half life updates (changes you've seen)

Dark_Angel said:
:eek: Both games are amazing, and the second has some of the best moments in gaming history!
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It does indeed have some good moments but sadly they are sandwiched between 3 hour long boredom segments of brown.

Route kanal and Water hazard really stand out to me as areas that should have been entirely cut.

Then there is the weaponry, HL had a awesome selection of real and sci-fi weaponry which made every encounter immense fun, HL2? cut most of the awesome weapons for a few painfully generic items and the incredibly overused and tiresome mavity gun. The complete lack of fun weaponry is only made worse by the games length which makes you tired of them long before the half way point.


Ep's 1+2 are vastly better paced with far more interesting plot segments. The pacing was fast enough for you not to notice many re-used resources and the lack of new enemies/weapons etc.
 
I like the 'boring bits' as you put it, as part of the story they are excellent. However, route kanal on a replay does indeed get boring.
Last time I oplayed these through was when I got my 5850 with the CM10. Awesome graphics (apart from Alix).
 
Damn valve! I've been waiting for the achievement updates as an excuse to play HL2/Ep1 again and they release when my gf is here during exam period...

/epicfail
 
Does anyone else keep getting this odd stutter when enabling vsync in HL2? I think this used to happen before new update, but never got fixed. If I turn off vsync, the stutter goes away and fps is well above 60 at all times, but then of course you get tearing.

Any ideas?
 
I can't see any mention in Steam news about graphical updates and looking around as I play, I still can't see anything that looks much different.
 
arc@css said:
I can't see any mention in Steam news about graphical updates and looking around as I play, I still can't see anything that looks much different.
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There seems to be some sort of bloom/hdr going on, more shaders being used on surfaces, higher res textures and motion blur, plus I can enable 8xaa now.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
In the opening area there's a newspaper sitting on one of the benches with the alphanumeric code ep3101010 printed on it.

Obvious reference to the imminent release of Episode 3.
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You may have added the :p later on, but the damage is done. I'm seeing this date being quoted for EP3 all over IRC and facebook by people from all over the world! :p
 
Moredhel said:
You may have added the :p later on, but the damage is done. I'm seeing this date being quoted for EP3 all over IRC and facebook by people from all over the world! :p
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It's true! I'll get a screenshot of it on Sunday, at Uni at the moment so only on the laptop :D









Just did a google of it, how brilliant is that! :p
 
dalin80 said:
Route kanal and Water hazard really stand out to me as areas that should have been entirely cut.
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What!? Some of those scenes were sensational. Immense fun, games now are still copying those vehicle sections. Some fo the runs on the hovercraft were epic.
 
I decided to play half-life 2 again a few weeks ago, got to nova prospekt and remembered how dull that section was so I unistalled it.
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nova prospekt was one of the best parts of the game imo; so many inventive ways to get past the choke points
 
While i thought HL2 was pretty decent when it came out i was disappointed with it and the following episodes, the great thing about HL1 for me was that you were in this huge underground science base, HL2 just felt different and lost its magic, it's not a bad game but it's not as fun as HL1, no scientists and their funny comments, no labs or equipment, no silly aliens running around, not as many fun weapons to play with etc. :(
 
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