'Official' Half-Life 2 Thread. Do Not Create New Threads (NO SPOILERS)

[JoyBoy]

Who are Valve Nordic and what do they have to do with the development and publishing of Half-Life 2? The game is getting its Worldwide Release tonight at Midnight PST. Thats 8am GMT and 9am CET Tuesday Morning (like munsterbuster said). Read some Press Releases before making up some random bull****. Good luck to anyone who will be authenticating their release tonight/tomorrow. I can imagine the Steam Servers will be severly overloaded.

On another note, looks like the UK does get this game tomorrow (at retail). Its being advertised on UK television for the 16th. I'm amazed to see this game even get advertised on TV. Only EA Games seem to advertise PC Games on TV over here, and even then its only two titles. The Sims and Medal of Hono(u)r. I dont remember seeing a TV Advert for the other big PC Game of the year, DOOM 3.

Anyways, moving on. Does anyone know if Valve intend to release a demo of the game? I have held off placing an order, for fear of the game not even running on my hunk of junk of a PC. I'm also of the mindset that no game needs me wasting £300+ just so it will run on this piece of crap. Tools of the trade if you do that

[krondike]

The right company was "Vivendi Universal Games Nordic" its the nordic publisher!

[Luciel]

rofl yeah, valve nordic? AHAHAHAHAHAH rofl, aniways, Batty i mean JOYBOY also nfsu2 has been advertised on tv in the uk.

[munsterbuster]

Germany had an Doom 3 commercial running.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by munsterbuster

Germany had an Doom 3 commercial running.

...and also three different commercials for NFS Hot Pursuit 2.

(I have nothing to say about HL2!)

[JoyBoy]

Originally Posted by Luciel

rofl yeah, valve nordic? AHAHAHAHAHAH rofl, aniways, Batty i mean JOYBOY also nfsu2 has been advertised on tv in the uk.

Battyboy? Jesus, havent heard that word since the very early 90's. Used to love saying that when I was younger

The thing with NFSU2 is that its a multiformat title, so EA was bound to get behind it. I was just trying to point out that its very rare for a PC Exclusive title to get its own commerical on UK TV. Just been reading on the gamesradar forum that Tescos had it on sale today for £32.99. Looks like PC Games are starting to match the price of points of console games.

Oh yeah, one more thing. As the games coming out in the next few hours, Please dont start posting spoilers.

[Grumpy]

@ Joyboy (Really hope your not gonna stick with this nickname!)

Oh yeah, one more thing. As the games coming out in the next few hours, Please dont start posting spoilers.

Yes please dont spoil something we have waited so long for.
And PC games in OZ have always been $10-$20 cheaper than the console games.
And I like the way your wrote 'Hono(u)r'. In OZ I was always taught the English (UK) spelling at school, now my kids are at school they can spell words like Honour (Honor), Colour (Color) however they like! The schools here take into account alot of the kids learn how to spell from the Internet.
P.S: Still waiting to hear from the first person who actually activates HL2, that way I can pressure my shop to hand it over b4 tommorrow (Wednesday) morning! If others have it activated the shop wont have an argument on why they shouldnt hand it over.

[munsterbuster]

Btw, the DVD-Version has Safedisc 3.2

[JoyBoy]

Originally Posted by munsterbuster

Btw, the DVD-Version has Safedisc 3.2

Interesting, I didnt think Valve would go ahead and protect the retail as well. You can freely download Half-Life 2 off Steam, the catch being you have to pay in order to play. Then again, Valve have no say in the actual retail distribution of the game.

As Half-Life 3 was kind of announced at the same time as Half-Life 2, lets hope we get none of the crap that HALO 2 players went through at the end of that particular game (and no I wont spoil this for anyone who doesnt know)

[Mookers]

Hey all, Well I bought HL2 lastnight and installed it. 5 CD's are a little much IMO, but I did it anyway. It took over an hour and 20 min to install and then figure out how to play the single player mode because the Game package I bought didnt even come with install instructions!!! Anyway I have the game working now and it's great.
Does anyone know of away to burn CD1 so I can play off the burned CD instead of the store bought one? I don't like to use the store bought CD's in my drives incase of damage. I tried to burn it and use it , but it tells me I have the wrong CD in the drive. I don't mind putting a CD in the drive to play until a No CD File is made, but I don't want to use the CD I bolught.

Anyone have any luck with this yet???

Thanks

[t.foster73]

Come on guys, enough chit chat. What protectionn do the disks use?

[JoyBoy]

Originally Posted by t.foster73

Come on guys, enough chit chat. What protectionn do the disks use?

Munsterbuster says Safedisc 3.2.

I'm tempted to buy this in the next few hours. The various reviews that have sprung up overnight are very postive. One interesting thing to remember is that the reviewers were invited by Valve to their HQ in order to review the game. I wonder if the fact that they got a paid for trip (I imagine) had any bearing on the scores that have been dished out. Incidently, dont read the Homelanfed review, it has a minor spoiler concerning the end.

[munsterbuster]

The ****ing hell. The activation did take 20 Minutes with 3000 DSL. What happens to people with normal DSL or 56k?

[Brainman2k]

any of you ran into the activation while installing/playing the game? how does it work?

everyone was waiting for this game to hit the shelves...but with that activation thing....i'm really into not buying the game because of that. same like with starforc3....dtm race driver 3 was the first and last game i bought with that copy protection.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by Brainman2k

any of you ran into the activation while installing/playing the game? how does it work?

everyone was waiting for this game to hit the shelves...but with that activation thing....i'm really into not buying the game because of that. same like with starforc3....dtm race driver 3 was the first and last game i bought with that copy protection.

Please borrow your time machine to me !!!