Half Life 2 - What Next?

Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
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<div class="IPBDescription">What will happen to the original!?</div> Now that half life 2 is set to come out around september, when it comes out, what will happen to the original, i wonder how quickly it will die away!

Half Life and its mods carries many memories for me, from playing my first online game, to playing my first LAN game with my friends in secondary school back in the late 90s, now I am only 1 month away from finishing college and after that i have to go into the world of work

Its like a chapter of my life is over, and i certanly don't want the original half life to die on me as well

What are your thoughts?
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  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    Half-life will die, when the popular mods has been converted/remaked for HL2, and when everybody has good enough system to run it.

    but maybe HL2 sufferes from the bad-sequel-syndrome, not that i think so, but...
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  • LokeLoke Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13988Members
    Depends if Half-Life II will be good, that is the question.
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  • Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
    i hope half life 2 dosen't suffer from bad sequel syndrome, but even if it does, i reckon it will still be just if not more popular

    Yeah Half Life 3 has already been established, i wonder when THAT will come out!
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  • tseepratseepra Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10530Members
    I bet half-life will become one of those games that our childrens children will consider legends, like pong. And then there will be those hardcore players who will stick with hl1 and call everyone who plays hl2 newbs (kind of like tribes).

    But hl will probably go in the history books for being the most long-lived game engine ever. Can you ever imagine a new engine being popular for 5 years? Even though the graphics are out-of-date. Like now there is a better game comeing out every year but h-l is still number 1!
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Lets put it this way: I just played Tribes 1 yesterday.
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  • Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
    I sometimes play GTA1 online as well, if they are kewl games, y should you STOP as soon as something else comes out
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  • Be0wBe0w Join Date: 2003-04-23 Member: 15780Members
    Untill NS gets ported to HL2 I will keep coming back <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    (If I was in charge of Valve Flayra would recieve 10,000$ check in mail with the code to HL2 <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->)
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Jobabob+Apr 27 2003, 09:28 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jobabob @ Apr 27 2003, 09:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> because it still works with pc's made umpteen years ago :p <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    no, because HL was MADE umpteen years ago. Old games work on Old hardware! Amazing...

    The funny thing is though, HL2 will work on PC's that are 2 or 3 years old, and people are griping about THAT not being a big enough window of compatibility, but when HL1 came out it was lucky to work w/ a system 1 year old, as it was not nearly as scalable as HL2 will be...
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  • Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
    I have Broadband myself, but Half Life 2 better cater for the 56k users, even if they do get high pings

    I mean I played Battlefield 1942 online with Broadband and i get pings of 20, but if you join with 56k, u get pings of 400 at least, its just not on!

    There are more 56k ppl out there than BB! Game makers seem to think that gamers only have broadband, especially Microsoft!

    At Least nintendo have been clever enough to allow 56k ppl to play their games online
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  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    edited April 2003
    With HL2 there is going to be an option to drive stuff , would be kewl to fly a shuttle into heras docking wing, iv allready seen about 6-7 people say that NS was made too late and will die with HL2 witch i dont think will happen but im slightly conserned about.
    as far as i know Hl2 will have a min specs of 700mhz pIII , this is like playing HL on a 200Mhz pII , and the recomened will be 2gz thats like playing HL on a 1ghz +, and as for 56k iv been told that the multi-player is the most inportant thing to Vaule and they want everone to be able to play so i think 56k will be ok with it (im on 56k )

    Edit: HL2 modles are about 3times as detailed as HL modles, if ur a modeler have a read at this <a href='http://dodstuff.houstondod.com/hl2modelling.htm' target='_blank'>http://dodstuff.houstondod.com/hl2modelling.htm</a>
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  • Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
    any idea on graphics cards?

    Cuz my ATI Radeon 64mb DDR runs like a dream on Battlefield 1942, which needs a minimum of 32mb SD-Ram, but i tried playing it on a GeForce 2 32mb DDR and it lags a lot
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  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    there is a magezin artical saying that a Gforce4 MX would be fine for playing it. dont think a voodoo3 will work which is what i had untill a few months ago <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    I doubt HL will die completely. It'll live on with a very small community playing it's mods just like Quake, Quake 2, and a number of other FPS's have done.
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  • Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
    being the high class game its supposedly supposted to be, i reckon it will need a really high spec graphics card, like Battlefield 1942 does, which is fair enough, due to the MAJOR MAJOR complexity of the maps and gameplay
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Mr-Stabby+Apr 30 2003, 05:38 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr-Stabby @ Apr 30 2003, 05:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> There are more 56k ppl out there than BB! Game makers seem to think that gamers only have broadband, especially Microsoft! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Actually, there are more broadband users than modem users. If not, it's quickly changing.
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  • Mr-StabbyMr-Stabby Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14401Banned
    that can't be true surely, not yet

    maybe more gamers use bb, but there can't me more bb internet users than 56k!
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  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    whohoo for bb, I use it at college, but at home, its 28.8 (only becasue it wont let us use 56k, old phone lines)

    HALF LIFE WILL NEVER DIE!!
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Mr-Stabby+Apr 30 2003, 04:04 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr-Stabby @ Apr 30 2003, 04:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> being the high class game its supposedly supposted to be, i reckon it will need a really high spec graphics card, like Battlefield 1942 does, which is fair enough, due to the MAJOR MAJOR complexity of the maps and gameplay <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I actually doubt that, I'm supposing half of the requirements for BF1942 will work for HL2.
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  • NecromanZerNecromanZer Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3407Members
    well considering that the average model for HL2 sports 5000 polies, while the average doom3 char sports 3000.....

    PLUS dynamic lighting, bump maps and particle systems... i get 10fps on doom, if they made this thing run on my comp i would label them gods...

    amd 1800, 256ddr gf4 mx 440
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