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Viewing Category: HL2: Episode 1
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Laidlaw: Half-Life 2’s Alyx Works Because ‘She Gives You Back Emotion’
Posted @ 12:49 PM, November 2 2009, By: DigiQ8 In HL2: Episode 1, HL2: Episode 2, Half-Life 2
Gamasutra had an interview with Laidlaw and fellow Valve writer Erik Wolpaw. Laidlaw made some comments on Gordon Freeman's development as a lead character and how it has more to do with his external interactions rather than internal mechanisms.
So we were trying to do a thing where it wasn't about one guy who is saving the world heroically for his own reasons, You're doing it with your allies and friends. It's part of a larger effort. It's not just Gordon Freeman against the universe. It's Gordon Freeman as part of this group.
He mentioned that Alyx's actions sly smiles, concerned expressions, compliments gives Gordon Freeman an air of importance.
She gives back to you emotion, which is the only way we can tell the internal story of Gordon Freeman -- by the way the other characters treat him. So by having the characters like you and be glad to see you, you think, 'Oh, I'm an important person in this world.' Alyx was a great way of affirming that, and the things that are perilous to Alyx are going to be things that you care about.
Read the full interview here.
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Valve’s Lifetime Retail Sales Revealed
Posted @ 10:43 PM, December 3 2008, By: DigiQ8 In HL2: Episode 1, Half-Life, Half-Life 2
Gamasutra revealed Valve's Lifetime Retail Sales For Half-Life, Counter-Strike Franchises. Revealing that the studio has sold over 32.8 million games since the 1998 release of the first Half-Life.
- Half-Life: 9.3 Million
- Half-Life Opposing Force: 1.1 Million
- Half-Life Blue Shift: 800,000
- Half-Life 2: 6.5 Million
- Half-Life 2 Episode 1: 1.4 Million
- Counter-Strike: 4.2 Million
- Counter-Strike Condition Zero: 2.9 Million
- Counter-Strike Source: 2.1 Million
- Counter-Strike Xbox Port: 1.5 Million
- The Orange Box: 3.0 Million
All of the above statistics were described as Valve's estimates of worldwide lifetime-to-date retail sales only. Valve declining to reveal digital download numbers.
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Lombardi: “We chose the wrong word in ‘episode’”
Posted @ 3:52 PM, October 3 2008, By: DigiQ8 In HL2: Episode 1, HL2: Episode 2, HL2: Episode 3
Valve's Doug Lombardi has admitted that Valve may chose the wrong word 'Episode' for the Half Life 2 run of games.
"The notion of the word 'episode' conjures up this idea of television where you get something new every week. And people say 'we thought that episodic meant we were going to get something new every six months or every year',
I think a lot of folks in the games industry saw the same problem that we did with Half Life 2 in that making a 20-hour game with rich graphics, story etc. is a really expensive proposition both in time and money.
And some have started making games about the same length as Episode II, but they haven't changed what they call it, and they haven't change the price.
In a way you're charging people $50 but they're only getting $18 worth out of it - that's not necessarily the best way to go. But if you look at something like Portal, it's a five hour game and although I haven't done a qualified study, the number of people I've spoken to that finished the game feels like a much higher percent.
Stay tuned for the full interview on the weekend on CVG.com.
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Individual Oranges hit retail April 9th
Posted @ 12:44 PM, March 6 2008, By: DigiQ8 In HL2: Episode 1, HL2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2
For those who thinks the Orange Box a bad deal because they already have Half-Life 2 and Episode One, Valve has confirmed to Joystiq that the individually boxed Orange Box PC games are due to hit physical shelves on April 9th.
Valve has yet to officially announce pricing details, but retailers currently list Portal at $19.99,Team Fortress 2 and The Half-Life 2 Episodes Pack at $29.99 each.
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NEXT-GEN’S Best 30 Games of 2007
Posted @ 11:32 AM, December 18 2007, By: DigiQ8 In HL2: Episode 1, HL2: Episode 2, Half-Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2
The Orange Box got the fourth place in Next-gen's best 30 games of 2007, says that it's one of the best deals in gaming history.
We’re kind of glad that Valve and EA decided to put all of these great games in one package, not only because it’s likely the best deal in gaming right now, but also so we have an excuse to wedge all of these top-tier games into one slot. Everyone knows that 2004’s Half-Life 2 is one of the best examples of the FPS genre, and 2006’s Episode One was icing on the cake. New, though, is the raucous Team Fortress 2, with its comically gory style and gameplay that expertly adheres to the playing style of virtually anyone. And then there’s Portal, a mind-bending game that took the portal mechanics used in 2006’s Prey to entirely new levels. And Half-Life 2: Episode Two is the best entry into the saga yet. We’re not sure how this package could possibly be any better outside of including a free functional Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device with every purchase.
You can find the whole list on next-gen.biz.
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