Half-Life 2 "episodes" officially announced

grazzhoppa · Feb 15, 2006

The expansion pack for Half-Life 2 won't be called "Aftermath" as has been floating around for a long time. It'll be called "Half-Life 2: Episode One" and there will be a yet unnamed amount of episodes that'll continue the HL2 story and characters.

Valve, developer of HL2 and owner of the video game download service, Steam, have their business model set on producing 4-6 hour playable episodes of video games instead of the usuall 10 hour+ features that are the norm for the video game industry. The episodes will go for roughly $20 US each compared to the $50-60 of "normal" games.

Rumour has it Half-Life 2: Episode One will be relased April 24, 2006. But what Valve's PR department says is not exactly what Valve does - judging from past game releases.

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wtf8269 · Feb 15, 2006

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet can't wait!! :rockout:

spyskank · Feb 15, 2006

Smarty Ass...

lol.. thats just the best way they found to make the franchise and steam live longer

Plus.. moneywise hehe... makin peeps buy 3+ episodes (since every games or movies tends to be a trilogy now..) 20 bucks each.. well.. do the maths..

overcast · Feb 15, 2006

Does anyone actually care about this game anymore?

Sasqui · Feb 15, 2006

overcast said:
Does anyone actually care about this game anymore?

I do - and I would indeed pay $20 for 6 hours of joy. Can't wait.

mashie · Feb 15, 2006

overcast said:
Does anyone actually care about this game anymore?

Yes, it is still one of few games that I actually enjoyed playing in single player.

Polaris573 · Feb 15, 2006

I wish they would just release one big expansion pack like they originally planned.

bruins004 · Feb 15, 2006

I agree. The espisode BS is just to push more money out of us and keep the Steam CRAP around. I gotta say that I aint buying this now. :rockout:

Quake2owns · Feb 15, 2006

too bad half life 2 sucks

overcast · Feb 15, 2006

Sasqui said:
I do - and I would indeed pay $20 for 6 hours of joy. Can't wait.

I'll give you the $20 if the game actually last 6 hours. Halflife2 took barely 10 hours.

Sasqui · Feb 15, 2006

overcast said:
I'll give you the $20 if the game actually last 6 hours. Halflife2 took barely 10 hours.

I played it twice, so I got 20 hours out of it, LOL. And now... I've been spending my spare time playing team deathmatch - plus had one "Lanparty" playing CSSource - now that's great for some cheap thrills.

Quake2owns · Feb 15, 2006

Sasqui said:
I played it twice, so I got 20 hours out of it, LOL. And now... I've been spending my spare time playing team deathmatch - plus had one "Lanparty" playing CSSource - now that's great for some cheap thrills.

Half life 2 deathmatch sucks you got limited running lame sprinting cant always run very annoying it lags horribly crap netcode and the jumping sucks doom3 is like 3 times better online than half life 2/CSS

Polaris573 · Feb 15, 2006

Quake2owns said:
Half life 2 deathmatch sucks you got limited running lame sprinting cant always run very annoying it lags horribly crap netcode and the jumping sucks doom3 is like 3 times better online than half life 2/CSS

Quake2owns said:
too bad half life 2 sucks

We get the point. You don't like the game. :rolleyes:

dracolnyte · Feb 16, 2006

Quake2owns said:
Half life 2 deathmatch sucks you got limited running lame sprinting cant always run very annoying it lags horribly crap netcode and the jumping sucks doom3 is like 3 times better online than half life 2/CSS

your name explains all your lame. this is going to be cool, the saga continues on and on and on....

wazzledoozle · Feb 16, 2006

Wake up and smell the pwnage Quake2owns, you can get addicted to any shitty game under the blue sky. I used to be addicted to Tribes 1, I thought NOTHING could beat it. Boy was I in for a surprise when I finally started giving other games a fair chance.

I have a friend who only plays Doom 2 and Tribes all fucking day, and during school too. Its like crack to him, hes addicted. He refuses to play any other game, he says HL2/Doom3/Far Cry/Painkiller/BF2/DC0.7/FEAR/COD all suck. Thats how isolated he is, and I smell that in you.

HL2 is one of the best games ever made when you look at it from a progressive point of view. Incredible physics and interactive enviroments, modern smooth running graphics engine, interesting (to say the least) storyline. Gameplay, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some people just have bad vision.

I love this quote-

dracolnyte said:
your name explains all your lame.

dracolnyte · Feb 16, 2006

wazzledoozle said:
Wake up and smell the pwnage Quake2owns, you can get addicted to any shitty game under the blue sky. I used to be addicted to Tribes 1, I thought NOTHING could beat it. Boy was I in for a surprise when I finally started giving other games a fair chance.

I have a friend who only plays Doom 2 and Tribes all fucking day, and during school too. Its like crack to him, hes addicted. He refuses to play any other game, he says HL2/Doom3/Far Cry/Painkiller/BF2/DC0.7/FEAR/COD all suck. Thats how isolated he is, and I smell that in you.

HL2 is one of the best games ever made when you look at it from a progressive point of view. Incredible physics and interactive enviroments, modern smooth running graphics engine, interesting (to say the least) storyline. Gameplay, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some people just have bad vision.

I love this quote-

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Sasqui · Feb 16, 2006

I defies imagination how some people get offensive when defending thier own subjective opinion.

I like the game. If you don't... your loss.

No really - if you don't like the game, I don't care. :laugh:

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