Half-Life 2 Teasers

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• Disturbing... space-time... continuum... : sgtsanity

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  - tf2 is still not out So, what on Earth does that have to do with wether or not Half-Life 2 will be suc... : UndeadScottsman
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    reply: -- It appears that Valve is no longer a Sierra company, now that they've signed a publishing de... : lingo
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      -isnt this just another form of milking? the game is 5 yrs old, the time they developed all of that "Tech... : UndeadScottsman
      • Well said! (you said it all there, couldn't have put it better myself!) : Cpt. Baseballbat
• i dont care about you, either. : johngloid

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• headcrabs splattering when hit. : heff
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  the noise of the chunks spilling out of the ceiling monsters when they died. : Turd Ferguson
  • thats a good one too... : johnny rotten
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  Easy. The marine chatter. I would always tense up when I heard their radio squawking in the distance... : johnny rotten
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    I also dug Nihilaths eerie whisperings in xen... : johnny rotten
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      you know those were words right? i remember reading the transcript...he basically reveals some of the sec... : veggie
      • the last... the last.... i am the last... : johnny rotten
      • Really? I didn't know that - anywhere you can point me to that explains more of the HL story? : Waverider
• The "chomp" sound when a scientist gets dragged into a vent by something, then his bones 'n meat come fly... : EvilDolemite
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  when that huge tenticle monster would bang the metal walkways "WTF IS THAT NOISE!" : johngloid
  • I love that noise. Not annoying at all! : Kiriakos
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  What about the one where you fight that oversized tenticle that takes up your whole screen? That thing w... : metalzombie
  • That was a John Holmes flick wasn't it? : PrivateWaldo
• I liked it when the marine radio said "You got nothin!" those marines were the coolest. : veggie
• When you step on the cockroaches. : pun][sher
• The shotgun when you used its two blast alt fire. It wasn't a DOOM2 SSG sound, but it was still pretty d... : Vorlonesque
• Gordon's scream. Wait... : Magitek
• Probably the SPAS-12 shotgun reload sfx. ka-chik-schhh-clack. ka-chik-schhh-clack. ka-chik-schhh-clack. ... : eskimo spy
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  The ambient soldier talk over walkie talkies / radios. : Wolfanoz
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    best. sounds. ever. : tomservo
    • go.go.go freeman....... : 4ge
• I love the sounds when you jump on different surfaces, particularly the metal floors. I pissed off my fri... : nudel
• the crunch of cockroaches underfoot... : Fisty Nuts
• The "BZZZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" of the three legged dog thingies when they charge up..... : argelman

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• ok guess not... *looks down at feet, pouting* : rasputinreborn

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• hehe...I can hear the little buggers now: snark snark......chikachikachika REEEEE!!!!! that was always a ... : rasputinreborn

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• hey, fwiw I appreciate the Einstein reference... : rasputinreborn

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• we've seen doom III though. after we've peeked at HL2 we can make that decision. : veggie
• I'll slit one box open and sneak the others discs in. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. I kid. : Omaha
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  HL2 by a long shot, I'll bank on the company that has delivered me at least ONE excellent game in the las... : 4ge
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    what about quake 3? : pyro
    • absolutely.... : d-man
    • I think you're helping his point there. Q3 was a great engine, but it did nothing for me. I don't care ... : batkiwi
    • I find your sense of humour fantastic. : 4ge
  • Does this mean HL2 will have real shadows? : Topaz
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  Hmm. Eye candy or playability.... tough choice. : snuff
  • don't worry, halflife 2 will be playable as well. : d-man
• i'll grab both, even if i have to steal it : Silent1
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  buy hl2, burn it, return it, buy doom3 (btw you can do this at eb, at least my eb..) : qhflu1d
  • Bye bye. : Pink0r
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    why do you want to rob the people who make such great games? I just don't understand this mentality. Plea... : d-man
    • note i said to return hl2, clearly doom3 > hl2 (IM AN ID FANBOY) yes hl2 will be a fantastic game, but id... : qhflu1d
• doom 3, no question. doom3 is "certifiably the biggest game currently in development," in my opinion. ... : jet-poop
• Invest $0.05 in Ford and by the time they are on the shelf you will have enough for both!!! : pigvomit
• apply for a new credit card... :-P : monkey66
• I would have to say Half-Life 2. You just know it will be a better "out of the box" value (multiplayer, e... : Colin Higgins
• i would buy STALKER : Turd Ferguson
• I'd buy four 12" singles instead. : the archvile
• Wow. Not knowing anything really about either game I'd give the edge to Half-Life 2 but the reality is I... : johnny rotten
• Doom 3. I am basing my next upgrade on that game. : Evil Furby
• Don't really know yet which one : SlamDunk
• if HL2 is as good as HL1, then it'd be HL2 easy. : Madwacker
• DOOM3,because i`d like sci-fi&satanic setting.also I enjoyed all of the past id titles. : NeoZero
• HL2 by a mile! : {Venger}
• none i'm gonna buy S.T.A.L.K.E.R Oblivion Lost : Games
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  doom3 -- hl2 is for newbies and non-hardcore fps people : lingo
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    It's also just a game that is meant to be played for entertainment, or has that fact been lost upon those... : Evangelion
    • no, no, no, go back to Quake 1... 1998... TF days... people were hardcore then. it was entertainment, it ... : lingo

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• I'll take that bet. : gl2 drivers
• taken'd : sheivachman
• Half-Life, the engine it was loosely based on (Quake 1) and it's sequel could all have come out by DNF ti... : Sarcastro
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  Half-Life2 before DNF? Pretty much a certainity in my mind. HL2 will be this fall/winter (5 year anniv... : johnny rotten
  • no.. dont you remember? half life got delayed so much, it was atleast 1 yr off of original predictions. : lingo
• ill take that bet anytime : csana

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• Let's all just hope they can deliver... : nomaad
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  and after only one game... : hurricaneDX
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    valve one hit wonder? na Sierra has been cranking out quality games since the begining of time (almost)... : locobastard
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      Valve != Sierra Just cuz Sierra has always released great games doesn't mean the Valve game couldn't s... : Katarn3279
      • sierra = publisher activision is valves new publisher : lingo
• Either that or the PC game industry is so weak right now people have to grasp onto a title from so many y... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
• Well despite the noisy naysayers out there - Half Life is one of the best PC game releases ever. : 4ge
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  power? you mean hacking a prebuilt engine to make a so-so game that idiots still use to play a even more... : bored
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    I - I don't know what to say to that. : EvilDolemite
    • i do........... TROLL : maulla
• doom 3 > halflife 2 however http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/20239 : d-man
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  valve makes great games. greatness takes time! : johngloid
  • Valve makes great GAME, leave out the plural chief. : SERIOUSly the SAMe

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  Development on the port was stopped at around 90% completion. It's a damn shame. / V : {Venger}
  • Wow! That sounds just like OS X when it was released. You know... 90%... *ahem*.... : sullust

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  HL had an ending? what? : Speedy8
  • Yea ... with the G-Man dude. : larcho
• The ending: After you get warped into the alien 'dimension', you wonder around this 'Xen' place killin... : esky

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• 20 fps on a p4 3ghz@4ghz. But at least when you look down you will have more beautifully rendered breasts... : Speedy8

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• They don't need to. They're still making money off of licensing fees for Duke3d for N64! Good God does... : loco3kgt

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  Yeah but HL was the first game to have one as a starting weapon... right? : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Correct. It would be kind of funny, however, if this ad was for an entirely different game. : Colin Higgins
  • Many a game have had the starting crowbar : Dreamed
  • I think that honor would be Trespasser's. : Dreagon
  • you didnt start with it =P : jaga
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  And so did Kingpin, and Road Rash, and SIN, and.... : Colin Higgins
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    I believe you start with a lead pipe in kingpin. : smackythefrog
    • you are right : Mad Brahmin Disease
• if it were a deus ex 2 ad they would have pimped the hell out of it - its no secret deus ex 2 is being de... : marku5
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  As much good press as DX2 is getting/going to get I dont think it warrants "the biggest game currently in... : johnny rotten
  • Yeah, you're probably right. : Colin Higgins
  • Pfff. According to WHAT evidence? : mouth
• dx is shit compared to HL dx2 will bomb! hl2 forever! : VERTEBRAINS

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• nope, that would be DAIKATANA 2! : kramweil

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• its called, bitching at developers to not give us shit-in-a-box if they want to make a living. in other w : XerXes

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• Half-Life: Third Rail : Omaha
• either im really tired or that was pretty damn funny! I'll take the latter... : Madwacker

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• umm, arn't you forgetting all the gameplay movies they released? : magila

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• Yeah man, HL was released in November 1998. About 5 years ago... : SlamDunk

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  You will LOL for days. : 4ge
  • ashahaha .. its scary to think about : kemical

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  Forgot Halo 2 : Porkasaurus
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    and STALKER which has quite a bit of gameplay potential as well as some rock solid graphics that will hav... : Turd Ferguson
    • Yeah its another one I've got my eye on as it looks like it could turn out to be pretty cool. : Vorlonesque
    • Or right. Actually, I'm looking forward to STALKER more than any of those, even DE2, but I'm more an acti... : Dynotaku
  • And Tron 2.0 : Cpt. Baseballbat
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  DX2 is the clear winner ggkthxbye : Magitek
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    and then you hit the snooze button. : Cygnus X-1
    • Haha. DX2 is not the game of show; that's Halo 2 or Doom III -- maybe even Half-Life II. P.S. S.T.A.... : Colin Higgins
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  Don't forget Thief3. : gl2 drivers
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    Ooooooo....the plot thickens. : Colin Higgins
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      Yeah and it's not a guess either, it's been confirmed that it will be at e3. This really is going to b... : gl2 drivers
      • A stellar lineup to be sure -- and most are for pc! : Colin Higgins
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  this could definitely be a happening E3 for once. its been a while since a really bad ass one... : Antilles_Prime
  • Gee, but every magazine always proclaims the current E3 as "The Best E3 ever!!!" : Colin Higgins
• then id definatly need a new computer :( : papaskot
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  Meanwhile Nintendo are showing off Zelda... lol : nudel
  • Not that Zelda is bad (not that it's released over here because Nintendo hate Europe, the bastards), but ... : nudel

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• that's the crowbar from half-life. red and silver..geez. : veggie
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  If we all harness our collective psychic powers and focus on that crowbar being a representation of halfl : marku5
  • Sphere sucked. : Video Sex Pope
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  Its either HL2 or Tresspasser 2... ROFLOLS : smart1
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    I wouldn't mind seeing Trespasser2 if they did it right. : Dreagon
    • Me neither! It was only a year or so ago since I replayed it for the last time. I love that game, even... : timm
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  hey, every Half-Life player remembers beating the hell out of every thing in that game for a while. : Schnapple
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    crowbar was more fun in multiplayer..ultimate humiliation basically. that or putting those trip mines beh... : veggie
    • HAHAHA or running up a ladder being chased and putting tripmines at the top : TheTick
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  C'mon dude, it's clearly intended to be recognized as a HL2 promo. Look at all the signs: "next month... : zach`
  • Couldn't agree more with any of this. : wunderbred
  • I think you're dead-on. : spl
  • Not to mentioned it uses the exact same red/silver color that the HL crowbar uses. : Stormrider
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  Curious, then, how long of a shadow the crowbar casts, isn't it? : Ride-My-Rocket
  • it naturally depends on the angle of the light source, derrrrrrr : Odoyle
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  It might be SimCrate. : Rauol Duke
  • hahahaha comedy : Scotty22
• Jeeez, If that's not the crowbar from half life, Valve should be sueing whoever's crowbar it is then beca... : gl2 drivers
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  Search for "crowbar" on google images and tell me what you find. : emcea
  • hahahahhaha. exactly. : gl2 drivers
• The image looks like a 2 for this reason: Most ads would have just had a picture of a laying down crowba... : kingdepork
• The point is they valve doesn't want to spell it out for you mr. kindergarten : flasher 907
• The ad is so clearly an advertisement for Craftsman's 2003 line. PSssht. You people read too much into ... : Omaha

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  Why does everyone insist on the Doom 3 engine????? It's not even a finished game, it's up to iD who th... : 4ge
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    your an opinionated little bitch aren't you 4ge? : jadefalcon
    • That's what these wacky crazy message board things are all about! : 4ge
• mabye valve can do better than doom III, no? :) : johngloid

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• 2nd'd : Adrenaline
• tell me what else you do in real life that would be of interest apart from squad dynamics (which is real... : grimiv
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  IAWTP.. mostly. I really didn't think it was a great advance for storytelling, either. : snagger
  • In what year did you play HL for the first time? : KinetiK

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  what? DNF in 2004 probably. : veggie
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    - insert joke about DNF being so damn late - : The 404
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      How can it be 'late' if they never announced a firm release date? : verbatim
      • The same way a woman's period can be late. : nudel
      • Not "firm" per se, but way back when they did say they were shooting for 1998, and then when they announc... : Stormrider

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  MATCH DETECTED : jigstah
  • IAWTP : pharoah mike
• lol it's totally hl2 : emcea
• i'm excited. are you excited? let's be excited. : draconic
• wait... isn't that the Daikatana crowbar?! : mrtony
• Hey is that Josh Norem of Maximum PC fame, if so, that guy is missed as an editor, though I am glad he is... : galvatron
• It even makes the #2. This is a gimme. : Wolfanoz
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  generic crowbar: http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/crowbar.jpeg could be anything. Crowbars are either blac... : Odoyle
  • And how many other games had a red and silver crowbar? How many have sequels in development? Seriously, h... : SatansFist
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    How can you think it's not HL2, I just don't understand what's going on in your brain. A teaser image ... : gl2 drivers
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      I can't wait for HL2, I'm just being pragmatic. It's quite a stretch to squint your eyes and convince you... : Odoyle
      • Well that's fair enough, but I have to say, for me the first thought the came into my head was half life ... : gl2 drivers
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        okay then just name one other single game that has a crowbar that is red and silver. i can't believe this... : veggie
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          I agree, Valve even has a model of this crowbar in the lobby of their building AFAIK. : gl2 drivers
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            they have a model of a crowbar? Why not just put up a real crowbar? : johnny appleseid
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              Okay: 1. it's a REAL crowbar!!!. 2. Exactly like the one in the game!!!. : gl2 drivers
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                hey, I'm not saying this ad isn't about Half-Life 2 -- I just think it's odd that Valve would put up a mo... : johnny appleseid
                • Oh I know that, I was just mocking you. Maybe it's a golden crowbar! if the legend is true! : gl2 drivers
      • Edge isn't unknown, at least not over here. When it started it was a glossy load of shite, full of utterl... : nudel
• lol yea, how can you NOT think they're talking about Half-Life if you've played the original at all? Oooo... : SatansFist

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  Women? : gregorybrown
  • ...Touche... : Chotchkie
• Yeah really... Maybe if the Crowbar had some tits... : tommysgun

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  they can display at the publisher's booth. : veggie
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    hmm... maybe, guess they aren't ditching publishers so quick and going entirely with Steam. : snuff
    • http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030404/laf015_1.html : veggie

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  Uh. CS: Condition Zero. Hello... Where have you been? : verbatim
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    I don't recall cs:cz being for HL2, and cs has been a retail product for a long time now. : narby--
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      Yea, but you can still download that for free. I'm thinking they'll stop that and just stick with a retai... : The 404
      • Umm, the current version will continue to be free. They're not going to make a "CS for HL2" since that'd ... : Watts
  • That's single player tho, I mean multiplayer CS with the HL2 engine, which they are sure to do. Unles : The 404

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• It would be a refreshing change if there was just a sudden announcement "Half Life 2 gone gold. On the sh... : mactu