So I have a friend how absolutley RAVES about the Half-Life series, but I'm not sure about it.

Can anyone else tell me what they think?

Thanks

lavalampbamboo

Yes it is. If you have any sense please for the love of god play them all in the order they were released. Dont let half life poo, sorry, half life 2 be your first impresion of the series.

Fallout. Heh, one of my hard drives is older than any of my games. 14 year old WD 2.5 gig. It's the only original component left in my computer when I started building my own machines that long ago. Surprisingly its outlasted every other harddrive I ever had. They just don't make computer components like they used to.kilaan

How old!?!?!? christ im surprised it hasnt died in a hail of grinding noises and burning smells!

...was it one of those 'bigfoot' series?? a friend of mine had one about 1997, something like 2.5gb I think.

...sorry back to topic, its farcry, bought at a supermarket about 18months ago for 3.99 (uk pounds).

....hows do it perform compared with the demo??

Have they got sli and crossfire working?? Any thoughts on this at all?? I know others have started threads about it, and benchmarks are coming pretty soon, but, ..oooooo I just cant wait.

I play a lot of MMOs and SP shooters on my PC andI just got COD4 via steam ( one big pain in the a$$ ) and man you all are just too good for me. Kinda wish I got this on the xbox now :( I know it looks way better on myPC but damn I get owned so fast :( Kinda makes me not want to play Crysis online.

anime-2k3

Have you tried battlefield 2? if not you shouldnt bother! iver been playing it for years (im sad) got my house mates addicted to it to, but their happy with a death to kill ratio of 4:1! ( no thats not a typo LOL).

Just stick with it man, it takes patience and wont come to you over night. If battlefield was anything to go by i needed about 2-3 months to get any good really. Still loved every minute of it though.

[QUOTE="Mankyblobs"][QUOTE="petek480"][QUOTE="Mankyblobs"]

[QUOTE="petek480"]If you're a fan of the whole far cry game, you'd know it's nothing like HL. So don't compare it to HL. I don't know about anyone else, but i'm comparing it to Far Cry. When I played Far Cry, I was blown away by everything, graphics, gameplay, etc... When I played crysis, all I really wanted to see was it's gameplay, which was the same as Far Cry, otherwise for the physics(destructable enviroment and the suit). Yes, those were awesome, but got boring. Maybe the overhyping of the graphics by crytek made it a null point, I don't know, but when I play it, I just cared about gameplay, the graphics were important though, but not that important(I can play at hight settings, I have yet to try to hacks for vista settings in xp).petek480

Mate watch the video review here on gamespot, ...it looks anything but boring.

I've played the game though...I think that would be better then watching videos. Am I wrong?

Settle down mr killjoy. I didnt know did I, if you didnt like crysis you must have some odd preferences in terms of fps's. Maybe on-rails is your kinda thing.

I'm pretty sure I said that it's a great game in one of my posts...I just think they could of done more. Hell, they don't even own the rights to far cry anymore, they could of at least made it different then far cry, other then the suit.

Yeah it really resembles a souped-up farcry, but that not really a bad thing, farcry was the absolute boss. On a more civil note: what kind of things would you have had in mind? just curious thats all...

[QUOTE="Mankyblobs"]

[QUOTE="petek480"]If you're a fan of the whole far cry game, you'd know it's nothing like HL. So don't compare it to HL. I don't know about anyone else, but i'm comparing it to Far Cry. When I played Far Cry, I was blown away by everything, graphics, gameplay, etc... When I played crysis, all I really wanted to see was it's gameplay, which was the same as Far Cry, otherwise for the physics(destructable enviroment and the suit). Yes, those were awesome, but got boring. Maybe the overhyping of the graphics by crytek made it a null point, I don't know, but when I play it, I just cared about gameplay, the graphics were important though, but not that important(I can play at hight settings, I have yet to try to hacks for vista settings in xp).petek480

Mate watch the video review here on gamespot, ...it looks anything but boring.

I've played the game though...I think that would be better then watching videos. Am I wrong?

Settle down mr killjoy. I didnt know did I, if you didnt like crysis you must have some odd preferences in terms of fps's. Maybe on-rails is your kinda thing.

I will say I thought STALKER was way hella better than most people gave it credit for.Plague27

totally, ...its pretty unique, and i love the atmosphere soo much i want to take a trip to chernobyl myself :)

Say what you will, the fact remains Crysis' delivery did not match the hype by most people's standards. I don't believe it deserves that high of a score.SerOlmy

...do tell me hl2 was better, ...oh do. please! I know your itching to say it.

If you're a fan of the whole far cry game, you'd know it's nothing like HL. So don't compare it to HL. I don't know about anyone else, but i'm comparing it to Far Cry. When I played Far Cry, I was blown away by everything, graphics, gameplay, etc... When I played crysis, all I really wanted to see was it's gameplay, which was the same as Far Cry, otherwise for the physics(destructable enviroment and the suit). Yes, those were awesome, but got boring. Maybe the overhyping of the graphics by crytek made it a null point, I don't know, but when I play it, I just cared about gameplay, the graphics were important though, but not that important(I can play at hight settings, I have yet to try to hacks for vista settings in xp).petek480

Mate watch the video review here on gamespot, ...it looks anything but boring.

Why am I not surprised this overhyped mess gets the same score as the Orange Box. Utter crap IMO, it isn't that good or revolutionary, only thing it has going for it is grafics that 95% of PC gamers wont even see for another 2 years.

I assume the check must have cleared early to get the review out on time when we are still waiting for half a dozen games released in the last few weeks with no reviews...

SerOlmy

Well captain f'ck head you could say that all half life 2 and after has going for them is the gravity gun, and that without it its one long one trick pony.

...judging by your avatar your obviously a die-hard half-life fanboy, which makes you biased as hell and obviously quite incensed that anything should recieve a score the same as (bows and say: "all hail! all hail!") the great oh gloroius half life.

...and how is crysis a 'mess' ? ? ? ? ? ? ?