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For one thing, it is a widely known fact that many PC games have lag. That is how the term lag was introduced into gaming, as PC's were the first gaming machines to venture into the online world. Your comments ignore that and make it seem like Xbox Live has more lag than PC games, which is untrue. The incorporation of narrowband internet automatically increases the number of instances on the PC where lag occurs.
well, given the fact that xbox live games only have 16 players, as opposed to the 32-64 players that most modern pc games have, the lag that exists is unacceptable.
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Is this not unjust praise? Something that fanboys often use? You have not actually played with this engine and yet you are already claiming it to be the most advance technology there is. Videos are not proof of anything, as was learned with Enclave
my comments mirror those given by virtually all the gaming press, who pretty much said the seeing the engine in action was like seeinga game from e3 5 years from now.
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Is that not what you are doing with Half Life 2?[following blindly] There are videos of both games. One video is not more proof than another.
20 minutes of in-game demonstrations are alot more to go on than a 5 minute trailer and a lot of hype.
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HalfLife 2 is also limited by the platform it is being developed for. PC games cannot be developed for technology that does not exist. And the "fact" that they were developing it for five years brings this question to light, what kind of system have they been developing for in those five years. You cannot simply change your code when a new technology comes out, that would take months, not only to learn the new technology, but to change the code itself. We aren't talking like one or two lines of code here, we are talking thousands, if not millions. Same can be said for textures and other graphical things. You can't simply press a button to change the old graphics become compatible and work perfectly with the new technology. Granted, they most undoubtedly have changed some things for the new technology, but some things are without a doubt, optimized for a top of the line system that was around at least a year ago. If anything, Halo 2 has an advantage becuase the programmers can focus on the technology that it has, and on optimizing the game for that technology, as it won't change.
you're now simply talking out of your ass. here's a fact: pcs are generally more powerful than xbox. its not an opinion, and all that stuff about old technology is just you trying to rationalize your opinion, and make me look like an idiot, which you seem to be failing at. if all pc games are being based on "old technology," how come doom3, unreal championship, and eventually, half life 2, will have to be downgraded for xbox? and how come it is the opinion of *most* people that doom3 and half life 2, pc games that use "old technology," look better than halo2?
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once again stating false truths[regarding the long dev time of source engine]. Yes, it is your opinion, but it is not fact. After the game is released and extensive play has be had on all the games, then one could possibly state fact whether one is better than the others.
this it taking my quote out of context. this was about the fact that someone said halo2 was better because its been in the works for less time.
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Yes, i too have had rumors that this is true[regarding the fact that everything in half life 2 behaves realistically]. I also greatly want it to be true. But until you have played it, that cannot be stated as fact, just another rumour/opinion. Yet it comes out of you as fact, becuase you are the fact master!
this is not a rumor. this is a fact, according to gabe and the guys at valve. if you want to call them liars, go ahead.
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Oh it is the best out there is it? But, wait a second, IT HASN'T BEEN RELEASED YET! So, how can that be? Oh, that is right, it can't be. It is just another opinion falsely stated as fact.
i thought it was implied that when i say its the best, i mean IMO. but i guess from now i can help you out by adding IMO after every sentence i type. i'll make things even CLEARER for you, YET AGAIN
Halo2=great
Half Life 2=great
Doom3=great
based on what we've seen so far, i can safely assume that half life 2 will be better than halo2, IN MY OPINION
can you comprehend that? that's my past 500 half life posts in a nutshell.
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[regarding lip synching tecnology] Ot would have been nice if you said that the developers are saying they are implementing that into the game, but I am forgetting, you are the fact master! Infact, you know just as much about the engine as anyone else, even if they know nothing about it. Everything you hear, until you play the game, is just rumour and opnion. *wonders how much more he is going to have to say that*
you're calling valve liars again. your logic is inane and just plain stupid. when a developer says a feature is going to be in a game, and multiple gaming publications confirm it, its safe to assume it'll be in the game. otherwise it'd be impossible to even try to speculate about anything, and the whole point of forums would be moot. you're saying that every preview of every game ever written is all just a bunch of lies, that are proven right or wrong when the game is released. you're just twisting words to make me look like a fanboy. trust me, i've been here longer than you, i own multiple ystems, it is virtually impossible for me to be a fanboy. the mere fact that i said i want halo 2 and doom3 makes it impossible, because a fanboy would say they're TEH SUCK. a fanboy would say that features developers say will be in a game are lies. i havent done any of these. i've made logical assumptions and posted my opinion about them. what have you done, besides accuse me of being biased, and valve of being a bunch of liars?
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So how is geomod gimmicky but this source engine is not? Are not both trying to make games more realistic? Do they not both achieve that same thing? If one is gimmicky, then so is the other as they are both trying to achieve the same thing.
geomod had no impact on the game at all. source's physics will MOST LIKELY be a central part of the game...that is, unless valve has been lying to us about all this physics stuff the whole time. i forgot, everythign they've said is a lie, and we can't trust them. please forgive me.
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[quoting me"okay. you're opinion > every gaming mag ever printed. i guess you're right, hl's story sucked.]
Oooh, fact master is at it again! Claiming opinion to be an undeniable truth
how am i doing that? i'm comparing one guys opinions to those of the rest of the world. your snide sarcastic comments arent helping, by the way.
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Now, Koopa, I hope you see where I am coming from. You do say in spots that you are looking forwards to all the games. Then you turn around and start talking about how Half Life 2 is god and that no other game will be able to touch it for at least five years. In at least one spot you kind of bash the XBox even.
As for slander and snide comments, I made a few, yes, but you made tons before me, thusly, I felt it necessary to throw them back at you to let you know how those poeple felt whom you did it too.
Now I have to ask, do you not find favoratism sickening? If not, then how?
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I won't argue with you anymore over whether or not you are a fanboy or not. The pages in this thread and this post are all I need to prove the point I was trying to get across.
your whole arguement is flawed. you're saying i'm not allowed to think half life is better than any other game coming out. and you're saying that because i feel this way, im a fanboy. then everyone here is a fanboy for prefering xbox and thinking it is better. i will repeat, AGAIN, what ive been saying all along. i think half life 2 will be the best shooter available. to do this, i need to use logic and the information given to us by valve, assuming they're not lying, in order to form an opinion. my opinion's aren't too crazy, because many gaming publications agree with me.
i could just say that i think all games are equal and i cant wait for them all the same, but thats just politically correct crap. i think half life 2 will be the best. if trying to prove this makes me a fanboy, so be it.i've been here long enough, and enough people know me well enough on the boards to realize that i'm not a raving fanboy. i don't need your validation on the subject to feel this way about myself, so how about we keep the comments related to teh games, not about how i'm biased, how i'm a fanboy, or how i'm an ignoramus for believing the informaion given to me by valve, which you assume is all rumors.
and anyway, i really doubt anyone other than you and i are reading these long drawn out arguments.
