Half Life 2 delayed again..?

Scruff

Reports are surfacing that its going to be delayed again till september.

The Inquirer

horray. not.

Mr E

I have a feeling this game is going to take about 8 hours to finish and will be a huge letdown...... The hype is OTT.

- Dave.

User45701

NO!

Lemming

Originally posted by Scruff
Reports are surfacing that its going to be delayed again till september.

The Inquirer

horray. not.

Fromt he above link

A WEB SITE is now reporting that Valve's Half Life 2 game will be delayed until September.

Wow ... the details are overwhelming. WHICH site? WHO said it? :rolleyes:

Further ....

taken from Planet Halflife
"Half-Life 2 Wins Vaporware Award"

Fans looked forward to a September release date, which later slipped to the holidays.

Then something weird happened. In early October, Valve claimed it had been the victim of a virtual break-in and that a cracker had stolen the game's source code.

...

Could some 'outstanding' journalist have /possibly/ misread that but about the september release date? :rolleyes:

User45701

Hope your right, The 25 min movie on fileplanet looks amazing.
I cant see what elce they could add in 9 months to make it better except for a much longer campiagn

satchmo

Originally posted by Lemming
Wow ... the details are overwhelming. WHICH site? WHO said it? :rolleyes:

It says at the bottom of the page that the report was from warp2search.net.. and according to them, they "Just had an email from Gameplay.com telling me that the release date for Half Life 2 has been changed to Sep 24 2004."

A little searching on gameplay.com reveals the nugget of wisdom "Please note that this release date is when we at Gameplay expect the game to be released and still subject to change."

Sounds like rock-solid proof alright :rolleyes:

patch

This game is starting to piss me off in the same way that Duke Nukim' Forever has.....

User45701

Well i ws plannig to fill about 20 a4 pages full of **************** and then post it but i decided not 2 cause i would be bored and get banned

But OMFG back to september!??
I know popele that threatened suicide last november if it was not released bvefore the summer

BluE-WinG

For Fúcks sakes.

Lookin alot like Duke Nukem Forever.

shinzon

oh for god sake i dont believe this, i know a lot has happened what with the theft of the source code etc etc, but this is really taking the piss if its true

Maybe the hacker was right when he said the code was not nearly as finished as valve made it out to be.

This company has gone way down in my opinion, I was really looking forward to this but now I dont give 2 monkies whether it comes out or not, theyll be plenty of better games coming out before this, itll be old hat if it ever does see the light of day

Shin

User45701

Ye Shin you neaver know... Duke nukem 4eaver might be out b4 HL2 LOL

feylya

THERE HAS BEEN NO OFFICAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!! Gameplay.com know exactly as much as all of us. Until Valve says otherwise, the offical release date is the holiday season 2003. Yes, I understand the irony.

Sleipnir

I'm not going to listen to any more crap about the release date.
I'll believe it's out when I'm holding it in my hand.
(and thanks to getting a Radeon 9800XT, I can look forward to paying nothing for it as well!)

Creamy Goodness

Originally posted by patch
This game is starting to piss me off in the same way that Duke Nukim' Forever has.....

will you relax the game was only annouced last year for pitys sake just take a chill pill it will come when it does.

ohhh updated release date of Duke nukem is january 2005 :rolleyes:

User45701

i didnt hear about that date.
I was wondering would dukehuken 4ever appear in gamespys top 40 most wanted games of 2004

projectmayhem

if this game is delayed anymore it'd want to be a damn good game. though from what i've seen/heard it's already shaping up to be a great game... hopefully.

User45701

sorry mayhem are you talking about DN 4ever or HL 2 ?

Creamy Goodness

i've a inkling that he's talking bout HL2

Zombrex

I would say that it is a mistake ... end of Sept 2003 was when it was originally going to be released ... someone probably read that wrong and now thinks it is Sept 2004

User45701

Well hopefully its all just a mix up

Deadwing

Originally posted by Lemming
Then something weird happened. In early October, Valve claimed it had been the victim of a virtual break-in and that a cracker had stolen the game's source code.

Firstly i find the term 'cracker' racist, and secondly, how do they know the thief was white!?

Seriously tho..the hype around this game is gone into levels i dont think ive ever known with a game so far..how it be anything but disappointing now??

User45701

Well if the 600meg 25 min movie on fileplanet is any indication. It will be worth the wait.

BTW those of you on a 56k who cant DL it cause its too big. go into one of the many net cafe`s in ireland. Net House in rathmines just upgraded to a 1 meg line so go dl the movie then burn it onto a CD

thats what i used to do until i got my cabel

po0k

1. The leaked "Beta" wasn't a beta.
It was barely an alpha.

Compare it with the Doom3 alpha, which was gorgoues, but slow and unoptimised.
The HL2 leak looked ropey as fuck and aside from the physics engine (which is 3rd-party middleware - not Valve's work) evertyhing looked a bit pants.
Of course, as far as we know* it was never meant to be released.

2. Valve are seeming more and more like a band of chancer muppets, the whole STEAM thing really getting my goat.
Having to auth on the internet to play on a LAN just plain sucks.
It's a tool to get more money out of LAN cafés without doing much more work, and the p2p side of it was a flop.
They wouldn't just license FastTrack and put a bit of version checksumming in the patch files.... :rolleyes:

3. "Half life 2 delayed again" is hardly news at this stage.
I'll pick up a copy when it's released, but I could care less at this point.
Far more interested in OpFlash2, Doom3 and Ground Control 2.


* I still think the leak might have been a ploy to get the publishers off the developers' backs, or a contrieved marketing stunt.
HL2 better be bloody amazing and have a long long playtime in singleplayer.

User45701

Duke 4ever
HL2
Doom 3

Will probbley all be the top 3 in any order of gamespys 40 moast wanted games of 2004

Shred

*sigh*

I'm takin' that report with a pinch of salt until an official statement is made, hope it's not true though:(

monument

Originally posted by SyxPak
The HL2 leak looked ropey as fuck and aside from the physics engine (which is 3rd-party middleware - not Valve's work)

We were told by Havok that their physics engine (Havok 2) is mostly based on work with Valve. (Something like... Valve saying "can you do this?", Havok said yes, and so on, the end product was Havok 2).

Thorbar

If any of you remember or followed the release of Half life there was as many delays and release date set backs in the run up to Half life being released. Also Half Life was really expected to be much good with more hope for the likes of Sin(hour loading times anyone) and Prey(which I don't think ever say the light of day). I can vividly remember threads exactly this on the planetHalflife.com forum (which was decent before it sold its soul) filled with the same drivel. HL2 has been put back a few months not 4 or 5 years like Duke Nukem Forever. Also lump of hacked together code which we have no proof was the latest build isn't something to judge the games quality or how complete it is.

User45701

Well who would judge the quality of the game on that little bit rleased over the net?
I didnt follow HL develpment i just obught it when it came out. It is a anoying delay but it does mean that the game will be better

po0k

Originally posted by User45701
Well who would judge the quality of the game on that little bit rleased over the net?
I didnt follow HL develpment i just obught it when it came out. It is a anoying delay but it does mean that the game will be better

Now you're judging the quality of the game based on it being delayed.

User45701

how so?
You mean the way i am making an asumption that the game will be better if its delayed for a few months?

monument

Originally posted by User45701
how so?
You mean the way i am making an asumption that the game will be better if its delayed for a few months?

Assuming something is practically the same thing as judging it.

If would have been different if you had said something like this… It is an annoying delay, but if the extra developing time means that the game will be better it will be worth the wait.

weemcd

In my opinion, no matter when this game is released, everyone will be dissappointed. This much hype determines that it probably should be the best game ever, and there is no gaurantee that it will, we see hype ruining films and games all around us, the 2nd and 3rd matrix films, judge dredd, counterstrike condition zero. they were all hyped so much, but not a fraction of the hype there will be over hl2 i belive that no game could stand up to this kind of hype and anticipation, so come september or whatever there may be a few angry boardsters. if it does happen to be the most amazing game i will apologise completley, but i dont believe it will.

User45701

I am actually not that hyped over it.
I believe it will be the greatest game that has currently been anounced

But if EA suddenly anounced and released Tiberian Twilight or Red alrt 3
Or If activsion opoed out with Star Trek armada 3

The only games that have been anounced that will come even close to matching HL2 in brillence are Doom3 and DukeNukem 4ever

zAbbo

So much hype on a game that very few people have played, same with Doom3.

rabbitinlights

Im sooo glad i didnt fork out for a new GFX card last year, but that 600mb Video is just amazing. Personally i cant wait to get my hands on it, but if its better because of all the delays, then delay away!, i just want a decent game when it does come out!

Sean.