Half-Life 2: Episode One Media

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  Your argument is flawed. They need to have the story in City 17 again, there are too many questions left... : manlyman
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    There's no plot. Seriously, they could just bring Gordon out of stasis again, forever, however they plea... : GreatGooglyMoogly
    • I agree. The story was pretty weak in HL2. I know the whole "But but but you WERE Gordon! You're not supp... : kagath
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  I think the problem here is that this stuff is looking SO similar to halflife 2 Maybe, I dunno, beca... : MR 9000
  • I kind of meant the levels. I for one would like to take the characters into a new setting, but who knows... : headbone
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  Man, I hated The Empire Strikes Back. It looked too much like Star Wars. I was looking for something fres... : Gonzo
  • i dont think anyone wanted 6 episodes on Hoth though : kill9
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  Okay, I will bite and say: FUCKING SIGNED. I'm not a HL2 hater, or one of those idiots who thought there : rand04
  • Exactly! thank-you : headbone
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    Again: There was a backstory. There was no plot. There's a difference. : GreatGooglyMoogly
    • And I'm fine with that. System Shock 2 didn't really have a plot either, and that's one of the two best g... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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• I'm kinda in agreement with you. Qlthough, I wouldnt call it "horrid" -I would say that it could be bette... : warcrow
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  ^uhoh, defensive fanboy alert! Each of HL2's voice-overs were lipsynced individually and Oblivion had 50 ... : rotten element
  • No they weren't. There were demos showing that the software would adapt to the wav files themselves to m... : grendel
  • also, I've put around 70 hours into Oblivion, so it has nothing to do with me being a fanboy. i am sick ... : grendel
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  hl2's facial stuff is neat, but not much use in a first person shooter. sure it makes an interactive cuts... : thebigbeefsandwich
  • HL2's environment was amazing...i am not sure what you're talking about. As far as urban environments go... : grendel
  • I liked the environment in HL2...it had a nice gritty eastern european meets high tech sorta thing...kind... : Vorlonesque

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• nah it didn't leave me with the same feeling either. But what I also noticed is Half-Life 2 really is dis... : trelain
• Playing half-life 2 for the first time was like eating a filet mignon that suddenly turned into a mcdonal... : bung-foo
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  I thought HL2 had a great in-world atmosphere, but the story somehow failed to capitalize on this, and th... : ldlr
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    c'mon, the gameplay was pretty awesome. The hovercraft and car levels blew me away. And the enemy AI ... : doghell
    • I thought that the air boat was kind of fun but the buggy driving was uninspired. I just don't underst... : bung-foo
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      Everything was too constrained and scripted, there was only one path you could follow in the buggy and ho... : ldlr
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        Anyway, I'd just like to see an FPS where you return to the same place at different times under different : Johnny Law
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          only if it's done shoddily. Imagine backtracking to get a huge new power, or unlock some amazing looking ... : thebigbeefsandwich
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            If they had new enemies in the old areas it would work well I think, fighting new AI over known terrain -... : ldlr
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              Then people would bitch about OMG the enemy levelling means there's no point going anywhere in the game! ... : nudel
              • Metroid style : packav
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        I'd just like to see an FPS where you return to the same place at different times under different conditi : buroja
        • I thought Q4 was pretty linear myself. I was hoping for huge outdoor Martian areas (and a fast Martian du... : ldlr

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• a sinister interdimensional bureaucrat? Gob: OH, COME ON! : rand04

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• I need an 'eyes rolling' icon... : johnny rotten
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  Nobody has made a counter-life 2 mod yet which saddens me. Playing through HL1 with CS weapons was pretty... : mugwet
  • why the hell not? I've been awaiting this mod since day 1. : Judicator.Khas
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  oh that would make it suck so much less : osiris_brad
  • It'd defintely show how poor HL2's gun battle parts are. : gunrock46

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  That's only a year and a half. And I am going nuts for it. : BlackCat9
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    Brain fart! Thanks. I thought it seemed like a short 1/2 years. :P Still, dont you think if this was r... : warcrow
    • Probably, but we're talking about Valve here. They had to finish the other stuff they promised would be o... : BlackCat9
    • lol - Like HL2 had no "significant" impact because it was released 4 years after HL1, amirite? : sharkII
• yeah totally. wait wasn't MP2 about 8 hours long and cost $40-$50? hmmm. : mallrice
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  Gabe Newell said it's taken him about 7 to 9 hours to play it. : freshyk
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    That's what he said about Lost Coast too. : dangerdoggie
    • No, he didn't. : Zips

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• I love this post, really, I do. : sharkII
• Yeah, seems like Blizzard isn't even trying anymore..... ....wtf blizzard??? : madspacemarinemustdie
• parody posts have to be more obvious due to lack of sarcastic tone on the interweb : spdon

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• Don't count on it : ( : Athlon7

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  when i first saw those, i thought they were new, too. turns out they're just the the flying ships you fo... : pupismyname
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    ...then they are tanks!!! Look at the cannon they are carrying dude!!! Is a fucking tank!!! : Darkfox76
    • yes but tanks you've already fought. they're the same things. the flying ones had legs too. : pupismyname
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  you also see a new beast never seen before. I hope to meet it personally in episode 1. : Bingo
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    You're talking about the Stalkers, right? They look scary. You can play with them in Garry's Mod if I rem... : Darkfox76
    • I don't know. I wish I had taken more time with Garry's mod. For sure, I'm not talking about the two-l... : Bingo

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• Yeah I really liked the trailer. Very tight. : timaste

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  Citadels are like franchises, but only one maintains a direct stable connection to the universe through t... : SpaecKow
  • * F I G H T C L U B ' D * : mugwet
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  i think city 17 was the HQ or something, that explains why Breen lives there : Fish_Bulb
  • This is a sad time to be poor. : Amnesty_intl2

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  That's exactly what's happening. It's next-gen. : Damodred
  • hahaha, shit. : thechunder

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• Reboot into XP? : afty
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  does Flip4Mac play it? : Toraz Chryx
  • flip4mac doesn't work on intel macs yet. :( : crinos

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• they look up to date to me. what's missing? I prefer the much more subtle use of specularity and bump map... : trelain
• IF you consider a single loop and holding down one note great music... : buzzfunk
• I would much prefer more "dated" graphics engine (although i dont think HL2 is dated) than another system... : Fish_Bulb

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• yeah, Aftermath is now Episode One : Maarten Goldstein
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  So, is this like Star Wars now...wtf was HL2? Is this prequel to that? : Saman
  • Well yeah, in the sense that the events of HL2 came before the events of this, it's a "prequel." : Chris Remo
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  The real name of this new chapter of HL2 Half Life 2: Episode One :THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY : alsey7
  • Or... Half Life 2 : Episode One : More of the same. : Pneum0
  • Half-Life 2: Episode One - More HL Content Is Always A Good Thing : SlamDunk
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  I greatly preferred Aftermath. Episode one sounds so... flavourless. : five_percent
  • same here. : pyide
  • word. : xphil

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  Why would you assume that? : Halen
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    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0347039/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9cm9iZXJ0IEd1aWxsYXVtZXxmdD... : abrasion
    • Ep1 isn't listed up there yet, though, so that doesn't really mean anything. : Rich McNinch
• I am pretty sure Valve can afford to bring them back, most likely do a lot of the Episodic voice work at ... : manlyman
• Benson is the man. : ahk-med
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  Wait a fucking minute! All their voices are in the damn trailer. Watch the trailer man. : manlyman
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    You're right... missed it the first time. Unless this is recycled from the game, he's totally there. Du... : Rich McNinch
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      Hahaha man, you keep missing out eh? Breen's dead. : manlyman
      • But it was all just a dream! or was it?! : Rich McNinch
• nah there's no reason not to. voice over work is the least time-consuming for actors, but the pay is sti... : mikecyb

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  It looks kinda old hat though... I can't help but get the feeling they should've gone directly for H-L3. : GreatGooglyMoogly
  • I'm excited for more street fighting. But yeah, crap trailer. : Serpico74

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• Hopefully it's better than the Phantom Menace. I'm kind of disappointed they didn't upgrade some of th... : sneak
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  Next thing you know, there's a pod race chapter midway through of the game. : zehh
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    rofl, did you watch the video? She's racing through the citidel on something :D : buzzbat
    • Sort of looked like in Episode 2 (of Starwars, that is) when Obi is chasing that assassin through the cit... : rotten element
    • hehe........... : warcrow
• my thoughts exactly. : the_algor
• -----Because Lucas invented this----- : Ebu
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  hehe, thats the first thing I thought of when I saw it. I'd want to avoid any sort of Star Wars connotat... : yAak
  • The storm troopers w/ deathstar setting in the first screenshot dont help avoid that connotation either. : yAak

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• wow, hadn't seen a lot of that footage before, looks like they are taking it up a notch. : the_algor
• HOT! : project13
• Ok wow that looks just sick. Consider it bought. : italiano3d

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  If it is, hopefully it'll just be Alyx and thr missions will follow the "Hey Gordon, follow me! Oh wait, ... : genjuro
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    no she wasn't in danger. she was invincible to everyone. : pyide
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      Negative. I killed her with fire : joe.gonzalez
      • I killed her once by surrounding her with tripod mgs. : Jeepy McJeeperton

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  Because he can have a good meal? : FatBaby
  • he's certainly doing whatever he feels. it looks like he's holding up the roof, or a canvas, but as we ca... : grimiv

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• http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/half_life_2/Half+Life+2:+Episode+One/1/040706/040706_hl2ep1_1.jpg T... : manlyman
• Because you need to upgrade your computer? : bung-foo

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• i hate seeing other characters do cool shit like that in first person games, because 99% of the time i ca... : pyide

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• well half of it is old, but the rest should be new : Maarten Goldstein