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Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by itake »

mrpippy wrote: post #92
inasio wrote: post #46

It would be nice if it was again possible to run it in current Mac OS. The original Half life still lists Mac OS but with incompatible information (newer versions of Steam require recent versions, but HL only runs on old 32 bit OSX)

It should work in Wine, although I haven't tested this update yet. (disclaimer: I work for CodeWeavers, we sell CrossOver which should be a great and easy way to play) edit: tested out the 20th anniversary update on M2 Pro, it works great!

What did you do to get it to run? I didn’t download load it because of the warnings. Just run in Rosetta?

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by stackghost »

karim79 wrote: post #95

I can never understand why they haven't made a HL3. Given that they could literally make approximately 3.88 bajillion dollars from it in 24 hours. I suppose this is the very definition of developer integrity.

I thought the guy who was in charge of writing the story left, and published the plot for HL3 as a thinly veiled short story.

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by throwaway314155 »

timnetworks wrote: post #107

If you tried to pick up the crowbar at the top of the page and were disappointed, scroll all the way down, pick up the portal gun thing, and scroll back up, destroying the whole webpage in the process. Props to the webmaster (do people still say that?), I love seeing easter eggs like this.

> pick up the portal gun thing

Didn't play Half Life 2 I gather?

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by 0x1ceb00da »

jsheard wrote: post #3

It doesn't seem to be mentioned here, but HL2 (which now includes the sequel episodes) is completely free to claim on Steam until the 18th, if you're new to the series. https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/ Also try clicking on the gravity gun at the end of the anniversary page.

Inside the trash can is the garden gnome from episode 2.

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by Uvix »

taeric wrote: post #50
bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Steam can delete a game from your account, they can't delete a cd that I physically have with me. Why does this even need to be spelled out...

Do they have a record of doing this? Paranoia here is largely warranted. But people had fewer rights than they realized before. And finding a way to play older media is often a rather expensive endeavor. Edit to add: I also find picking on Valve awkward here. Microsoft? Sony? I would be far more inline. Even Nintendo. Valve seems to be much more on favor of empowering users, though.

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all have physical releases for most of their games that they can't take from my cold dead hands. Valve has singlehandedly killed that market for PC games.

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by deeringc »

donatj wrote: post #88

In 2007 when The Orange Box was released, Half-Life 2 took forever to load on my dual-core Athlon 64 X2. It would run but the levels would take a solid minute to load. At the time I figured it was some incompatibility with the multiple cores as that was still rare and a lot of other software gave me trouble with it at that time. I tried to play it much more recently, maybe six or so years ago on an Intel MacBook befo…

I don't think dual core was that rare in 2007. Conroe was released the year before. For gamers, dual core was the standard at that point (at least from what I remember of the time).

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by riffruff24 »

kllrnohj wrote: post #121
danpalmer wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a while their stated reason was that they felt they couldn’t live up to the hype and the gaming community was too toxic and would have crucified them for it. True or not, I can see why they’d think that. However it’s also worth noting that they were spending that time on other projects making them likely even more money. HL3 isn’t going to have live service or esports applications that make money like their other…

I believe they also said they don't want to do more of the same, they only want to work on something new. Hence why the only new Half-Life anything in 20 years is Alyx - it did something genuinely new. We all want HL3, but other than the story it would probably be fairly stagnant in terms of gameplay - nothing new has really happened in the genre.

I wished they hire the Arkane team that got laid off. Put them to work on a new single player ip and let Victor Antonov add some of his design into it.

They dont have to do anything new, just make it good enough, like Titanfall 2.

Re: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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Post by Trasmatta »

karim79 wrote: post #95

I can never understand why they haven't made a HL3. Given that they could literally make approximately 3.88 bajillion dollars from it in 24 hours. I suppose this is the very definition of developer integrity.

Half-Life: Alyx is as close as we got

For what it's worth, I never even wanted Half-Life 3. I just wanted Episode 3, which was what they originally promised. It didn't need to be some gigantic groundbreaking thing, just another episode to finish off the story.

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