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Mookie - ex-Student  |
I just played the demo on my old system (Pentium 1.4ghz, 512MB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9200) and it runs fluently. The action is incredible, the engine is something you've never seen before, trust me. The characters move fluently and realistically and the lip sync is great. I sure wish they'd release JK4 on this baby. I'm getting the full version for Christmas. Did any of you play it? What are your thoughts on the game? I'm surprised it ran smoothly on my somewhat dated system, but it did - well programmed. -Ken  EDIT: Woot, I'm getting the Collector's Edition for Christmas! This post was edited by Mookie on Dec 24 2004 10:43am. |
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Scythus Aratan - Student 
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http://www.jeditimeline.com/A/news.php _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Mookie - Ex-Student 
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Yeah, force push would finally be pretty lifelike... but imagine if someone was crazy enough to build a lightsaber in the Source engine with the enhanced Havoc physics - what would happen when a saber hit another saber? Real time physics. WOW.  I have the limited edition where HL2 can be installed from one DVD.  |
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Scythus Aratan - Student
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If I couldn make a suggestion, people who bought the game online seem to have an advantage over those who bought it in the shops, as they do not need to use the CD for installation. If you have a good connection speed I would recommend that  .EDIT : Just read your edit, so I guess it isn't an option .WTF, Christmas is tomorrow. STOP CONFUSING ME!!!!! AND Star wars Mod: Force Push would be awesome, all the little things would move . _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart This comment was edited by Scythus Aratan on Dec 24 2004 11:09am. |
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Mookie - Ex-Student
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Well, I'm getting the game tomorrow (Collector's Edition) - and indeed I'm looking forward to the mods as well. Maybe even a Star Wars mod... now THAT would be awesome. |
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Scythus Aratan - Student
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Expect good things from Half Life 2, and look forward to the mods. It is probably the best SDK ever released by a Producer to support their game. _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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Chronicles of Riddick blows Doom 3 out the water. its a very underrated game. _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Well...im not sure if all this banishment has brought piracy to its knees...or even close to that point. Im sure that most of the ppl who were using the illegal version of Half-Life2, never had Steam installed on their computer before. So in that case...the banishment is pretty much useless for all the ppl who dont use steam at all. But yea...its something new... _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Sinestro - Student 
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Really, that is the only thing I can't complain about. If they are stopping piracy, that means lower prices and less pushing dates back. I can deal with the hastle for that. _______________ Keep On Rocking In The Free World |
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Orion - Retired 
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Quote: Developers should know that theres no way piracy could ever be stopped... Um looks like steam is doing a good job, they have banned about 60,000 illegal users from steam since the release of hl2. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Developers should know that theres no way piracy could ever be stopped... And im sure that there are certainly better solutions to increase the amount of bought games then investing tons of cash in new types of anti-piracy-protection which will be cracked in the end anyway. But were getting off topic here ^^ In my opinion...valve managed to create another GotY title. Half-Life 2 leaves pretty much every other FPS behind (closly followed by Doom3 though).It let me go like: O_O and !!!!!!!!! all to often lol _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Sinestro - Student 
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Word, I just don't like steam b/c it feels like instead of owning an actual copy to play, it feels like I am borrowing the game from Valve. _______________ Keep On Rocking In The Free World |
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Orion - Retired 
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steam is a good way to stop piracy, the only reason these 'drastic' measures have to be taken is to stop the piraters. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Scythus Aratan - Student
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Sinestro it's actually completely the opposite, as you can download the files onto any computer and play regardless of where you are, as long as you have your steam login. _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Selph Senatu - Student 
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Quote: tbh I've never seen the game, let stand played it I hope y'all have fun I'll stick with my TheSims2 /me shoots Bail |
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Sinestro - Student
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the only real problem with it is just the whole steam thing. Nobody mentioned before it came out that you HAD to use steam to register and upgrade before you could actually play. It seems like a backdoor way of making you only install it on one computer _______________ Keep On Rocking In The Free World |
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LEO2033 - Student 
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I also agree. _______________ Katan's Music Bruver
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Nero, I agree with you on that. That level totally sucked, took waaaaay too long. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Orion - Retired
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Its all about the textures and lighting in a game. Just because a game uses X's Engine doesn't mean its going to look like the game that company made to show off its engine. Each game holds its own with good textures and lighting. I think jk4 on a D3 engine will be very nice. id alwasy designes its engines for the latest and greatest. While Valve took the scaleable approach. So valve has the upper hand on when DX10 comes out or they want to add OpenGL Support for them it would be very easy, just plug in a new rendering interface to the engine. Valve took a C++ design approach to their engine while id took the old c approach. Both are good ways but valve makes there technology easily upgraded so the source engine can be around for a long time. oh btw, the source engien is good but their shadows are all wong, not realistic at all _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Dec 22 2004 10:28pm. |
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Mookie - Ex-Student 
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Then again, the Doom3 engine is less friendly to lower-end systems. |
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GHarris - Student 
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The Doom 3 engine might well be better than Source. Before you disagree, think about what an engine is. Valve are certainly better texture artists, character animators and level designers, but anyone could come along and match their efforts in the Doom 3 engine, if they knew their stuff well enough. So it's all fine and dandy for JK4 to be made in the Doom 3 engine. Oh, and HL2 does indeed rock. It staggers the mind to think that this was made in a mere half-decade. It seems like it should have taken much longer. _______________ Q: What do you call a man with bread and butter pudding on his head? A: Pudding Gentleman Type B! |
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Nero - Student 
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HL2 rocks bad indeed... However the unimaginable happened I ACTUALLY GOT BORED WITH THE SP  Some parts of the singleplayer missions just take so incredebily long. *extremely small spoiler* For example the part in the hovercraft and the buggy. It's just waaay to timeconsuming!!! _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? This comment was edited by Nero on Dec 22 2004 06:38pm. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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HL2 rocks! Nuff said. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: If they do a JK4 and its done by Raven, it will be on the D3 engine. is that good or bad? I heard D3 is pretty good and all, especially with graphics, so yeah, that's good I suppose? (besides half of us not buying it because we won't be able to play it ) _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Orion - Retired
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If they do a JK4 and its done by Raven, it will be on the D3 engine. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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tbh I've never seen the game, let stand played it I hope y'all have fun I'll stick with my TheSims2 _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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