Alpha Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Valve head honcho Gabe Newell tentatively sets the PC shooter's production start date, divulges some details. In addition to revealing the Half-Life 2 voice cast yesterday, Gabe Newell has also narrowed the window for the notoriously postponed PC shooter's production start. "I said we were planning on delivering the game to Sierra in August...to the best of our admittedly weak planning abilities, we are looking at August," said the Valve CEO in posts on the hl2fallout.com forums. However, there is still no official release date. Besides mildly raising the hopes of PC gamers, Newell also divulged some details about Half-Life 2. "Half-Life 2 is about 3.5GB uncompressed and about 2GB compressed," he said. "This doesn't include CS:Source, HL-1:Source, DoD:Source, the SDK, or whatever. It's just the straight HL-2 sizes." However, Newell did say the Source engine would be available at the same time as Half-Life 2--maybe. "That is the plan," he said before quickly qualifying himself with this statement: "It is more a question of how many bells and whistles they add than whether it will be done in time." Another statement by Newell seemed to indicate that the source-based version of Counter-Strike being released with Half-Life 2 would be a reworking of the original game, not a sequel. "Counter-Strike: Source isn't Counter-Strike 2, at least if you're trying to be consistent with our nomenclature," he clarified. Among the other nuggets of knowledge Newell revealed: Striders, the towering Tripods-esque aliens, can be killed; more than 200 people auditioned to voice Alyx; the game's violence will be toned down for the German censors; and Half-Life will be available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. By Tor Thorsen -- GameSpotPOSTED: 06/25/04 01:15 PM PSTWhy do I have a feeling that the source code is going to get stolen again and we'll have to wait another year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Yay! Time to remove a whole bunch of useless games (UT2K4) to make room for this beauty!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Glad my new rig will be ready for august, wanna know whats gonna be inside it?Ok. Pentium 4 3 Ghz1 GIG of RAM MSI Main board [MSI are top makes]X800 Graphics card.80 GIG maindrive.120 GIG storage drive. Half life 2, and doom 3 will run away from my computer BWA HA HA HA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Glad my new rig will be ready for august, wanna know whats gonna be inside it?Ok. Pentium 4.3 Ghz/1 GIG of RAM MSI Main board [MSI are top makes]X800 Graphics card.80 GIG maindrive.120 GIG storage drive. Half life 2, and doom 3 will run away from my computer BWA HA HA HA.Oy vey! That is quite a rig! I need a new rig...damn my rig. I hate my rig. Such an old slow rig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Yep indeedy, i will eb of to pick up 4 of the main aprts this coming saturday.My case [400 watt PSU]ProcessorStick of 512 RAM.And of course my main baord. My X800 [ WOW!!11!! ] Will arive in time for eitheir half lfie 2, or DOOM 3's Release, which ever comes out first.My radeon pro 9600 is still going to be under the bonnet for a while, but i don't mind that was the first powerfull graphics card i ever purchased, and it did wounders for my games. I used to play top end game on my hercules 64 meg card and only 256 of RAM...Dam those were terribile days on MOHAA, On a dial up too, it used to suck!!1!!. All i know now is...If you want to be a PC gamer...get hard core..get the goods...Enjoy life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 I absolute no more interest in Half-Life 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esoteric Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 HL2 i forgot what is that its been so long due to the many push backs on the release date LOLi bet i wont be able to run it on 512 ram 128 meg vid card 2.8 ghz processor tho... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 HL2 i forgot what is that its been so long due to the many push backs on the release date LOLi bet i wont be able to run it on 512 ram 128 meg vid card 2.8 ghz processor tho...Half-Life 2 is supposed to be able to scale back really far, like to Direct X 6 or 7 I think so you don't have to worry about it not running smoothly on your computer. Hell, even STALKER runs fast on my computer but that's build is atleast a year old... And unlike K'dash, I don't lose interest in games that easily. I can't wait for Half-Life 2...going to be so fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 HL2 i forgot what is that its been so long due to the many push backs on the release date LOLi bet i wont be able to run it on 512 ram 128 meg vid card 2.8 ghz processor tho...I can't wait for Half-Life 2...going to be so fun. Yes man!!!! Oh and your set up should run it no problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Delay after delay. I've seen the game and the engine, now make something thats worth my money. BTW, Doom 3 could come out as early as July 3rd some say around irc land. I'm getting these 2 games, just...after 2 to 3 weeks after their released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Delay after delay. I've seen the game and the engine, now make something thats worth my money. BTW, Doom 3 could come out as early as July 3rd some say around irc land. I'm getting these 2 games, just...after 2 to 3 weeks after their released.You haven't played the game though...unless you played the leak. I enjoyed the leaked build though it was very wrong to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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