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Moose777

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Looks badass.

I just went to the computer store to return some memory I had gotten for my rig that didn't work and while I was there getting fan controllers and such at the same time one of the guys that worked there had made a compilation of all sorts of videos from the game he had 2 gig worth of movies of gameplay and I must say. It looks crazy as hell.

I can't wait to get it. I was told to expect the release sometime around Christmas.
 
its gettin real close...as fas as i know, RC5 was kinda the last RC hopefully, and people are saying within 1 week we will have a gold game...who knows
 
whats so bad about steam? i think its a great way to get the game to the mainstream market, and it patches games automatically...and i hate DLing patches
 
if I only had the key to all this encrypted goodness on my hard drive .... :(
 
C4rniV0r said:
Too bad Steam will never touch my hardrive :rolleyes:
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To bad cause it would of been fun hearing you complain everytime I owned your ass at css.
 
Unlike most typical CS players who use phrases such as "own your ass," not everybody complains when they get killed in an internet game.
 
ThreeDee said:
if I only had the key to all this encrypted goodness on my hard drive .... :(
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Yeah, I had heard you could special order it and DL it but then you have to wait for the key.

I'm gonna wait till it's released and just end up buying it. Besides, my new rig isn't exactly finished. I still need a few things for it.

But I hope it does come out before Christmas that would be awesome.

Now I need to go and rebuy the original HL because my copy got stolen.
 
and you have to have steam installed in order to play half life 2 i believe(i could be wrong). you also have to have an internet connection in order to register the game so that you can play it.
 
Moose777 said:
Yeah, I had heard you could special order it and DL it but then you have to wait for the key.

I'm gonna wait till it's released and just end up buying it. Besides, my new rig isn't exactly finished. I still need a few things for it.

But I hope it does come out before Christmas that would be awesome.

Now I need to go and rebuy the original HL because my copy got stolen.
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I don't know about the retail version in stores but if you buy the silver package on steam you get every game HL1 orginal and HL1 source CS condiction zero yada yada yada. everything. I guess you don't get online much?
 
Steam grew on me, I used to hate it, now it's fine.

I can't fucking wait for HL2, it will pick up where Doom III left off, Multiplayer.
 
Nitron said:
Steam grew on me, I used to hate it, now it's fine.

I can't fucking wait for HL2, it will pick up where Doom III left off, Multiplayer.
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Actually CS:S will be the one picking up the Multiplayer, plain HL2 won't have multiplayer to my understanding. HL2 is just another single player game. CS:S etc. is where you will be getting your multiplayer fix.
 
I'm still dreaming about TFC 2 ... :D .

I think the latest rumor said that it would come out around late Nov. someday after Thanksgiving.

Rumors say that it has gone gold and if they do announce it, then maybe they'll announce a release date with it.

The silver package includes all future mods too right? Say if they did make TFC 2, it would be included in the silver or higher package?
 
DirtyApe said:
and you have to have steam installed in order to play half life 2 i believe(i could be wrong). you also have to have an internet connection in order to register the game so that you can play it.
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Really? I don't have internet at home right now. I just use what's at work. Better get it, I guess.
 
Moose777 said:
Now I need to go and rebuy the original HL because my copy got stolen.
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why buy the original half-life when you can download steam and buy the silver ($59.95) or gold edition ($89.95) of half-life 2 and you get all the past games for free. (including half-life) and besides you will be able to play cs source right now
www.steampowered.com
 
Why would I spent $20 as opposed to $90?

Becaue I've already got all the other add ons aside from CS. Why would I need to spend $60 or so more dollars than I need to?

Like I said earlier. My original copy of HL got stolen. So, I only need that copy.

Besides, I'm not too into the online gaming thing. I got out of that a while back when DoD was real popular.
 
what are you talking about 90 bucks? Thats to get some BS hat and other crap you don't need. Why not spend the extra 10 (59.99) and get every game?
 
XBLiNKX said:
what are you talking about 90 bucks? Thats to get some BS hat and other crap you don't need. Why not spend the extra 10 (59.99) and get every game?
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I just said that. Why would I spend $60 to buy a boxed set of every game under the HL banner when I've already got Blue Shift and Opposing Force.

I don't need them. I can spend $20 on just HL and have HL, OF, and BS without spending $40 more than I need to for 2 games I've already got.
 
I'm not getting it. If you are going to buy HL2 then just buy the silver package and it will contain the whole back catalog of valve games which includes HL. HL2 alone costs 49.99 I think. So for $10 more you will get HL.

Maybe I am not understanding what you plan on doing.
 
Bucken said:
I'm not getting it. If you are going to buy HL2 then just buy the silver package and it will contain the whole back catalog of valve games which includes HL. HL2 alone costs 49.99 I think. So for $10 more you will get HL.

Maybe I am not understanding what you plan on doing.
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You are missing my point.

What I don't want is two copies of Blue Shift, two copies of Opposing Force. I already have them.

What I want is to replace my copy of Half Life 1 that was stolen from me a year or so ago. This way I can replay it befor HL2 comes out.

Then when it comes out I'll just buy the standard version of HL2 without the back-catalog of HL games which include OF and BS.

See my point now? I don't want doubles of games I've already got in my library.

If I didn't already have OF and BS then I'd get HL2 with the back catalog of the original HL series.

I see your point it's just not cost effective for me.
 
I made a seperate steam account for my HL2 Silver package than my HL1 package.

I can give you my old steam account from my HL1 purchase. Maybe you could give me something in return.
 
I dunno if I'd have anything you'd want. The only thing I've got worth anything that I'm not using at this moment in time is my old GeForce 4 video card.

That and the turbo for my Neon but theres no way in hell I'm giving that up.

I dlec Steam, haven't installed it yet gotta get it transferred over to the AMD machine.
 
you don't get blue shift with the steam packages, just opfor, but I don't see your logic. It would be better to buy silver, because then you'd still get hl1 and it's mods as well as hl2, seems like that would save you money, and no you wouldn't have 2 copies...

eidt: blue shift isn't even on steam afaik

http://www.steampowered.com/backcatalog/
 
Moose I am not trying to be a pain here but I just cant see your point. You will save money by buying the silver package I believe. You dont get physical discs with steam. When you buy the silver package you will get half life available to play that day. If you have not done so already just click on one of the steampowered links and check it out. Again I am not trying to be a dick I just want you to definitely know all of the facts before you spend your money.
 
I guess I'm just too stupid cause I don't get it.

You are telling me to spend $80 on the silver package which includes HL1 HL2 and all the back catalog of Valve games.

In either case I'm still going to have 2 copies of OF. What the hell am I going to do with 2 copies of it? I can only play one at a time.

I don't understand.

The online games such as CS, TFc, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet really don't appeal to me. I was never really big on the online play. I did play DoD religiously for 2 years.

I'd be spending $80 on stuff that ZI'm not going to use.

Maybe I'm retarded. *shrug*
 
half life 2 has gone gold now, should be out in like 3 or 4 weeks i reckon.

It is going to rock. Blueshift is not on there because it was not a valve game. It was made by GearBox.
 
Moose777 said:
I guess I'm just too stupid cause I don't get it.

You are telling me to spend $80 on the silver package which includes HL1 HL2 and all the back catalog of Valve games.

In either case I'm still going to have 2 copies of OF. What the hell am I going to do with 2 copies of it? I can only play one at a time.

I don't understand.

The online games such as CS, TFc, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet really don't appeal to me. I was never really big on the online play. I did play DoD religiously for 2 years.

I'd be spending $80 on stuff that ZI'm not going to use.

Maybe I'm retarded. *shrug*
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The silver package is $59.99
 
ummm.... all of you have heard that VU said they will sell it retail on Nov. 16 right???? If not you really should have done a search because everyones been buzzing about this for almost more than a week. I'm personally going to go to the store and buy it. I feel safer when I have it on a disk that I can hold in my hands and not worry about it being lost or corrupted, etc.
 
Milez6 said:
ummm.... all of you have heard that VU said they will sell it retail on Nov. 16 right???? If not you really should have done a search because everyones been buzzing about this for almost more than a week. I'm personally going to go to the store and buy it. I feel safer when I have it on a disk that I can hold in my hands and not worry about it being lost or corrupted, etc.
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I agree. I'll be buying my copy at the store. I too like discs.
 
Moose777 said:
I too like discs.
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So do I....that is why I have my .gcf files all backed up on TWO DVD's. One for HL2 and one for CS:S. :p
 
C4rniV0r said:
Too bad Steam will never touch my hardrive :rolleyes:
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too bad you are a stubborn nub who won't get to play some of the greatest games ever made...

-warsaw
 
Look, regular HL2 + CSS costs $50 and comes with CS:S. Now if you buy the silver package, you get HL2, CS:S, HL:S, DOD:S, HL original, CS original, DOD original, opposing force, richocet, TFC, DM, CZ, ETC.

So when you go to buy HL2, get the silver version ($60) and you'll get your copy of half life original (and half life source btw) as well as dod source and the whole shebang for an extra $10 over just HL2 + CSS

If you played DoD religiously, then you can appreciate DoD source too.
 
Do you get a discount from the silver package if you already have condition zero and the other half life things? The only games I want are HL2, CSS, and DoDS.
 
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