I've played for a beautiful... 0 hours. Stupid radioshack. I spend maybe two hours walking there. So I come in, ask, "do you have Half Life 2?" The guy's like "What's that? Let me check my computer. Oh, yada-yada, it's new, we don't have it. Try some other stores around the area." Next store I found was zellers. Their Silver editition of HL2 (which was the only one I found) costs nearly as much as the Gold on steam. $90 with tax and everything?! Rip-off. I didn't bring that much money. So now, I'm waiting until I can find a decent store to purchase HL2 from. And I'm mad as hell.
Yea, Ravenholm was awesome. The whole game was friggin' awesome. Unfortunately, a bit on the short side, a common problem in the newest FPS games (except Far Cry - that thing was like the Energizer Bunny!)...
Great game, the ending **** me off in a good way, not like the Halo 2 ending, which **** me off in a very, very bad way.
Its the dune buggy level, ill put it in a spoiler form.
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'> I'm up to that part where you first get to use the crane, but I cant get my buggy up onto the dock. Do I have to create a jump using the boxes and the crane - or is there another way, because I spent an hour trying to build a jump and go nowhere... Any tips or help would be appreciated. Thanks.
You use the bloody crane to move the buggy - hell they used a crane at the start of the level to get you down. STUPID! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span>
I shall leave this here so people can marvel at my newbishness.
Up to the end of Chapter 4, wherein the game gives me memory errors and a wonderful hot n sexy crash! Woowoo! This best get resolved by tomorrow...I have it off and I'm planning on beating this by tomorrow night!
I still haven't gotten to the labs yet. I <i>do</i> know something however. I want to marry this woman: <img src='http://xs3.xs.to/pics/04473/d1_trainstation_040007.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Because she kicks this much combine @$$: <img src='http://xs3.xs.to/pics/04473/d1_trainstation_040008.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
[EDIT] Forgot to add that Barney is also a god amongst men: <img src='http://xs3.xs.to/pics/04473/d1_trainstation_060029.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> [Caption]<i>Here - you dropped this at Black Mesa!</i>[/caption]
Wow, I have the same, pics =P <a href='http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040039.jpg' target='_blank'>http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040039.jpg</a> <a href='http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040040.jpg' target='_blank'>http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040040.jpg</a>
Theres a lot of pics in the folder (well over 200) but be warned it has major spoilers
Well, it can certainly be finished in under 24 hours, maybe even under 16, unless of course you crap your pants every half-hour due to the jaw-droppingly good work Valve did with this game... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Got it at 12:10 AM Tuesday, Nov 16, played to 7:00 AM (at which point i had to rush to bed and close my eyes, as someone's alarm clock went off and didn't want to get chewed out. <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) I then woke up at about 12:10 PM, hopped on the comp and started playing again until about... 7-8 PM. So, i've played 14 hours worth, and i just finished it a hour ago so that's probably a good half-day of play... because i spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out multiple areas as well as multiple lives. Damn doorways, being near their corners and such... I thought there was a dead end, but the doorway was in the shadows to the left, and because im not a gamma haxxor i didn't see it the first...
Played for about 8.5 hours yestarday then had to stop before my eyes started bleeding.
There were only 4 people in my Uni Lecture yestarday(out of 60) and the lecturer was going mental <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Well I am doing a computing degree.
PS: The health/ammo bars in the crosshair rock <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Jesus am I the only one who thinks the entire area of ravensholm is a b**ch? Those bastages are tearing me apart at every turn, and ammo/things to shoot with the grav gun are all to scarce. >.<
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->PS: The health/ammo bars in the crosshair rock biggrin-fix.gif <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes indeed they do. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Ravensholm was better than any resident evil game. (As far as scare factor, atmosphere and ammo scarceness go, anyway..I freaked when I first saw those speedy zombos)
Im a couple of maps into chapter 10 now. I still dont know what te combine are, or what exactly has happened to the earth since HL1. Did i miss something or is this gonna be explained later?
<!--QuoteBegin-UKchaos+Nov 18 2004, 12:56 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (UKchaos @ Nov 18 2004, 12:56 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Im a couple of maps into chapter 10 now. I still dont know what te combine are, or what exactly has happened to the earth since HL1. Did i miss something or is this gonna be explained later? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I have no idea either, but there was something I picked up that maybe you didnt
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'> In the black scientists lab, there were newspaper clippings on the wall talking about "Earth Surrenders" after a week long battle with the Combine. I still dont get it though - who are the combine, and why are the lightning aliens now friendly and talkative?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span>
ThansalThe New ScumJoin Date: 2002-08-22Member: 1215Members, Constellation
I can give you a few more spoilers:
<!--QuoteBegin-spoiler+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (spoiler)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>The combine are from Xen. If you remember the anoying dr lady tlaking about teleportation, the combine can teleport in from xen, however they don't have site to site teleportation. My thery is that most of the BM incedent was actualy an accident. The reason why you team up with the GMan at the end is that he honestly was a good guy, and so are the vorligons. However, vorligons are not the only things that could come from xen, headcrabs, antlions, and ofcourse the combine. So probably the resistance on both worlds (humans and vorligons) are now fighting the combine.
there yah go, my speculations.
Oh, and I just got my bug bait, so I don't know more then you.</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
MAJOR SPOILER. Do not read unless you have beaten the game or you really want to.
<!--QuoteBegin-Spoiler+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spoiler)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>No, the Combine are not from Xen. Xen is another dimension, they specifically say the Combine are from another universe, referred to only as "their universe." In the end they say something about giant, planet covering meteorological fungi... sounds like the Kharaa to me. Dr. Breen was apparently trying to "sell" Earth to the Combine. All this is very fuzzy because the only revelations you get are from Breen's communication with the Combine leader, which ends with "He's right behind me, ****!" Apparently he was going to have to become a "host body" for the fungi, but he accepts because Gordon is right behind him with a souped-up gravity gun. So, the Combine soldiers are actually mind controlled folks. This explains how they won so quickly - they must've just released a bunch of spores or something and possessed the militaries.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span>
This is one of the few times I actually regretted looking at the clearly marked spoiler.
Damn you all to hell. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I've got to the part with the steam login. The password's proving a hard boss, especially since in order to kill it I had to submit a request on the steam support system which hasn't got a reply for 48 hours now. I thought I'd use the secret answer weapon but I can't find any ammo for it...
On the bright side I'm impressed with the graphics... it's so convincing! It looks just like my desktop with a steam account login taunting me ontop =o
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Bugbait 4 teh win!
Stupid radioshack. I spend maybe two hours walking there. So I come in, ask, "do you have Half Life 2?" The guy's like "What's that? Let me check my computer. Oh, yada-yada, it's new, we don't have it. Try some other stores around the area."
Next store I found was zellers. Their Silver editition of HL2 (which was the only one I found) costs nearly as much as the Gold on steam. $90 with tax and everything?!
Rip-off. I didn't bring that much money.
So now, I'm waiting until I can find a decent store to purchase HL2 from. And I'm mad as hell.
It's like the gate of heaven opening...
Great game, the ending **** me off in a good way, not like the Halo 2 ending, which **** me off in a very, very bad way.
Its the dune buggy level, ill put it in a spoiler form.
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'> I'm up to that part where you first get to use the crane, but I cant get my buggy up onto the dock. Do I have to create a jump using the boxes and the crane - or is there another way, because I spent an hour trying to build a jump and go nowhere... Any tips or help would be appreciated. Thanks.
You use the bloody crane to move the buggy - hell they used a crane at the start of the level to get you down. STUPID! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span>
I shall leave this here so people can marvel at my newbishness.
I shouldn't be playing this game, 2 midterm, one debate, and a assignment.
Damn you Valve, you're gonna cost me a semester.
<img src='http://xs3.xs.to/pics/04473/d1_trainstation_040007.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Because she kicks this much combine @$$:
<img src='http://xs3.xs.to/pics/04473/d1_trainstation_040008.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
[EDIT] Forgot to add that Barney is also a god amongst men:
<img src='http://xs3.xs.to/pics/04473/d1_trainstation_060029.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
[Caption]<i>Here - you dropped this at Black Mesa!</i>[/caption]
<!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040039.jpg' target='_blank'>http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040039.jpg</a>
<a href='http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040040.jpg' target='_blank'>http://hibame.nsarmslab.com/hl2/d1_trainstation_040040.jpg</a>
Theres a lot of pics in the folder (well over 200) but be warned it has major spoilers
All hail the F5 brothers! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Got it at 12:10 AM Tuesday, Nov 16, played to 7:00 AM (at which point i had to rush to bed and close my eyes, as someone's alarm clock went off and didn't want to get chewed out. <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) I then woke up at about 12:10 PM, hopped on the comp and started playing again until about... 7-8 PM.
So, i've played 14 hours worth, and i just finished it a hour ago so that's probably a good half-day of play... because i spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out multiple areas as well as multiple lives. Damn doorways, being near their corners and such... I thought there was a dead end, but the doorway was in the shadows to the left, and because im not a gamma haxxor i didn't see it the first...
6 times. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Played for about 8.5 hours yestarday then had to stop before my eyes started bleeding.
There were only 4 people in my Uni Lecture yestarday(out of 60) and the lecturer was going mental <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Well I am doing a computing degree.
PS: The health/ammo bars in the crosshair rock <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->PS: The health/ammo bars in the crosshair rock biggrin-fix.gif
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes indeed they do. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'm up to Chapter 8. So. Much. Pwn.
I have no idea either, but there was something I picked up that maybe you didnt
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'> In the black scientists lab, there were newspaper clippings on the wall talking about "Earth Surrenders" after a week long battle with the Combine. I still dont get it though - who are the combine, and why are the lightning aliens now friendly and talkative?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span>
<!--QuoteBegin-spoiler+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (spoiler)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>The combine are from Xen. If you remember the anoying dr lady tlaking about teleportation, the combine can teleport in from xen, however they don't have site to site teleportation.
My thery is that most of the BM incedent was actualy an accident. The reason why you team up with the GMan at the end is that he honestly was a good guy, and so are the vorligons. However, vorligons are not the only things that could come from xen, headcrabs, antlions, and ofcourse the combine. So probably the resistance on both worlds (humans and vorligons) are now fighting the combine.
there yah go, my speculations.
Oh, and I just got my bug bait, so I don't know more then you.</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Spoiler+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spoiler)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>No, the Combine are not from Xen. Xen is another dimension, they specifically say the Combine are from another universe, referred to only as "their universe." In the end they say something about giant, planet covering meteorological fungi... sounds like the Kharaa to me. Dr. Breen was apparently trying to "sell" Earth to the Combine. All this is very fuzzy because the only revelations you get are from Breen's communication with the Combine leader, which ends with "He's right behind me, ****!" Apparently he was going to have to become a "host body" for the fungi, but he accepts because Gordon is right behind him with a souped-up gravity gun. So, the Combine soldiers are actually mind controlled folks. This explains how they won so quickly - they must've just released a bunch of spores or something and possessed the militaries.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span>
use these tags:(QUOTE=spoiler)(color=#031D1F)(/color)(/quote)
just b/c you put it at the end, dosn't keep us from accidentily reading it.
The alien slaves are your allies because you killed their master, the final boss of HL1.
Damn you all to hell.
<!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I thought I'd use the secret answer weapon but I can't find any ammo for it...
On the bright side I'm impressed with the graphics... it's so convincing! It looks just like my desktop with a steam account login taunting me ontop =o