half life 2 a bit of a bore

Offtopic, how long is Ep2 compared to ep 1 and original HL2?
Wana know how much hours of fun it still has :).

After this it's back to bioshock but I can't play that in it's full glory due to my hardware :(.
Theres also far cry wich I still haven't finished as got stuck somewhere and it's just way too hard, and the stupid thing doesn't allow me to save when I want:(, hate redoing a whole mile when I only died on the last part before a checkpoint.

EDIT, hmm I also have got Quake 4 unfinished, but got stuck somewhere and I tried it like a hundred times but can't get past that point.
 
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HL2 - 12-15 hours

Ep1 - 4 hours (I pretty much just rushed through it as 1/2 the game was spent in dark corridors fighting boring zombies)

Ep2 - 6-8 hours (I stood back and admired the graphics more and there were quite a few more puzzles than Ep1)
 
Ice Globe said:
HL2 - 12-15 hours
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Finished it in about 7 hours I think.

Ice Globe said:
Ep1 - 4 hours (I pretty much just rushed through it as 1/2 the game was spent in dark corridors fighting boring zombies)
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Just 3 hours for me it took to complete :(.
The dark corridors were indeed a bit boring as it was taking too long, I mean @ start I liked it but at the end I was like: when will I get back to the surface again :(.

Ice Globe said:
Ep2 - 6-8 hours (I stood back and admired the graphics more and there were quite a few more puzzles than Ep1)
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Hmmm more puzzles, Hope it's not them annoying puzzles, as in the original HL2 I often got angry as couldn't find out where to go ( later on when you're in some kind of big building and have to make your way up, you have to escape to a balcony but I didn't know and was searching for like an hour where the **** to go, had me disappointed a bit :(. ).
 
snowdog said:
The dark corridors were indeed a bit boring as it was taking too long, I mean @ start I liked it but at the end I was like: when will I get back to the surface again :(.
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well thats good news, i hate dark areas in fps fighintng zombies, so many games do it and its suck a boring thing to play. Does anyone actualy like this in fps?
 
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EDIT, hmm I also have got Quake 4 unfinished, but got stuck somewhere and I tried it like a hundred times but can't get past that point.
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Reminds me, I should get around to completing that game, was quite enjoying it but forgot to backup my save before deleting. :o
 
Done it.

And did the portal room first time, that one was really easy.

Everything's really foggy from a distance, never really noticed it before. Is it meant to be like this?
 
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I didn't want to start a new thread so this is slightly off topic, but my HL2 updated itself yesterday, I lost all my save games and noticed it says 64-bit on the menu. This happen to anyone else?:confused?:
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Same here. :mad:
 
Fixed it now, if you right click HL2 in Steam, select "Properties" and then "Launch options".

Add "-32bit" to the box. Now run. Your saves will be back.
 
hey just to say thanks for convincing me to continue playing through the game, i have finally completed half life 2, episode 1 and episode 2 and really enjoyed the whole thing overall, episode 2 was very good, loved being outside on grass, and not having to kill so many zombines ;) and really want to play the next, something i hadn't felt with the other games.

any guesses as to how long until episode 3 is out? am i correct in thinking thats the final in the series?

im now on to portal and then finally the incredibles, i mean tf2. is portal part of the story of half life or completely seperate having its own story?

do we ever get any idea as to what gordon looks like? is it the guy on the front case of the orange box?

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oh and also can someoen give me a very simple explanation of the story of half life 1, there was some references in the game which i assume where to half life 1 but obviously i didn't understnad what they were talking about
 
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I read about all these people playing Ep1 and 2 and think, that's not fair I cant play any source game since I got the Orange Box (including HL2 which I had previously purchased and played through on release), I just get the sound looping crash that a lot of people suffer from.

Have tried all the various work arounds etc to get them running but to no avail, so at present I've spent £30and have nothing I can play :o(

Hoping valve will get it sorted soon tho not holding my breath, in the mean time I'm playing through Tron 2.0 which I picked up at a boot fair for £2

Valve
 
Mammalian said:
do we ever get any idea as to what gordon looks like? is it the guy on the front case of the orange box?

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oh and also can someoen give me a very simple explanation of the story of half life 1, there was some references in the game which i assume where to half life 1 but obviously i didn't understnad what they were talking about
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Yes, he's the guy with a beard and big plastic glasses.

In halflife 1, you're a new science lab employee for a company called Black Mesa. The day you go in there is a 'big experiment' and you're the guy who has to don the hazard suit and go into the test chamber to conduct the hands-on parts of the experiment.

This basically involves pushing a crystal into a big beam and then all hell breaks loose. The result of this experiment as far as i can tell is a tear between earth and the world/dimension where the vortigaunts come from appears in space with a world call Xen in the middle.

You fight your way through some aliens and then the army arrive, who everyone believes were coming to help but are in fact there to clean up any trace of the accident - including the survivors.

The scientists rely on Gordon to get to the 'Lmabda complex' as they will be the only ones who know how to stop the disaster, and on your way you need to launch a rocket (familiar?) in order to aid the science team in dealing with the situation.

After some time the Army start to lose the battle and pull out of black Mesa, leaving the area to be the staging ground of a full scale invasion by the aliens. At this point you arrive at the Lambda complex, there they tell you that the aliens are in fact controlled by one entity, the Nihilanth, and killing that will stop the invasion. However to do this they need to teleport you into the border world, Xen, where the Nihilanth resides as he stages the invasion.

You go into Xen, kill the Nihilanth and at that point you are plucked from time by the Gman, who has been watching you throughout the disaster, who gives you the option of working for him, or dying. In order for HL2 to occur, Gordon clearly chose to work for him.

NOW - the theoretical part. I believe the Nihilanth was in fact a creation of the combine, who used it to enslave the Vortigaunts who are now free, like they attempt to use Breen in order to control humans. The killing of the Nihilanth, their first attempt at invading and controlling earth, prompted them to launch a full scale invasion of their own between the events of HL1 and HL2. The Gman actually put Gordon in stasis until the moment was right and then placed him back on earth in the train, and then HL2 begins.

[EDIT] Not very simple explanation i know, but i got carried away.
 
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Yeah but is it meant to wipe the save games?
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Apparently so, the coding and save games are apparently different/stored in a different place. Using the 32bit version is the only way to get those saves back afaik, although there might be a way to copy them across, I haven't looked into it that far, I just remember looking up the 64bit version when it came out.
 
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Zombies in HL - poor b**tards who've been headcrabbed. Creatures which came from Xen/Combine, they basically latch onto the head, embed feelers and take control of all body functionality.
 
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