Half Life 2 is Released!!

Canyarion · 11-22-2004, 02:12 PM

Now that I think of it, I still have Oppocing Force somewhere. But I lost my Half Life CDs I'm afraid.

Null, you don't really play console FPSs, do you?? Getting all the cheats in Golden Eye was REALLy hard. Probably the hardest thing I've ever done in a game... My hands were shaking while I tried to beat the level in time...

Null · 11-22-2004, 02:21 PM

well theres extra's in all games. if you feel like going out and doing every little thing you can in the game.

i play console fps games, i just dont buy em. i tend to try em out when im bored and got nothing else to do. but the controls just suck so much. i was thinkin bout pickin up a keyboard/mouse adapter for xbox or ps2. but im just gunna wait till the next gen consoles for that. and i dont have any harder of a time on console FPS games. it might take a bit longer tho cuz of having to deal with the control issue, but thats it.

most the levels in Goldeneye i dont remember having much trouble in all at beating under a certain time. but then again its been a long long time so i cant clearly remember what all i did.

Canyarion · 11-22-2004, 02:30 PM

Well, some levels were VERY hard to beat. Imagine Facility (level 2) on 00Agent under 2:15 (I did it in 1:40 I think

). Or Caverns.

Oh well, since you don't remember it, there's no point in telling this.

Edit: In here is a list of my best GE times. MAN I was annoying back in the day. More than half of the posts in the thread are mine.

http://www.gametavern.net/forums/sho...lden+eye+times
BTW why is that thread in the XBox forum?

/edit

Have you played Aliens vs Predator? It wasn't impossible, but it was hard in a creepy way.
Oh, the demo was even harder than the hardest setting of the normal game.

Null · 11-22-2004, 11:37 PM

You know, I've never used steam before HL2. i always heard people complain about it saying how horrible it was.

Honestly, im kinda liking it. seems quick, has some nice features, lets me know when people are online playing, it'll keep all my mods for the game together. i love the server browser it has and keeps track of my history so i can find a server that i played at the other day that i liked.... and its interesting to find out that many in the steam community do infact like it.

as long as it doesnt give me any problems, i have no problems with it.

BTW, What are some of your Steam user names?

Seth · 11-23-2004, 01:23 AM

steam username: sethmatic

I agree with you on the steam issue. I haven't had any problems with it. I bought my game at a retailer store so the downloading of the game wasn't an issue for me. Got me hooked up quick enough and the steam browser doesn't take up too much RAM. I'm content with it.

I honestly don't blame valve for it either. It ensures more copies being bought.

It'll take me a lot longer to beat it then you guys cuz I really don't get that much gametime but it'll just make it seem longer. I'm close to finishing the zombie chapter in the game.

I think it would be great if we set up a gametavern CS:source server. I'd much rather play guys that I semi know then a bunch of cs pros who call me a ***got because I can't play as good as God himself.

Null · 11-23-2004, 09:48 AM

yea. would be fun to get a bunch of us on a server to play.

Jonbo298 · 11-23-2004, 12:56 PM

The stuttering thing is gonna be fixed sometime today I heard with a patch. It was loading the textures while in game also thus it was occasionally stuttering sound/audio. It's gonna load all the textures into the video memory while the level is loading.

The only possible downside I see to all this is increased load times. But you can't complain if you've played Doom 3