Half-Life on Dreamcast

\"The environments we\'re creating for the security guard missions are all-new. This means that players will explore new not-yet-seen locations of the Black Mesa Research Facility, but will also get to work with civilian co-workers to survive the alien menace and military clean-up operation.\"

(from Stomped)

#41: Part of the point of my argument was to argue *against* the notion that the Dreamcast port was just using \"cutting room floor\" levels. It implies that this is just a rushed port with no real effort.

As I said: it\'s new - not recycled, new.

The new mission is being developed by Gearbox; the rest of the port is being done by Captivation Digital Laboratories. I\'m sure Valve will have a hand in the port, but they aren\'t doing the bulk of the work.

Something that\'s bugging me... What barney character? It\'s a nickname for the thousand misc security guards around the complex, more or less.

i\'m of the opinion that FPSs have no place on consoles. they just don\'t work.

Actually, Quake2 and Halflife both do use DirectSound and DirectInput.
The first release of Quake1 didn\'t, though id released a WinQuake
which did.

However, you\'re correct, that\'s not why Mac Halflife got cancelled.

#46 - Quake engine games use direct input btw.

I\'m curious: Will this Half Life to Dreamcast port be using Quake engine technology? Will idsoftware get a royalty from each game? Or is it using some other unspecified game engine? Inquiring minds want to know.

#22, Mac Half-Life was not cancelled because of any dependency on DirectX. Anyone who paid any attention to the whole saga knows that.

Half-Life is based on the Quake and Quake 2 engines, neither of which use DirectX. The only part of DirectX that Half-Life uses is Direct3D, and you can override even that by using OpenGL instead (which is available on the Mac). Networking is basically the same as Quakeworld.

Mac Half-Life had cross-platform network support working when it was cancelled (according to Andrew Meggs, a programmer at the porting house -- ). Sierra had ordered that the cross-platform networking be removed so they wouldn\'t have to keep patching the port whenever PC Half-Life was patched. Mac gamers got really angry and started writing letters to Valve and Sierra. A week later, it was cancelled.

Gabe Newell of Valve wrote that Mac Half-Life was cancelled because they would be unable to include many features of the PC version in the Mac version -- TFC, auto-update, and cross-platform networking. Nowhere was DirectX mentioned.

Where did DirectX ever come into this? I\'m curious because I\'ve heard the claim before but never seen anything to substantiate it.

It\'ll be cool if they make a cs multiplayer port but, i\'ve already finished the 1 player game, playing as a security guard might be fun though.

don\'t care for half-life.

is c-s gonna be ported?

But how do you code for a console for a device you don\'t know if they have? How many people will buy a zip drive for their DC? Not many. How many games will use it? Even less.

#40 fallacy

Postal,
What i meant to say is, the new mission being included (the barney one) is probly a mission that fell on the cutting room floor, and now they are throwing it back in AS WELL AS the original game. Also, the addons will not be added obviously! what i was meaning is that you should be happy with the PC version because it DOES have all those great things. The new misison does not nearly make up for the DC\'s shortcomings

All them add ons for DC will fail. Look at 32x, sega cd, ect

they better port that fucking new HL mission to PC or im going to go POSTAL


POSTAL




-TomServo-

Okay, some people need some facts:

1) This is being developed by Gearbox. Not Valve. Gearbox. TF2 is not being delayed (at least, not significantly) because of this.

2) Including Counterstrike, Rocket Crowbar, etc. would require actually paying those people for their work, integrating their additions into the design, asking them to redo or enhance existing characters and items to look better, and so on. It\'s not going to happen.

3) This is a *new* (as close as you can get using a variant of the same engine and story) game, not rejected levels or the equivalent of an add-on pack. Calling the Dreamcast port anything less than a full project is like saying that Unreal Tournament is just an add-on for Unreal. It might have plenty of familiar elements, but it will NOT be just a small supplement to the existing game.

Or an Ernest Borgnine centerfold.

or some Go Bots.

Or an old Ford Pinto.

Or a ticket to fly on an MD-80.

Or a Backstreet Boys CD.

well, which would you rather have? some mission based on barny \"headcrab fodder\" the guard, or awesome mods like TFC, Counterstrike, Action, and rocket crowbar? dont worry, im sure you arent missing anything. i bet it is some level they cut out of the game, and are sticking it in there so the console people will have somehting to gloat about.

oooo...HL on DC? I\'m gonna rush right out and buy one. Then again I might run out and buy some Pokemon stuff too.

I heard that Sega is suppose to come out with a NIC card to replace the 56k modem, but then I saw that they were working on a Cable modem to replace it. Anyone know the exact deal? Also they are coming out with a ZipDrive so it would be possible to add things such as TFC, etc.. Also about the gamepad, Sega already has a keyboard out, whats to stop them from coming out with a mouse, if I haven\'t already have one in the makings. I own a DreamCast, I just don\'t read all the zine\'s/web pages and find out the news unlike when I was younger and I knew everything in the world about super nintendo and what was coming out etc..

.-revolver-.

No soup for you!!! Boogieman.

What the fuck? I want that mission for the PC as well. I hate it when computer companies do this - give the console guys more than us.

Gimme gimme gimme...

Boogieman

UNFZ!

you and me baby we ain\'t nothin but mammals, so lets do it like they do on the discovery channel

Excuse incorrectness because I heard the song a week and one day ago :P

I like to play \"bad\" games too :)

Seeing as how the Mac version was cancelled due to problems with Half-Life\'s dependency on DirectX and the mulitplayer incompatibility, the Dreamcast version will likely be delayed endlessly and when it does finally come out, it will not be compatible with the rest of us playing it online. And the lack of TFC and CS will kill what little multiplayer draw it has.

Just my two cents...

Hey I\'m getting Dreamcast Resident Evil Special Edition. I\'ll play HL too. Why not? I remember I liked Kileak and Doom on the PS. As long as there\'s a good game to play somewhere I\'m there.

Why not? It\'ll probably sell a gazillion copies.

Valve had just better not be wasting THEIR time on it.

Come on people..

is this port really necessary?

#12, your intelligence just shines through!!! and the fact that you go to \"Salt Lake Community College\" just proves that you are quite the exceptional mind!

Valve and Gearbox r0xors j00!!

I have a dream...


..............cast.

...A naked ape in a human zoo. You amaze me with the things you do. I watch your pride before the fall and realize I don\'t belong at all...\"



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