Half Life 2 is Released!!

Jonbo298 · 11-16-2004, 07:13 AM

First impressions playing from 2am-5am is awesome. The "cut scenes" are done very nice, the graphics are superb, sound is superb also (5.1, although I wanna hear it in 7.1 if I could), storyline is good so far even though sometimes I seem to "forget" a part of a story or what I'm supposed to do since its been awhile since I remember getting the next "part".

But overall, first impressions are excellent. Easily a 9.8 in my books. My only small complaint is that some of the textures indoors are kind of bland (ie: needs higher quality textures indoors). But other then that small complaint, it's gone very well so far.

Jason1 · 11-17-2004, 12:07 AM

Yea, Authentication did take awhile, got me a little worried. But it worked, and Ive played for about 2 hours so far.

I had high hopes. Very high hopes. And so far, those hopes have been met and just about exceeded. The source engine is amazing. Just amazing. I had some slight worries that it wouldnt run so well on my system...Boy was I wrong. Ive got everything on medium settings, looks fantastic, and it runs great. Character models are by far the best ive seen, nothing else even comes close really. Physics are perfect...and the game actually makes you use them, which is an absolute treat instead of the hassle it couldve been. But what good are all the amasing technical aspects if it isnt any fun to play right? Well, it is fun to play. Very. Granted the standard formula dosent seem to stray too far from the origional so far, its still almost perfect. You really cant beat crawling around through pipes, through the winding underbelly of city 17, blasting combine soilders and other things as you progress. Game sounds fantastic too, uses that awsome technoish music at just the right times. If I have one complaint so far its a very minor gripe of the game stuttering a bit when a new important background noise is about to happen, or a huge explosion is about to go off. This could be just because im using integrated sound though.

Anyways, if your computer can handle it: GET THIS GAME.

Best 55 dollars ive ever spent so far, and ive barely touched the surface.

Null · 11-17-2004, 12:11 AM

first game in a long long time that has me itching and itching to play more. loving it. So far... Game of the Year EASILY.

btw. Jason, try turning sound quality down any? i tried on medium and it still sounds just as good really.

Jonbo298 · 11-17-2004, 12:54 AM

This is the first game since City of Heroes that gets me to play for hours on end. Easily GOTY in my books

Canyarion · 11-17-2004, 01:43 AM

Blast, I want this game!

But for now, WoW has me hooked.... but their beta will only last for a couple of days.

Seth · 11-17-2004, 02:42 AM

What PC specs are you running Jason?

Null?

I have a Pentium 2.4 and a geforce ti4600.

It's getting pretty old for this

I wanna play it so bad

Jonbo298 · 11-17-2004, 03:58 AM

You can play it fine. You can have a video card that is for DX7 only and it'll run HL2.

Valve thought about its gamers more when it made HL2 then iD did with Doom3

so you'll be fine with any current video card DX7 and up (albeit a little more ****ty looking but still very playable)

Null · 11-17-2004, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seth

What PC specs are you running Jason?

Null?

I have a Pentium 2.4 and a geforce ti4600.

It's getting pretty old for this

I wanna play it so bad

mines a 2.66ghz p4, Radeon 9600XT, 1gb DDR RAM.

i might try overclocking it again to a 3.0ghz tho. last time i did that Unreal kept booting me out so i never played around with it. i should be able to get it stable at the speed if i adjust some other stuff tho.