Cracken Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 Boys, HL was a hybrid of Quake 1, Quake 2, and Valve's own engine coding. Thus, it's called the "Half-Life" engine. Valve took 20% Q1, 30% Q2, and 50% its own code.
Guest Tre Lightshadow Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 This game looks flawless, this is the reason that I am alive, now I just hope I get a computer on my birthday (march 30)taht is capable of handling the game. That is going to be the longest 24 hours of my life.
NoodlyGod Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 Well, I have to disagree. I just started to play through Jedi Knight and you move insanely fast. You could run through the whole level in a minute! (If you hold the run key) Hey lightshadow: I recently built a system for my cousin that totaled 670, we got the parts from pricewatch.com and a local store. You just need someone that knows how to put it together. (It's specs, in case you're curious): 250 watt ATX case 16x DVD rom drive 20x burner Athlon XP 1600 ECS K7S5A mb 40gb 7200 rpm HD Soundblaster Live! Geforce 2 MX400 256mb DDR2100 RAM Some optical mouse/new keyboard too. No monitor tho
Zek Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 And the Half-Life engine beats both of them combined. Let's never speak of it again.
Agen Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 It's going to be a very faced paced game, which Q3 and EF both are Maybe if you could spell fast right i might consider 3% of that sentence
NoodlyGod Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 ryu: Just visit http://www.pricewatch.com and if you find something you want, click on it. then that links info will be displayed in the top frame, click "website" and it will take you to the companies website. There, you can see if they ship overseas. I imagine it would be costy if they do, but it may still be lest than the cost of a part in your local store. The local store I was refering too is http://www.compusaveinc.net and they also now do shipping, but I don't know where too. Hope this helps!
Belgirion Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 Originally posted by ryudom dang it, stuff is so much cheaper in the states that's just because our dollars our worth more
Desslock Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 Originally posted by Zek And the Half-Life engine beats both of them combined. Let's never speak of it again. Heh, thats funny. The engine was good for its time. Counter-Strike and TFC were 2 fountains of youth that still give it life today. Just because the game is still played a lot doesn't mean the engine is GOD.. Technically, Quake 3 smacks down Half-Life anyday. Its like an X-wing fighting a Star Destroyer. The X-Wing will kill some parts, but the bigger ship wins in this case.
Kurgan Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 Of course it does not! Half-Life has absolutely nothing to do with Quake 2! It's engine is based on Quake 1 Okay, that's a myth and I wish people would stop repeating it. The Half Life engine is based on Quake1 yes, but also Quake2. In the end, very little code remains of either engine, but to say that it has "nothing to do with Quake2" is incorrect. Cracken's statement is much more accurate. Some people don't seem to realize that just because a game uses an engine, the gameplay doesn't have to look identical. When they say they used somebody's engine, they can have all kinds of reasons for doing that, but it's just a BASE for the code, that doesn't mean they have to end up using any of it, they could change 100% of it in the end result. It just might be easier in some cases to have something to start with to change around to tailor to your needs, rather than starting from scratch.. which is why companies do it for games in the first place. Notice a game like Alice.. uses the Q3 engine, nothing like Q3, it's not even an FPS! Or Rune with the Unreal engine.. etc.
Scrobes Posted March 19, 2002 Posted March 19, 2002 Hmm, is it not possible that they actually speeded up the trailer by a certain percentage maybe, just to give it more of a bingbaddabing "feel?"
Kurgan Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 I don't see why it's such a bad thing to have the gameplay be as fast as JK/MotS... and keep in mind most FPS games have unrealistically high movements speeds anyway (and with a few exceptions, you never get tired).
ryudom Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 NoodlyGod- thanks, i've been there before though and most ppl don't ship to their neibouring country . and prices here are pretty good, its just that the canadian dollars sucks that's just because our dollars our worth more exactly... thats what i mean, the only resonably cheap thing over here is food. dang canadian economy
Zek Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 Originally posted by Desslock Heh, thats funny. The engine was good for its time. Counter-Strike and TFC were 2 fountains of youth that still give it life today. Just because the game is still played a lot doesn't mean the engine is GOD.. Technically, Quake 3 smacks down Half-Life anyday. Its like an X-wing fighting a Star Destroyer. The X-Wing will kill some parts, but the bigger ship wins in this case. No ****. When did I say otherwise?
hahadude Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 If you watch the E3 video, it should put a lot of your fears to rest. In that video the game doesn't look too fast at all and it is probably the best indication since it shows continous gameplay not multiple scenes.
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