Half Life 2 Aftermath

[Diso]

I feel like killing the scenario writer at valve for the most inconsistant story ever. Even if some of it WAS intentional.

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How's it inconsistant?

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It doesn't make much sense? As in a lot is not explained well enough or at all.

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Well that's not inconsitency, that's something else entirely. But I do agree about it not being explained enough, it's not. But I love the way the story is told since you only know as much as Gordon knowns and nothing more. Most people are just too used to omniscient third person story telling so it's weird when they don't know what's all going on.

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Yeah, I know the difference between when something is inconsistant and when something doesn't make sense, but I got a brainfart :/

 

I like the story as much as you do, but I wish they would at least make a proper ending, even if VALVe aims for a trilogy.

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I like the storyline Valve is making right now. By the time they get to the ending, all the different storylines and gapholes will untwine into one simple solution. Good thing about it is you don't get assholes that spoil the ending for everyone.

[Gryph]

Some HL: Aftermath news.

 

* Aftermath will be presented at E3 next month

* The release date will be in Fall 2005

* The time to play it through will be about 1/3 of the time needed for HL2

* Aftermath will just be released via Steam, no retail-version is planned

 

http://www.hlfallout.net/viewnews.php/7866/

[Agozer]

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

[L.S.D]

    * The time to play it through will be about 1/3 of the time needed for HL2

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That was pretty short! I remember watching a video where a guy beat HL2 in 2 hrs plus. So this guy will beat this game in 40 min?

 

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

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I support you here. With games as big as this, I expect them to be avaialble in record time

[Gryph]

I just hope it's priced according to its length and content. If it's around $20-30, I'll pay that for an expansion but anymore is pushing it, even for me.

[Daeval]

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

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For all of its faults, Steam is actually a pretty good system. In fact, there's really only one major fault, and that's the temporary server issues at release time.

 

But maybe I'm biased. Anything that could lead to greater creative control, and therefore variety, and/or lower costs in games is ok by me.

[Gryph]

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

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For all of its faults, Steam is actually a pretty good system. In fact, there's really only one major fault, and that's the temporary server issues at release time.

 

But maybe I'm biased. Anything that could lead to greater creative control, and therefore variety, and/or lower costs in games is ok by me.

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Steam is the first venture of its kind so it's not going to be perfect. I have never had any problems with it (minus Steam Friends NEVER working) so I like it a lot. I want my money to go directly to Valve.

[Wizard]

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

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For all of its faults, Steam is actually a pretty good system. In fact, there's really only one major fault, and that's the temporary server issues at release time.

 

But maybe I'm biased. Anything that could lead to greater creative control, and therefore variety, and/or lower costs in games is ok by me.

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Steam is the first venture of its kind so it's not going to be perfect. I have never had any problems with it (minus Steam Friends NEVER working) so I like it a lot. I want my money to go directly to Valve.

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lol steam runs.

 

Good concept, it's just, very very shietty.

[Gryph]

How is it very very shietty? People need to stop blowing stuff out of proportion.

[Daeval]

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

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For all of its faults, Steam is actually a pretty good system. In fact, there's really only one major fault, and that's the temporary server issues at release time.

 

But maybe I'm biased. Anything that could lead to greater creative control, and therefore variety, and/or lower costs in games is ok by me.

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Steam is the first venture of its kind so it's not going to be perfect. I have never had any problems with it (minus Steam Friends NEVER working) so I like it a lot. I want my money to go directly to Valve.

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Exactly. It isn't a perfect system yet, but it's a step in a new direction. Since that direction might possibly lead to some much-needed reform in the industry, to the benefit of developers and consumers alike, I am in support of it.

 

And yeah, all the trash talk I've heard about Steam has been totally blown out of proportion. It takes five seconds longer to load on my system than Half Life did before it, that's it. That's not worth getting all butthurt about, IMO.

[Wizard]

How is it very very shietty? People need to stop blowing stuff out of proportion.

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You weren't there!

 

I remember when it took 4 hours to get Counter-Strike to work!

 

Just remember, Steam will always be done for being an asshole to anyone when updates occure.

[Gryph]

4 hours to get CS to work? Was it the authentication process? I knew that was slow sometime back.

 

But Steam updates are fast and great for me too. I guess I just never got hit with the problems. Knock on wood.

[Wizard]

4 hours to get CS to work? Was it the authentication process? I knew that was slow sometime back.

 

But Steam updates are fast and great for me too. I guess I just never got hit with the problems. Knock on wood.

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No, it was just starting it.

 

Then there was teh annoying steam updates that would crash the client randomly.

 

There was also the random HL.EXE crash. And the AUTH didn't take 4 hours since I already owned the game. The HL2 auth took a whole day.

[Daeval]

Sounds like you're judging it based on the beta. I started using it near the end of the beta and it's never been anywhere near that bad for me. HL1, CS1 and DoD worked without any problems, offline and on. HL2 authed in seconds for me just a few days after launch. Granted, not being able to auth it on launch day would have been an issue, but I consider it a growing pain. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater, as it were.

[Agozer]

If it's only through Steam and you have to pay for it, I'm not getting it the "legal" way.

For all of its faults, Steam is actually a pretty good system. In fact, there's really only one major fault, and that's the temporary server issues at release time.

 

But maybe I'm biased. Anything that could lead to greater creative control, and therefore variety, and/or lower costs in games is ok by me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Steam one bit, but I've never liked to buy anything online (for a few reasons, but I'm not going to go into those now). And yes, it should be relatively cheap, since like most of you, I've seen more than enough expansions in stores that sell at full price.