Half Life 2 Package Details!

Bube · 09-29-2004, 01:54 PM

Steam works here, I don't know if they sell though. I used to play CS 1.6 with my 56k, but after buying a new computer, and a DSL connection, Steam couldn't update itself. Or maybe it was because I installed it during the CS:Source preload period.

Ahh, whatever, I won't pay money to download a game off the internet. I'll probably pay, and won't be able to download it... I hate Steam...

And getting a DVD drive just isn't worth it. I'll pay 30$ to play a game I've played before (and hated, I should add) with better graphics.

thatmariolover · 09-29-2004, 02:31 PM

It's just Half Life 1 running on the Half Life 2 engine. I'm fairly sure all you're going to get is physics improvements, reflection improvements, and light/shadow improvements. I've been running the HL1 maps on the old HL2 beta that leaked for a while now. It'll be cool. I'll definitely be buying the Collector's package.

Null · 09-29-2004, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Bube

Steam works here, I don't know if they sell though. I used to play CS 1.6 with my 56k, but after buying a new computer, and a DSL connection, Steam couldn't update itself. Or maybe it was because I installed it during the CS:Source preload period.

Ahh, whatever, I won't pay money to download a game off the internet. I'll probably pay, and won't be able to download it... I hate Steam...

And getting a DVD drive just isn't worth it. I'll pay 30$ to play a game I've played before (and hated, I should add) with better graphics.

well, you have to start reconizing a trend here man. havnt you noticed the games now starting to release 2 versions? DVD, or a pack of CD's? the switch is happening, it wont be too long before games come out on DVD only,
so IMO, a DVD drive that doesnt cost much is very much worth it.

i get angry when i see people telling developers to release games on the CD format, theres no reason why anyone shouldnt be able to get a DVD drive now. and theres no reason to get games to install on a computer that have 6+ CD's.

i have the DVD version of UT 04, my friend bought the CD version. i was reformating his comptuer for him, and i had to reinstall that game. OMG! what a pain to keep switching CD's, took like 15min. my DVD version, i just put it in, takes a min to install and im done.

GiMpY-wAnNaBe · 09-29-2004, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

well, you have to start reconizing a trend here man. havnt you noticed the games now starting to release 2 versions? DVD, or a pack of CD's? the switch is happening, it wont be too long before games come out on DVD only,
so IMO, a DVD drive that doesnt cost much is very much worth it.

i get angry when i see people telling developers to release games on the CD format, theres no reason why anyone shouldnt be able to get a DVD drive now. and theres no reason to get games to install on a computer that have 6+ CD's.

i have the DVD version of UT 04, my friend bought the CD version. i was reformating his comptuer for him, and i had to reinstall that game. OMG! what a pain to keep switching CD's, took like 15min. my DVD version, i just put it in, takes a min to install and im done.

I believe far cry was released only on dvd....t'is a good game

, sorry guys.

in anycasse, verrrrrry, good news for people with ATi vouchers

Bube · 09-30-2004, 04:54 PM

Well, I decided to listen to the people who like Steam, and installed it. The updates aren't bad as I remembered, and I downloaded Codename Gordon in quite a short time. But I couldn't remember my old username (

), so I couldn't get my already registered Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat and the others to register again

. Then I found a way around it...

Then I found my old username and password...

But still, I'm not ready to download 6GBs off Steam. I'm still buying it off the shelf. When I format, I'll have to download it all over again...

Canyarion · 09-30-2004, 05:23 PM

Carefull with the wall. No stains please.

Jonbo298 · 09-30-2004, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Bube

But still, I'm not ready to download 6GBs off Steam. I'm still buying it off the shelf. When I format, I'll have to download it all over again...

You don't have to pre-load HL2

Bube · 10-01-2004, 04:18 AM

Doesn't Steam download the game after you buy it? At least some neccesary parts of it? If I'm wrong, then I'm going to need a pretty in-depth explanation of buying games off Steam. And if I'm convinced, I might actually buy something

...

Jonbo298 · 10-01-2004, 10:07 AM

Oops. I may have read it wrong. Are you gonna buy and download off steam? I think at first I read it was on the shelf.

But if you are buying off Steam, go ahead and preload the game. After its done preloading, if you have a DVD Burner, put the Half Life2 gcf files onto a DVD and store it. If you have a CD Burner, put some files on 1 cd, some on another. Then, if you ever have to reformat, you don't have to redownload over 2 gigs of data (compressed)