Does it matter? If its cool, go with it! Yes, they could be more original, but what's tried & true also tends to sell.
What's great about HL1/2 is that if you have a better idea for a monster, go and make one! If its really that good you'll have a number of single-player mods wanting to...
DoD won't be out for months.
[edit] once user-made mods come out for steam, some of them must be purchased and can only be done so through steam. Its up to the mod-authors whether or not they want to charge for the mod.
Nobody knows for sure WHY or HOW TO FIX IT except those with access to the lighting source code.
Hey SHE, why don't you download the HL2 source code, fix the lighting problem, and email Valve your fix! I'm sure they wouldn't care that you used the stolen code because you fixed this...
I have to work... saving vacation days for the holidays. Doesn't mean I won't stay up all night!
Let's see, 12am release to 7:30 work + 5:30 home again to 12pm is 14 hours.
My guess is the work with the mod teams is so that they don't overstep their bounds, i.e. making it so we can't do as much with the SDK than with a licensed copy of the engine.
Video was staged, pc was a crap 286 or something similar.
Absinthe, cheaters suck.
They are 'online terrorists'.
They make people's gaming experience miserable.
They make people quit playing the game for good.
They are selfish bastards.
They stoop to a low level and...
If HL2 went gold, you'd hear about it on the net from a major news source.
Slashdot.org had an article about halo 2 going gold, it will have one about HL2 as well.
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Just about anyone who plays competitive CS feels that cs:s is not yet ready for real CPL/CAL play.
For me, I used to spray alot, and rather well. It got worse in 1.6, but not uncontrollable. In cs:s, every time i spray...