Half-Life & Portal series, general discussion (v3)

[Techbot]

[QUOTE=vexx21322;39688306][img]http://puu.sh/27071[/img]
Quite.[/QUOTE]

reminds me of the Beatles Yellow Submarine video.

[editline]24th February 2013[/editline]

for some reason

[nalty]

[QUOTE=Techbot;39699598]reminds me of the Beatles Yellow Submarine video.

[editline]24th February 2013[/editline]

for some reason[/QUOTE]

i dont see it

[Francisco]

[QUOTE=vexx21322;39688306][img]http://puu.sh/27071[/img]
Quite.[/QUOTE]

i still want to watch a video of this.

[Naimvb]

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[artdeco]

I had a dream that Freeman's Mind Episode 45 was out

[Cranial Toxicity]

[QUOTE=Naimvb;39702990]Cover time ! :v:

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Apparently in Hl3 someone [I]reopens[/I] the combine portal?

[editline]24th February 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=artDecor;39704332]I had a dream that Freeman's Mind Episode 45 was out[/QUOTE]

I had a dream that Hl3 was out. Funny how desires work, right?

[mySvenLabs]

[QUOTE=artDecor;39704332]I had a dream that Freeman's Mind Episode 45 was out[/QUOTE]

Sometimes... I dream of cheese.

[Perhaps]

[QUOTE=Naimvb;39702990]Cover time ! :v:

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Wow is that real?

[SUB][SUB]haha it's a joke gentlemen[/SUB][/SUB]

[Death_God]

[QUOTE=Naimvb;39702990]cover poop[/QUOTE]

so apparently after hl3 is out we're going to have to wait for windows 9 to come out

daaaamn

[Cranial Toxicity]

That brings up another question. When, or if, Hl3 comes out, I will literally be completely satisfied with everything related to gaming. I will have nothing else to wait for. I've spent 6 years waiting for it, and there will never be a game I've yearned for more than half life 3. I can't imagine life after Hl3...I've been waiting for it for so long, that nothing will be the same in my life. I'll still wake up and brush my teeth, but I'll have Hl3. I'll still go to bed at night, but I'll have half life 3. It's become a part of my daily life. I wake up in the morning, and then suddenly fall into a deep depression and sob uncontrollably once I realize that the game I want most in the world is being held back from me by the g-man (gabe newell). It's the one thing I'm missing in my life, for I'll never truly be complete without half life 3.

[tempunary]

I have a bad feeling that once Half-Life 3 gets released everyone will be making "Valve can't count to four" jokes.

[Durrsly]

When Episode 3, or Half-Life 3 is out, would it be added to the Half-Life Complete that people have bought?

[Meatpuppet]

[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;39707140]That brings up another question. When, or if, Hl3 comes out, I will literally be completely satisfied with everything related to gaming. I will have nothing else to wait for. I've spent 6 years waiting for it, and there will never be a game I've yearned for more than half life 3. I can't imagine life after Hl3...I've been waiting for it for so long, that nothing will be the same in my life. I'll still wake up and brush my teeth, but I'll have Hl3. I'll still go to bed at night, but I'll have half life 3. It's become a part of my daily life. I wake up in the morning, and then suddenly fall into a deep depression and sob uncontrollably once I realize that the game I want most in the world is being held back from me by the g-man (gabe newell). It's the one thing I'm missing in my life, for I'll never truly be complete without half life 3.[/QUOTE]

wtf

[Hell-met]

are HL1 and mods completely fixed now?

is there any new problem?

[Techbot]

[QUOTE=Nalty;39701388]i dont see it[/QUOTE]

[url]http://youtu.be/FDWw1uJFtII?t=53m30s[/url]

[Pugsworth]

[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;39707140]That brings up another question. When, or if, Hl3 comes out, I will literally be completely satisfied with everything related to gaming. I will have nothing else to wait for. I've spent 6 years waiting for it, and there will never be a game I've yearned for more than half life 3. I can't imagine life after Hl3...I've been waiting for it for so long, that nothing will be the same in my life. I'll still wake up and brush my teeth, but I'll have Hl3. I'll still go to bed at night, but I'll have half life 3. It's become a part of my daily life. I wake up in the morning, and then suddenly fall into a deep depression and sob uncontrollably once I realize that the game I want most in the world is being held back from me by the g-man (gabe newell). It's the one thing I'm missing in my life, for I'll never truly be complete without half life 3.[/QUOTE]

What about all the great mods and things that spawn from hl3?

[Chris M]

[QUOTE=vexx21322;39711432]What about all the great mods and things that spawn from hl3?[/QUOTE]

If Valve continues with their treatment of mods then there won't even be maps for Half-Life 3. Portal 2 and CSGO don't even work with reskins unless you hack pak01_dir.

[The Kins]

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;39711749]If Valve continues with their treatment of mods then there won't even be maps for Half-Life 3. Portal 2 and CSGO don't even work with reskins unless you hack pak01_dir.[/QUOTE]They're remedying this with TF2's switch to VPK with a system similar to Legacy Gmod Addons. Hopefully that goes well and moves to other games.

And now, something to chew on:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/w9Iw7S2.png[/img]

[DevinWatson]

[QUOTE=The Kins;39711996]
And now, something to chew on:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/w9Iw7S2.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[URL="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-stanton/38/45/919"]uk.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-stanton/38/45/919[/URL]

He only has two connections and I can't find any reference to him anywhere on the web...

[editline]25th February 2013[/editline]

Here's something that seems a bit more legit:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qrIa4x3.png[/IMG]

So Source 2 has been in development for over 2 years, interesting...

[The Kins]

Oh, and to cover it before someone posts it here: There was a mistake on LinkedIn that briefly made it look like Doug Lombardi had left Valve. He hasn't though! You can put your pants back on!

[cnnoi33]

atleast this is clear now
hybrid engine is source games running on source 2

old sfm code

elif ( 'hybrid' in projDir ) or ( 'l4d2port' in projDir ):
return ENGINE.HYBRID

thx tom

[DevinWatson]

Digging around various Valve artist's pages:

[thumb]http://www.mattcg.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/botfem_web.jpg[/thumb]

[QUOTE]A concept for a model that was cut from Portal 2[/QUOTE]

[thumb]http://www.mattcg.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/chell_portraitTest.png[/thumb]

[QUOTE]A test render of Portal 2's Chell model[/QUOTE]

[DohEntertainmen]

[QUOTE=DevinWatson;39712631]Digging around various Valve artist's pages:

[thumb]http://www.mattcg.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/botfem_web.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]

If memory serves me right, these things were supposed to be uncanny valley inducing robots when Portal 2 was still an M game.
You can still find propaganda advertising them around the old aperture facilities.
The male model was reused for the crash dummies you see turrets testing on.

[artdeco]

[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;39712743]If memory serves me right, these things were supposed to be uncanny valley inducing robots when Portal 2 was still an M game.
You can still find propaganda advertising them around the old aperture facilities.
The male model was reused for the crash dummies you see turrets testing on.[/QUOTE]When was Portal 2 ever been an M rated game?

[Chris M]

[QUOTE=artDecor;39713203]When was Portal 2 ever been an M rated game?[/QUOTE]

Never. It was going to be T-rated though. Like the first. But they got rid of blood.

[Drewsko]

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;39714203]Never. It was going to be T-rated though. Like the first. But they got rid of blood.[/QUOTE]

I thought it was the reverse, and Valve was more or less on board with an E rating for the first, but they forgot to code out the blood, thus the T.

[Neo Kabuto]

[QUOTE=Drewsko;39714291]I thought it was the reverse, and Valve was more or less on board with an E rating for the first, but they forgot to code out the blood, thus the T.[/QUOTE]

The first Portal was the one with blood in it. Portal 2 probably never had blood.

[Hogofwar]

Wasn't the blood in the first portal accidental?

[editline]25th February 2013[/editline]

Yes, yes it was.

[QUOTE]“In Portal, and we didn’t even notice it because we were using the Half-Life engine, when you get shot, it leaves bloodspatters on the walls,” he said. “We noticed it late. We said ‘Oh, let’s get that out of there,’ but it was too late and that was too low-level a thing to try to tear out. We might have messed something else up if we tried and not been able to ship. But we took that out immediately here, which actually affected the rating, I think.”[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.gamingangels.com/2011/03/pax-east-2011-portal-2-solo-and-an-interview-with-erik-wolpaw/[/url]

[Perhaps]

If HL2 were re-released today, it would probably be T.
The zombie gore isn't really all that graphic.

[Cranial Toxicity]

[QUOTE=Perhaps;39714917]If HL2 were re-released today, it would probably be T.
The zombie gore isn't really all that graphic.[/QUOTE]

Nope. Even if you don't count the [I]very graphic[/I] blood effects, the way the zombies corpses were strewn in Ravenholdm alone would be enough to give it an M.

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