Bits & Bobs Half-Life 2 Style

Posted by Dev at 01:02 9/8/2003.

Marc Laidlaw is a name I bet most of you aren’t familiar with, well you should be as this little bald headed man is one of the head writers for VALVe and has worked on Half-Life 2. Gamasutra have conducted one hell of a huge interview with him. To read the interview you have to be a member.
Halflife.org have churned out an editorial about the Half-Life 2 ‘delay saga’. It has been edited massively since the first version was put up on the website. (I have no idea why). Titled too many hands in the cookie jar… the article focuses on 3 main arguments as to why VALVe will or will not deliver Half-Life 2 on time.
60 more Half-Life 2 screenshots have been uploaded to the PHL Half-Life 2 screenshots page. Most have been taken from the recent E3 movie releases.
Gabe Newell has been a busy man, once again giving an ‘exclusive’ interview this time to an Italian gaming website. Most information like the official release date of Half-Life 2 he kept under his hat but it is still worth a read.
Finally and arguably the most exciting HL2 titbit to be announced over the past few days is the news that Half-Life 2 will be shown at the ECTS in London from the 27th – 29th August 2003. Vivendi Universal Games UK has teamed up with VALVe to preview Half-Life 2 for the first time in Europe at the ECTS. Although it will probably E3 all over again i.e. the same material, there are rumours some new bits will make appearances! Either way it should be good. Vivendi UK Marketing Director, George Georgiou had this to say:
Half-Life 2 is by far the most anticipated PC game this year, highlighted by its incredible reception at E3. For Valve to choose ECTS to premiere the game in Europe is a huge honour for VUG UK

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	wishy 01:05 9/8/2003	cant wait for this game :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	TJ` 01:35 9/8/2003	and the link to the italian website? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nazg0l fightclubclan 01:42 9/8/2003	is it me or are they just trying to delay the game so it will make the christmas list? sounds like it was finished ages ago. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	TJ` 01:44 9/8/2003	I stopped reading when he said Teams Fortress Classic 2 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Andros 01:56 9/8/2003	lol yea tf2 is an internet myth would look nice though on the new source engine :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Choke\|MaT Choke 03:01 9/8/2003	Yeah HL2 wont immediately mean CS2 will it. How many people play HLDM? Hopefully the multiplayer will be good in deathmatch though. I get the feeling that most people will buy it, complete the single player and then spend another year or two whining about when CS2 is gonna come out. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ste0r 03:24 9/8/2003	well quite alot of mods in production already for hl2, there pretty much just waiting for the hl2 sdk http://www.ghostopsmod.com/ probably be a good contender for cs tbh [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fsk twisted Reality 08:33 9/8/2003	looks cool that, still wont play like cs tho :P I think they'd have to get it exactly like the current cs for it to overtake it. I mean think of how many mods that copy cs fail. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 09:08 9/8/2003	Why should we be familiar with him? Socialist PIG [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 09:14 9/8/2003	The mods fail because they play too fast and quakelike or even slower than cs. They need the pace just a bit above what cs is, with familiar game dynamics and presentation, but less of the random bulls*tery we're used to. Once they get accepted as being the next big thing because of that and they have the playerbase, they can expand it a bit. But they can't take it too far away too far and change the cs style feel or they'd lose ppl back to counters*e [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 10:23 9/8/2003	You would have thought a writer for halflife.org would get his grammar right, especially with him saying that he had plenty of offline time to write it. However what is more inexcusable is the "Team Fortress Classic 2" he mentions, it's Team Fortress 2. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 10:31 9/8/2003	Hate all these sites where you have to be a member just to look at that, it's such a pointless thing to have. Register completely fake details and are they any better off for it? Are they f*. Useless information hoarding c*s [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 11:09 9/8/2003	Yea, my name was something Like "Why Do" then the address was "need this info", etc in that kind of vein... Still got my password through. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 11:39 9/8/2003	it is a quality article though, well worth the tedium of registration. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	decrepit Croydon 13:07 9/8/2003	careful doz, ur startin to sound intelligent [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 13:17 9/8/2003	s***, I better stop... that's Thorin's territory [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w00kie euthanasia 14:01 9/8/2003	thats my terraT0r.... How do u spell territory again ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Par suiGeneris 15:05 9/8/2003	It would just be stupid for the development of HL2 to completely exclude and ignore the whole CS phenomenon until such time as the game was released and an SDK came out or whatever, I reckon CS2 will be in development before HL2 hits the shelves and won't be that far off at all. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 15:24 9/8/2003	CS2 has been in development for ages, we wont have to wait that long [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Par suiGeneris 15:28 9/8/2003	There you go :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nicklearse Missing In Action 16:04 9/8/2003	also all big mods will be ported to hl2 engine fairly quickly if not ready for release [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nixoh enamor 16:53 9/8/2003	I think companies make abitious deadlines, HL will no doubt be good so y not give a reasonable deadline... ppl dont mind waiting. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 19:54 9/8/2003	Has anyone read any of Marc Laidlaw's books? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ara 21:09 9/8/2003	whats this thing called half-life2? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 21:11 9/8/2003	But they can't take it too far away too far and change the cs style feel or they'd lose ppl back to counters***e Exactly what happened with QW:TF and TFC. TF had a huge following and then when tfc came out it ruined the entire game. A completely different feel and ppl just decided that TF was dead. I think this could happen to CS if its handled badly... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Toomy 21:57 9/8/2003	we can only hope it's handled badly then [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 22:19 9/8/2003	I'm s*** at CS1.x - roll on CS2 afaic :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 23:10 9/8/2003	i meant cs the game, as in the genre, rather the hl mod :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pash 09:15 10/8/2003	I have a bad feeling about this :/ . Big companys like sierra etc are starting to realise how important these 3rd party developers are (a guy in his bedroom started to make cs allmost 4 years ago), and yes they are making sure the SDK for hl2 is released before the game itself but.....whats to stop them producing the games after they are developed and releasing them as retail versions as offical expansions to hl2 itself. Remember there is allways som1 waiting to get rich at the expense of the poor hard working souls spending their dosh :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

	wishy 01:05 9/8/2003	cant wait for this game :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	TJ` 01:35 9/8/2003	and the link to the italian website? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nazg0l fightclubclan 01:42 9/8/2003	is it me or are they just trying to delay the game so it will make the christmas list? sounds like it was finished ages ago. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	TJ` 01:44 9/8/2003	I stopped reading when he said Teams Fortress Classic 2 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Andros 01:56 9/8/2003	lol yea tf2 is an internet myth would look nice though on the new source engine :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Choke\|MaT Choke 03:01 9/8/2003	Yeah HL2 wont immediately mean CS2 will it. How many people play HLDM? Hopefully the multiplayer will be good in deathmatch though. I get the feeling that most people will buy it, complete the single player and then spend another year or two whining about when CS2 is gonna come out. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ste0r 03:24 9/8/2003	well quite alot of mods in production already for hl2, there pretty much just waiting for the hl2 sdk http://www.ghostopsmod.com/ probably be a good contender for cs tbh [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fsk twisted Reality 08:33 9/8/2003	looks cool that, still wont play like cs tho :P I think they'd have to get it exactly like the current cs for it to overtake it. I mean think of how many mods that copy cs fail. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 09:08 9/8/2003	Why should we be familiar with him? Socialist PIG [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 09:14 9/8/2003	The mods fail because they play too fast and quakelike or even slower than cs. They need the pace just a bit above what cs is, with familiar game dynamics and presentation, but less of the random bulls*tery we're used to. Once they get accepted as being the next big thing because of that and they have the playerbase, they can expand it a bit. But they can't take it too far away too far and change the cs style feel or they'd lose ppl back to counters*e [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 10:23 9/8/2003	You would have thought a writer for halflife.org would get his grammar right, especially with him saying that he had plenty of offline time to write it. However what is more inexcusable is the "Team Fortress Classic 2" he mentions, it's Team Fortress 2. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 10:31 9/8/2003	Hate all these sites where you have to be a member just to look at that, it's such a pointless thing to have. Register completely fake details and are they any better off for it? Are they f*. Useless information hoarding c*s [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 11:09 9/8/2003	Yea, my name was something Like "Why Do" then the address was "need this info", etc in that kind of vein... Still got my password through. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 11:39 9/8/2003	it is a quality article though, well worth the tedium of registration. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	decrepit Croydon 13:07 9/8/2003	careful doz, ur startin to sound intelligent [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 13:17 9/8/2003	s***, I better stop... that's Thorin's territory [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w00kie euthanasia 14:01 9/8/2003	thats my terraT0r.... How do u spell territory again ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Par suiGeneris 15:05 9/8/2003	It would just be stupid for the development of HL2 to completely exclude and ignore the whole CS phenomenon until such time as the game was released and an SDK came out or whatever, I reckon CS2 will be in development before HL2 hits the shelves and won't be that far off at all. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 15:24 9/8/2003	CS2 has been in development for ages, we wont have to wait that long [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Par suiGeneris 15:28 9/8/2003	There you go :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nicklearse Missing In Action 16:04 9/8/2003	also all big mods will be ported to hl2 engine fairly quickly if not ready for release [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nixoh enamor 16:53 9/8/2003	I think companies make abitious deadlines, HL will no doubt be good so y not give a reasonable deadline... ppl dont mind waiting. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 19:54 9/8/2003	Has anyone read any of Marc Laidlaw's books? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ara 21:09 9/8/2003	whats this thing called half-life2? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 21:11 9/8/2003	But they can't take it too far away too far and change the cs style feel or they'd lose ppl back to counters***e Exactly what happened with QW:TF and TFC. TF had a huge following and then when tfc came out it ruined the entire game. A completely different feel and ppl just decided that TF was dead. I think this could happen to CS if its handled badly... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Toomy 21:57 9/8/2003	we can only hope it's handled badly then [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 22:19 9/8/2003	I'm s*** at CS1.x - roll on CS2 afaic :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 23:10 9/8/2003	i meant cs the game, as in the genre, rather the hl mod :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pash 09:15 10/8/2003	I have a bad feeling about this :/ . Big companys like sierra etc are starting to realise how important these 3rd party developers are (a guy in his bedroom started to make cs allmost 4 years ago), and yes they are making sure the SDK for hl2 is released before the game itself but.....whats to stop them producing the games after they are developed and releasing them as retail versions as offical expansions to hl2 itself. Remember there is allways som1 waiting to get rich at the expense of the poor hard working souls spending their dosh :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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