and why no boxed normal old-school sales version in the store next door? If steam is not ready for HL2 now, they should sell it the old fashioned way in the meantime. You know, with getting a box with manual and a cd/dvd and such stuff :)
They can sell TF2 via Steam, maybe then it's fast...
mid-november to early-december is the last date if you want to grab the holiday season. 12/24 would be too late :)
I'm already over the peak of my hl2-hype so I do not care that much anyway. Maybe it will be pushed into 2004, maybe not... I play other games now.
http://www.math.uni.edu/~somodi/images/cluj.jpg
This is Cluj, Romania - The city Horia Dociu - 3d Environmental Artist from Valve was born and raised before he moved to the states.
I think no more searching needed. He just created City 17 the way he remembered his hometowen Cluj in Romania.
I know Dhabih Engs work and he is awesome. Maybe he is hard to work with, but his talent is outstanding. I really wonder what happened.
A work he did December '99
http://sijun.com/dhabih/gallery/gdm-print.jpg
nearly 5 years of secret developement and Valve was able to destroy the surprise and the excitement in less than 2 weeks. Congratulations for screwing up the whole HL2 launch! Great job, well done Valve!
I'm done with Valve. No email response, no Benchmark, no game, no concrete date, nothing. I fed up with those lame trys to heat up the hype. I'm starting to lose interest.
I hope there is a flamethrower in HL2
http://www.vwip.org/images/ground/vnr704.jpg
http://www.achtungpanzer.bos***/images/flamen1.jpg
http://www.zianet.com/paulsplans/images/fthrow2.gif
I love flamethrowers.... I'm a little firebug/pyromaniac
I heard there are 3 different boxes, one ist the face of Gordon, one of the G-Man and one is Alyx. I want the G-Man one. Seems they like the Warcraft3-boxes-style.
@oldi1knoby. N00b yourself. The e3 video scenes are recorded and played in timedemo mode. That's the benchmarks the guys got to see on the websites Sept. 12. 2003.
The City17 Strider scene was the most intense and performance demanding and on Radeon9800pro CPU limited...
or it may never happen, we still drive cars based on very old ideas and same to computers (with bits and byte). We would need a complete new computer technologie not based on transistors and 0/1 but on neurons, biological dynamic networks with dynamic chemical connections. Talk about Science...