The Gaming News Thread

[johnhughthom]

Hmm, I really must try those Half Life thingies one day, I've heard they are pretty playable, as PC games go. I've had them all on my Steam account for aaages, and never gotten around to installing them.

[Monk]

Well, it looks like you'll have plenty of time, RPS is reporting in an update that the HL3 thing is a fake. Valve aren't even presenting new games at gamescom.

Son of a

[Fragony]

Hmm, I really must try those Half Life thingies one day, I've heard they are pretty playable, as PC games go. I've had them all on my Steam account for aaages, and never gotten around to installing them.

They are still worth playing, the second one has a few area's that drag on too long and it's never a challenge, but there are a few area's that are pure genius. These guys at Valve are maniacs, if the artists and level-designers have to read short stories that take place in the levels that have nothing to do with the game itself, just to make the area's more believable, you know they are dedicated. It isn't the looker it was when it was released but I heard there are quite a few mods that seriously improve it

[TinCow]

Hmm, I really must try those Half Life thingies one day, I've heard they are pretty playable, as PC games go. I've had them all on my Steam account for aaages, and never gotten around to installing them.

Hmmm... this is a difficult situation. The problem with playing Half-Life (1 and 2) now is that you're going to be very unimpressed with them. Everything they do you've seen in dozens of other games. What made them awesome is that they (particularly Half-Life 1) pretty much created all of those things. At the time HL1 came out, it was a revolution in FPS gaming. You're not going to feel that way playing it for the first time now though. If anything, it might feel particularly constrained and rote. If you do go back and play it, try and keep in mind that, when it came out, FPS gaming meant Doom, Quake, Unreal, and other pretty mindless (no plot) shoot-em-ups. Stuff like Medal of Honor, Deus Ex, etc. didn't come along until later.

[Fragony]

The first Half-Life is still a blast to play because of the incredible AI of the human opponents, it's a bit odd that only Halo and (especially) FEAR did it any better. The second is kinda lacking there, the enemies aren't very fun to fight they don't flank or flush you out at all

[Husar]

OnLive is bankrupt.

That was faster than I could've hoped for!

[drone]

EA putting itself up for sale.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/3747...games-sale.htm

Hopefully the new owners will learn to treat their customers a little better.

[rajpoot]

EA putting itself up for sale.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/3747...games-sale.htm

Hopefully the new owners will learn to treat their customers a little better.

Kind of bittersweet if this actually happens.
I mean I do dislike the way they do business, but still it's sad to think that maybe they were forced to turn into this greedy money grubbing publisher, as the times changed.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I would be flabbergasted if they were purchased by an equity company that even cared about EA's various policies, never mind cared in a way that led to better policies towards consumers and studios. The only thing that an organization that could buy them out cares about is the short term percentage...

[Fragony]

Kind of bittersweet if this actually happens.
I mean I do dislike the way they do business, but still it's sad to think that maybe they were forced to turn into this greedy money grubbing publisher, as the times changed.

Why the negativity I can think of worse offenders. EA is a pretty damn good publisher of quality games. Eidos is by far the worst, just about every game they release needed more time