"massive preview of the Orange Box" friday night

you said there will be a preview tonight. well, its tonight, and i dont see any previews listed there..
 
Today, 01:05 PM

Tonight is 6pm over, and if that's in the states it's still quite some time away.
 
Neat, cant wait. Hope i can be around a pc when its released.
 
I think they're up...

Edit: A couple of new things, confirmation of an antlion king/queen creature, taunting in TF2 based on weapons, and the specifics of the challenge portal modes (#steps, #portals, time taken).
 
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Woohoo! Looks better than the artwork we saw earlier. Except for the lightning thing. That looks like something from HL1!
 
Holy crap, just a drawring/concept art but holy carp this looks cool

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Yeah, that's the one I wuz lookin' at.
I kinda skimmed over it since I don't want it to give too much away.
 
Meh, not too much new information contained in there. I'm interested to see what kind of "relationship" the G-Man has with Alyx.

Also, those "snide" comments made by Alyx don't seem to fit in quite right.
 
I thought that was a shield scanner!

While that ending may have been a cliffhanger for our PC-owning brethren, Xbox 360 owners will be able to dig right in to Episode Two.
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Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?

That hunter concept art looks awesome!

Health from a larvae? That wasn't in the gameplay videos! (I'm not complaining, though).
 
That citadel shot looks great.

Hm, so will there actually be an Antlion King/Queen? Or did they mix up Antlion Guard and Antlion King/Queen again..
 
That remains to be seen. Going through RTB, there was indeed an Antlion King that was to be included in HL2. But there was no place for it, and the creature was cut. It is entirely possible that the "King" they refer to is just another Guard, or is indeed the 60-foot-tall behemoth mentioned in RTB.
 
Avoidist said:
an antlion king/queen creature
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It's the Guard.

Interesting preview. Less structured gameplay? That's interesting, and I'm going to guess they mean the open combat encounters. Hopeit doesn't sort of drain the polished quality of the gameplay we've come to expect..
 
The "showdown at White Forest Inn" sounds like a classic Entanglement-style standoff. It also sounds like it'll be a hell of a lot harder than anything we've seen up to this point. I wonder if there will be some trick to it (as the middle turret battle in Entanglement and the elevator standoff in Lowlife were both quite easy once you developed strategies for them).
 
I can't wait any longer :( I have the whole summer holidays to wait.
 
Looks like the same place. Wet floor, helicopter, warehouse... the plot thickens.
 
WOW! Portal Spoiler!



"You’ll play as a previously unknown character who finds herself (yes, I’m pretty sure that the all-too-brief shot I got was of a female) waking up in a test lab called the Aperture Science Facility."
 
This really doesn't give out much new stuff, but damn does it hype me up! :D
 
Seriously cannot wait to sitting down to play HL2, EP1 and EP2 in fantastic graphical detail and performance. Cannot wait!
 
Those gits, calling the Antlion guard a "king/queen", hehe. Had my hopes up for a short time...

But hell, who cares. Soon we'll be playing it, and that's all that interests me.

And Antipop, you didn't name yourself after Antipop Consortium by any chance, did you?
 
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