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Posted by satchmo on Thu Jun 9th at 1:54am 2005

It's truly revolutionary and soundly based on hard science, as you can discern from reading the article.

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html

I can't wait to put Half-Life and Half-Life 2 to the test. I think it actually might do fairly well, as I can't remember seeing any crates or barrels at the train station.




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Posted by SaintGreg on Thu Jun 9th at 3:12am 2005

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hl: 45 seconds from when you can move, dont even make it past the 3rd train "room".

hl2: 35 seconds from when you can move, most of which is time spent rolling into the station, out of the train doors is about 5 seconds.




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I think the main exercise here is that both hl and hl2 are choc-full of crates. You can't make it 5 minutes without seeing one.



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Thu Jun 9th at 3:22am 2005

Valve talks about crates in "Raising the Bar" - while they were worried about being original, it really wasn't worth all the effort, so they just threw a crate there on purpose.




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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jun 9th at 10:02am 2005

I think crates are a big problem in multi player maps. Like think about Dust, or italy... you would never find crates stacked like that in real life. All these crazy maps that are full of crates are just a staple to the lazyness of mappers, I for one NEVER use crates unless its some kind of depo map where crates would be.




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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Jun 9th at 10:58am 2005

Sounds like a common case of "crateophobia"...


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Posted by Dark Tree on Thu Jun 9th at 10:58am 2005

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StC: Absolute zero on our scale
Notes: Crates are featured prominently on the box.
Comments:
Kevin: Considering that 99% of all crates are empty or contain less than 5 pounds of material, why is it that almost always I can't pick the crate up, like in the old 2D games, and smash it over somebody's head? In fact, when I even try to move the crate, it's like I'm Thor trying to lift the earth, and my big muscleman character is barely able to slide it over the ground.

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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jun 9th at 11:38am 2005

I like the point about how these huge crates only have one or two items in them.




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Posted by Foxpup on Fri Jun 10th at 8:47am 2005

Tyrian has no crates or barrels except for a reference to "the holy casks of Zinglon" in the bonus game "Zinglon's Ale".

I'm under the impression that Black Mesa is actually a giant crate factory since all the storage areas are completely filled with empty crates.


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Posted by Andrei on Fri Jun 10th at 10:31am 2005

I'm not sure about crates, but barrels are a very old inheritance from wolfenstein 3d. Yes, folks, we have been seeing those damn things for almost 10 years!




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Posted by Fjorn on Sat Jun 11th at 6:21am 2005

Was playing daggerfall earlier today..

about 45 seconds into the game, I found a pile of crates



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Posted by pepper on Sat Jun 11th at 12:06pm 2005

Woooo, one hour of playing and still no crate in Il-2 sturmovik : forgotten battles!



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jun 11th at 12:28pm 2005

Look closer; there's bound to be some hiding down there .

And, speaking of crates, me thinks it's that time again:







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