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Man that stuff is scary in that one level. Zombies and gravity gun and stuff. It almost made us do this: ahh
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I am so dissapointed in the single player version of this game (yes the game engine and graphics ROCK for good mods..)but the single plaayer was such a dissapointment...u dont get the feel of the story line, ur lacking weapons and...BAH...w/e years wait for absolutely nothing
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Originally posted by gSto:
I am so dissapointed in the single player version of this game (yes the game engine and graphics ROCK for good mods..)but the single plaayer was such a dissapointment...u dont get the feel of the story line, ur lacking weapons and...BAH...w/e years wait for absolutely nothing
Couldn't disagree with you more. The best game I have ever played after Deus Ex. Me, my 9800 pro and klipsch pro ultras and audigy2 zs have been bonded now for many hours playing this wonderful, beautious (sp?) game.  Finally a game that has lived up to all the hype.
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First off, about ATI and HL2. I bought a 9600SE that came with the "free HL2 with your purchase" coupon about a year ago and opted to download the game from steam when available. That said I created a steam account, and preloaded the game. The 16th comes around and I go to enter my cd-key on the card and guess what? It tells me that my key is REGISTERED TO SOMEONE ELSE!!!! So I call ATI and they say they wont send me a new key, and there is no way to prove to Valve that its my key without a retail copy of the game. So after a good day of phone calls I ended up going to best buy and just buying the game retail.
Now, as for the game I am having mixed emotions. The levels on foot are great but the driving levels are entirely too long and predictable. Overall a good experience playing it so far.
System Specs btw. Intel D865PERLL, P4 2.4, 1gb PC3200 DDR, Radeon X800Pro
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Originally posted by spacemonkey:
Originally posted by gSto:
I am so dissapointed in the single player version of this game (yes the game engine and graphics ROCK for good mods..)but the single plaayer was such a dissapointment...u dont get the feel of the story line, ur lacking weapons and...BAH...w/e years wait for absolutely nothing
Couldn't disagree with you more. The best game I have ever played after Deus Ex. Me, my 9800 pro and klipsch pro ultras and audigy2 zs have been bonded now for many hours playing this wonderful, beautious (sp?) game. Finally a game that has lived up to all the hype.
well, im not saying anything about the graphics..they lived up to the hype...but where are the weapons, where are the characters, and could they leave u with a worse ending?? It was very enjoyable at parts... but i was expecting a killer story line...everything that happened was so predictable, pathways were too easy to find, and lots of things were just repetetive.
but that is ofcoure my oppinion 
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So sad, i have heard all the hype for so long, and none of my friends who are more hard core gamers then i am, and live on half-life are satisfied with hl2. I will get it a bit later. I am gonna go buy a different game in a few days. I just can't remember it at this current moment lol.
edit: world of warcrafty however will live up to its hype! And i know first hand, along with 500,000+ other testers. game is awsome.
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Originally posted by EternalOne:
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No they don't. ATI's real weekness is in the quality of thier drivers. The fastest card on paper doens't do you a damn bit of good if the drivers are not stable in games. Which is why I dumped the mid range ATI card I bought a month ago in favor of a GeForce 6800 GT. ATI can suck it.
I don't agree with this at all. (And I have a full 3D QA lab at my house, including every GF and ATI card made.) I am a certified developer for both ATI and Nvidia, and ATI's drivers blow Nvidia out of the water. GF's are known for everything from screen artifacts to loss of textures, simply from driver issues. Not to mention the shader support in the ATI cards actually follows the standards, instead of inventing their own (PS/VS3.0 on the GFFX line). Plus, side by side, the ATI's consistantly outperform the GF cards (fresh machines, loaded via my central Ghost server). I am not talking about "on paper" tests, I am talking full out 3D benchmarking my entire 3D engine against multiple cards, which pinpoint exact bottlenecks in the ASM calls, directly pointing me to hardware faults. I have reported no less than 5 serious bugs with NV drivers over the past 2 years, and I have yet to find a single flaw like this in any of the ATI drivers.
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For my money, I spend it on the company that supports Linux better. That is Nvidia. It so so seemless. I wish ATI would catch up in this, since I'd rather support a Canadian company. Benchmark-wise the best of both firms are alway trading 1st and 2nd in games'n'apps as time goes by.
You mention hardware faults on nvidia cards. I think nvida only makes the gpu (I don't think they make a full card for retail, just reference boards). Reference boards from Nvidia are a little nutty though. You're not actually getting them, are you? I thought only OEM board makers got them.
What kind of dev. do you do? I've been doing Opengl since for about 6 years now (kind of another reason why I've always liked Nvidia).
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Originally posted by Beowulf:
No they don't. ATI's real weekness is in the quality of thier drivers. The fastest card on paper doens't do you a damn bit of good if the drivers are not stable in games. Which is why I dumped the mid range ATI card I bought a month ago in favor of a GeForce 6800 GT. ATI can suck it.
Sounds like a personal problem too me. My heavly overclocked and watercooled Radeon 9800 PRO has performed flawlessly.
Anyway, I still have not picked up Half life 2. I am going to wait on it for awhile.
Now I hate America? That is a new one to me.
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Nvidia does a lot of their driver and other software development with Linux (as well as chip design) so they have to make good drivers for Linux... (at least for themselves if not for the whole Linux community ;^)
Call me old-school, but I have always preferred OpenGL to DirectX/D3D. Maps and models rendered in GL appear more solid to me, while things rendered in D3D seem paper-thin or hollow. And Nvidia was doing OpenGL really well for gamers back when they released the Riva-128 (1024x768x32bit on 1 chip while 3Dfx Voodoo2 was doing 800x600x16bit on 1 chip or 1024x768x16bit on 2 chips) and have gone strong since.
ATI didn't start doing good 3D until the Radeon. I have friends who swear by them (in Windows). I have only installed a couple Radeon cards, 1 for a friend and one at a computer shop on a linux box. The latter being a 9600 on Mandrake 10.0... I forget driver version but it was from this last summer. It performed rather horribly and with many rendering problems. Performance in 1024x768x32(24)bit was dissappointing and it mis-rendered shadows in GL apps. It also did not make use of advanced rendering such as bump mapping. FSAA was not enabled, nor was anisotropic filtering.
The programs used were 'foobillard' and 'celestia'
That was on a P4-2.8 with 1Gig PC-3200.
By comparison
A GF5700-Ultra on an Athlon-XP 2.6 with 512M PC2700 renders those same apps extremely smoothly at 1600x1200x32(24)bit while using FSAA-2xQC and 2x-Anisotropic. Bump mapping works perfectly.
My old Geforce3 card ran Quake3 smooth as glass in 1600x1200x32 with high details on and trillinear filtering (no FSAA though), in Windows it got choppy if I took it higher than 1024x768 (still no FSAA).
... just my $0.02 ... er, more like $0.20
btw... the Radeon I installed for a friend was an older 7x00 series or so. I did not benchmark it or test it out much, just made sure the screensavers worked.
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