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Hl2

As soon as you can tear yourselves away, please let me know how much to drool.

Me too. I can't pull myslef away from Halo2 however.

I played it from midnight, to about 2 PM with very little stopping.


It's very very good and you should give valve a lot of your money.

I would; but, sadly, I'm using one income to pay for the living expenses of two people. Anyone want to donate to my cause?? hehe

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Well, since I just for the game on DVD (Collector's Edition don't you know) it is a wonderful game, visually. It took close to 45 minutes to install the game and get it up and running. This is due to the way Valve has decided to protect their game, by doing some sort of encryption on the game files that are pulled off of the DVD when it installs. Once the game files are copied to your computer, STEAM forces you to create an account which then asks for your CD-Key which automatically gets sent to Valve. Once the server responds, it never did respond to me last night due to some sort of problem with the server, it takes the next 15+ minutes to "unpack" the game files. I would assume that this is the process it takes to unencrypt the files so that you can play them. Well, my process to 30+ minutes and on a pretty decent machine I think. I got an AMD Athlon 64 bit proc running at 2.2Ghz. 512MB of ram, 7200 RPM WD drive with 8MB cache. It's no slouch to say sure. But during the entire time, my hard drive was constantly being accessed unpacking the files.

According to the box, it installs 5.5GB of games files for the collector's edition which includes HL2, HL1 and CS all with the new source engine. But still, 5.5GB of information is an A$$ load of stuff to deal with. I was not happy with how long it took to get done.

As long as you understand that when you buy the game on CD/DVD, it is going to take A LONG TIME before you play it, then it isn't too bad. Just be ready for it. I wasn't, no one told me that I would have to deal with this sort of delay before I could see gaming goodness at it's finest. :-)

OK? Have enough information to make a decision? Let me know how your experience goes, I'd like to get another perspective.

Later,

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which reminds me, how is HALO 2?

Tell us all about it!!

Later,

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I just finished it this morning, I won't post any spoilers, but it was over all an amazing game. My total time was 16:40.

WOW... you are a gaming whore

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Halo 2 .... same shit as Halo 1. Nothing new, nothing fancy. I played it for a few hours this weekend at a LAN, and I just don't get what the excitement is. Pretty boring, pretty expensive, and pretty much not worth my time..

HL2 .... Now that may be a different story. Haven't gotten to play it yet, but watched it for a while at the local gaming center last night. Really looks pretty. And, the new weapons (gravity gun --- How Freakin Cool Is That Shit) and vehicles looked easyily playable and mucho enjoyable. Gonna wait until I have more gaming time on my hands to get it, but definitely looked worth the buy.

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It'd be a lot funner if there wasn't so much farking loading of levels ... Congratulations, you've run to the end of the alley..Loading please wait .... You picked up a barrel ... Loading please wait ... You farted ... Loading please wait. Graphics are definately phenomenal and the storyline is defiantely a great addition over what ID put in Doom 3, but I just can't get into it for some reason, much like the first one.

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Anthos...you been a good little boy?

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Anthos...you been a good little boy?

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Nobody wins in a quick-draw contest.