29? Bullshit.
If you truly are, I pity you - I can't think of anyone who is more pathetic than a 29 year old whose vocabulary and actions are limited to those of a 12 year old boy.
Wesisapie: thanks for not releasing any spoilers, but I think now that the source has been confirmed as real...
I'm not sure where Valve said that there will be no Black mesa, but they definitely said that some locations of the first game will be revisited, and that there will be no Xen. I guessed that meant that Black mesa would be in the game.
I can't be bothered to find my sources, but do a search...
My idea is that perhaps there will be a conversion of CS onto Source (and not the full sequel CS 2) CSC, if you will.
I did pull this out of my arse though, so don't get excited about it - it's just an idea off the top o my head.
They are bound to have a standard deathmatch mode as well...
If you're the sort of person who upgrades every 6 months, then the Barton line isn't great, but if, like me, you upgrade very rarely and replace your whole mobo/processor/RAM/Garphics Card in one go, it's not a problem.
If you absolutely must have the fastest chip available, you have to go for the Pentium IV option.
However, if you have more sense than money, I would go for a Barton Core Athlon, as they provide far better performance for the money.
I can remember gabe saying that to play HL2 you had to have it authenticated somehow - either through the steam server or using the CD it came on (which'll naturally have safedic or something).
Don't worry - they wouldn't be stupid enough to force people to be connected to the internet, and...
valve are an entirely privately owned company, so there are not shares for them. Sorry - gabe and co make all the money, and they haven't had shareholders on their back for the past 5 years, so they could just make the best game they could...
I am very nearly 100% positive I read gabe being quoted as saying that it was indeed 15 years later.
It's interesting that everyone has aged in the game (as far as you can tell from the almost impossible comparison of thr graphics from the two games) except Gordon.
Perhaps the G-man put...
OK - I've lurked for ages, and finally I'm going to post.
I've been looking at all the debate about the multiplayer aspect of hl2, and the silence of valve is very interesting.
Also interesting is the other (not counter-strike 2) half-life 2 engine project the counter-strike team have...