Whomever gets HL2 post here..

as you guys buy the game post when exactly you got it, i am curious as to how the distribution will unfold..

please try to keep the thread semi-pure :biggrin:

UK doesn't get it for another two days, soz orph.

/me is getting DVD thingy on wedneday, but this is mostly due to the lack of funding we'll have until then :biggrin:

G.Ballblue said:
/me is getting DVD thingy on wedneday, but this is mostly due to the lack of funding we'll have until then :biggrin:

I don't get paid until the last week day of the month, lucky lil....... goes off in rage

I'm gettin' the bitch Tuesday after I take that infernal exam. And it'll sit there unopened until late December :sad:

I suppose I could come back and tell you the exact moment I buy it based on my receipt ...

Crono said:
I suppose I could come back and tell you the exact moment I buy it based on my receipt ...

We still won't believe you bought it then :razz: How do we know you actually bought it? I DEMAND CCTV FOOTAGE!

America doesn't have it either, $loth.

It's all being done via synchronised release/unlocking/activation on
Steam. Even if you buy the CD (some outlets have been selling it) in
the US or UK, you won't be able to play it til Tuesday.

For us, thats 8am Tuesday morning.

Gwil said:
America doesn't have it either, $loth.

It's all being done via synchronised release/unlocking/activation on
Steam. Even if you buy the CD (some outlets have been selling it) in
the US or UK, you won't be able to play it til Tuesday.

For us, thats 8am Tuesday morning.

Yes, I'd like to see all the loosers here sitting outside GameStop waiting for it to open Monday night. Since, I have no doubt they'll have a midnight sale for HL2 buyers.

I actually have to wait until a specific EBX is opened though, since that's where I pre-ordered it and they compete with one another ... even though they're all owned by the same person.

Crono said:
... even though they're all owned by the same person.

Crazy people. Thats like time and tiny competing with each other.

I was shocked too. But if you pre-order something from EBgames you can't get it at the Ebgames right next door, because they compete with pre-order numbers ... like bastards.

Not to mention they skimp on most things, like with Doom3, if you pre-ordered it you were suppose to get a putered Pinky Demon (which looked awesome). However, where I pre-ordered it from only got 15 ... they had 175 pre-orders.

What happen is if you didn't pre-order the game you couldn't buy it (which, I'm sure, is what will happen with HL2). The managers at the EBX were pissed too, since they didn't get one either. (Apparently GameStop and Best Buy offered statues as well, but not Pinky Demons, they each had a unique statue or something)

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[color=#ffffff]-[/color]friend said that he read at somethingawful.com that someone had played HL2 and beat it. He said that the G-man ends up being you! Gordon in the future! That explains why the G-man says at the end of Op4 "I must admit I have a certen fastenation with those who adapt and survive agensed all odds, they rather remind me of my self"

Plz delete that part!!!! Plz, before I get tempted and highlight it!

I expect i'll go into town on tuesday sometime, but I'm thinking it will be sold out. I want to get it from a specific shop because I have some old gift vouchers I need to use up. Need to go in town anyway for brake fluid so not much of a disaster if they dont have copies left.

If you go there tomorrow you may still be able to preorder it, if they
accept preorders that is. If they don't, then your chances go up as
they should have plenty of copies that nobody has laid claim to yet, so
get there early and you should be in luck :smile:

$loth said:
Plz delete that part!!!! Plz, before I get tempted and highlight it!

Oh, and I've had my copy reserved since May 2003. cant wait for pick up...!

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Um, somethingawful.com don't do serious reviews. :smile: I know the ending, and that is NOT it.

Yup dont believe everything the internet tells you. I just got my HL2 gold stuff yesterday, and ill tell you the Strategy Guide is thick, meaning we will have long hours of playing HL2. I read the first page, and I kicked myself, cause I found out a plot thing right away, DO NOT READ THE GUIDE IF YOU CAN HELP IT!!!!!! I know I dont :biggrin: . Ill probably be playing it mon. night/ tue morning as Ive ordred it off of steam, So I guess ill be playing it at 12:01AM tues.

Ohh and as for the rummors that people are playing the game aready is BS. Even if people have the game installed, Steam needs to "turn it on" so not one person(with the exception of the designers) is playing it before 12:00 mon night.

But on a lighter note I saw an alien craft in the sky last night, and Big foot was sighted on saturday, and just now there is a peace conference in the Middle East.

From what I've read...

Valve is located in Washington State and is releasing the key at midnight on Monday. So if your on the east coast (EST) and preordered thru steam (like me) you will be able to play it at 3:00 AM Monday night...err Tuesday morning...

I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. :razz:

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Um, somethingawful.com don't do serious reviews. :smile: I know the ending, and that is NOT it.

I can't wait until every moron in the HL community falls for the TruthMedia review and emails SomethingAwful complaining. halflife2.net will be rife with it you just wait

Dude, IrishGuinea, er, methinks you better undergo an avatar change :razz:



WTF?

Nah, his avatar fascinates me. </stereotypical male>

G.Ballblue said:
Dude, IrishGuinea, er, methinks you better undergo an avatar change :razz:



WTF?

what are you? 14? sheesh

whats wrong with it? man if its gonna get some peeps in a tizzy... jeez

GB is a moron ignore him, theres nothing wrong with it, in fact its better than most others.

I <3 Balls

The fellows over at Something Awful will be proud to know there's still someone on the planet who doesn't know what TruthMedia is about.

omegaslayer said:
GB is a moron ignore him, theres nothing wrong with it, in fact its better than most others.

well i changed it anyway, thanks tho :smile:

Change it baaaack!

I can't wait until every moron in the HL community falls for the
TruthMedia review and emails SomethingAwful complaining. halflife2.net
will be rife with it you just wait

It already happened. There were so many people who beleive that review when it came out. :biggrin:

I can't find it? But I see the GTA:SA review isn't listed on the main TM page, so err... linky please :smile:

I haven't heard about that TruthMedia review, but I have seen another one... very interesting:

http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewthread&t=107,1096781170,4598&id=711911&b=2382&v=flatold

:biggrin:

from the article said:
Contrary to popular belief, multiplayer is nonexistant (both because of the fact that there are no HL2 servers currently, and that the game simply doesn't have the capacity for it).

NO MP in HL2? No , i cannot and shall not believe such a thing!

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ARGUMENT AGAINST THE SPOILER - HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT:

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As for the spolier, the G-Man CAN'T be Gordon because, as you probably recall, the Gman kills Gordon off if he refuses to join, thus creating a temporal paradox. If Past-Gordon dies, then the G-man never existed thus Gordon was never killed etc.

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You didn't understand the 'review'? :biggrin:

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Andrei said:
NO MP in HL2? No , i cannot and shall not believe such a thing!

WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?! Read the news at steampowered, they have said time and time again that the MP for HL2 is counter strike source.

omegaslayer said:

Andrei said:
NO MP in HL2? No , i cannot and shall not believe such a thing!

WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?! Read the news at steampowered, they have said time and time again that the MP for HL2 is counter strike source.

IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER WITHOUT STEAM, in a country where HL2 doesn't exist. The only things that exists here are Q3, DiabloII and Counter-strike. No editing community, no half-life community, not even a proper CS community; and i ain't got enough time to scout the net for (p)reviews! I only feed on the info the mighty gods that own steam throw me. And i jump like a maniac each time i see something shiny.

Nice fit of rage, that.

OMFG A HL2 advert!!! It was pretty crap [ HL2 symbol and a heart beat in the background] but it's the first one i've seen! Anyone else seen one?

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Um, somethingawful.com don't do serious reviews. :smile: I know the ending, and that is NOT it.

Thank God for that! :rolleyes: I once (accidentally) visited an HL2 site
where the public were for some bizarre reason allowed to post
un-moderated news with no filtering system. The top headline was that
very spoiler, although I didn't realise it wasn't true. Suffice to say
I was in a VERY bad mood after that...

Heh, yesterday I actually heard an advertisement on the radio, telling me HL2 was only two days away from it's release...

Nice to hear those things on the radio... sounds like good music in the ears to me... :razz:

That's great! I'm considering buying the Bronze Package online in advance :biggrin: , but, hell, 49 bucks (http://www.steampowered.com/)? :smile: IMAO, it's HL2! Worth every dollar!

$loth said:
OMFG A HL2 advert!!! It was pretty crap [ HL2 symbol and a heart beat in the background] but it's the first one i've seen! Anyone else seen one?

Yeah I've seen the same one... they could've done so much better :razz: At least show the manipulator! I love seeing that thing in action ^^

<Dances>

No need to get angry, Hey only 5hrs and 20 minutes left till HL2 is "turned on"!!!!!

Bought the gold package.

Originally pre-payed for the Collector's but there was no guarantee of the Back Catalogue and DoD:S, and since it cost almost the same and gold had more goodies I found someone with a credit card who would front for me. I'm happier giving more of my money to Valve than to Vivendi.

sorry didnt see this post before i started a new topic.

i got it today at 9 cant wait to get it home from work

I don't know whether it'll have arrived or not :sad: Lep ordered it at the weekend I think but whether its been posted yet...or had an attempted delivery and been taken to the Post Office, I don't know.

Worst day at work ever though...it's like trying to get to sleep on Christmas Eve when I was little (no trouble these days though!).

Heh aww poor Adam, don't worry, it's coming :smile:

Heh...tis just so frustrating being stuck at work knowing that all you buggers are sat comfortably at home playing HL2 :wink:

I just paid for mine there over steam. Updating my gfx card drivers.
I'm really hoping everything goes smoothly, but I never have any luck
with these things. :smile:

Damn! How long does it take to install?! I installed off the DVD and now it's 'updating' and only at 75%! Guess i'll just have to shuffle off and cook me dinner while I wait :smile:

It hasn't actually installed yet. I'm only installing Cs source for
some multiplayer fun for the moment and that's nearly a gig. Won't be
able to play until tomorrow, and that's providing the steam servers
aren't full... which they almost certainly are. I won't cry about it
though, as I hadn't intended on getting it for a while.

edit: The steam undating is slow enough, but the progress bar takes leaps up. It isn't unbearable.