for me...
Tim
Posted on: 02 January 2005 by Tim Jones
Mmmm nope. How old is your compy? You may need to upgrade. Does it play OK when it actually gets going?
Tim
Posted on: 03 January 2005 by matthewr
Load times depends on level and for me the smaller levels like the mines take about 10 secs and the bigger outdoor levels like the early railway one take about 30 secs. This with Athlon64 3200, 512MB, 6800GT, 7200/2MB SATA.
You could try lowering the texture options so there is (presumbaly less to load). Or possibly a defrag if your disk is/was very full.
Matthew
PS Anyone who has finished HL2 should try Riddick which is now on PC. Based on the XBOX version I can tell you that it is ace. See
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=57408Posted on: 03 January 2005 by Tim Jones
My load time is pretty short - around 5 secs. Mine is only marginally faster than yours (I think it's a 3.2GHz), same vid card, 1MB RAM (which might help).
I may be brave and buy this Riddick game, but I wish he'd just left it at 'Pitch Black' instead of becoming the overblown git he now seems to be...
Tim
Posted on: 04 January 2005 by Misguided Fool
quote:
Originally posted by John Channing:
Can anyone recommand a good games controller for playing Halflife 2?
John
Keyboard and mouse
Regards
Mark ;0)
Posted on: 04 January 2005 by matthewr
"I may be brave and buy this Riddick game"
It's a bit more varied and action/adventure than pure FPS like HL2 but it's a fab game and you can buy with confidence I reckon. Don't be put off by Vin Diesel or the (presumed) dodgyness of the films as his rather limited and cheesy acting style rather suits video games.
Matthew
PS The other fab game this year that nobody really plays (since its GameCube only) is
Paper Mario : Thousand Year Door which is a typically brilliant Nintendo game. Fantastic design, well balanced and hunour that is actually funny it's an RPG without the geekery and Japanese Anime baggage. See
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=57169Posted on: 04 January 2005 by Tim Jones
quote:
Originally posted by Cliff Patterson:
I haven't seen a 1mb PC since about 1990
!
C.
Sorry C - I meant 1 Gig...
Tim
