[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

[Veedems Veteran]

The fanboat sequence is kind of rough. I'm on it now (taking my sweet time) and man my head started throbbing.

[five04]

i used to get really sick playing the old first person shooters. i remember i puked once while playing rise of the triad. newer games don't have any effect on me though. the old ones bothered me because the walls would bend as you turned but modern 3d engines don't have that problem. i haven't played half life 2 yet, but i'm having second thoughts about buying it if this is a real problem for a lot of people.

[Rob2687]

I've played for a couple hours at a time..I did't feel a thing.

[Sn1p3t]

Yeah the game is truly amazing. Gameplay is so dynamic and original. And the ending was done just right. It's too bad we're gonna have to wait another six years for HL3. But when it is out, I hope all the mysteries and secrets will finally be revealed. I can't wonder forver.

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It's NOT going to be 6 years :rolleyes:

Most of the development time was done on Source. Chances are HL3 will use an updated versoin of Source, which won't take as long.

[Banjo]

I can't play for more than half an hour at a time :/ This is pretty much why I'm only on the first few chapters. :( I want to finish it but it's pretty hard when I have to stop for a few hours after only like 30 mins of play :/

[sanctified Veteran]

It's NOT going to be 6 years :rolleyes:

Most of the development time was done on Source. Chances are HL3 will use an updated versoin of Source, which won't take as long.

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That can give them more time to work in a concept, altho I think it will be HARD to top what they have done with Half Life 2

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It's NOT going to be 6 years :rolleyes:

Most of the development time was done on Source. Chances are HL3 will use an updated versoin of Source, which won't take as long.

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Thank you :yes:

[Acezo]

Luckily I didn't have any problems

[RGSPro]

I got really sick night I beat the airboat levels.

[EzeWong]

Just to point out yet ANOTHER reason Gman is not Gordon is

****Spoiler alert****

If you beat HL1, at the end G-man gives Gordon a choice to work for him or not.

If you decide not to work for him, he kills you.

That would make absolutely NO SENSE if he was himself from teh future.

[gigapixels Veteran]

No problems here, and I'm at Nova Prospekt...

[SaLiVa]

He told Gordon Freeman, he had a choice, to work for him or face a battle you know you'll lose. So you pick the one you know you'll lose I guess Gordon must've gave up in order for him to appear in Half Life 2.

[SaLiVa]

Overclocked - That could be your problem?

I think its definitely a video card problem of some sort, try tweak your BIOS setting, like what the post above said. Artefacts are the worst!

[ANova]

Type in "steam://validate/220" without the quotes in your browser.

This will check your copy for corrupted textures and update the game as necessary. Next go to ATI's site, download the 4.12 betas and install. Then make sure the fan on your video card is working; artifacting often forms when cards overheat. If it still does it after all of that then you either have a bad card or some other component in your PC has probably failed such as the ram.

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

There is a thread about this on steampowered.com Motion Sickness

Basically if you change the POV from 75 to 90 it solves the problem.

[Vice]

Airboat level - after that I felt really sick, my head was really throbbing and I could not read at all after that. Till the next day.

[sjgore]

I thought this was going to be about people calling in sick at work, so that they could stay at home and play Half Life 2!

No motion sickness here, but I have a real-life fear of deep water and the early levels involving lots of water made me feel queasy... but that's a tribute to the graphics of the game, not a complaint!

[FatCat]

for me it's just the npc models there just too real. A couple of times I smiled because I felt like I was really talking to them.

[Ash]

Ya I used ot get a headache playing Wolf 3D on PC.

I think also I have a bit of epilepsy (sp?) because every time I played Strider (arcade and Sega Genesis) I would get very sick to my stomache and throw up and be ill for a few days. Same thing when I watched the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure. After the 3rd time it made me sick I realized that the movie was making me sick and it wasn't a coincidence.

[max1]

I get head ache even if i play old CS for 1/2 hour . So i dont play it :(

[altermind]

happened to me.. first time in a game ever... did'nt happen in farcry...

[ANova]

I've played through the game twice already, never once felt anything in the area of sickness. And I'm even playing on a monitor with a refresh of 60 Hz.

[islanq]

Not to mention the legal battles that where going on prior to its release. Now that everything in straightend out, I predict HL3 in 4 years tops.

[hadiz]

The airboat level was...dizzying but other than that I've not had any problems.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

The last sections of the game were awesome.. throwing the combine dudes around with that blue grav gun was gaming excellent - and the graphical effect of those weird blue cylinders which kinda suspended them in an energy field was amazing. Best single player PC game ever I think for me! :)