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Aleast it doesn't fucken STUDDER...Its got to be the best ported game. I was surprised!!!
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Nov 2005 23:24 Post subject: |
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now if they only had a load style like halo,halo2,with little to no stuttering...man it would be far better than constant every 2 minute,loading....please wait screens,that take up to 20 seconds.
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Nov 2005 16:27 Post subject: |
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Well run it on the HDD it runs alot faster.
dust.
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Nov 2005 23:30 Post subject: |
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take 1 best selling pc game
add longer load times
down grade graphics and textures
remove all forms of multiplayer
give crappy controls
charge full price for half a pc game
= HL2 Xbox
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Nov 2005 02:00 Post subject: |
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in fact the load times are quicker and the xbox version has better lighting and the graphics card alone to run hl2 decent on pc would cost more than the xbox
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Nov 2005 05:42 Post subject: |
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| baardhimself wrote: |
add longer load times --> what do you expect, its loading from the DVD and not PC speed HD
down grade graphics and textures --> Christ, the Xbox is a celeron 733
remove all forms of multiplayer --> Thats retarded..atleast put HL2 DM
give crappy controls --> controls are fine by me
charge full price for half a pc game --> atleast the game doesnt get beat in 6 hours like most of them
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Nov 2005 11:55 Post subject: |
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If you dont have the PC version and a decent PC I really think this is a good game. As a port I was quite impressed. I do have the game on PC and a 6800GT spec so I have no intention of playing it through on Xbox but I took my Xbox to my Dads house at the weekend and he was blown away! It was the first time hes ever seen the game and he was gutted there was no PS2 version lol. He watched me play for about 2 hours. I have to say there are a few framerate issues, more noticeable at the start and the load times are plentiful and can be lengthy but given what they had to work with, I think they did a decent job. I was playing the game from the DVD but I still might put it on the Xbox hard drive.
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Nov 2005 15:39 Post subject: |
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The most amazing feat of this conversion as a technical issue is the memory footprint of the Xbox.
Xbox =64meg
"Normal Johnny’s" gaming pc = 512meg, that’s a conservative guess. Most gamer peeps I know have at least a gig of memory.
That’s a factor of 8 reduction
This is not a re-imagining ala Farcry, it’s a straight 1:1 port.
64meg in which to stream vast levels
Now when valve were retooling the source engine did they build in this kind of scalability??
Not many peeps complained about the doom 3 Xbox load times. Every new session of Doom 3 starts with the games recreating a scratch disc/virtual memory file on the hard drive whilst an avi intro plays.
Half Life 2 does this only once on the first play of the game.
All in all valve should be applauded for not going down the easy route, chopping content/features. Instead they took their time and released a product that’s as good as the format can allow.
With this kind of technical nouse I look forward to the next half life game on whatever nextgen system it’s released on.
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2005 09:37 Post subject: |
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| baardhimself wrote: | take 1 best selling pc game
add longer load times
down grade graphics and textures
remove all forms of multiplayer
give crappy controls
charge full price for half a pc game
= HL2 Xbox |
= WANKER
its a great game. Change your avatar, playstation sucks as well, you tool
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2005 11:01 Post subject: |
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| russ_beer wrote: |
its a great game. |
yes it is, but it would have been even better if they would have thrown in some kind of bonus. now there is nothing. very rare for games theese days to not even include some unlockables. and of course the lack of mp, feels like a cheap shot, this probably due to them having cs on sale for xbox as well.
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| Posted: Sun, 27th Nov 2005 02:04 Post subject: |
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i would have appreciated a loading system a la halo,instead of constant 2 minute intervals of 20 seconds loading times..and ffs its even worse off the disc.
apart from that,its a f*cking great game,and they did a shit hot job.
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