Half-Life 2: Aftermath Coming

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  To clarify: I'm not saying I want Gordon to talk, I'm saying make it believable that he doesn't. It does... : vigilante
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    I think Valve is trying for a "Gordon has no idea wtf he's doing, but the people around him think that h... : YamatoTwinkie
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      Because in real life us gamers regularly run around carrying a mass of weapons, fighting off alien invasi... : spdon
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        What? : sgtsanity
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          "Having Gordon sit down to solve a quantum physics simulation in-game would ruin the immersion, because t... : spdon
          • In all of the HL games, the player was thrust into situations he himself was unfamiliar with, and the onl... : YamatoTwinkie
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      So we've established that quantum physics isn't fun. Ok. what. : vigilante
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        Gordon talking would be the equivalent of a third-person cut-scene. Valve does not like third-person cut-... : sgtsanity
        • Not really. Cutscenes have no interactivity. I'd be all for them adding some kind of interactive expressi... : SpiderMonkey
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        whoops, sorry, misread your argument. I just saw "communicate with his scientist buddies" So how do ... : YamatoTwinkie
        • Don't put him in situations which would require him to talk unless it is a short obvious thing and then j... : vigilante
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    So how do you want him to "communicate this to his scientist buddies"? Charades? : Kerath
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      I wouldn't have him meet his scientist buddies. I thought that was stupidly contrived anyway. : vigilante
      • Being guided to the resistance by Barney was contrived? Seems logical enough to me. : Kerath
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    They should do the zelda thing, where you don't actually say anything but the scientists talk to you like... : Popedispencer
    • Thats EXACTLY what they should do! : Vorlonesque
    • That's how everything was done in HL1. It was implied that you said something to someone (although it us... : Arcanum
• The problem is that Gordon sounded exactly like Gilbert Gottfried and his scientist buddies tore out his ... : TheDreamDragon
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  I loved the Marines too, but in this present climate don't expect them to return as the bad guys any time... : afo
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    lol, I was talking about their AI. : vigilante
    • Shoudl have clarified yourself some more then. : ghost hacker
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      Their AI? You mean the horribly bad AI? Not to say that the Combine was much better but the Marine AI w... : Chod
      • Well, I don't know much about what makes one AI better than another. All I know is that they seemed to d... : vigilante
      • The marine AI was great...at the time. It's not that great by today's standards. Sadly, the Combine AI ... : Arcanum
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  I'd like to see more ways of solving problems with the aid of non-forced upon physics. Like early on in t... : MrLonghair
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    you can just rushing through it from the frontside? i didn't know that (= doesn't this game own). i blew ... : lonestar3
    • First run through the game I imagined Gordon going "Aw hell naw" upon seeing the closed gate. Hundereds o... : MrLonghair
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  Halo nailed the vehicle thing. And the AI thing IMO. : tigeN
  • I know this is 6 months late, but fucking lol : abrasion
• Improvement I'd like to see: Less Alyx, less Combine soldiers, more HL1 crazy creatures and paranoia. : eskimo spy

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• HOW WILL HE SCREAM HER NAME?! : crummynz
• I felt the love anyways. : lukej19

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  yeah, I'm not a fan. I thought she sucked. "Hey, like I totally hate the Combine, y'know?" "Gordon, you a : eskimo spy
  • think about what he managed to reach. he *is* awesome. :) still, i agree, this buttering up kinda sucks, ... : lonestar3
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    But somehow she was better than most cardboard FPS characters (lets face it, this is a genre where if you... : Vorlonesque
    • whoa selective memory. maybe 5 or more years ago that was true. you've never played Deus Ex, Tron 2.0 or ... : eskimo spy
• I was hoping I could play as Alex. I could give a rats ass about Gorden. Dude is so blah. No personality ... : Pettytheft
• You gotta balance what they said and how much emphasis the article writer put on the parts of what they s... : SpiderMonkey
• I think Alyx is a really well-done character. If you read the behind the scenes book (as I did) you'd ... : lukej19

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• so you're waiting for DNF? : lukej19

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  But you're not on dial up now are you? : mystifier
  • What are the odds he'll answer "YES"?! :) : dawurz
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  And all those 486 users too! SCREW YOU VALVE : quanta88
  • Turbo Button : Popedispencer
  • Dammit. I knew I should have gotten a DX. : SixDemonBag
  • Yes, because everyone had to move to a different area to get a 486. : Vorlonesque
  • Apple //e forever baby-bee!!! screw you Valve!!!! : cap n KRUNCH
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  Steam-only makes me a happy boy. : Vincent Grayson
  • Yup yup, click download, job done. I've had zero shit from Steam recently, love how I can be on any broad... : node
  • Why!? Do you enjoy knowing that its going to make it harder on folks who CAN'T get broadband where they ... : Vorlonesque
• It's probably the nature of what they are doing. If it's chapter by chapter, so they can get it out fast... : exigence7
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  Yes, I'm sure that valve is weeping that they won't get your $39.95 or the $39.95 of the five other peopl... : starvey
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    Actually there is a good number of people who wont get it. A lot of people want the physical CD, are all... : Chod
    • I read a letter in PC Gamer recently how a sailor stuck in a submarine had HL2 on his laptop and was piss... : TheDreamDragon
  • I won't buy this since its over steam only. I have broadband and a credit card and I bought the game in s... : te[R]ror
• Just write to floppies@valvesoftware.com , they have special arragements for "21st century impaired" peop... : ErneX

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• Shephard???? : midgetherder

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  That game would have to consist of Gordon in stasis. "It was cold and I couldn't move much." : thaperfectdrug
  • Do we know for a fact that Gordon was in stasis the entire time? : BlackCat9
• I think it means after the original HL2.. not HL1.. : Str8Dog

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  I wish they would give Gordon a voice or give me the ability to respond to the other characters. In HL... : brushbaron
  • I personally like the idea of having characters respond to you as if you were speaking to them, but you d... : Vorlonesque
• From what the article says, it is just a continuation of HL2. You play as Gordles. : thaperfectdrug
• What better way to get in the head of one of the characters than for Valve to actually put you in the hea... : BlackCat9

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• wet tech : kemical
• i hope they build that relationship and then kill her off in HL3 that would really dramatic : mblissp
• Maybe it will end similar to GTA3? :P : skruff
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  Dude, given four more seconds on the elevator when she hits on Gordon, she would have dropped to her knee : Omaha
  • Your loss, I guess. Resurrection of Evil is enjoyably better than Doom 3 was. : FreonTrip

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  It's the opposite for me. HL2 was such an awful game that I have no faith in an expansion. : xjdrake32
  • What did you not like about it? : Magus
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    * removes a name from list of those with worthwhile opinions about games * : yakz
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      Bleh, people are entitled to their oppinions. But...#15 is maybe being a little too harsh with his... : Evangelion
      • lolz he's also entitled to his opinions about opinions : PUPSTAHS
  • I would think saying a game is awful would mean that its in the bottom, say, 25% of games being released.... : ratman
• O_o : Magus
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  bumping the best post in this thread : filtersweep
  • I agree. : Ebu
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  It was good but wasn't that good. I can name some problems I had with the game. The most glaring weakness... : Pettytheft
  • Alot of people complain about AI, and the reason is because the Combine dont seem to move very fast or so... : ballystix
  • Have to agree that the vehicle sections were poor, even though i loved the game. Its as though Halo had n... : spdon
  • Why Bungie? Actually I thought Farcry's AI ran circles around Halo's (or Halo2's). (then again, I'v... : Vorlonesque
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  That's a lot of faith for a company that's openly lied to it's fans to make a buck. : capt tripps
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    Lied? It's a fun game. I bought the game. It played like I expected it, only better. Good... : Ebu
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      Not about the game being fun, but about when it would be released. : capt tripps
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        if you hate companies for lying about release dates, what games do you play? : ermac
        • It's not simply the fact that they didn't make the release date. It's the fact that they made a deal wit... : capt tripps

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  It's my blind. : zuga
  • No, mine. :[ : My Documents
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  Dude, WTF are you talking about? : Fred Garvin
  • I agree. And anyways, who cares when one is playing the game? : dawurz
• I thought it took longer to get it off Steam? : Vorlonesque

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  Half-Life 2: Dryhump : get_navi
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    Aren't clothes /on/ for this? : exigence7
    • sv_clothes 0 : VegasX

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  What happened to him at the end of OpFor? Darned if I can remember. : thaperfectdrug
  • After destroying the big alien Adrian's back inside the plane he was on in the beginning, in a similar ki : BrodieMan

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  You'd rather she ignore you and hit on the Combine officers? : bostrov
  • well, that wouldn't be such an immersion breaker would it? : mrtony
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    Now that you mention it, I'm sitting here thinking about Alyx and Barney. I mean, Barney was just a dweeb... : willy359
    • Yeah. I would be completely unsurprised to show up in Aftermath a year later and find Alyx pregnant with... : bostrov
• Welcome to life after high school. : exigence7

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• It's okay because it's Valve and HL2. Just because you upgraded specifically to play DoD doesn't mean muc... : Pettytheft
• I dont know about you, but I had no expectations for them to release it anytime soon... We have HL2 and C... : esky

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  Maybe they were by the magazine then? Who knows. I don't see Valve fucking this one up. : node
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    Barney is the new guy to betray earth, maybe? Because Gordon stole Alyx again... : crummynz
    • misreply'd. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9866200 : crummynz

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  She got better : deathofrats
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    lol! : thebigbeefsandwhich
    • Not necessarily. It could be like with the Half-life 1 expansion packs where you play as other peopl... : Anti_dentite
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  I wished I would've rather found that out ingame instead of reading it, but I guess that's hard to avoid : helvetica
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    most of us know that clicking the spoilers box tends to lead to vader is lukes papa : deathofrats
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      Sadly the article has no such tag! : helvetica
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        I apologize, thought you were refencing the first post in the thread. : deathofrats
        • Yeah sorry, I wasn't being clear. I didn't mean sound like I was sniping on warsaw! : helvetica
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  Why would we think otherwise? Is there something I missed in HL2? : MatthewPhillips
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    Um, at the end that mighty huge explosion she was right next to? : SpiderMonkey
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      You mean the one you were also right next to? : FlatlineDixay
      • Gordon was saved by the almighty GMan, it didn't show that happened to Alyx. I thought she was a goner. : helvetica
  • it wasn't a fact... but most people expected it, i think... it would be dumb from valve to let her die : lonestar3
• Yeah, bummer, isn't it? : eskimo spy
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  whoa, hold on. Isn't this expansion going to be an alternate story with alex while gordon is off roaming : cryptical
  • no, logically it starts where it ends, and that's how it's going to be. : lonestar3
• G-Man must have done something. I love the opened ending of HL2, a whole whack load of speculation which ... : ghost hacker

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  Literally? So, like AMD's won't be able to run it? lol : Halen
  • Well usually when people talk about MHz, it's implied that the PR-Rating of AMD is taken as real MHz. So ... : Bingo
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  So close... P4 3.2GHz, 1GB Corsair DDR RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro 256 (remember, the recommended card for H... : johnsto
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    Actually, HL2 came in bundles with the XT. : Sarcastro
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      programmers and level designers dont usually make character models.... : Dark Horizon
      • meant for # 67 : Dark Horizon
• what? is it really that performance eating? i thought it uses HDR, not a new engine... : lonestar3
• holy fuckballs : feek
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  they're spending time on this when they could making more models for CS:S :( : fen boi
  • Isn't it a different group? : FlatlineDixay
  • We don't need more models for CS...hell, that would actually suck. More levels, fine, but more models... : Vincent Grayson
• Guess they're pissed at Epic coming and making their tech look so last year dahling. :) : SpiderMonkey
• No way, I will play it on my 1800+ 512, you try and stop me : shack_konto
• Awesome. You just described my system. =) : ThomW
• Top Spec would mean only a GF6800 Ultra or a X800XT, right? : bostrov
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  hmm, I hope my 9800 pro is considered top spec =/ : Turd Ferguson
  • Me too, I upgraded last year JUST for HL2. : ghost hacker

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• *clap* *clap* : mystifier
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  They should have them be viewable from her viewww : shredder133
  • * T R E S P A S S E R ' D * : node

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  HL2 = over rated. : Pneum0
  • *passes out* : pap26

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  I want to believe! : helvetica
  • *ME, TOO!* o_0 : lonestar3
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  What if they released it by chapter over Steam? Each Act could be $7, and the total cost of the product ... : johngloid
  • something like this will be offered by content delivery system called "gamesxstream". : lonestar3

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• I'm more interested in an expansion that offers up something new than something that's just more-of-the-s... : SpiderMonkey

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  as far as I know, Spring lasts until June 21st. : Bingo
  • And I'm sure they'll wait until the last day.. : Majestic237
• When i'll be playing TF2, ....... : mystifier

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  Or you can vote with your dollars and not buy it. : sgtsanity
  • E x a c t l y. : afo
• what is this Dial... up... you speak of? : Popedispencer
• hooray! i finally got broadband and flatrate this year. hooray! it's cool, i don't need to bitch here tha... : lonestar3

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  I'm surprised more aren't skeptical of the Summer date. : dmiller
  • I think that kind of goes without saying now... : Carnivac
• I'm very very ultra super very skeptical about any release timeframe from Valve but then after reading th... : gl2 drivers
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  this summer, means november 2006, dont you know! : Maarten Goldstein
  • The 'hacked' version is due nov 2006. Expect 2 year delay to follow. : spdon

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  no, 1st person, but you can look down and see her boobs. : deathofrats
  • * T R E S P A S S E R ' D * : tsteltz
• as if the end of Anticitizen One wasn't enough. : the archvile