Official HL2 website open

http://www.half-life2.com/

There's a trailor as well, only about 2 seconds of new footage in it though.

wow, great site design. I didnt think they were going to make an official site. more rely on fan sites? perhaps they were referring only to news.

heh yeah almost makes valve look good ^_^

crap now where's my HL2 voucher ... lol

It's a sweet site, and I'm anxious to see the new stuff that comes out at E3. I already watched that small trailer like 8 times for no apparent reason.

I'd be surprised if Valve wanted to rely on fansites at this point, especially given the unusual retardedness of Fragmaster at PHL and the community in general over HL2. Once the game's released they'll probably hand off the news reporting to fansites though.

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There is also a new doom 3 trailor featuring footage from the xbox version. I have to say, if this is the xbox version, then the Pc version running on hardware 3 generations ahead is going to be... :eek:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/140491.shtml

Yes, it's fileplanet, but the wait was zero when I got it. 70 megs.

I wasn't much impressed by the doom 3 trailer to be honest, it wasn't as nice looking as the originally shown one. The main problem I thought was when some monsters were killed, they just seemed to blow up into gibs in a very unrealistic and old looking way, as if there have been no developments in this area since HL came out.

The doom3 trailer looked cool, but am I the only one who thought those models looked strangely grainy? I really don't like some of those enemy designs, but everything else though really feels like Doom and looks really spooky.

As for the explosive gibbing, I'd think that's an homage to Doom 1/2 with the over-the-top violence.

Doom wouldn't be Doom without the comedy slant of wiping out raging hordes of mutants with ridiculously overpowered weapons :smile:

That's the charm, it's good mindless shooting..

I agree about the gameplay being like that but its just the way the enemies just seemed to turn into blood and gibs, rather than realistically react to damage. Obviously I'm not talking huge realism - these are wierd monsters afterall - I just mean if you shoot them in the leg, then the leg blows off type thing. It looks like its just "if they get damaged a lot, they blow up into blood!".

2dmin said:
crap now where's my HL2 voucher ... lol

Hehe- the biggest con of them all for anyone not in the US! You have to send the voucher off (which half the codes on them don't work anyway!) then you have to pay for shipping and customs, then get this- 6-8 weeks delivery from release date...

I'M NOT WAITING 6-8 WEEKS TO PLAY IT! I'VE ALREADY WAITED AND EXTRA YEAR!

Oh and that site looks quite similar to the CS CZ one... prolly made by the same people.

Any other trailers from E3 you've seen that look particularly good?

One I was impressed by was DOA: Ultimate. Despite being a remake of DOA1 and 2, they seem to have improved it to looking even better than the third. The level of interactivity in the levels is incredible for a beat em up. Oh and its online via xbox live, which will be fun. It wasn't a game I was going to bother buying since I already have the second game, but it seems to bare next to not resemblance to it anymore - it even has the extra characters present in the third game, more costumes, and new levels - seems like the whole collection and then some rolled into one...with online play :smile:

http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_deadoralive_ul_e3_2k4.html

Myrk- said:

2dmin said:
crap now where's my HL2 voucher ... lol

Hehe- the biggest con of them all for anyone not in the US! You have to send the voucher off (which half the codes on them don't work anyway!) then you have to pay for shipping and customs, then get this- 6-8 weeks delivery from release date...

I'M NOT WAITING 6-8 WEEKS TO PLAY IT! I'VE ALREADY WAITED AND EXTRA YEAR!

Geez, move to the US then if you're going to complain. :razz:

downloads in 2 min 40 seconds and watches :razz:

Oh my this is going to be fun, especially with the Minigun making a return :biggrin:

ReNo said:
I agree about the gameplay being like that but its just the way the enemies just seemed to turn into blood and gibs, rather than realistically react to damage. Obviously I'm not talking huge realism - these are wierd monsters afterall - I just mean if you shoot them in the leg, then the leg blows off type thing. It looks like its just "if they get damaged a lot, they blow up into blood!".

"Ultra violence" beats realistic violence for the atmosphere of Doom still IMO, and remember the last game which had good "gibbing" locations on different body parts? SoF.... what a load of cack that was :razz:

But yes, it shouldnt be pure gibbing, perhaps just use a few large hit areas, or at least add the ability to say take a foes head off with certain weapons..

I'm commenting without seeing trailers though, so I may be wrong :smile:

Doom has ragdool physics too, it was implemented somewhat in the early alpha that people have- there's a zombie coming down some stairs that you can shoot in the leg which makes him fall down them (otherwise he just gets pissed off and keeps coming for you). You could also damage their arms/legs and slow them down. Haven't seen any of this behaviour in HL2 yet, though..!

cough In the E3 movie there's a sequence where Gordon is fighting headcrabs and shoots a barrel, blowing the legs off of a headcrabbed scientist. It crawls after him...

it's only a flesh wound you bastard, come back and i'll bite your legs off.

Yak_Fighter said:
cough In the E3 movie there's a sequence where Gordon is fighting headcrabs and shoots a barrel, blowing the legs off of a headcrabbed scientist. It crawls after him...

M8 it's not anything near the complexity you imagine. The model is like SOF2- it has a top half that when blown off goes into crawling... it's very simple and could easily be done with HL1 engine. Doom 3 makes zombies limp and stuff, very cool.

SoF was quite fun imo. blowing heads off reminds me of RE, Wish I never lost my 3rd one :sad: I only have 1/2 now. I tried looking for the RE series on PC but I never found them.

I played the re-made version of the 1st on the GC a few days ago. It was really good.

The gamecube ones are pretty rocking, and extremely cheap too - I picked them up for ?10 each! Its wierd though, I found the remake of the first game really easy - I finished up with so many herbs and bullets it took me ages to rummage around for things in the item boxes. On the other hand I'm extremely stuck in Res Evil 0, with bugger all health and ammo to get me by. Should really get around to completing that sometime...

Resident Evil.. mm, brings back memories of PSX and RE, RE: Directors Cut and Resident Evil 2... after that it just kinda went sour, IMO. I would also nominate them for "easiest series ever" :razz:

You think it went bad after the first 2?!

RE3 was, perhaps, a bit disappointing for being simply more of the same, but it had a great minigame (the mercenaries) which hugely bumped up the lifespan of the game for me and my mates at any rate. Ah the drunken screams of terror as davey nem suprised us once again...

RE:CV finally put the series into proper 3D scenery and it looked fantastic. It was also the longest RE game to boot, without resorting to using hugely repetitive backtracking to get that way (well, maybe a bit :smile: ). Hugely challenging minigame once you completed it to - completing that with wesker is a difficult task!

RE on the gamecube - wonderful remake of the original game, its barely recognisable and they have added in so much and mixed things about that having played the original game brings you no real benefits.

RE: Zero is graphically impressive, its amazing they have improved on the first gamecube outing while still using pre-rendered scenes. Having two people you can switch between is little more than a gimmick, but it can save some degree of backtracking if you use it well. Its also really tricky - not in terms of puzzles but for the lack of health and ammo they give you. It kinda brings it back to feeling like you need to conserve things, like in the original game, which the latter games have always missed.

And there is my brief review of the later games in the RE saga :smile:

Note, I shoulda said - the remake on GC is fine.. I just felt the actual stories/characters were a little lax, even in number 2 - but nothing compared to my original experience with RE on PSX, so it was a tough cookie to crack :smile: Good games, just not for me :razz: And, too easy

(finished RE2 on PSX with Claire and Leon in about half a day of getting it...)

Meh, everyone seems to think games are getting shorter these days, but its simply not the case. Streets of Rage, Sonic, Mario, etc... can all be completed in an hour or so. People seem to complain when a game like Project Zero or Resident Evil can be completed in 6 hours or something, but its really no worse than its ever been.

i s**t my pants the first time the licker came through the one way mirror in RE2. and when the crows came crashing through the windows too. i ran in circles in a blind panic wasting all my ammo, as the crows pecked me to death.

nothing in hl came anywhere close to giving me a fright like that.

Silent Hill is better... :razz: Good god, I want Silent Hill 4 NOW!

Myrk- said:

Yak_Fighter said:
cough In the E3 movie there's a sequence where Gordon is fighting headcrabs and shoots a barrel, blowing the legs off of a headcrabbed scientist. It crawls after him...

M8 it's not anything near the complexity you imagine. The model is like SOF2- it has a top half that when blown off goes into crawling... it's very simple and could easily be done with HL1 engine. Doom 3 makes zombies limp and stuff, very cool.

I agree that HL2 probably won't have the same amount of detail in this area, but sheesh, limping? The HL grunts limp if you shoot them in the legs for crying out loud. But it does sound cool if you can remove the arms and such from all the Doom 3 badguys, not just the zombies.

HL grunts limp anyway when they're hurt...

Silent Hill, Res Evil...pfft! Project Zero, thats where its at for frights :smile:

Let's see... <starts fanatical ranting>
The nuke of HL2 is upon us! repent! REPENT!!! Map for HL1 while you can, mortals! When HL2 comes, no one will care anymore!11!!1 The bomb hits this summer!!! REPENT!! REPENT!!!!11!
//faints and
<ends fanatical ranting>
I will remember the good ol' days of HL1 editing while having fun with HL2... maybe I'll port all of my old stuff over to HL2. Hell, I'm sure most of you guys want to do that... And I've downladed ALL of HL2 content I could find. (still looking at ALyx naked just kidding).

LAzerMANiac said:
(still looking at ALyx naked just kidding).

You aren't joking, are you?

BTW, I'm stoked. It's been far too long since I got a computer game I really enjoyed, and now this summer I should get HL2 and D3. Yay!

always the same screenshots -_-

Can't wait........guess D3 will have to do for now......... and as for the voucher thing there is one way you can get by that 6-8 weeks thing, download steam and then the day HL2 is released, you can download that off the steam network, although it will take forever because about a million people will be the same thing, thus taking all bandwith that steam has to offer, thats why I reserved it at game stop :biggrin: .

In the trailor I posted, I think only one enemy gets gibbed, but if you notice, the guys flesh gets blown away, leaving a skeleton that drops to the ground! There has been a lot of 'won't be as good as HL2' when talking about doom3... well actually no I won't argue with that, it's always nice to be supprised by how good something is :smile:

Hehe, I didn't notice that, but the video I saw was pretty low res, so it was a bit tricky to make it all out clearly. I was sure I saw a few enemies get completely gibbed...but meh who cares - I'll be buying them both!

Gwil said:
"Ultra violence" beats realistic violence

Ready for a bit of the ole' ultra-violence?

I prefer "Hyper-violence" - I heard that used to describe a film once and found it a strangely humourous term :smile:

Ultra-violence comes from one specific film... (well, and the book from which it was adapted)

Clockwork Orange wasn't it? I seem to recall that term being associated with that film anyway...

I prefer "Hyper-violence" - I heard that used to describe a film once and found it a strangely humourous term :smile:

Kill BIll comes to mind... :smile:

well, let's talk in UT terms here...

Violence

Double violence

Multi-violence

Ultra-violence

M-M-M-Monster Violence

Mega-violence

Ludcrous!

HOLY s**t!!!!11!!

:razz: :razz: :razz:

Cash Car Star said:

Gwil said:
"Ultra violence" beats realistic violence

Ready for a bit of the ole' ultra-violence?

If that were true the only kinds of HL maps that would exist would be Killboxes and Killbox mods.