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Half-Life2 In 6 Months?
by Steve Gibson, Aug 23, 2001 9:51am PDTThere have been rumors floating around for a little while now that Half-Life2 was much further in development than most people would think. Valve has not even really officially announced the game although it has been referenced a couple of times in publications about the company. Well according to a report in the UK trade press (Thanks FGN), Half-Life2 will be announced at ECTS next week. But this is the really interesting part:
...the U.K. trade press have suggested that the long-awaited sequel to Half-Life is just six months away from completion.Valve has been so quiet for so long it's near impossible to really tell what they have been up to. The only thing that really has been confirmed is that TF2 is late, and that Valve is developing their own in-house engine technology. Assumedly Half-Life2 would also be based on that tech. update: Gamestar is also carrying the story. (Thanks Yobock)
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If this is false why hasn't Valve come forward to deny it?
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buying guide... doom3 -best grafixx eva! or half-life2 - painfully ugly game, possibility of gameplay inside.
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Just wondering why Valve's been so quiet about it. Maybe they're taking the 3DRealms approach, not releasing jack until it's done. Seems to be the same thing Id Software is doing.
We'll see 6 months from now.
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But the hardest thing to forget is that Valve has said absolutely NOTHING about Half-Life for the past 4 months (aside from demonstrating their voice-chat feature that was supposedly going to be in TF2). Hell, we're still waiting on them to announce when the HL1108 patch will be released.
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Lars Liden - Software Development Engineer
Lars has had a long time interest in computational intelligence and computer games. After receiving a Phd in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University he found the perfect merge of the two by joining the game industry as an Artificial Intelligence specialist. Currently he is developing sophisticated synthetic characters for Valve.
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Article here on the shack "basically confirms" that they were working on it, date of the article is Dec 27, 1999.
Given the date of this article, which puts the game at the two year in development mark this December, with God knows how much time valve was working on it before hand, it is feasible.
Course, this article here, the day after... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/3653/
Maybe we can make a conspiracy theory out of it. Anyone here watch that JFK flick?
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WHAT FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!
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Ill believe it when I see it.
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pre 1997 Duke Nukem Forever was being developed as a side scrolling shooter by a third party working with 3D Realms.
Summer 1997: Development began on a Duke Nukem game based on the quake engine. It was to be a quicky game to fill the void while Prey and its engine was developed.
09-1997 Shadow Warrior was released
10-1997 PC gamer did a cover story on the Quake based Duke Nukem game titled Duke Nukem Forever. Since it wasn't going to be anything but filler, it was due out Spring 98.
11-1998 Half Life Was Released
Early 1999 The Prey project has fallen apart, and no engine will be available for a long time coming. So the decided to make the Quake Duke Nukem to be a full blown AAA game.
May 1999 The first e3 trailer for DNF was shown.
Summer 1999 The quake engine, getting long in the tooth and difficult to get what they wanted to get from it wasn't working out. 3Drealms went shopping and found that the unreal engine would suit their needs and save money and development time. Initally they were going to just port the work they had done for the Quake Duke Nukem. Finding this wasn't going to work they started over from this point. While they might share the same story line and name, those other games were never finished and shouldn't be considered when figuring out how long DNF has been in development. For those who don't get it let me say it clearly. Summer 1999 is when development of the game Duke Nukem Forever began and thus the game has only been in development for two years.
2000 Some screen shots were released. (when I've forgotten)
May 2001 The second E3 trailer
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Holy wow, I just found it on the web. Give it a read, it's a great short story:
http://www.electricstory.com/stories/dryquiet/dryquiet.asp
They sucked down my heart
to a little black hole
You cannot stab me.
They wrote down my brain
on a hard knot of space,
You cannot turn me.
Icicle spike
from the eye of a star
IÂ’ve come to kill you.
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it's been so long since they realeased one...
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Wonder what happened to TF2 though? Heh watch... it's going to be a gametype in multiplayer HL2 instead of a standalone game.
6 months though? Even if they announce it as being ready in 6 months, I give it 8-10 months...
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Die Gerüchteküche brodelt: Das englische Branchenmagazin CTW meldete soeben unter Berufung auf eine »sichere amerikanische Quelle«, dass Half-Life 2 nur noch sechs Monate von der Fertigstellung entfernt sei. Das würde einen Erscheinungstermin im April 2002 ermöglichen. Der Stand des Projekts wurde bislang so gut unter Verschluss gehalten, dass weder Screenshots noch Storydetails bekannt sind. Wir halten Sie auf dem Laufenden, falls sich die Gerüchte bestätigen.
Somebody translate it please :)
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ive read rumors about half life 2 for xbox....any truth to this anyone?
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CS2 = 4 HL 2!?!?!?1?!?!
OMG, that would be so cool!
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run away!
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