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Doc? or Dog? The segments with the buggy are awesome. And besides an adventure game, someone should make a game based on Tremors with this engine!

I didn't have problems with flickering, but yeah getting stuck has happened to me at least 3 times now. After getting out of Ravenhold I felt that part was a bit too long as well. But that's just my taste maybe. I just feel the parts with NPCs are more fun than the shooting. The next short section before getting to the car looked pretty much like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and was quite cool.

I managed to get stuck here (looking at the ground, but there's even nothing there to make me stuck). But I coulnd't move. I remember HalfLife 1 had similar bugs. BTW. What's a wallhack?

Yeah, me too, especially as replays have never been this fun... Too bad Empire decided to release this earlier and cut features. I tried the Rally Trophy demo and indeed it should be played with a wheel. I just couldn't control it with a keyboard or regular game controller unless I changed the camera to inside the car. I actually have a wheel (a crappy one) but I loaned it to a friend for an indefinite period.

The RSS support is teh awesome! Now I can check out stories I normally wouldn't bother to find. Like slashdot.org and some science stuff.

To hell with Half-life, I can't stop playing this one! A bit disappointed by the winter tracks. They look better than any winter track I've seen in other games, but it just doesn't feel like snow & ice. It seems to me the traction is nearly identical with the dirt roads. (Colin McRae rally games do the snow & ice pretty good I think) But the crashes are just lovely against that white. Seem to happen more often with the computer opponents in this track.

Wohoo! Ok, as I've said already I've not played that many racing games lately, but FlatOut is one of the best I've ever played! Seriously. At least the actual driving is the best ever! it just looks great, feels great, sounds great, has great physics and AI etc. etc. Is BugBear's previous game (Rally Trophy was it?) any good? Hmm... seems to be. GameSpot says it's Racing Game of the Year 2002. And avg. score is 83.3% Gotta try a demo.

I had breakfast for example . But I think it had completed some time before I got back, might have taken about 10-15 minutes.

Just got to Ravenholm, but stopped playing now for a while. I also got Flatout today, gotta play some of that too. And yes, it never actually got boring, but for me it was pretty close to that and to be fair, they did include some nice variety in the hovercraft section (the physics puzzles, and where you must get out to find on-foot routes to open gates)

I agree with Jake -- the various shooting segments with no friendly characters are too long. Right now I'm driving around on the air-boat through completely linear levels. Tthe linearity was expected and I don't mind but it's getting a bit tiresome. Could have been shorter.

Ah.. I tried right-clicking in steam and there was a choice "create desktop shortcut".

Man, some of the physics puzzles are awesome (obstacle courses). Someone really should make an adventure game with this engine. (I won't post a spoiler because I don't want to ruin the surprise for anyone...)

I didn't get stuck because of the sound. And haven't had a crash. The getting stuck and the sound are just two things that aren't perfect so far... Has anyone found a way to run the game otherwise than from Steam? Hl2.exe gives an error about not being able to find a file when I try to run it directly.

I've only played for 1,5 hours and it is pretty fantastic. The first part is more like an adventure game. But it's not technically perfect. There are cracks in the sound a lot and one time I managed to get completely stuck in a pile of rubble. Does anyone else have problems with the sound? It could be just my computer. And yeah, especially lately the gamespot reviews are very dry and the some of the reviewers seem like they're angry at something.

How's that for a realistic car-accident: In this pic I've already fallen down a bit so I was even higher. And the accident happened about 150-200 meters away, not on the road that is visible here. Damn it, I tried to go to sleep but the sand man was taking a vacation... now I'll probably sleep till noon once I fall asleep...

So now that I actually wanted to purchase halflife2, I got an error connecting to steam network or something. And if the network has problems after the 16th when people are going to want to activate their halflives, how many people are going to love it, especially those who purchased from a retailer.

Apparently a lot of them are quitting. EA's turnover rate is about 50% I read (don't know exactly how that's calculated though).

I can't explain the supernatural.

I think we didn't have enough threads about Half-Life 2, so here goes GameSpot only gave it 9.2 points. The outrage! But I'm not going to read it because it's aloto'clock and I was planning to go to sleep so I can play it in the morning...

So whato'clock will the magic door open exactly? (in GMT time)

Well, I still play Prince of Persia sometimes... From 1989 I think.

Nature doesn't kill people! Death kills people! It's a proven fact.

Hmm... same here -- started to crash after installing SP2 or about the same time. Now I use Firefox though

Umm... So they give you some kind of code or something? If in ten years Valve and steam don't exist any more, and all I have is a backup of the files on DVD or something, I'll be able to play it?

I just bought it via steam. Vivendi doesn't deserve my my money... I hope it'll be worth the wait. Although I've not really specifically waited. I never really allowed myself to get caught in the hype that much. So yeah, I think it's going to be more than worth MY wait.