Back From Break

Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:38 pm

Well, I ordered a GeForce 6200 recently. As soon as it came, I went on break for two days, playing half-life 2. I managed to finish Half-Life 2 for the first time in less than a 28 hour period, of which 13 hours or less was devoted to gameplay. How I finished Half-Life 2 in 13 hours I will never know.

So, now it's back to RF2. To be perfectly honest, it's good to be back. I was getting sick of shooting Combine, and still have a headache from it.

LtForce · Post by **LtForce** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:42 pm

And point of this post is....?

Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:47 pm

Just to tell you that i took a break from RF2 development, but that now alot of progress should be made.

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:50 pm

13 hours... impressive.

HL2 is quite short though.

You should see this: http://speeddemosarchive.com/HalfLife2.html
Some guy finishing it in less than 2 hours.

Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:52 pm

Yeah, it was somewhat short, but a bit too long for my taste. I guess I just got sick of it after a little while. The vehicular segments were nice, though, and it did a good job of breaking up the combat to give you breaks, though it failed at this too often near the end.

Wow, that's amazing! I have a video of one guy beating HL1 in 45 minutes. I watched the entire thing, it's amazing some of the things he pulled off...

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:59 pm

Yeah, I've seen the that HL1 video too. The guy doesn't even play like half of the game, pressing buttons from the other side of a wall and using those security guards and scientists to open doors. It's funny.

The thing I like in HL2 is that you don't get bored when playing it. Those parts with vehicles and playing with physics with the gravity gun make it interesting. The end is just sooo fun when you get the boosted gravity gun and start tossing people around.

Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:20 pm

I know! The last gun is awesome!

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I really like watching a breencast, then tearing the console it was broadcasted on off and hurling it into a crowd of about 10 combine and watching them go flying!

I also liked picking up one soldier and throwing him into another one! Also, when the combine elite shot one of those energy ball things, I would grab it out of midair with the gun, and throw it right back at him. Wish I could do that with bullets... Now THAT would be cool!

And it was halarious how when the combine elite brought the super gravity gun into Breen's office, he was just like "Oh, sweet! Put it over there." not realizing what I could do with it if I got free... Then tried to lift it, and he had to almost drag it... Rofl...

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GD1 · Post by **GD1** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:39 pm

i still haven't gotten past the prison level yet. there's some elements of the game that i like, but i get really bored playing it. plus i get that annoying bug that makes the AI only work about half of the time. i had to play the coastal highway level like 3 times before i got it to work properly so that i could finish it.

if you ask me, Halo beats HL anyday.

Cynnical · Post by **Cynnical** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:54 am

yea i definately had alot more fun playing halo2 then halflife 2. it just seemed that halflife2 really dragged at some points and i ended up just playing other games.