Half-Life 2 In November?

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• Nah, FPS games can get pretty repetitive after awhile. The 15-18 hour range is good. Just play the on har... : lord cecil
• That Limey wuss played on 'normal', IIRC. : Leonard Ghostal
• How many hours was the first HL? : bubble rap
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  IT'S SUPPOSed to be longer than the first game, and the first one was really long. too long, in fact. ... : veggie
  • aaah, you experienced the "xen syndrome" : mystifier
• I'll get 100s of hours out of mods. : Kerath
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  10 to 15 hours of gameplay on 6 CDs... somehow the "play to weight ratio" doesn't work out quite right. : kaboomite
  • I played for months on a NES game. Play-to-weight is a poor criterion for judging a game. : sgtsanity
  • That's becuase you just made it up... : Stargazer78
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  less is more. : grendel
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    not a 96% and 6 CD's type of "more". this is just "less" : Downforce
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      hahaha how do you know? you haven't even played it! : grendel
      • Dont you know? All haters are psychic : mallrice
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  I don't want 25 hours of FPS gameplay. Even the best game gets super repetitive at that point. : Fred Garvin
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    People want their games short? Did I fall asleep and wake up in Japan? : Majestic237
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      I wish Doom3 had been shorter. : freshview
      • hear hear.. : samq
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        I totally agree. If they had created a tight game where you went from cool event to cool event instead of... : ThomW
        • You are so right. It was like a feckin amusement park's haunted house attraction. BOO! : Leonard Ghostal
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    people complained about Doom3's length, for example. : grendel
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      Mostly because of shitty extremely repetetive level design : scrub6969
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        Every night I pray that my family stays safe, that I remain in good health, and that you are never EVER p... : flashmasta
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          Pray the same thing for me then, because I agree with him. Doom 3 was poop. : SpaecKow
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            I don't waste my prayers. : flashmasta
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              every player is a waste you insensitive cloud. And yes I mean cloud. : Cpt. Baseballbat
              • Did you mean 'player' too? I didn't know that clouds were used as slang now, but I am quite insensitive.... : flashmasta
      • Precicely :D : Stargazer78
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    I dunno about you, but after seeing all the gameplay footage, I don't ever want this game to end. I hope ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
    • undoubtedly they will. : thekidd

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• you know the man in the suit? he has something to do with it : picklepus
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  Didn't the Gman put him hibernetic stasis when Gordon accepted the job proposal? I guess that would mean : WaterSign
  • ITS TIME TO CHOOSE. : johnny rotten
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  He warped you back to earth at the end of the game. Remember the final scene is on the train. Well unle : Carnivac
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    You could pick a different ending? : sigma
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      It wasn't much of an ending. Basically if you didn't do what the G-man told you, which I think was to go : reign27
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        Yeah, but only like 3 monsters were real, the rest were cardboard cutouts : Beady
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          Totally. I beat them all and won the hard way. : mallrice
          • i cheated to get weapons once i was teleported. i pwned the 4 real monsters and ran through the rest of t... : voique
    • you know if you turn the flashlight on before entering the ending gman portal ... the gman shows up duri... : nico2

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  i do take offence when someone calls the people in our country wankers. You don't hear me slaying you wit... : kurumba
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    Yeah, no one ever insults Americans. : Kerath
    • Yeah!! And they don't deserve it either!!!! : lavaflare
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    Just be amused that he actually might know what it means, and therefore actually know something about ano... : blackhawk
    • You're bloody right I do. : flashmasta
• I dunno man, the UK gaming media is > than most of the crap we have here. PC Gamer UK is probably the be... : Dimmona
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  What's the american equivalent of the british "wanker"? Poopy-head? Seat sniffer? : ezanga
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    Jerk-off, actually. : jrock
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      to be american is to sit around do nothing , actually it's to sit around and screw everyone else and be r... : chemical3
      • ^^^I'm American and I approve this message. : Majestic237
      • If I don't, then the terrorists will have won. : flashmasta
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  .. and canucks! : mystifier
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    fuckin eh : KinetiK
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      The terrorists are the CIA , Osama Bin Laden and other terrorist leader ha0, have and will continue to ha... : chemical3
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        Someone's mother snort some DDT? You're not the kind of guy that kills small animals, has voices in the ... : flashmasta
        • no but on the contrary you and ppl like yopu need to wake up, so waky waky, it's a world war 3 out there ... : chemical3

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• Agreed. By the time this game comes out i'll be playing GT4 or some new console game, and be waiting for ... : phinn

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• and i am in the wrong thread, damn it's time for sleep >:D : darkT
• Man when I got into WOW beta last spring I had to drop one of my classes ,and my GPA definitely took an o... : phinn

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  It's funny to think that back in June, we were saying "ah just as I finish Doom3, I'll hop into HL2" H... : mystifier
  • As long as I have something shiny to look at, or somebody to do a drive-by at, or aliens to fire soul-suc... : Ride-My-Rocket

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  Stop shacking then?? : KCPlanet
  • How do you expect someone to do this, exactly? :/ : mystifier
  • woah now thats just crazy talk : Senor PoopyPants
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  and yet you've probably read through a large portion of these comments and added you're own 2 cents... : johnny rotten
  • fortunately not. ah well, i know i'm not the only one that feels this way. just had to vent a bit. : badrocket
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  Skipping the articles and not posting would be the ideal solution for everyone; you don't have to "put up... : Sapiens
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    yeah, i agree. apologies. : badrocket
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      and dont EVER diss xbox either =P : Pneum0
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        whatbox? does it plug into my ps2? : badrocket
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          no... cus you're ps2 is shite and couldn't handle anything more powerful than a hairdryer ;) : Grace of Dragons
          • And a badly aliased rendering of a airdryer at that! oh snap : jrock
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  Maybe not everyone reads the net every day. : GeorgeB3DR
  • And those people are dead to me. : Ride-My-Rocket
• then why are you participating in this discussion? here's the news, NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HL... : grendel

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• DA. DA. DA. ... DA. DA. DA. ... </Trio> : jrock
• De Do Do Do..... De Da Da Da </Sting> : Ride-My-Rocket

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  this post contains entirely too much maturity, rationality, and common sense. NUKE + BAN : Cygnus X-1
  • omghi2u! : carrioN luggagE
• Yep, I'm with ya. Though I haven't seen that much bitching I frown and dissaprove of any and all ripping ... : SpaecKow

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• That's very common now, happened with quite a few big name releases. Nothing overly suspicious about it. : Carnivac
• There have been print reviews and they are POSITIVE. I guess the issue is a lack of control on the onl... : Leonard Ghostal
• That or they're keeping the code in house until release to limit warez risks. : Pie4Foo
• It could just be that the print publications did Valve a few sexual favors in return for exclusives. One... : sinistarfith
• any other dev I may worry but I honestly have faith in the goodness of this game. : -Panther-
• Uh, probably to prevent warez since a good source of pre-release warez stems from media copies of games, ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
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  That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. The reason you hold back online reviews until release is th... : jason bergman
  • Oh yeah?! That's what you think! >:( *adjusts tinfoil hat slightly* : jrock
• Online reviewers that get the game early sign NDAs not to release information/screenshots/reviews until X... : VashTheStampede
• it's because they promised the magazines "exclusives," so if the web beat them to print that wouldn't be ... : veggie
• according to www.halflife2.net, the average score from the print magazines (3 so far) is 94%. Pcgamer uk... : YamatoTwinkie

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• October 5th here. And to think I actually thought it would be gold at the end of September. Silly me. : downrightevil

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• Hacked by Chinese? : stelth
• lol. whatever i'm not complaining at all, i want all the hl2 news i can get. : downrightevil
• Oh I get it. : goow00
• game news on a site for gamers? what's this world coming to?! : jrock
• Yah, it was funnier last month when it leaded to Doom3World :) : pillzer

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• Ok, now run down to valve's offices and tell them that! I'm sure the situation is no more complex than th... : downrightevil

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  where did you hear that? : jono181
  • http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/33779 : Carnivac
• yes it is according to valve... : downrightevil

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• /me silently sobs into his pillow I hope so too :( : zafod
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  the release date everywhere is oct. 26. you haven't heard differently have you? : thebigbeefsandwhich
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    I know that's the date the retailers have decided on, but last I knew, they couldn't/wouldn't release Blo... : Vincent Grayson
    • That's usually the case, you get the game from the makers of the engine first before you see any other co... : Buckyfg1

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• damnit! it will probably go gold in a few days but vivendi maybe want to hold it for a while and release ... : lonestar3
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  i hate this "let's release it near holiday season to make more money". does it really make such a differe... : lonestar3
  • Prolly only with semi-shitty games like Evil Genius. Look at Doom 3. It was the best selling game of Augu... : stelth
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    I don't get it either. If I finish a job, I SHIP IT!! WTF is this mentality? Good idea, game goes gold, t... : LexLuther
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      A game is never really finished. The more dev time a team has the better usually. A delay until Christm... : SenorSpine
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        But the game is *done*, VU has what will ship, assuming they approve it. The extra time between now a... : Vincent Grayson
        • I would just hate to see all this hard work, and having a completely finished version of the game, get '... : LexLuther
        • ^^IAWTP^^ thats how it works. you hand off the game and it sits there until the publisher decides its a g... : Buckyfg1
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          Game is not *done*, they have an RC, it hasn't gone gold. : mallrice
          • Ok, so it's not gold. But VU has what will most likely, barring a massive fuckup, be the exact conten... : Vincent Grayson
    • Game hasn't gone gold yet. It's not a release date, just an estimate still. : mallrice
  • Actually, yes, it makes a HUGE difference. But... releasing late November is getting towards being too... : gndagger
  • Of course. Plus companies just want to make money, so from a marketing standpoint, there's no sense in mi... : mystifier

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• Try gaben for the pass it could work. : Cashh

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  Actually it's not. If DNF said they'd be done by x date, I'd believe it because I don't think I ever reca... : brushbaron
  • Actually, the only release date Valve have given was September 30th of 2003. Since then the most detailed... : Gonnas

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  Hell yeah they do need advertising. Not everyone checks shacknews.com 10X a day :) : flashmasta
  • you're right, they check it 100x times : derean
• It'll hit quickly. Hopefully before Black Friday :) : johngloid

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• I see, you move to Cali and all of sudden you're using words like "bus" instead of "busy". : king_darius
• Between those two games, Paper Mario 2, Metroid Prime 2, Burnout 3 which I can't seem to stop playing, AN... : Serpico74

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  Is this George B lingo for some news about DNF? : broken switch
  • Maybe he's just excited to play it too. : jrock
• I love how everyone thinks your cryptic posts are veiled DNF news. : Vincent Grayson
• Just because hes a developer doesn't mean he doesn't like games (when he can find the time to play'em!) : MadMatt
• It better be a HUGE BOULDER to need 6 CDs. >:| Oh, and about 90 hours of gameplay. :D : Downforce
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  will we still be able to say this when distribution goes completely digital? No most masters = No more... : shassard
  • Gone silver? (silver...mirror...) : Turd Ferguson
• Maybe he is referring to what this prospector would say: http://www.firingsquad.com/games/duke4shots/i... : goats ecx

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• I think it was also delayed a year as well, IIRC. : speon

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  Would you rather they wait the extra 2-3 weeks to fix the bugs THEN go gold, or work on the last round of... : scatti
  • wait. not because I don't want to play it, but just to minimize the inevitable amount of bitching that wi... : moonbreaker
• Who the fark cares? Since it's running on Steam, it will update itself for you. Oh noes patches! So mu... : the_algor

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  Well the reviewers seem to love it, SHIP IT ALREADY! : Leonard Ghostal
  • Well, they have to check to make sure it doesn't delete your windows directory on obscure configurations ... : sgtsanity
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  in its current state HL2 is brilliant and astonishing. Vivendi Universal Games is in the midst of determi : Kerath
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    Makes it sound like if every game they ever published went through this process they'd all be A+++++ titl... : LexLuther
    • I don't think VU is going to want to push HL2s ship date back all that much. Now that Valve is going to ... : Turd Ferguson

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  That's interesting. Is that the case? Are VU not publishing it outside of the US? If so, I wonder if V... : protozone
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    Vu is the one telling there distributors. Maybe VU found something in the contract that says they can ... : stgdz
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      I doubt they would do it, though, would they? It seems like it would be most undesirable, as it would tem... : protozone
      • They'll probably end up settling, often happens when companies are counter suing each other. It's really... : Carnivac
• That's like saying, "Please steal our game." : Kerath

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• We're trying to brainwash you. : protozone
• We've already succeeded at that : MadMatt

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  now THAT's a headline. : Pneum0
  • should be the deadline : SlamDunk

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• }-0-0-0-0-0-0-{ - le pearl neclace : picklepus
• Thats going too far ! : MadMatt

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• there's something familar about this poster : moz

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  rust : mirko1979
  • Aluminum dioxide. : WaterSign
• Au yeah! : speon

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• Like a ninja hiding in the shadows, I just added my vote. Nobody will ever know! Bwahaha! : itsjames

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• its gonna own the ownage of the original owners : picklepus

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• Enough time for the X700 or 6600 to come out in AGP flavours. YAY! : shassard