Just a rumor so don't panic :) (was: Half Life 2 Delayed... AGAIN)

[Gorgon]

Half Life 2 Delayed... AGAIN

Just had an email from Gameplay.com telling me that the release date for Half Life 2 has been changed to Sep 24 2004

Thats 248 days until release!!!

I guess they must be completly re-making that game! Shame nVidia got so upset about their performance, that they forced a re-work of the GFX Engine to make nVidia GPU's perform better.

Source Warpsearch ;( ;( ;( ;(

I hop this is not real ;( ;( ;(

 

[Brian Damage]

I somehow doubt it. Was the eMail specifically about HL2 being delayed, or was it just a list of game release dates?

 

[Munro]

From the Gameplay sales bloke:

[Communal_Toilet]: its not official date or anything, no extra news
[Communal_Toilet]: just our system, we've set it to sept as the date is still TBC
[Communal_Toilet]: we should be sending a mail out to explain it
[Communal_Toilet]: its just so the next change we make should be the actual date from Vivendi

Ignore retailers

 

[Mr. Redundant]

From the Gameplay sales bloke:

[Communal_Toilet]: its not official date or anything, no extra news
[Communal_Toilet]: just our system, we've set it to sept as the date is still TBC
[Communal_Toilet]: we should be sending a mail out to explain it
[Communal_Toilet]: its just so the next change we make should be the actual date from Vivendi

Ignore retailers

I love ye Munro
thanks for the clarification.

 

[Gorgon]

Yes it was Brian,

 

[Brian Damage]

One word: Phew!

 

[Edcrab]

Ack, this is going to get one helluva lot of views- 'till someone changes the title to "Actually, we're not certain". I almost had a heart attack, even though I expected this to be semi-speculation or a joke. If there was another genuine delay, I'd probably explode.

Bah. Maybe a surprise is in the works, and Valve'll actually announce HL2's gold date within two or three months. We can but hope...

 

[Champ]

Well... If they're gonna delay it again they're probably gonna do it like the last time. Delay the game when it actually exceeds the release date...

 

[Caminante]

It'd be true, the game certainly won't be release this year. It'd be great if an official source would confirm this rumors. I feel sorry for those fanboys who bought the Radeon 9800XT for the HL2 cupon.

 

[The Dark Elf]

By rights this should be in the rumors section. But I'll leave it so people will see it

 

[mortiz]

I doubt gameplay.com have any more information than us.

Someone should e-mail Gabe and ask him, but i'm pretty confident it's false (famous last words)

 

[maximus0402]

i am about to....

buy a 9800xt in late Feburary, me being a fanboy, I am not sure why you would feel sorry for the people who are going to/already have bought the 9800xt. Its an awesome card that happens to come with halflife 2 for free, bonus!! But I highly doubt anyone would piss away 500 bucks because they want the free game. Its not like we would get it earlier then anyone else, in fact it will probably arrive a few weeks late then retail. Please don't be sorry for us, feel jealous that you dont have the best card on the market

 

[mortiz]

Or sorry for you because we'll buy ours when HL-2 release date is announced and therefore get it at a better price.

 

[Mountain Man]

Seriously, though, would anybody really be that surprised if it was pushed back to September 2004? Hell, I'm still skeptical about the last rumored April 2004 date!

 

[mortiz]

They won't unless something major has happend between when Rick was telling everyone *soon* for the SDK and now.

 

[QProtocol]

If half-Life 2 Delayed again, well I really wouldn't be looking forward to anything

Unless It was a 2 Level demo or something. 1 Level would be a Physics room and the other would be a weapons testing room. It would be shaped liked an indoor shooting range but would have Zombies and headcrabs for targets. Thats all I needs
God its like freakin crack and I havent even played it