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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53567

Valve issued the latest weekly update where the topic is the whole Episode 1/2 thing:

. You'll also learn a lot more about Alyx, since nearly the entire episode is spent with her at your side. During the development of Half-Life 2, we at Valve were frustrated at how long it took us (six years!) to ship

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xxxx · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject:

omg gimme a BREAK!!! what a crock of crap this Episode 1 is.. talk about grasping at straws to try and make a little more money.. Valve just makes me shake my head at how pathetic they've become.. Wohoa how Alex survived the blast!! What happened to the Citadel! Well I'm gonna run out and buy it because that's been bothering me since I finished HL2.. PFFFFF! Thanks Valve for clarifying how much of a POS you are as is your BS Episode 1 "I need more money" expansion... Oh by the way Valve, people are still using aimbots and wallhacks on your game.. But I know you don't give a shit.

netfool · Contributor Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 10

Valve is a business, businesses aim to make money (SURPRISE!). If you don't find the story interesting, don't buy it, no one is twisting your arm - forcing you to buy it.

KingArthur · Contributing Member Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 78

I really liked Half-Life 2, and when I got a new computer I played it for a second time to see the graphics at their max and it was fun but I wouldn't play it more than twice it just never changes

However I will buy the episodes because I do like the story of half-life and want to see where it goes and I did really enjoy the game, maybe not as much as some other games like F.E.A.R. but even that has no replayability.

Oh and I personally don't care about hackers in CS:S or DOD:S because I never play them I just don't like them, F.E.A.R. online was fun for an hour then it got boring, I hear battlefield 2 has a good online I have yet to buy it to see.

yessum · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:17 am Post subject:

Sabot · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject:

Yessum is correct, VALVE are no different than MS in that it's 'one size fits all' mentality.
I don't care about MP! Only ever played HL1 a couple of times online.
Also since i play SP, i cannot be arsed with this 'modern' pleb idea of paying periodicaly for 'drip fed' episodes. It's not TV???!!! Hell if i want to watch what happens in '24' i'll buy the whole boxed set set rather than sit every Friday (or whatever) like an android fixed like clock-work for the next dozen-or-whatever-weeks!!!

VALVE have done this totaly all wrong, i can just imagine that they are so far up their backsides with STEAM that they don't give a shit about the *ordinary* punter in the street that just wants to see the end of (or back of!) HL2 and then move on... My world doesn't revolve around VALVE HL2 -which they (VALVE) obviously think it does. Sure i wanted to see the *conclusion* of HL2, but this monetary attitude has made me resent this company beyond belief!
I have a shed load of new games coming out; Oblivion,OFP2,M:TW2 that will take my new time up.
As per usual; if people feel so strongly against this 'rip off' then just don't buy it! It's the only way companies like this will learn -although America is most definately to blame for endorsing downloads by way of STEAM... What were you guys thinking!!??
Hence why your getting countless episodes released on STEAM! If people had ignored it then we wouldn't require this utter crap of being connected to the net to PLAY SP!!!!!! AND VALVE would have just released the ENDING of HL2 in one go because it would have been TOO COSTLY to release episodes to shops...congratulations guys...... Rolling Eyes