OT-Half-Life 2 is a great� - Page 2

kenster9119 · #11 November 22nd, 2004, 06:17 AM

whole game completed in about 10 hours of play,no where near as good as the first and u cant even get a refund cos none of the shops will take it back.for �35 it wasnt worth the money.

Atrocities · #12 November 22nd, 2004, 06:40 AM

Thanks Kenster -- Will wait then for price to come down.

Mephisto · #13 November 22nd, 2004, 07:52 AM

You don't need a Online connection every time you play the game but you need one to set up a steam account, validate the product and download a patch of about 500 MB in order to play it. User without broadband: Have fun!

I won't buy the game. When I buy a game I want it to work out of the box, not do register and download 500 MB. I won't support such sales behavior.

Renegade 13 · #14 November 22nd, 2004, 12:32 PM

500 MB!?!? That'd only take about... 50 hours of consecutive downloading on a dialup connection. That's hoping it doesn't screw up somehow during that time

Alneyan · #15 November 22nd, 2004, 01:16 PM

It is your lucky day Renegade, so it will take a mere 48 hours for you! Just two days, non-stop, while battling Murphy. For this endeavour, you will be rewarded with a game only Lasting for a quarter of the amount of time you put in the download. Isn't that nice?

I guess the download requires you to use the game rather than a download managed as well, so no resuming or things of the like. But even if you can resume, 500 mo to download is quite ludicrous; it would be hardly acceptable even for a MMORPG.

Suicide Junkie · #16 November 22nd, 2004, 01:24 PM

There was the whole pre-loading option, where the game downloaded itself over the Last few months.
If you bought it Online and did that, then now it just verifies your codes and decrypts the whole thing. (Very little internet activity, horrendous amounts of disk activity for an hour or two)

If you bought it B&M, you should have the CD(s) and not need to download very much (theoretically).

Emperor Fritsch the Dense · #17 November 22nd, 2004, 03:14 PM

i enjoyed HL2. CS Source kinda sucks because the community is so damn elitest. for example i asked how to get a function in game to work (simple question) and the response was get lost newb! so needless to say i went to a different server. its a far cry from this game where i ask a question and i get well thought out responses. i guess age shows when it comes to games instead of trying to help others they flame.
Emperor Fritsch the Newb

Instar · #18 November 23rd, 2004, 02:34 AM

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Atrocities said:
I have heard first hand that the graphics are simply the best ever next to Farcry.

To be honest, Farcry is my pick for game of the year. I have not yet bough HL2 because it is so over priced. And I hear it takes a long time to validate your code to play. And that if you do not have an ISP you cannot play.

And no multiplayer. I smell a Sid Games sneak attack here. Lets release the SP game for $60.00 and then six months later release the MP game for another $60.00. WTF .... People are so stupid that they will accept this practice with open pocket books. We are all sheep in that companies lead us around by our noses.

Farcry is indeed good, but Doom3! DOOM! DOOM! Sorry, was rabid for a bit.

narf poit chez BOOM · #19 November 23rd, 2004, 03:02 AM

Ah! It's your fault then!

So it's not worth getting it for the story...How about the mod capabilities?

Mephisto · #20 November 23rd, 2004, 08:06 AM

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Suicide Junkie said:
If you bought it B&M, you should have the CD(s) and not need to download very much (theoretically).

Unfortunately you have to. The 500 MB is needed for the CD-game! I couldn't believe it myself but a friend bought the game and asked the hotline about the Internet thing. The 500 MB info is from the hotline.