Hl2 Vids Released Over Steam Later Today

Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">announced in Steam forum, link within</div> <a href='http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8407&perpage=15&pagenumber=1' target='_blank'>http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread....15&pagenumber=1</a>

Apparently a new version of Steam too, but mine doesn't seem to want to update, and I don't know how to make it do so.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    they said that last week too..

    and the week before..


    remember like 4 months ago when the new hl patch was due out "any day now" ? yeah...

    one thing about valve, they are absolutely HORRIBLE with announced dates. If Valve actually ships HL2 by Sept. 30th, it will be the first time in the history of the company they haven't been late. :P
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Pssst, DOOM. It's out <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    it's just the Gman portion of the E3 movie in high res.
  • BigMadSteveBigMadSteve Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
    edited July 2003
    Oh <b>now</b> you tell me! I was looking forward to something new. He looks nice in hi-res though <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I just hope they arn't going to be releasing bits and peaces of the E3 video...
  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    edited July 2003
    I've seen the video before, but the higher res is appreciated.
    This is the sort of promotional video for which competing game designers look at it, then break down and cry <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • UnderDOGUnderDOG Join Date: 2003-04-05 Member: 15221Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Marik_Steele+Jul 14 2003, 07:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Jul 14 2003, 07:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I've seen the video before, but the higher res is appreciated.
    This is the sort of promotional video for which competing game designers look at it, then break down and cry <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    hahaha yeah they will
  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    the video doesn't work for me. It just changes the resolution and displays a little black box in the upper left hand corner of the screen. They HAd to put it in a proprietary format. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Proprietary Format? What's that?
  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    <!--QuoteBegin--Liku+Jul 14 2003, 08:14 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Jul 14 2003, 08:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Proprietary Format? What's that? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    its a file format that someone owns and has exclusive rights to.
    The movie file on steam is an executable file and does all the playing for you with a player that I've never heard of. I'm assuming its proprietary, it might not be. Either way its damn annoying since it doesn't seem to work.
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Comprox+Jul 14 2003, 05:32 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Comprox @ Jul 14 2003, 05:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Pssst, DOOM. It's out :D

    it's just the Gman portion of the E3 movie in high res. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Wasn't out when I posted in the thread nub. Besides, its still late, as it was due out a week ago. I don't wanna hear your griping if HL falls back to November 6th :P

    And so now that I've seen it, blah. That's it? Weeks of hype for that? Gah. I was expecting it to be the whole long thing, but nooo they took the most boring part of the entire presentation. The real kicker though was I've been messing with the Steam BS for about a week, only to have the download finish from 3D Gamers first.

    And yeah, dumb of em to use Bink. A high quality divx would have been much better, and when you liscense it they coulda put that in non-codec required exe format too, that's what Blizzard did w/ the warcraft 3 videos...

    So I guess its 1 short clip a week till HL2 is out eh?
  • Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
    Hee hee, I'd be pissy too if I had been all hyped for Doom3 and saw how much better this was.

    You know I'm just kidding Doom, lighten up man. I was thinking maybe the use of bink was for quality issues. That video looks lossless to me, can even a large divx vid give that quality?
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    A large 66MB Divx with not much action (as far as fast FPS car chase + explosions goes) with only about 1 minute of footage? Most definately, you could do better than DVD Quality and still probably have a smaller file size...

    The last Matrix Reloaded trailer was only about 70mb, and the video resolution on it was ungodly high, better quality than a DVD.
  • Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
    Actually yeah, I'm thinking quicktime is a good one for this kind of stuff, or even WMV. Ever seen the super high quality WMV vids? Way higher quality than HDTV, but you need like 2 GHz to run them smoothly.
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    I runs on <a href='http://www.radgametools.com' target='_blank'>Bink and Smacker</a>

    Not a bad codec.
  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    Here's the torrent if anyone cares:

    <a href='http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-g-man.exe.torrent' target='_blank'>http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-g-man.exe.torrent</a>
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--404NotFound+Jul 15 2003, 04:05 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (404NotFound @ Jul 15 2003, 04:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I runs on <a href='http://www.radgametools.com' target='_blank'>Bink and Smacker</a>

    Not a bad codec. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ARGHHHHHH!!!! You bastaj you changed my sig violation sig!

    @_0
  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    Bumped because the "Docks" video is out on Steam now.
  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    Here are the torrents for the Dock video <b>AND</b> Kleiner's lab (Alyx up close... STOP STARING AT HER!):

    <a href='http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-docks.exe.torrent' target='_blank'>http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-docks.exe.torrent</a>

    <a href='http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-kleiners_lab.exe.torrent' target='_blank'>http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-klein...lab.exe.torrent</a>
  • Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
    Woah Confuzor, good find! When/how did the lab vid get out? Tell me it was in that rediculous 400meg file that got cached during the first vid download.
  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    Hmm, looks like your right. I get my sources from <a href='http://aixgaming.com/' target='_blank'>http://aixgaming.com/</a>...

    <i>So the guys over on the halflife2 forums figured out a way to hex edit the cache file and get the Kleiner's Lab video out a day early. So without further adieu, here it is via Filerush.com / Bit Torrent. </i>
  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    /me makes mental note to get BitTorrent.
  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    omg it dl'd at over 2.0mb/s that is friggin awesome
  • LokeLoke Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13988Members
    That video with Alyx is awesome! Ahhh, can't wait for this game... <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Took a pic to show the quality, real good!

    <a href='http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48019256/hl2.jpg' target='_blank'>http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48019256/hl2.jpg</a>

    (Too big too show it on the forum, think of those poor 56k)
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    video isnt very good lol
  • LokeLoke Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13988Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--[WoLF]+Jul 17 2003, 10:02 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([WoLF] @ Jul 17 2003, 10:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> video isnt very good lol <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Just because it isn’t new? Lol.

    The quality is 100times better than the 500meg one and good to show peoples that how it will look on their computer (This is a video, not ingame).
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited July 2003
    Must.. hax.. kliener's labs...

    Hey, its on my hard drive already, I'll do whatever the hell I want with my own data. :)

    [edit]w00t! Got it haxed and viewed. Yay. If only they'd show the ones where gordon is.. you know.. actually playing... Still, I can't get over how realistic Alyx's collerbone looks...[/edit]
  • Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Jul 17 2003, 03:59 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 17 2003, 03:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Still, I can't get over how realistic Alyx's collerbone looks... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I was amazed by that myself. Anyone got the old e3 vid kicking around? Which vid is comming next?
  • LokeLoke Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13988Members
    A new Interview with Doug Lombardi. Sorry, if its old.

    <a href='http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/july03/halflife2/index.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/july03/h...fe2/index.shtml</a>
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Dr_Shaggy+Jul 17 2003, 02:30 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dr_Shaggy @ Jul 17 2003, 02:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Jul 17 2003, 03:59 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 17 2003, 03:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Still, I can't get over how realistic Alyx's collerbone looks... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I was amazed by that myself. Anyone got the old e3 vid kicking around? Which vid is comming next? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Probably the one where gordon has a pistol and goes into the house and uses radiator shield to shoot the combine guy into the coke can, that whole sequence. hope they have the zombies blowing up w/ the cars part still :D

    I'm a bit disappointed they skipped the 'zoo' part. where they had the pachinko machine and stuff. :/
  • BigMadSteveBigMadSteve Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
    There was a scene that wasn't in the E3 video (the big 600 mb Gamespy one). There is a scene where you see a soldier getting waved about by this big blue tentacle <i>thing</i>. I wonder if it that will be getting released, I saw it on Gamespot.
  • The_Real_QuasarThe_Real_Quasar Has the I.Q. of 12,000 P.E. Teachers Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9998Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Confuzor+Jul 17 2003, 06:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Confuzor @ Jul 17 2003, 06:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Here are the torrents for the Dock video <b>AND</b> Kleiner's lab (Alyx up close... STOP STARING AT HER!):

    <a href='http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-docks.exe.torrent' target='_blank'>http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-docks.exe.torrent</a>

    <a href='http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-kleiners_lab.exe.torrent' target='_blank'>http://www.filerush.com/torrents/hl2-klein...lab.exe.torrent</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    How do I watch these?
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