Half-Life 2 GONE GOLD!

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  Manufacturing and distribution take time. Consider the huge demand for this game and the ammount of cop... : Judicus
  • And consider the poor midget who has to burn all these copies. Its hard work. : NukeDukem
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  Isn't Gold usually a month? D3 took about that, isn't Halo 2 as well? : SykelSeven
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    i thought quake 3 was like about a week or so after it was announced is why i ask : oneshot
    • I want to recall it normally being one to two weeks. But I guess these really big titles needs to prod... : SilverSnake
• Doom 3 was also close to a month (for the Euros, at least) : vestax
• worldwide release would need a month. : Peace frog
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  The biggest game of the year, GTA:SA is only taking 2 weeks. I fail to understand why it's taking this a... : critch
  • yeah i wonder if the worldwide release is delaying it : pigvomit
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    I hardly consider any GTA to be the biggest of the year. : Judicus
    • Vice City is the 9th bestselling game of all time, beating out the original Half-Life by 500k units. I'd ... : Carfaz11
    • Isn't GTA not being released in nearly as many markets at once? : pharoah mike
• I have the answer to the delay: http://fuzzyslogic.com/blerk/hl2gold_poorgordon.jpg : Fuzzwah
• Half Life 1 was about a month, as was DooM3, as are a majority of games : pharoah mike
• It's released in like 10 languages. Not surprising that would take some time to finish and co-ordinate. : nomaad

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• Excellent idea old bean, I've been thinking about that demo, how awesome it was and everything - and I wi... : SpaecKow
• If you already have Half-Life installed in Steam, download Uplink Lite which is simply a zip file of all : BagelBoy
• What about this guy? : filtersweep
• i've got the promo store copy cd of this, its worth playing : cawcaw
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  uplink? is that like that oem half-life "day one" thing that came out like 3months before half life hit s... : CoRDS
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    No. Uplink was a whole new level. : Carnivac
    • oh. sweet, might play that when i get home : CoRDS
• That was a pretty cool demo. More companies should do stuff like that, although I'm guessing it costs ... : Anti_dentite

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  It may not be thrilling, but it's certainly a relief. No more speculation. No more rumors. No more int... : lechuck59
  • half-life 3 : SlamDunk
• i agree :/ the 50million fake gold posts/rumors/leaks kind of ruined it. : tommydNS
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  5 bucks that it won't beat the Doom3 thread. : pillzer
  • Not a chance. Doom 3 rocks! : silent prophet
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  its too far away to be exciting...if it were two weeks instead of four it'd be mayham : mankeroo
  • IAWTP : LexLuther
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  it's nice to get a firm date for the release though. Plus, it's not slated for december which was rumored... : edgewise
  • It'd be better if it was... Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Prince of Persia 2, now Half -L... : sevogajre

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• nope : SlamDunk
• For real! When are they gonna release the remaining E32K4 binks? I nearly forgot about those...gotta comp... : speon

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  /me tosses a steamer at you... : Str8Dog
  • I hope that is not a Cleveland Steamer... : themelon
• i wouldnt, cos today was the one day i slept thru my alarm and didnt have enuf time to check the shack be... : CoRDS

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• guess that's a no... : ctlaltl33t
• you're paying for HL2, CS:S is just the multiplayer. they abandoned that SP only idea a long time ago : AllYourBase
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  TFC source is part of the back catalog you get with silver or up. : Merconium
  • where have you heard that? they've never said anything about TFC:S : AllYourBase

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  link to said skins?! : mankeroo
  • http://www.sunflower.com/~kyleb/css_bmpyshnyppl.zip : seankew

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  Mods will just nuke anything that looks like it's there only for post count. I'd rather fewer posts with... : SykelSeven
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    just seems like there's not much excitement today : ctlaltl33t
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      Lots of ppl out there still at work and who can't surf all day. : afty04
      • I'd wager 75% of the people posting right now are AT work : ctlaltl33t
    • there's been a lot of "hey, it's almost gold!" posts that may have dilluted the amazement of it going gol... : ermac
• well.. if you add all the "we think it's gold" posts together, I'm sure it'd topple 6k... : dextius
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  Obviously Doom3 is better than HL2. : Wyvern
  • lol ducttape lol !!!!!1111onewnew : Str8Dog
• I think i spent more time in that thread, than it took me to beat and uninstall the game. : kingdepork

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  I thought you were holding out for Duke? : Rauol Duke
  • I was but I must play this. I'm still on a Celeron. George will understand. DNF shall 0wn. But... H-L... : dognose
• i'm practically pooping myself! : snackula
• Good for you! Gonna go with XP this time? :P : Helter Skelter
• AMD64 cpus price dropped today. Nforce4 MB should be out next week or two. : Vegtro

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  Mine (with the current HL2 state, HL1, CS, DoD, OpFor and Codename Gordon) stands at between 5.5 and 6 gi... : carrioN luggagE
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    Damn!Does it preload all that nonsense if I just buy the bronze?Or does it preload it all and you just un... : jonin
    • Not a clue, sorry. I have a shiny new big HD, and I want it all, baby. : carrioN luggagE
    • You choose what you want to preload. I have everything but the dedicated servers installed/preloaded, plu... : Helter Skelter

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?person=overburn : sikander

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• THERE ARE NO LOSERS TODAY : Eratik
• I thought that was DNF and like 2 people were left : SykelSeven

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• Are you saying they didn't start with HL2 until end of 2001? The PS2 version came out 2001 and I got a ha... : SilverSnake
• I'm already waiting for the Doom3 book, thanks. :) : pillzer

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• (now I have to upgrade - I get like 4 FPS in CS:S :~() : seven

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• I wonder if we could "fake" that it's being sold. :P : str8upkiller
• From Valve: "Your ass is grass" : flashmasta

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• http://www.forumplanet.com/planethalflife/topic.asp?fid=2348&tid=1506297 : SlamDunk

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• Yes I'm a huge geek : str8upkiller
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  The City 17 intro will be worlds better than Black Mesa intra. : tsteltz
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    you think? Going to be so tough to beat. Sure graphics will be worlds better. But for overall coolness... : str8upkiller
    • I wanna see physical manifistations of scripts telling other scripts to write scripts for the intro... IN... : Busta J
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      well from a couple of the Bink movies that were released, they showed almost the whole intro. I liked it ... : tsteltz
      • so did they ever explain the significance of city 17? And how far after the orginal HL does this take pl... : str8upkiller

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  I really hope so... Didn't they say like, half a year ago or something, that they were pretty much done a... : SilverSnake
  • It better be that soon, because I need an idea to give my honey for an anniversary gift :) : PenicillinX57
• Oh shit I hope not. I don't think my heart can handle that. :D : SykelSeven
• I really, REALLY hope this game lives up to expectations. The videos have me thinking it's Deus Ex in a s... : Magitek

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  What seems lacking? : jahulio2
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?person=lacker : rasputinreborn
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    my excitement for the game. : xilulus
    • you could have some of mine, but it might kill you : cap n KRUNCH

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  UT2K4 is silly and over-hyped? : Salad Sammich
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    I didn't even read the original post, but yes. : spl
    • You know, what am I saying, I am the one that is silly and overhyped. Work is getting to my brain. I a : spl
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  I still think that UTK4 is one of the best games this year has had.. Better than Doom3, Far Cry. But i gu... : kurumba
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    Unreal Tournament 2004 is one the most overhyped games in history. The extremely low player count (when ... : sosorrydude
    • Thats a very skewed way to measure a game's merit. Following that logic a game like Eternal Darkness mu... : Judicus
    • That's because the l33t CS kiddies doesn't know better... And really, have you always been able to pre... : SilverSnake
    • your opinion is wrong : cap n KRUNCH
    • The immense fun I have had playing UT2k4 for the past months disagrees. : JHelgie
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      THE SIMS MUST BE THE BEST GAME EVER THEN! : PUPSTAHS
      • According to sosorrydude's way to think, it's one of the worst... (as it has no online players, at all!) ... : SilverSnake
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    Yeah, go Lineage! : melancoholicz
    • Don, it was supposed to be a reply to 1053 : melancoholicz
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  Doom3 and UT2K4 were overhyped?!??!? Why don't you go play Halo on Legendary for the 238th time. : silverback1138
  • Doom3 was incredibly over-hyped - yes. UT2K4, was not - and it's a great game. HL2, well we have ... : seankew
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  Agreed on Doom 3. HL2's got less pre-release hype and is guaranteed to show better performance than Doom ... : MrLonghair
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    How can you say Doom 3 was overhyped? Very little info, screenshots etc were actually released by id -... : blackhawk
    • That is exactly what I am talking about - the franchise itself perpetuated the enourmous hype among the f... : seankew
    • iawtp : HighSea
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  I agree for D3, but not for UT2k4 :< : mystifier
  • ^^^^ : pizzaknymp
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  overhyped like a 1-3 news items every day that the game is about to go gold? yeah : railchu
  • hahaha, good point. : blackhawk
  • if not for anti-valve stuff, you'd have little to talk about methinks. : rasputinreborn
• don't mess with UT2k4 pal, firstly no one expected it to be such an amazing game, secondly some ppl will ... : chemical3
• What an ironic post. : xilulus

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• Why pump yourself up for the game? If anything it's better that you lost interest... You'll probably be p... : SatansFist

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• some people have said you'll be able to upgrade the store version ("bronze") for silver via steam. anyon... : ermac

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• This is a worldwide release Doom III wasn't. : yourname00

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  First there's TF2 and CS2, assuming the two games haven't been merged somehow. Then Valve will launch som... : Magitek
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    ...2009 : PUPSTAHS
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      Oooh, just before DNF then! : blackhawk
      • Hah, very well executed DNF bash :) I enjoyed it : joesnizzle

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  Anti-leach tech. Mirror? : Judicus
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    Refresh works. : SilverSnake
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      Not in firefox. : Judicus
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        Click the nav. bar and hit enter. : dmason
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          Tried that already. I took a look in IE - funny stuff. : Judicus
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            I had to DnD then refresh. : rasputinreborn
            • Wow...thats retarded. : Judicus
      • Funny... Because I use Firefox, and it worked just fine for me... Although I did try the "add a space at ... : SilverSnake
• http://www.punkassgamer.com/public/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=valvepwned1.JPG : snuff
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  So, the guy does all that in March and gets banned in Sept? Kind of a big delay there. : Judicus
  • read the dates. He was using the exploit for people to get cz. If u in put fake credit info and u cancele... : Iwannaacura
• Wow they need to do SAT tests, and anyone who falls under a certain score gets castrated. This dude def... : kingdepork
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  haha, I'd wish jail on the punk but it looks like he's too stupid to even commit any real CC fraud : DinK
  • Nice job, Valve. What a sucker. : yobock
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  lol @ Granpa Joey I think that might be my new internet handle. : Patch-e
  • HEY! That's the name on my credit card! Geez....the educationa system at work... : Waverider

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• there is a "Language" menu in Steams settings, maybe that decides it.. : BicycleRepairMan
• *bump* : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• Interesting! : yobock

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• IAWTP : dabum
• Don't forget Stalker. : Wyvern

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• This would be a noble and selfless act indeed. : d0gbert
• you would be a gentleman and a Patriot : cap n KRUNCH
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  so would a person have to post a copy of the receipt in order to get Valve to release it on Steam? : byorn
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    I think that when Steam sees a retail copy get registered, that is when they would know to release the ga... : Serpico74
    • ahhh...that makes sense. : byorn
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      STEAM : bRAINsick
      • aww wtf?? : bRAINsick
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  I imagine that's exactly what's gonna cause even more fisticuffing between Valve and Vivendi. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Why? I assume Valve are only contractually obliged to hold off unlocking Steam until the first retail cop... : blackhawk
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      Vhy?! No, you're right, that makes sense... Vivendi still might force Valve to NOT unlock the game until ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • I don't think boxed copies will require unlocking, no. It's going to be pretty obvious if/when a retai... : blackhawk
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  *READ* You dont even have to sell it. Just open the box and load it and run it. It authenticates to valve... : kraemer
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    Where does that stupid idea come from that boxed copies won't work without internet connection? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Never said they wont work, but they will register involuntarily with Valve. Doug Lombardi said so. : kraemer
• if you did that you'd deserve a hug. : crypt420
• Some of our "ATTN UNEMPLOYED shackers" should get jobs at EB and Frys and just borrow a copy overnight as... : DinK