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Half Life 2 video from E3

I hope fileplanet (and now fileshack) both go out of business. Lines, and now subscriber-only material? Bastards. I will get a link I saw somewhere that has alot of good video in a sec, it's on my other computer.
 
Sweet, its over 20 minutes long and its supposed to show the strider in action. I have the smaller movie showing the gravity gun.
 
Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
I got between 19 and 72.


But yes, it was unbelievable. This looks oodles better than Doom 3 to me 🙂...
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yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. But in the defense of D3, they haven't REALLY shown much. They've been doing a good job of keeping all the details under wraps.

Watching the HL2 video gave me serious thoughts of laying down $400 for a new videocard and cpu.
 
That Bit torrent thing seems to not like my setup. Maybe the NAT router is hosing it. It dops dwn to ~ 3K sec down and9 K up. Gotta find another place to get the video!
 
Had a look on Kazaa but only found one host with the file and connection was not possible..... at least the bit torrent thing works and provides a constant stream, getting around 30k/s so looking ok.
 
For those of you that say, "Yuck, 500megs?" I say: "That's the most awesome demonstration of video game technology ever dangit." Download this sucker, it won't disappoint.
 
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
I got between 19 and 72.


But yes, it was unbelievable. This looks oodles better than Doom 3 to me 🙂...
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yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. But in the defense of D3, they haven't REALLY shown much. They've been doing a good job of keeping all the details under wraps.

Watching the HL2 video gave me serious thoughts of laying down $400 for a new videocard and cpu.
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Same, I am saving up for a Athlon 64, New GFX Card, New Motherboard and of course Half-Life along with Doom 3.
 
All I really think I'm going to need myself is MAYBE a new video card, DX9 compatible, and even then only if I NEED to run at high detail. I'll see, but this would be the only reason for me to get one.
 
Originally posted by: Intelman07
Will this game cause us all to upgrade hehe. Looks sweet but very graphics intensive.
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According to planet halflife, its a very scaleable engine.
While the new engine has all sorts of fancy features, it's still designed to scale and work on lower-end machines. Apparently a 700mhz processor and a video card capable of running DX6 is enough, although a 2ghz with a GeForce4 is recommended. Rumors about NVidia or ATI exclusivity are unfounded.
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But yes, it was unbelievable. This looks oodles better than Doom 3 to me
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Half-Life 2 looks very good, i just finished DLing and watching the video.
But one of the reasons that Doom3 doesnt look as good, texture wise, is because,
a)Doom3 relies heavily on normal/bump mapping for the impressive visuals, and hence, not so good textures.
b) Doom3 is all in the dark, you can hardly see anything!!!
 
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