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How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games

From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 14 07:36:06 2024

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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O
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From rms@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 14 08:19:15 2024

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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

HL2 RTX coming soon https://youtu.be/5FZ49Ou8zAE

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From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to rms on Thu Nov 14 15:50:03 2024

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rms <[email protected]> wrote at 15:19 this Thursday (GMT):

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

HL2 RTX coming soon https://youtu.be/5FZ49Ou8zAE

rms

Oh, that sounds cool! Hopefully it goes as well as Portal RTX.
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From Ant@21:1/5 to rms on Fri Nov 15 01:22:17 2024

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action rms <[email protected]> wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

HL2 RTX coming soon https://youtu.be/5FZ49Ou8zAE

Need a better video card. :P
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From June Of Daventry@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Nov 15 16:11:13 2024

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On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O

Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source,
the far superior experience :^)

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From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 15 23:00:39 2024

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https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th/ https://store.steampowered.com/sale/franchise_half-life https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/220/view/6633333780228604001
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From Ant@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Nov 15 23:07:49 2024

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

In alt.games.halflife Ant <[email protected]> wrote:

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th/ https://store.steampowered.com/sale/franchise_half-life https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/220/view/6633333780228604001

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From Ant@21:1/5 to June Of Daventry on Fri Nov 15 22:43:15 2024

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In alt.games.half-life June Of Daventry <[email protected]> wrote:

On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O

Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source,
the far superior experience :^)

Black Mesa too! :)
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From Ant@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Nov 15 23:14:09 2024

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SIGGRAPH 2000 Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU4yPEFXzo0
E3 (2002 & 2003) Demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CoMdbnJwvE & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHtOISsLT4

I don't even remember these! :(

In alt.games.halflife Ant <[email protected]> wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

In alt.games.halflife Ant <[email protected]> wrote:

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th/ https://store.steampowered.com/sale/franchise_half-life https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/220/view/6633333780228604001

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From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Nov 15 17:52:05 2024

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On 11/15/2024 2:43 PM, Ant wrote:

In alt.games.half-life June Of Daventry <[email protected]> wrote:

On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O

Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source,
the far superior experience :^)

Black Mesa too! :)

Half Mesa!!

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From rms@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 15 19:02:42 2024

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20!??!?! What? :O

VAlve put out a 2hour documentary also: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary https://youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4

rms

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From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sun Nov 17 01:07:27 2024

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:02:42 -0700, "rms"
<[email protected]> wrote:

20!??!?! What? :O

VAlve put out a 2hour documentary also: Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary
Documentary https://youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4

Gee, there does seem to be a lot of Half-Life news recently. Almost as
if it's building up to something.

Half Life 3 confirmed!

;-)

Great documentary. I was going to watch a movie last night, but this came up. ;)

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From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Wed Nov 20 17:50:07 2024

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Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote at 01:52 this Saturday (GMT):

On 11/15/2024 2:43 PM, Ant wrote:

In alt.games.half-life June Of Daventry <[email protected]> wrote:

On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O

Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source, >>> the far superior experience :^)

Black Mesa too! :)

Half Mesa!!

They split black mesa in half?!
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From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Wed Nov 20 22:00:04 2024

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 18:16 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:50:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<[email protected]> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote at 01:52 this Saturday (GMT): >>> On 11/15/2024 2:43 PM, Ant wrote:

In alt.games.half-life June Of Daventry <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O

Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source, >>>>> the far superior experience :^)

Black Mesa too! :)

Half Mesa!!

They split black mesa in half?!

More than that, at the end of "Opposing Force". They split it into
lots of itty bitty pieces, in fact.

Exploding a nuke will do that. ;-)

Wait, then how does black mesa east exist?
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From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 20 17:55:47 2024

On 11/20/2024 2:00 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 18:16 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:50:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<[email protected]> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote at 01:52 this Saturday (GMT):

On 11/15/2024 2:43 PM, Ant wrote:

In alt.games.half-life June Of Daventry <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> On 11/14/24 02:36, Ant wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-valve-made-half-life-2-and-set-a-new-standard-for-future-games/

20!??!?! What? :O

Happy birthday to Half-Life 2!!! And more importantly, Half-Life Source, >>>>>> the far superior experience :^)

Black Mesa too! :)

Half Mesa!!

They split black mesa in half?!

More than that, at the end of "Opposing Force". They split it into
lots of itty bitty pieces, in fact.

Exploding a nuke will do that. ;-)

Wait, then how does black mesa east exist?

The prevailing winds were blowing west.

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