City 17 IS somewhere ex-Soviet Union

[FthrJACK]

Shouldn't this go in another forum or something? Isn't this technically a spoiler?

jerkface!

err.. i dont think you know what a spoiler is. Troll.

 

[Pogrom]

FYI, cyrillic is also used in Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia.

It has been stated as an "East European style" city. Soviet Union did occupy it's near neighbours sort of, so cyrrillic could be found in many east european countries also.

If we're just going on who uses cyrrillic then so does Mongolia, and Kazakstan, and many more ex-Soviet states.

 

[ukfluke]

well i was in prague(czech republic) recently and the architecture is damn close to hl2. But alot of european cities look like that e.g amsterdam.

http://www.highwaygold.co.uk/images/hqphotos/20030907/reduced/AUT_0050.jpg

 

[KingPing_NOR]

the city landscape reminds me of the homeland!

or the Motherland! geddit?! HAHA! Motherland! Russia and motherland! ..............................*/me gets eaten by headcrabs released by other forum members*..... :x

 

[bat_lyubo]

PEOPLE, THIS IS GETTING BORING. NOW LETS FOCUS ON FINDING THE SIMILIARITIES.
Lets make one thing clear. City 17 is based on Sofia, as the level designer is fromm Sofia. It has borrowed stuff from other cities, I think the second city used is Budapest. So no Russia. please...
And City 17 is not soifa, its just based on it. Please can we now focus on more interesting things about City 17, now that we know ''where it is''

 

[iMMuNiTy]

PEOPLE, THIS IS GETTING BORING. NOW LETS FOCUS ON FINDING THE SIMILIARITIES.
Lets make one thing clear. City 17 is based on Sofia, as the level designer is fromm Sofia. It has borrowed stuff from other cities, I think the second city used is Budapest. So no Russia. please...
And City 17 is not soifa, its just based on it. Please can we now focus on more interesting things about City 17, now that we know ''where it is''

Another blinded fan from Bulgaria.

City 17 is a mixed up city. VALVe done a very great job designing the environment. They've took several cities and mixed them into one. It has features from Bulgaria (few buildings, the sign "Ciment" is Cement in Bulgarian), even Poland (mainly trainstations), and a bit of Baltic countries (especially Tallinn old part of town - I was amazed to see how similar City 17 was in some places to Tallinn. But most of the HL2 is oriented on Soviet Union. Soviet Union IS NOT Russia, make no mistake. As we know, many countries were part of the Soviet Union. VALVe selected such attributics, if we may call it that, because if fitted the atmosphere. Instead of putting the player into an abandoned factory of Synths or a New York town they throwed us into an unusal city, inhabited by "Metropolice", all passages blocked, patrolled by high Striders, armed with lethal weaponry, scanners fly around, taking pictures, making sure everyone is registered and in their places. The best atmosphere for such strict rules, punishments, duties and jobs, etc. is Soviet Union. If we'd replace the hi-tech with that of 1950-1990, we'd see how similar it would be to the Soviet Union...

But no. I'd say mainly it's a mixture of European towns. It has a little drop of everything in it. It would be foolish to state strictly that City 17 takes place in here or there.

 

[bat_lyubo]

Another blinded fan from Bulgaria.

City 17 is a mixed up city. VALVe done a very great job designing the environment. They've took several cities and mixed them into one. It has features from Bulgaria (few buildings, the sign "Ciment" is Cement in Bulgarian), even Poland (mainly trainstations), and a bit of Baltic countries (especially Tallinn old part of town - I was amazed to see how similar City 17 was in some places to Tallinn. But most of the HL2 is oriented on Soviet Union. Soviet Union IS NOT Russia, make no mistake. As we know, many countries were part of the Soviet Union. VALVe selected such attributics, if we may call it that, because if fitted the atmosphere. Instead of putting the player into an abandoned factory of Synths or a New York town they throwed us into an unusal city, inhabited by "Metropolice", all passages blocked, patrolled by high Striders, armed with lethal weaponry, scanners fly around, taking pictures, making sure everyone is registered and in their places. The best atmosphere for such strict rules, punishments, duties and jobs, etc. is Soviet Union. If we'd replace the hi-tech with that of 1950-1990, we'd see how similar it would be to the Soviet Union...

But no. I'd say mainly it's a mixture of European towns. It has a little drop of everything in it. It would be foolish to state strictly that City 17 takes place in here or there.

What I'm tryina say is that some people are postin some worthless things and the thread is dragging on too much. No hard feelings:bounce:

 

[loofy]

DEAR LORD! I posted in this thread 2 years ago! It just WON"T die!

 

[iMMuNiTy]

Thread bumping n00bs are everywhere. :|

EDIT: And the bumper of this thread bumped it just to say bullshit.

 

[bat_lyubo]

lets not write any nore in this thread, so it goes to the bottom of the list n we can alll forget and live hapily ever after.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

It is not Russian. 99 % of all Russian you see in game and movies is FAKE. Made up letters such as in Goldeneye and Red Alert to made up words in Red October spoken by Sean Connery. If you THINK you see Russian in a game just assume it is fake. Only one game I know has Real Russian - and that is Il-2 Sturmovik.

The Architecture of HL2 looks Romanian, Bulgarian and Slovakian to me. Mostly from the 1970s and 80s. And to those who reside in Eastern European states - learning Russian is not as important as during the cold war, but still something useful to have. Good thing that first everyone learns English though.

The place reminds me of bucharest or Sofia.

Freedom Fighters has real Russian apparantly too (with proper accents and such for soldiers. So I've been told, I have to take their word since I don't speak Russian)

edit: Bah it's a bump of an old thread.

 

[sinkoman]

*reads thread title*

Oh my goodness it's 2004 all over again.

I think we came to the agreement that it could be damn near anywhere in eastern Europe.

 

[The Monkey]

It lies near the Baltic Sea (there's a place called Café Baltic), which, if you consider that Valve said it lies in eastern Europe, means that City 17 lies in one of the following countries: Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland.

 

[bat_lyubo]

It lies near the Baltic Sea (there's a place called Café Baltic), which, if you consider that Valve said it lies in eastern Europe, means that City 17 lies in one of the following countries: Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland.

We already said that and we included a few mopre countries and real motifs from each one. Please look back. <----

 

[Sieg]

Didn't one of the producers say the game takes place in New Mexico?

 

[iMMuNiTy]

Didn't one of the producers say the game takes place in New Mexico?

Half-Life 1. And really, does Half-Life 2 look like New Mexico to you? At all? Hope you were being sarcastic. Or sleepy.