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Posted by Leperous on Tue Dec 7th at 9:20pm 2004

? quoting Nickelplate
As the it is too far north we can rule out black sea.

Hmm, I don't quite follow your "impeccable" logic there Domed buildings are actually quite common in all of Eastern Europe (Orthodox influences?), and "tren" is train is several languages, including Spanish and Turkish. Italian for train is "treno" according to my good friend Google.

In fact, "tren" is also Romanian for "train" (source). Also, remember the old beached submarine from the demo? I'm sure there would be more Russian subs floating about the Black Sea!

/stops reading into things too much





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Posted by Andrei on Tue Dec 7th at 9:28pm 2004

I was thinking about those neat brick houses.

[edit]

Urm, yeah, i just said that.

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Posted by azelito on Tue Dec 7th at 9:29pm 2004

I would rather say Romania, and the sea is the Black Sea. [addsig]



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Posted by Andrei on Tue Dec 7th at 9:32pm 2004

Maybe it's Constanta (largest Black Sea port, and a pretty big city)? [addsig]



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Posted by Andrei on Tue Dec 7th at 9:41pm 2004

[EASTER EGG]

"On highway17, near the second house where you can use the huge binocular to spot the g-man, if you look carefuly you'll see a yellow board. If you rotate it with the gravity gun, you'll see the words "Insecticid...atentie, pericol" and other bla blas. The same board was fixed as a commercial in city17 , at the beginning of the level with the snipers." (quotet a guy that finished the game) And THATs romanian. No doubt about it.

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Posted by fishy on Tue Dec 7th at 9:56pm 2004

? quoting Leperous
Also, remember the old beached submarine from the demo? I'm sure there would be more Russian subs floating about the Black Sea!

as opposed to the sinking subs they have everywhere else?

[addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 8th at 6:36am 2004

It's just a theory and a good one at that. Even though the book says it's not really any REAL place, It's stil a nice coincidence that the city of Trieste has The dome-top museum, canals and a coastal highway nearby. Also the mixture of latin ans cyrillic characters indicates this basic area. Highway 17 is actually a coastal highway in nearby bosnia though...

Anyway, I thought you folks would like my theory (since it DOES make sense)

Lep, Have you not seen the domes of the northern balkan states? they're the onion topped ones.

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Posted by Andrei on Wed Dec 8th at 9:53am 2004

Hey, does anyone know why hl2 and cs:S keep connecting to the net even in offline mode???

And considering the easter yegg, i still tend to think it's Romania.

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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 8th at 6:43pm 2004

? quoting Andrei
Hey, does anyone know why hl2 and cs:S keep connecting to the net even in offline mode???

And considering the easter yegg, i still tend to think it's Romania.

hey, what IS the easter egg? I don't get it...

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Posted by Andrei on Wed Dec 8th at 10:53pm 2004

? quoting Andrei
[EASTER EGG]

"On highway17, near the second house where you can use the huge binocular to spot the g-man, if you look carefuly you'll see a yellow board. If you rotate it with the gravity gun, you'll see the words "Insecticid...atentie, pericol" and other bla blas. The same board was fixed as a commercial in city17 , at the beginning of the level with the snipers." (quotet a guy that finished the game) And THATs romanian. No doubt about it.

[addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Thu Dec 9th at 1:59am 2004

? quoting Andrei
? quoting Andrei
[EASTER EGG]

"On highway17, near the second house where you can use the huge binocular to spot the g-man, if you look carefuly you'll see a yellow board. If you rotate it with the gravity gun, you'll see the words "Insecticid...atentie, pericol" and other bla blas. The same board was fixed as a commercial in city17 , at the beginning of the level with the snipers." (quotet a guy that finished the game) And THATs romanian. No doubt about it.

oh THAT. I didn't realise that that was the Gman.

[addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Dec 9th at 2:43pm 2004

I'm pretty sure its set near the dead sea, thats what that large body of water is in the game I think... The drained one. [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Thu Dec 9th at 2:59pm 2004

The dead sea isn't drained, well, not for a few years yet. It looks distinctly like the Eastern Bloc areas from waht I have seen (former east Berlin up to say Kiev, down to Moscow).

It smacks of central eastern europe, from the architecture to the skin tones, even the vegetation and the appearance of the weather.

It looks to have spliced Communist influences from the cold war (tower blocks etc) with older bauhaus architecture and the orthdox religious stylings with more modern european "things"... It's just a random decrepit city of eastern europe, I think more important is the 1984/fahrenheit 451 etc references - constant tannoy announcements, "civil protection teams" (ie jaded/shaded references to secret police), everybody wearing hte same blue overalls.. etc

I still cant believe certain people claimed the game had no atmosphere or soul... it makes so many cultural references tied together with the superb level design and special sound effects... i havent even done chapter 1 yet but I love it already. Even if it has moved WAAAY too fast..


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Posted by Dred_furst on Thu Dec 9th at 3:16pm 2004

well, anyone notice the gman on the small tv in city 17?

well, i saw him on it, went out, came in again thinking "wait, was that the gman!" amd he was gone

or im seeing things,
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Posted by ReNo on Thu Dec 9th at 4:13pm 2004

You can see him in quite a few places Dred, but I won't spoil it by giving away where
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Posted by Leperous on Thu Dec 9th at 4:33pm 2004

? quoting Gwil
I still cant believe certain people claimed the game had no atmosphere or soul... it makes so many cultural references tied together with the superb level design and special sound effects... i havent even done chapter 1 yet but I love it already. Even if it has moved WAAAY too fast..

I think it's quite easy just to play the game as quickly as you can and miss things. I would accuse anyone who thinks that the game has no atmosphere etc. of that, and simply missing it all!





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Posted by Andrei on Thu Dec 9th at 4:39pm 2004

No atmosphere? This game is brilliant! I love this engine and it's 3d skybox capabilities! [addsig]




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