CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

hey i was just wondering if we have any half life fans out here. i am personally patiently waiting for HL2 to some out. i hope ill be able to play it on my ageing pc. also the new counter strike looks cool, its about time they did somthing to improve CS seeing how an update hasnt occrued almost as long as valve baught it.

I played halflife a bunch at an old friends house...I liked it...

i'm a veteran mapper of CS, so you can presume i do know quite a bit about the engine and programming mechanisms of HL engine, and it's original Quake engine.

as for HL, i loved it. i played through it number of times, still amazed everytime i played it.

and i'm waiting for HL, half excited, and half worried. because a new game means i have to learn more about mapping of it... but i'll learn quickly

im hopeing they'll be as mod friendly as the original, posibly with a new world craft to boot.

I always liked half-life, they did a good job on it (though in the later years I've found that it makes me sick to play it, Freeman runs too fast, and while I switch it into walk-mode to make it better most of the time (when I don't need to run), I still found it to be a pain on ladders. Comes from playing too much Theif I guess (there not only do you almost never run, you spend quite a bit of time crouched and creaping along

HL2 looks killer (if the screen shots can be believerd), though I wouldn't hold out too much hope of playing it on too aged a PC. Thankfully it's going to be out for the XBox as well, and while consoles are't the best for FPS games, it'll beat the long wait till I replace my very-aged PC (it feels funny to say that with a 486PC with a 586 Evergreen upgrade to 100Mhz or so and a VESA LB SVGA card in it sits in my closet!). Article I read (I think in EB's GMR magazine) said that the XBox version doesn't look as nice as the PCs... this tells me the PC version is running way over the top of the XBox, which is still fairly cutting edge.

BTW - have you all seen the facial animation stuff they'ved added to the engine? It borders on creapy!

PHIL

yes this year gaming reached a whole new level of reality, a level i never thought theyd actully cross, i actully dnt think it adds to the game too much personally, some of the best games ive ever played had some stupid grafics but were just fun. i hope for the new HL they will also keep the gore turn off feature, they probaly will to make it more open to a greater range of players, but after trying the doom 3 leak, yeah the grafics are freakishly real, and ive heard HL2 will be more realistic than doom

anyone seen the 500Mb trailer from E3? it seems just wonderful... programming nightmare how they pulled it out, i'll never know.

Well the only gore that appears are the alien things. I think. Anyway i CANNOT WAIT FOR HALF-LIFE 2 to come out! I am so eager for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't really like half-life very much i thought it was to unrealisticly bloody/gory.

Well, its storyline is B-grade Science Fiction. It's gotta have zombies. And gorish things. Granted, it's not TOO bloody, relatively speaking to other FPS.

hife life is like a milder doom 3 or something like that.but still it's going to be cool