Get your Half Life 2 Strategy Guide NOW!!!

OMG ID RELEASED the source code on purpose cause PRIMA paid them OMG the game was done last year OMG.
 
Originally posted by Luke_Skywalker
OMG ID RELEASED the source code on purpose cause PRIMA paid them OMG the game was done last year OMG.
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Wow that is just pathetic. Trying to earn money on a game that won´t be released in several months.

And Half Life 2 you won´t need a strategy guide to play. It´s hardly Broken Sword 3 :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Godlovesaterrier
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Yes YEs Prima did it so they could sell alot of guides and VALVE did this on purpose. So they had an excuse to delay it cause no one will buy it if it whouldn't have had a reason to be delayed besiedes the source code getting stolein
 
That guide (HL2) has actually been posted on Amazon since last September when the game was supposed to come out. I believe the initial 'availability' of it was September 15th or something.

They've also had the guide for CS:CZ there for a while, and its actually in stock at your local EB. I looked at it last week, but most of it wasnt strategic, it was just about weapons, maps, etc.
 
I dunno, halflife when it was release was a step BACK in terms of graphics from quake2. Nobody played it's gay ass origianal MP. Only after Q2 wore out it's nobility, people started on HL. Oh wait, i meant CS coz HL sucked.
 
Originally posted by Gibzilla
I dunno, halflife when it was release was a step BACK in terms of graphics from quake2. Nobody played it's gay ass origianal MP. Only after Q2 wore out it's nobility, people started on HL. Oh wait, i meant CS coz HL sucked.
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You are on drugs. I think HL was actually based on the Quake engine and HL completely swept the floor with it. First to bring 16-bit colours to the scene made all the difference from Quakes 8 different colours of brown
 
Originally posted by oqvist
You are on drugs. I think HL was actually based on the Quake engine and HL completely swept the floor with it. First to bring 16-bit colours to the scene made all the difference from Quakes 8 different colours of brown
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Yeah, Half-Life licensed the core of the Quake2 engine, but Valve reworked it so much that it might've well be called a custom engine.

Also, about Quake 2 being predominantly brown, that was a design decision made by Id. I've seen quite a few maps for Quake 2 ('Where Eagles Dare' comes to mind) that are QUITE vibrant and full of color. We're talking full flavor golds and greens and blues and a whole spectrum of color away from the drab.
 
drugs are bad. HL's graphics absolutely demolished quake 2's. However, it's multiplayer did kind of suck, but then again I was on 33.6k and that hurt.
 
Well, why buy when you get better strategy guides from your fellow gamers for free.

It's no secret that the Brady and Prima guides are written during the last development stages of a game. Sure, they look pretty with their glossy pictures and maps, but the "strategy" they contain is pretty weak.
 
I dunno, halflife when it was release was a step BACK in terms of graphics from quake2. Nobody played it's gay ass origianal MP. Only after Q2 wore out it's nobility, people started on HL. Oh wait, i meant CS coz HL sucked.
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Thats not true at all.As soon as HL came out it was #1 for years and years because alot of people played it and loved it.Even after cs was out for a few years there was just as many peeps playing HL.
 
Originally posted by sharkdiver420
Thats not true at all.As soon as HL came out it was #1 for years and years because alot of people played it and loved it.Even after cs was out for a few years there was just as many peeps playing HL.
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I agree. Half Life MP was a hell of alot more fun then Quake 2. And i dont know what version of Quake 2 you guys been playing but the graphics on the one i've got isn't nearly as good as Half Life. I enjoyed DoD and FLF even more then CS.

Who is retarded enough to buy a strategy guide for Half Life 2 or Half Life ither one anyways lol.

Maybe for something like Morrowind thats so freaking huge you can't possibly find everything. But Half Life 2 you'll just go shooting through the levels till the end.
 
Originally posted by svet-am
Yeah, Half-Life licensed the core of the Quake2 engine, but Valve reworked it so much that it might've well be called a custom engine.

Also, about Quake 2 being predominantly brown, that was a design decision made by Id. I've seen quite a few maps for Quake 2 ('Where Eagles Dare' comes to mind) that are QUITE vibrant and full of color. We're talking full flavor golds and greens and blues and a whole spectrum of color away from the drab.
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~Cough~ Half-life was based on the Quake 1 engine, not Quake 2. Hard to believe I know, I was in disbelief myself for awhile but I read an entire big ass article on Valve and the making of HL and it stated multiple times it used the Quake 1 engine. Also, the main guy at Valve looks like a 12 yearold fat kid :p

Also, Half-Life was uber popular online when it first came out. Granted, the multiplayer mods were better than HL deathmatch, like TFC. I remember spending countless hours playing TFC. Back in the day I spent most of my time playing Half-Life and Quake 2 online, the other half was spent sleeping and going to school.
 
Well if thats true, I accidently read the review at the bottom and WTF? THat little punk gives away the ending (assuming its true and VALVe doesn't change it). I wanna fucking kill him now. OMG.
 
Originally posted by heyheyhey
Well if thats true, I accidently read the review at the bottom and WTF? THat little punk gives away the ending (assuming its true and VALVe doesn't change it). I wanna fucking kill him now. OMG.
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That guy is a total moron. First because he spent $17.50 on a strategy guide for a FPS and second cause he posted the ending of Half Life 2 if what he said is actually true.

Saves me the trouble of actually having to buy and play the game to find out the story. Thanks for saving me a couple of bucks and a few months!
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If strategy guides were only like $5 i can see people buying them but since they cost as much as most games theres no way im forking that over for somethin i can get more information about online. He probably did need a strategy guide though if he's expecting it to take him a few months to make it through HL2 lol.
 
Well there's one thing reading a story and quite another experiencing it. I could write up a detailed post about the plotlines for various games like Ultima IV, Final Fantasy VII or even Doom and you wouldn't get it.

Let's focus in on Doom for a second. The story is razor thin. On base. Gateway to Hell. Blowup bad guys. The end. If you don't play the game, you missing out on the tension you feel when being swarmed by hordes of imps, the rush you feel when something jumps out at you in the dark or the thrill when you finally beat that last level. You've invested more of yourself than just time. You got your heartrate up, you reacted emotionally and you "walked a mile" in that character's shoes.

What about a game which has a larger, more intricate plot? There's also games where you build up a character. Now you have a greater attachment since you "raised" that person into the resulting powerhouse at the end of the game.

Strategy guides are good helps for when you're stuck or have finished the game and want to go back and find all the details. But for the sole purpose of getting the storyline? If you're a historian or a researcher I understand but you're just robbing yourself of a better experience by playing the game all the way through.
 
Originally posted by burningrave101
That guy is a total moron. First because he spent $17.50 on a strategy guide for a FPS and second cause he posted the ending of Half Life 2 if what he said is actually true.



If strategy guides were only like $5 i can see people buying them but since they cost as much as most games theres no way im forking that over for somethin i can get more information about online. He probably did need a strategy guide though if he's expecting it to take him a few months to make it through HL2 lol.
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But I think the question would be who buys a FPS strategy guide?? Okay if it´s operation Flashpoint but for gods sake HL 2??? How hard was Half Life to master?

I own 2 strategy guides. FS 2004 and Rise of Nations. Both from Sybex and both very useful. But I will never in my life get a straight forward fps strategy guide like the one for Half Life 2.
 
Originally posted by svet-am
Yeah, Half-Life licensed the core of the Quake2 engine, but Valve reworked it so much that it might've well be called a custom engine.

Also, about Quake 2 being predominantly brown, that was a design decision made by Id. I've seen quite a few maps for Quake 2 ('Where Eagles Dare' comes to mind) that are QUITE vibrant and full of color. We're talking full flavor golds and greens and blues and a whole spectrum of color away from the drab.
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Um..halflife doesn't run on the quake 2 engine, its runs on the quake 1 cause quake 2 is quake one, just that the engine was changed so you could use it to optimize the game with a graphics cards, same thing with HL.


read up, you'll find i am right
 
Originally posted by Overblast
Um..halflife doesn't run on the quake 2 engine, its runs on the quake 1 cause quake 2 is quake one, just that the engine was changed so you could use it to optimize the game with a graphics cards, same thing with HL.


read up, you'll find i am right
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Have you ever actually seen the Quake2 source (now that it's available to the public)? Take a look. You'll see that they are QUITE different.

The rendering engine between the two are light years apart, as are the mapping and positioning systems. I don't need to 'read up' in this thread because I've actually seen the source. You might want to take a look yourself.
 
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