Half Life 2 delayed AGAIN

Half Life 2 delayed AGAIN

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viper_larry

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4,338 posts

263 months

Tuesday 20th January 2004
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Got an email from Gameplay today advising that the release date for Half Life 2 is now 24th September 2004 - that's a year later than originally planned. How ridiculous...

rdhawkins

322 posts

290 months

Tuesday 20th January 2004
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Arse! I made sure I got a kick ass system at Christmas (from work luckly) so I could have a good HL2 expierence. Come September 04 my system will be obsolete

Even got a Radeon 9800XT card with a voucher for HL2, lets hope it doesn't expire before then

viper_larry

Original Poster:

4,338 posts

263 months

Tuesday 20th January 2004
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I *very* nearly bought a 9600XT on sale at Savastore last week which I noticed included HL2 - wondered how they were going to supply it.

My thought exactly - by the time the game comes out, my PC spec will be obsolete!!!

brumster

118 posts

250 months

Tuesday 20th January 2004
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Yeah the voucher thing entitles you to a copy of the game "when it's released".

I cancelled my order for HL2 and, to be honest, won't be buying it out of principle. Most IT bods have timescales to stick to and get hit in the neck for it when they fail to deliver, so why should the gaming industry be any different :-) ?

If they're not careful it'll fall into the H&D2 trap - so long in development that by the time it's released it's so dated it's crap.

Damn it, though, that E3 demo does look impressive ;-)

peterpeter

6,437 posts

264 months

Tuesday 20th January 2004
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AAAHHHHHHHGGHGHHHH!

Rob P

5,785 posts

271 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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What is it with game developers?

Why do all multi ££££'s budget games always slip and slip?

Half life 2, GT4, Doom 3.....all getting further and further away. So dissapointing

I just hope Halo 2 is on time!!

peterpeter

6,437 posts

264 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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have to say, ive checked all the game web sites with no mention of the delay.


Gamplay are not always right...

Theres still hope!!!!

mind you, have you seen the screenshots of Battelfield Vietnam????
Plus UT 2004 is out soon.

Dick Dastardly

8,319 posts

270 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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peterpeter said:
have you seen the screenshots of Battelfield Vietnam????


Just googled up this. Looks lots of fun!

FourWheelDrift

89,634 posts

291 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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Rob P said:
What is it with game developers?

Why do all multi ££££'s budget games always slip and slip?

Half life 2, GT4, Doom 3.....all getting further and further away. So dissapointing

I just hope Halo 2 is on time!!


Maybe it's all about safe guarding their Multi-million pound investment from crackers who'll be copying the games to P2P networks.

centurion07

10,395 posts

254 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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Rob P said:

I just hope Halo 2 is on time!!


Eh?! That's already been delayed once (was due out Xmas '03) so I wouldn't hold your breath.

Rob P

5,785 posts

271 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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centurion07 said:

Rob P said:

I just hope Halo 2 is on time!!



Eh?! That's already been delayed once (was due out Xmas '03) so I wouldn't hold your breath.


Well I only got mine in Dec so i've not expected anything other than a April release!!!

mannginger

9,485 posts

264 months

Thursday 22nd January 2004
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The Half life 2 delay is because someone raided the code:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3414157.stm

Even the FBI are on the track now. Computer games is obviously big bucks, but who could you sell it too? It would be so obvious where it had come from.

Phil

dragstar

3,924 posts

257 months

Thursday 22nd January 2004
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the games industry is bigger than the film-making industry (hollywood)

TheLemming

4,319 posts

272 months

Tuesday 27th January 2004
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At least they havent followed a LOT of others, who meet their deadlines by releasing buggy rubbish followed by endless "patches" bringing the game to the state it should have been in the first place.

saleen05

123 posts

271 months

Wednesday 28th January 2004
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Dick Dastardly said:

[quote=peterpeter]have you seen the screenshots of Battelfield Vietnam????



you know i really quite like the smell of naplalm in the morning with my cup of tea

pesty

42,655 posts

263 months

Thursday 29th January 2004
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AArrg I pre ordered this from amazon ages ago!

Need a good game cant play CS any more since steam as my 56k con is now unplayable.

pesty

42,655 posts

263 months

Sunday 8th February 2004
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Looks like november now
" This item will be released on 12 November 2004",

Taken form amazon web site where Ive had it pre ordered for ever

unlicensed

7,585 posts

257 months

Sunday 8th February 2004
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Even when it does come out the multiplayer will be ruined in 2 months time by hackers.