Some new HL2 info

[nOOB]

Quote from Gabe Newell
I am behind in my forum browsing. So if I haven't gotten back to you on a question, it's because actually shipping the game has gotten in the way of answering questions about it. Hopefully actually shipping will be a productivity enhancer as many questions will be answerable by a wider group of people. So we have to ship if for no other reason than to reduce the number of emails I get that start with "I have a Pentium II running Windows 95 ..."


Quote From csnation.net
» Gabe sticks with August release date.
» Game translation will be full (voices + text).
» Game size is about 3.5 Gb and 2 Gb compressed.
» The German version will not be censored. Half-Life 1 used robots instead of humans and oil instead of blood. Even though Germany has tough rules from games, apparently the only change required is the removal of blood decals on walls and such.
» HL2 story line is inspired by Stephen King book The Mist

I couldnt find the stuff about the augest release date because the site that is came from was in a different lang. I am not saying this is fact but it was posted by Gabe and by csnation.net who i both trust.

I am not looking to an argument over the games release date just tossing some info out there for you all.

[Nefarious]

sux to live in germany

[HaloEight]

White Sox won yesterday, series tied at 2.

P.S.

OOB, your thread has been jacked. Bahahahahahaha

[Nefarious]

Rangers won yesterday, they are in 1st place

[StealthMonkey]

that change in germany is really really funny

[Low-Light]

I wanna see what that game looks like.

[WangChung]

lol. oil. robots. lauff

[acme420]

welcome to 2 weeks ago with this late breaking news.

[nOOB]

umm this was posted today. Good job slic.

[Nefarious]

welcome to 2 weeks ago with this late breaking news.

welcome to kick your ass ville, population: my foot

[kael]

welcome to 2 weeks ago with this late breaking news.


just not necessary, i mean ididnt know that so thank you for sharing. people these days.

[Uthor]

HL2 story line is inspired by Stephen King book The Mist

So you're gonna be in a small country grocery store with about 20 other people, leaving it a 1/2 dozen times and seeing only 3 or 4 aliens total?

I don't know what to make of this information.

[Nefarious]

inspired by, not the same

[unrequited]

HL2 story line is inspired by Stephen King book The Mist

So you're gonna be in a small country grocery store with about 20 other people, leaving it a 1/2 dozen times and seeing only 3 or 4 aliens total?

I don't know what to make of this information.
Oh, thanks for the spoiler asshat! j/k, wasn't about to read another one of his books... I personally think he lost it sometime after "Needful Things" which I loved.

[Uthor]

inspired by, not the same

Yeah, I know. Operation Dumbo drop was inspired by a true story, too. I just don't see the connection.

Sorry for the threadjack, but, yeah, King lost it a while ago. His early stuff is amazing, though most of it I would consider fun to read, but not really deep. I thick he spends waaaay too much time talking about mundane details, but so do most authors. Did anyone read the last two Drak Tower books? I'm waiting for the last one (out next year, prob) and buying the entire series before reading them all (I already read the first 4) and was wondering if they were any good.

[acme420]

from a buick 8
everythings eventual

[Uthor]

This may be a pissy reason for it, but I find Everything's Eventual hard to read (I have the paperback version) because they have the title of the book on all the odd pages instead of the title of the story you're reading. I read through the book once and it bothered me through out the whole thing.