Mohtalim

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:57 am

saw that it's going gold on friday.

going to have to buy MP2 as well.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:52 pm

what's supposed to be different? single-player?

what's mp2?

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:06 am

There are single player missions, but from what I can tell they're still in the multiplayer format, just that you have to meet the objectives with certain constraints (like minimum number of kills with a pistol). Mainly it has a much better graphics engine (no longer a modified quake1 engine) and bots.

MP2? Max Payne of course.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 5:56 pm

I'm just waiting for Halflife 2 now. I hope it doesn't make me sick when I play it.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:32 pm

Heh, I still don't know what CZ stands for. Interestingly enough, I don't care either. Weird

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:34 pm

Alan wrote:I'm just waiting for Halflife 2 now. I hope it doesn't make me sick when I play it.

get the "pre-gold" off the internet! play it till you puke and/or your computer explodes from opening its legs to all the trojans that are probably in it!

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Anyhow, I am guessing that they shoot for Christmas, miss, and come out in the second week of January. Seems like the popular thing to do.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:36 pm

Eh? I'm pretty sure they said April (at least that's the common word from irc, if I remember correctly)

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:38 pm

J'adoube.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:40 pm

VLSmooth wrote:Eh? I'm pretty sure they said April (at least that's the common word from irc, if I remember correctly)

Vivendi's president or CEO said April. Valve hasn't said jack. The real rumor is that Vivendi's head mouthpiece was talking out of his ass and that Valve will announce the real new release date shortly. The speculation is that Valve will target a Christmas release, which only makes sense financially. Plus, I don't think they have 6 more months of work left to do on this project, not if they thought they could release on September 30 at E3. As for the loss of source code, sucks for them, but I know they're not going to delay release just so they can rewrite parts.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:41 pm

Alan wrote:J'adoube.

Showing off our chess vocabulary?

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:42 pm

oh, and IRC sux0rs. Meant to put that somewhere in the long post but I forgot.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:43 pm

Hmm... I wonder if this means I should play HalfLife any time soon (the todo queue is long indeed)

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:44 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:oh, and IRC sux0rs. Meant to put that somewhere in the long post but I forgot.

IRC sux0rs like yo mama!

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:45 pm

(and yes, that was meant to be incredibly vague/irrelevant to interpret, mwahahaha)

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:49 pm

J'adoube - An expression denoting unwillingness to move the piece touched. The derivation comes from an old English phrase, 'Shut up', formerly the conventional response to: 'You've touched that piece, you've got to move it.' Later the introductory phrase was omitted by the aggrieved player, and the piece toucher would automatically say 'Shut up' without the need for prompting. This was taken into middle High Flemish where it appeared as Schodop and later came into old Northern French as J'odeupe or J'adoube.
Hartston, William, Soft Pawn, Macmillan Publishing, 1995 (ISBN: 185744145-1)

That's kind of funny.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:00 pm

VLSmooth wrote:Hmm... I wonder if this means I should play HalfLife any time soon (the todo queue is long indeed)

Good lord, Vinny. Give up. That's my advice. Just give up.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:02 pm

Give up? But I haven't even started!

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:08 pm

And that's why you should give up.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:34 pm

counterstrike 1.6 is t3h win!

ok, not really. but im sure HL2 will die on my computer. espeically since i have nvidia.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:08 am

Heh, my definition of giving up requires a previous endeavor. However, I have never obligated to play halflife, therefore I can't give up. I could simply never attempt it