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Half-Life 2 Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, May 27, 2003 7:13am PDT

Related Topics – Half-Life 2, Valve

GamingNext's Q&A with Valve's Gabe Newell is up, asking Gabe about (what else) Half-Life 2. Questions are about the Source engine, AI, engine licensing, character expressions, making mods and a few other things.

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Not only do you have to run acceptably fast on a TNT or an Intel 810 based PC, but you have to fully exploit the capabilities of the current and next generation high-end cards.

Riiiiight...

It sounds really more like they're aiming for extra low minimum requirments, so that it actually runs on what other new games have for their min reqs...

May 27, 2003 7:32am PDT

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Not only do you have to run acceptably fast on a TNT or an Intel 810 based PC, but you have to fully expl : esky
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Well shit, I didn't think of this before... my wedding anniversary is on Sept. 29th... and we are taking a vacation, kinda like a "second honeymoon"... what to do, what do to.

Maybe I should go steal a laptop and hide it in the bathroom, pick up the game somewhere and play it while I'm on the shitter.

May 27, 2003 2:40pm PDT

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Well shit, I didn't think of this before... my wedding anniversary is on Sept. 29th... and we are taking ... : reVy79
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- divorce.. for a week : jipey

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Gabe Newell - We're really curious to see what the MOD guys come up with. Personally I'd like to see people try to do a networked fighting game.

:) I think Gabe Newell has been waiting for this since that big Half-Life patch :)

May 27, 2003 12:26pm PDT

Gabe Newell - We're really curious to see what the MOD guys come up with. Personally I'd like to see peo : dodob

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Nothing beats Shaders for TEETH.... sheesh.

May 27, 2003 7:42am PDT

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Nothing beats Shaders for TEETH.... sheesh. : sharkII
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  I wonder if Alyx's teeth will slowly get less and less white over the time as she doesn't brush her teeth... : gregorybrown
  - duh, thats old tech. wait till you see the maggots erupt from the dead flesh of decomposing corpses, w... : gibmiser

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I'll be seriously impressed if this game will run in any acceptable form on the minimum system they're talking about. Personally, I'll probably get a new video card, when it comes out just so I can run it with everything maxed and 4-6XAA. :)

May 27, 2003 8:45am PDT

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I'll be seriously impressed if this game will run in any acceptable form on the minimum system they're ta... : Dynotaku
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  I wish they wouldnt have pandered to quite such a low hardware level. AFAIC if you dont have at least a ... : johnny rotten
  - It's a hard thing to say with so many of those chips out there, but i mean it has to be true right? Anyo... : trevis

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Seriously, Sept30th CANNOT come soon enough. :(

May 27, 2003 8:43am PDT

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Seriously, Sept30th CANNOT come soon enough. :( : johnny rotten
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  Personally, I wouldn't mind having a summer. : P-Squid
  - Wait until your cheap-ass-made-in-mechiko-air condition fails. Again. ;) Just messing with ya! : Aubrey Philipsz
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  same here....it's all purgatory game-wise till then (breed, crome, etc) : krillin
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    That's why I'm going to spend all summer replaying old games that I either didn't finish or want to play ... : gregorybrown
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      I have Ico and have yet to play it once. (I got xbox in the same week and never got around to giving Ico... : trevis
      
      I bought it yesterday. It's seriously the best looking game ever. Plus the gameplay is simple, but top-no... : gregorybrown

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Nothing really new here. Is anyone else just a bit curious about Team Fortress 2? I do recall Gabe saying that it would be addressed once the HL2 hubbub had subsided. Well..E3 is done..schools just about out and America has a new Idol. I'm sitting down now Gabe,..ready when you are..........................

May 27, 2003 7:19am PDT

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Nothing really new here. Is anyone else just a bit curious about Team Fortress 2? I do recall Gabe sayin... : salamanga
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  i remember him saying they'd release TF2 shortly after HL2....they must have been developing it in parall... : veggie
  - Ya i remember TF2 coming out with halflife then 2 weeks later as well. : SERIOUSly the SAMe

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"GamingNEXT - Will all the characters be able to implement as realistic expressions as the G-Man so brilliantly does or will it be toned down a bit to improve frame rate and game play?"

I know I am picky... but it just seems to me that this was a wasted question. Why would the facial animation system need to be scaled? There are a lot of questions you could ask that would be better, like specifically what has been done to make the game "more modable", how long the game is, their plans for steam (in relation to mods, as this would make possible "pay for" mods), as well as the obligatory question about CS and TF2 (they'll break down sometime).

May 27, 2003 7:51am PDT

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- FYI, there were several questions asked that didn't get answered. This was a lead in to others but this ... : s_dubya

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Or maybe they thought they'd boost their scales if they just left in the option to downscale the game to total shit.

May 27, 2003 7:43am PDT

Or maybe they thought they'd boost their scales if they just left in the option to downscale the game to ... : kingdepork