The Valve crew is awsome

[Jmechy]

I spent probably 25% of my two days at E3 in and around the HL2 booths/theaters. They just looked so awsome this year, and HL2 looked so beautiful. When i saw Erik Johnson again this year, he actually recognized me from last year. I got to talk to him, as well as Gabe Newell, Doug Lombardi, Doug Wood, and one more guy (I forgot his name though, he works on GUI stuff i think?). They were all very polite, and answered all my questions the best that they could. They were even nice enough to sign my HL2 fact sheet.

http://jmechy.digitalpaintball.net/E3/e3-04/ValveSigs.JPG

I also got 3 HL2 shirts, valve is awsome!

You can check out the rest of my E3 pics here:

http://jmechy.digitalpaintball.net/E3/e3-04/

be warned, there are lots of them, they are very large in size, and many are of poor quality!

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

sweet you went to e3..lucky what did you talk to the valvers about?

 

[Aphal]

Will you be able to buy the shirts once HL2 is out?

 

[DimitriPopov]

So , what exactally is that collectors PCGamer?

 

[Apos]

What did they say? Did you learn anything interesting about the development or the game?

 

[EC]

Wow, that line is......

 

[Beserker]

You biatch! No autographs for you!
Naaaaaw, you are lucky man...to me anyways...next year...next yeeeaaarrr...

 

[Jmechy]

Talked to valvers about sdk, hl2 multiplayer, and all sorts of other stuff. All of that has already been posted by others though.

The Collectors Edition of the PCGamer was actually a regular edition with a handson review of hl2 in it. Don't remember what is on the cover (its at home now, i'm at school). I'm sure any of you that are subscribed already have it though, seeme'd a tad old.

The shirts are special for E3. I got one last year as well. I highly highly doubt they will sell those exact shirts.

Didn't really learn anything to interesting about the game that hasn't already been posted... I made sure to tell them how beautiful it was though.

That line was about an hour long. I waited, over the two days, about 2 1/2 hours in line for hl2. It was worth every minute. Believe me, the shaky cam captures are just absolute crap in comparison. You can't see the reflections in the floor, the water, in EVERYTHING nearly as well....
oh yeah, the demos at E3 were not pre-recorded. They were all real-time, running on an x800 pro

 

[Letters]

Wow, that line is......

Anybody want a t-shirt? Anybody want a t-shirt? DOES ANYBODY WANT A ****ING T-SHIRT?!

 

[Viperidae]

OMG that poster is so sexy.

/me wants

 

[Gossoon]

oh yeah, the demos at E3 were not pre-recorded. They were all real-time, running on an x800 pro

WHAT? I could have sworn Gabe said those were recorded vids of playtesters. Not realtime. Are you sure? Maybe you mean they were vids of real-time gameplay.

 

[Naft]

i think he means running real-time through the hl2 demo player thingy....as opposed to a bink video or something.

 

[Tork]

great pics, looked at everyone of them.

 

[brettt]

Very nice. Wish I could have gone. I am going to have a Half Life 2 tshirt custom made for me. hehehe

 

[Jmechy]

they were demos, but they were running real-time on the engine. In other words, what you say was hl2 being run real time, just a computer playing a pre-recorded sequence, not a human

 

[Cunni]

Anybody want a t-shirt? Anybody want a t-shirt? DOES ANYBODY WANT A ****ING T-SHIRT?!

I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bounce:

 

[B_MAN]

wow
i am so jealous

 

[Harryz]

Hands-on review? Does thay mean its already been reviewd by PC Gamer?

 

[Lobster]

of course there realtime, u can see the guy launching them in the steam console (big vid)

 

[MrBond]

of course there realtime, u can see the guy launching them in the steam console (big vid)

Hehe yeah. It was even something as inane as "playdemo" I think.

The fact that they were able to play it using a steam-style HL2 client though at least helps me believe how far along they are in development

 

[Lep]

Yea, it looked like it was a demo recorded of someone playing.