anyone remember?

[FriScho]

"One of the most anticipated games of the year, Half-Life, has had its release date set back from its original schedule. Expected to be released in November with the demo in mid-October of this year, Sierra pushed back the release date of its game to the first quarter of 1998. The demo should be available about a month before the retail version is out. Disappointment was felt both at Sierra, and also Valve Software, developers of Half-Life. In an honest statement to many Half-Life fan sites, the people at Valve told of the delay. "The problem is pretty simple, Half-Life is a very intricate and detailed game, and it's taking us longer to get it done than we thought. We considered simplifying parts of the game or dropping some features to try and cut back on the amount of work, but in the end we decided it was best to keep building the product we all believe in and take our lumps on the schedule." At least they told us in advance instead of surprising us with the news at the last moment.

In a lighter note, Sierra and Valve Software also released their Top 10 reasons on why the delay:
10.
We resisted Ultima On-line but got sucked into Oprah's book club
9.
Wasted 300 development hours catapulting sheep
8.
Gabe and Mike learned scheduling at Microsoft
7.
We're having problems making it year 2000 compatible
6.
El Nino
5.
Redoing the models so they all have ponytails
4.
Wedge put his eye out with his new pellet machine gun (see www.valvesoftware.com/hocopus)
3.
Spending too much time on our .plan files
2.
Everything is finished; just waiting on the "Bill Gates Mansion" level
1.
Forgot to add mandatory Satanic references"

14. October 1997
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/407/3622

 

[-JeZ-]

hehe

 

[WaSwAt]

>> has been posted in the news section <<
funny though

 

[SilentKilla]

it really isnt funny, there is not one excuse for it being delayed.

 

[FriScho]

@SilentKilla: Yes, it's really annoying behaviour from their side.

 

[commando]

hi

i have the latest PCZONE MAG for UK. and at the bk it says.

"NEXT MONTH EXCLUSIVE HL2 REVIEW! ON OCTOBER 16th"

so the mag is out on the 16th of october. and a REVIEW comes AFTER the game is out!

 

[FriScho]

or they will write a "we are sorry, but the review copy didn't make it in time, hl2 was delayed". PC mags have deadlines and when you read it, the informations in the mag are 2 weeks old. So you won't see a review OR the PC mag got an exclusive final-beta-Review Version prior to the release-master.

 

[commando]

hmm dam it. it also had a prview in this "november 2003" addition i have saying "yes it will be out sept 30th honest it will"

lol DAM.

so the DECEMBER 2003 addition is out on october 16th with a review well supposed to have anyways.

 

[[Matt]]

PC zone have a section called 'Missing in action' which states reason why games are late for both review and release... I garuntee HL2 will feature in that section next month...

 

[Jambob]

Haha, that's too true MaTT.