MIDNIGHT, NOVEMBER 16, 2004 [Archive] - Flash Flash Revolution

GuidoHunter

11-15-2004, 04:05 PM

@Anti: Pfft.

@Jay: Bullshit. That's VERY illegal, and BestBuy is too high profile to be able to pull that off underhanded.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

hydrojakep

11-15-2004, 04:12 PM

Anticrombie0909

11-15-2004, 04:16 PM

@Jay: It doesn't matter. All HL2 accounts have to be activated via steam before the game can be played, and activation starts tonite at midnight.

@Guido: You are no longer cool. Find someone else to bear your children.

lightdarkness

11-15-2004, 04:23 PM

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/14/0511228&tid=204&tid=98&tid=133

QreepyBORIS

11-15-2004, 04:43 PM

HOT

HOT

HOT!!

I'll prolly have to wait 'till Hanukkah before I get it, though. =/

supermystic123

11-15-2004, 04:46 PM

hopefully the physics will be as amazing as everyone suggests

GuidoHunter

11-15-2004, 04:48 PM

@Guido: You are no longer cool. Find someone else to bear your children.

Meh. I'm a console gamer, so I'm just not interested. I'm sure it'll be a fantastic game, though.

@Jay: Very well, the street date has been changed.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

lightdarkness

11-15-2004, 04:54 PM

@Guido: Damn straight, bow to my /. nerdness.

jewpinthethird

11-15-2004, 05:02 PM

Something about Gordon's face just screams "I LISTEN TO LINKIN PARK." I think it is the glasses.

Anticrombie0909

11-15-2004, 05:16 PM

Gordon whacks shit with a crowbar. You'd be hard pressed to find someone more badass than that- he rivals Bruce Campbell, who only beats him because he is real.

QreepyBORIS

11-15-2004, 05:57 PM

I watched the 4.5 minute review video on gamespot. Looks like it deserved about the score it got.

But why Halo 2 scpred better I cannot imagine. -_-

Yeah, I want this game!

jewpinthethird

11-15-2004, 05:59 PM

Eh, I still need to play Half Life.

QreepyBORIS

11-15-2004, 06:02 PM

I beat HL with the resolution set to 320x240, or something.

Booya.

insomniakxz

11-15-2004, 06:55 PM

Bah...i'm going to sleep soon to wake up at 3am, [east coast activation time], where i'll game for 3 hours, take a shower, and head off to school.

http://pureownage2005.brinkster.net/Music/call%20to%20Vivendi.mp3 if someone hasn't posted it already...it's amusing...

Moogy

11-15-2004, 07:09 PM

They're already selling it at my Best Buy.

Anticrombie0909

11-15-2004, 08:20 PM

I watched the 4.5 minute review video on gamespot. Looks like it deserved about the score it got.

But why Halo 2 scpred better I cannot imagine. -_-

I stopped trusting Gamespot after they gave GTA: SA a 9.9. Oh, and Halo 2 a 9.4. 9.2 is also low, especially considering PCG gave it an unheard of 98%, and they're really the only mag I trust.

They're already selling it at my Best Buy.

It doesn't matter. All HL2 accounts have to be activated via steam before the game can be played, and activation starts tonite at midnight.

ImEric12

11-15-2004, 08:23 PM

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT STEAM.

WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NEED ONLINE AUTHINTIFICATION FOR A SINGLE FUCKING PLAYER GAME?

The only worthy computer is intarweb-fucked.

God FUCKING DAMMIT.

RobbyZero

11-15-2004, 08:28 PM

Im buying it :)

Squeek

11-15-2004, 08:47 PM

I can't believe it happened.

Halo 2 beat Half-Life 2 in rank. WHY ARE GAME RATERS SO FREAKIN RETARDED.

How can you even compare these? It's like comparing a flaming pile of dog poop on a doorstep with the mansion of the doorstep it is on. There's no contest. NONE.

YOU FAIL AT LIFE GAME RATERS (those that had Halo 2 / GTA:SA >= Half-Life 2).

~Squeek

PS - I figured it out. Valve didn't pay the raters enough money to give them a 10.0, though they got close to the goal. I hear it shoots up exponentially when you want to get above 9.8

RobbyZero

11-15-2004, 08:52 PM

Sorry but all you Halo2 freaks are bullshit about Halo2. It's Halo1 but a few new guns and a couple of new maps.

OMFG EXIIIIIIIIIIIIITING OMFG OMFG ITS HALO 2 WITH LIEK A MACHIIIIINE GUN AND LIEK UBER NEW MAPS!!!!!!!!

QreepyBORIS

11-15-2004, 08:53 PM

YOU FORGOT THE POWERSWORD LOL

jewpinthethird

11-15-2004, 08:57 PM

DONT FORGET TWO GUNS AT ONCE. OMFG ORIGINALITY TO THE MACXS.

Squeek

11-15-2004, 09:00 PM

NO WAY YOU CAN PLAY AS TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTER MODELS? AND CHANGE THE COLOR? GAME OVER GAME OF THE YEAR RIGHT THERE NO CONTEST HANDS DOWN CASE CLOSED

Holy crap I'm still angry about Halo 2 AND GTA:SA beating Half-Life 2. There's no justice in the world anymore. I think I'm going to go hang myself in the barn.

~Squeek

PS - OMG U CAN C UR FEET!!!!!!

tsutter

11-15-2004, 09:07 PM

Gamespot underrates games horribly. I've heard a very good theory....Gamespot gives bullshit reviews to get hits to their site. Halo 2 with the whole "OMFG 9.4 WTF OMGOMG MC WILL SLAUGHTER JOO NUBZZzaZ!" thing. Half-Life 2 fanboys were FLIPPING THE FUCK OUT just as much as the Halo 2 people were. And guess who's at the very center, getting all the page hits? Gamespot.

Gave THPS3 a 10 too, so it's basically "OMGWTF They gave that game a 10? *link hurr*" or "OMGWTF They gave this game a 9.2? *link hurr*".

Gamespot is a business, always will be. Corporate fuckheads.

Squeek

11-15-2004, 09:10 PM

Not only Gamespot. IGN and basically EVERYBODY ELSE.

I swear it's a corporate mafia here.

~Squeek

tsutter

11-15-2004, 09:42 PM

Gamespot is definitly the worst, though. IGN overrates stuff (Black & White the highest rated PC game...? Okay..)

There's no real unbiased review until fans review it.

The_Q

11-15-2004, 09:49 PM

Forget that. It's actually EL ANIVERSARIO DE MI HERMANITO. You know you love it.

Q

insomniakxz

11-16-2004, 01:16 AM

GG... It's out. Now the preloading is taking forever as I watch steampowered's bandwidth being raped by gamers.

SpookG

11-16-2004, 04:57 AM

the thing about halflife being sold at best buy is true.. It started last friday, but they should of pulled them all off the shelves by that evening. As it goes, whoever put them out is fired for breaking street date, they are fined for every copy that was sold ( i think it is about 2000 per copy), and now they are being sued for breach of contract, as well as getting all vivendi games at higher cost and delayed shipments..

We still can't figure out why they did it, because in the long run it isn't going to go in their favor.. But generally when one store fucks up the rest go with it, and yeah.. here we are.

which makes my store's single stolen copy not so bad anymore. =)

tsutter

11-16-2004, 10:36 AM

It fucking rules, I'm in (insanely minor spoilers) Ravenholm right now..after playing catch with Dog XD

It's very, very fun so far...living up to the hype (which is more than I can say for some of the bigger PC releases this year).

deposition

11-16-2004, 12:41 PM

Some store got the hell sued out of them for releaseing a harry potter book a day before it was suppose to...

Anticrombie0909

11-16-2004, 02:24 PM

I'll take plenty of screenies, folks. Be back in a day or so with amazing HL2 footage.

insomniakxz

11-16-2004, 07:33 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_canals_110002Small.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_canals_130008Small.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_eli_020014Small.jpg

Omeganitros

11-16-2004, 07:50 PM

How my day went:

*Goes to store*

"Hey, you got HL2?"

"Sure do." *Guy holds out box*

"...Wow...C-Can I t-touch it?"

"Hell no. We've had three attempted thefts so far."

"(Crap.) Well, how much is it?"

"$59.99, plus tax."

*Looks in wallet* "....."

"....."

"...Hey, is that a Nintendo DS?" *Goes off to play it*

I am now selling my body for cash. Give me a call if you're interested.

Omeganitros

11-16-2004, 09:42 PM

Oh, and the best t-shirt idea ever...

(Note that the idea was stolen from someone else)

Anticrombie0909

11-17-2004, 04:00 AM

HALF LIFE SEXINESS

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/6973/d1_trainstation_010010.jpg

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/1206/d1_trainstation_020000.jpg

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/7338/d1_trainstation_050019.jpg

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/1416/d1_trainstation_010019.jpg

SO.

AWESOME.

Squeek

11-17-2004, 05:24 AM

I'm loving it.

Holy crap this better run smooth with insane graphical capabilities.

I might just go buy it after class today. You know what, I WILL buy it after class today.

OR RIGHT NOW. BRB.

~Squeek

Anticrombie0909

11-17-2004, 06:38 AM

Actually, the game isn't system intensive at all. Like, AT ALL. Major huge freakin' props to Valve for making this accessible to people with a range of system specs. I mean, my humble Athlon 3000+ with 512 Mb of RAM and a modest 9800 was able to run it MAXXED OUT (1024x768, 4x Anti-Aliasing, 8x Anisotropic Filtering) without breaking a sweat. I never go below 60 fps, which is nearly twice as good than I got on Doom III, and this game looks better. Well, ok, Doom had better dynamic shadows...but Source's insane specular and water effects, not to mention the ungodly Character models and facial animation more than make up for it.

Squeek

11-17-2004, 07:25 AM

Score. If you can max it out with that, I'll be fine.

I think the Self-Shadowing effect and several others in Doom 3 killed the CPU capabilities. HL2 doesn't have that, I believe. Not like it matters. I can't wait to buy this...

(Maxed has one X.)

~Squeek

Kilgamayan

11-17-2004, 11:29 AM

*waves a lone Metroid Prime 2 flag*

dmleet

11-17-2004, 12:19 PM

Bought mine yesterday.

Anticrombie0909

11-17-2004, 02:29 PM

(Maxed has one X.)

Oh, I know. Believe me, I know.

ittroo

Omeganitros

11-17-2004, 07:04 PM

Come on, Anti. These are all fantastic screenshots, but I was expecting some whoopass combat screenies from you. Get a shot of a grenade explosion sending someone flying or something.

Omeganitros

11-17-2004, 08:04 PM

Teehee, I forgot how fun double-posts can be.
http://iog.branzone.com/storage/Thief/d1_town_020001.JPG

insomniakxz

11-17-2004, 10:36 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_town_010003Large.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_town_010006Large.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_town_010009Large.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/dark1egion/d1_town_020015Large.jpg

This level freaks me out.

SpookG

11-17-2004, 10:50 PM

Fucking Ravenholm.. I got there this morning and I got a bit through it..and finally couldn't handle it anymore and stopped. I'm reluctant to play some more..lol