sHm0zY's Valve Tour & Play test!

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After a long 2 and a half hour ride we (me my best friend and my dad) FINALLY arrived at valve.
http://img35.exs.cx/img35/404/valve.jpg

As I was in the waiting room Waiting for Gabe, I saw lots of neat stuff Most of you have probly seen all of this before but here it is anyways.
http://img35.exs.cx/img35/7972/Shelf.jpg
http://img19.exs.cx/img19/3554/shelf2.jpg
http://img41.exs.cx/img41/1654/GOLDENCROWBAR.jpg
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/4248/Toys.jpg
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/7770/Thanks1.jpg

(I can't remember all the names of the people I was introduced too, but they were all really nice guys)
Soon Marc showed up we shook hands and he introduced himself. He said he would be talking us on the tour because gabe is in a meeting. =( We walked in and he introduced me to all these game developers, they showed me what they did and how they do it (VERY CONFUSING) I have some pictures of some of the modleing for For the guy on the big monitor talking to you in one of the demos. Here he is.
http://img31.exs.cx/img31/6682/3dmodel.jpg
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/6600/3dmodle2.jpg

We went into the steam room, With the guys that made steam. marc asked us if we had any complaints we should tell them now. I said no. and there like are you SURE and I said yeah.. I don't have any problems with steam..

Then we went into this place where the guy there is doing the facial animation, It was so cool how they did it. the lip sink and the facial animation was awesome. I don't have any pictures of that cuz i was too busy looking at it.

On the tour I asked the people about fortress 2 They would not tell me anything about it.

We were walking in the hall way and the tour guide said "this is gabes knife collection he likes knives.
http://img19.exs.cx/img19/4891/gabesknives.jpg
Then we saw a Dod poster thing
http://img44.exs.cx/img44/3038/dod.jpg
Then we saw a picture of a colt .45
http://img33.exs.cx/img33/2717/colt45.jpg
Then we saw This german guy
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/4591/Germanguy.jpg

Then we went into the Concept and 3d modeling office, The guy there showed us all the aliens in half life 2 I didn't take any pictures because I didn't think they would let me. He showed us all these aliens that didn't make it into half life some of them were pretty weird looking lol then he showed me the strider and stuff and i asked him I herd you can pilot the strider. and the guy said .... He didn't say anything. lol. he dosent want to spoil anything. He allso told us that the first head crab was purple and it had butt cheeks.LOL. and the Face hugger from alien was there insperation for the head crab.

We left the room And Marc asked us if we were hungry we could grab some food. Me and my friend grabbed a pop. here is his all the food that was there.
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/9186/Food1.jpg

I asked him about the script leak he said yeah it was leaked but it wont make sense if you read it. So they arnt worrying too much about it

He told me that allot of deff people have been sending them letters because they want to play half life but they cant understand it. so there will probly be a sub tittle option in half life 2.

Some people told me to take pictures of white bored. So here they ARE!
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/2208/White-bored.jpg
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/4497/White-Bored2.jpg

Then we went in for the play test and gabe stopped by we shook hands and introduced ourselves's and talked to us for a bit. He asked me if i was into moding. I said no, Is it easy? and he said they are trying to make it easy and he told me there is so many things that you can do with the scource engine. I asked him when half life 2 will be released. and he said VERY SOON! We talked for a little bit more and I asked him for a picture with him.
gabe is the nicest guy!!!!
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/6027/Clintgabethomas.jpg
He told me to tell him What he thought about the game when we were done.
So we started playing from the begin of the game the intro to the game is bad ass you probly already have seen it just the G man saying its been allong time mr freeman and all this other stuff. I got out of the train.. the combine are jerks. I stand there and if i don't get out of the way they push me. so I picked up a box and threw it at them.. then they chased me and beat me with there stick thing that shocks me, I walked around and this combine knocked some pop can off a table and he was like PICK IT UP so I did..... AND THREW IT AT HIS FACE!!!! and then he chanced me forever beating me =( The game is soo fun! You guys will love it. even just walking around throwing things and looking at things! we played for about half an hour. I dotn wanna tell you anything about it here, because i don't want to spoil anything..I cant wait for this game! Then the marc told us that thats all we can play because he didn't want to spoil anything when we got to play it at home.
MY RATEIGN FOR THIS GAME SOO FAR 10000000324325321200/10

The Tour came to an end and we got some t-shirts =D
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/1181/T-shirt.jpg

This tour was very fun It was well worth sitting in the car for 2 and a half hours.

If you have ANY other questions about the game or the tour ask me here or add me on msn or aim, and I will try to answer it for you.

I had sooo much fun! I had a smile on my face the whole time =D

I hope you enjoyed reading that =D
 
Awesome! Holy crap, this has to do with the preload probably, or something new!
 
Wow very nice job Shmozy, surprised you didn't make a pre visit thread. Hah Night Elf


EDIT: Guess this means white board cracking time.
 
Dedatorv said:
Wow very nice job Shmozy, surprised you didn't make a pre visit thread. Hah Night Elf
haha thanks =D I was thinkign about a pre visit thred but meh
 
Mr-Fusion said:
Any word in HL2dm?

And those whiteboards...hehe wtf :D
I My friend (noob) asked him if they were putting all the mods for hl into half life 2. he siad yes and he mentiond hl dm.. hmmm!
 
That's awesome, I'd love to see that dev studio in action. *heavy sigh* I wish I still lived in Seattle.
 
TheOriginalEvil said:
Ok, cool. Any new pics, Ohh hey look a golden crowbar, no way! =/
I wanted to take pictures when i was playin hl2 but they didnt let me
 
Were there any FLUFFY HEACRABS in the offices ? :p
And did Doug say anything about what is in the collector's edition ?
 
Neo_Kuja said:
Were there any FLUFFY HEACRABS in the offices ?
And did Doug say anything about what is in the collector's edition ?
I did not get to talk to doug he was busy i saw him in the hall way tho.
 
Already figured something out on the whiteboard. The Matt :( refers to Matthew Wood who's alias is ROCKSOCKM, Matthew Wood is working on DNF....
 
sHm0zY said:
I My friend (noob) asked him if they were putting all the mods for hl into half life 2. he siad yes and he mentiond hl dm.. hmmm!
What i meant was, is there a Half-Life 2 multiplayer mode set in the hl2 universe with the hl2 weapons and enemies?
 
Mr-Fusion said:
What i meant was, is there a Half-Life 2 multiplayer mode set in the hl2 universe with the hl2 weapons and enemies?
Im not sure sorry
 
Ohh yeah and while i was playin i noticed alyx has a nice BUM!! lolol
 
Awesome job sHm0zy! :cheers:

Best write-up so far. Thanks for all the pictures and for a detailed write-up.
 
Did you see the menu for Halflife 2? Did you see a multiplayer button, and did you look in it? *prays he knows something about the MP*
 
Maybe that means something...

Sparta said:
Nice Haircut Gabe, looking snazzy

Maybe that means something...like they are, like if money were time $0.01 shy of completing it? Hmm!

boing! :bounce:
 
blahblahblah said:
Awesome job sHm0zy! :cheers:

Best write-up so far. Thanks for all the pictures and for a detailed write-up.
THanks man! =D glad I actualy did somethign good on these forms!
 
Wow, some cool stuff. Nice visit. I'm very happy with Gabe's, "Very soon/close." remark. Maybe it'll go gold very early September.
 
Hectic Glenn said:
Did you see the menu for Halflife 2? Did you see a multiplayer button, and did you look in it? *prays he knows something about the MP*
marc set up the game for me.
 
Malfunction said:
Wow, some cool stuff. Nice visit. I'm very happy with Gabe's, "Very soon/close." remark. Maybe it'll go gold very early September.

yup...just what i was going to say :bounce:
 
sHm0zY said:
I asked him about the script leak he said yeah it was leaked but it wont make sense if you read it. So they arnt worrying too much about it

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

After all of my careful work to ****ing avoid ****ing spoilers, i open some ****ing thread a month away from release to find out the END OF THE GAME?!!?

AAARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!!
 
Hey shmozy, can you describe what kinda of stuff you did when you got out of the train, the combine dropped a soda can and actually told YOU to pick it up, rofl
 
Rafa 5.0 said:
Hey shmozy, can you describe what kinda of stuff you did when you got out of the train, the combine dropped a soda can and actually told YOU to pick it up, rofl

haha...that sounded great! Hopefully it wasn't scripted, and there are "random actions" that they do at that point. It sounded great how you threw the soda can at him! hahaha
 
Rafa 5.0 said:
Hey shmozy, can you describe what kinda of stuff you did when you got out of the train, the combine dropped a soda can and actually told YOU to pick it up, rofl

Is there a "use" key for picking up stuff? Did the combine guards acutally hurt you when they kicked you and stuff?
 
Rafa 5.0 said:
Hey shmozy, can you describe what kinda of stuff you did when you got out of the train, the combine dropped a soda can and actually told YOU to pick it up, rofl
yeah he was an ass hole he walked saw me looked at the soda can and smacked it and was liek PICK IT UP lol

the begining was ecacly like the demo with you gettign out of the train and then you go into theis room with a chair with blood around it.... THATS ALL ILL SAY WHAT HAPENS NEXT = BIG SPOILER

YOu use e to pick up things.
no it dosent hurt when they hit you because you dont have the hev suit
 
nice, Gabe got a new haircut. Lookin' good my man, lookin' good.
 
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