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Damn I miss half-life mods.
Action Half-Life represent
Is it anything like Action Doom?
New ones are still being made. I can’t give specific examples since I don’t play Half-Life mods but I’m sure you can find some pretty cool stuff by looking around.
There are indeed, but the thriving multiplayer mods community is mostly gone. I miss there being dozens of little multiplayer mods with full lobbies. I haven’t found anything that hits the same spot but perhaps I’m just unaware of what’s out there. I wish I could play a few rounds of HL: Vampire Slayer in a full server.
Lol those were the days. I remember Simcity 4 releasing back then and how quickly my mod folder blue up. Then by the time that game was old it was only 2.15gb and that was nothing. The jump from >10gb to 50gb games was insane. Now the jump to 100+ Gb hurts a lot. Any time a game is iN MB I do a little happy dance.
how quickly my mod folder blue up
Mine was green.
I remember clearing drive space on my first computer once, I went off of install size and anything other than a couple of key games that took up multiple hundreds of Mb got the boot and anything less than 100 Mb stayed installed for a bit longer. When you’ve only got a 40GB drive, thems the choices you have to make!
Meanwhile I’ve seen Fortnite literally fail to update with less than 100GB free because it needs to modify so many files in its gigantic install
Why were drives 160GB? This doesn’t really follow the 2^x pattern…
There never was and neither is that pattern, we now have 1tb, 2, 3, 4, etc, 12, 26tb drives. Whatever size they can fit, they do just as they did before.
I’ve seen weird numbers before like 650 or 520 before.
If the pattern was real 1TB drives would not exist either, since they are about 1.1 TiB.
The base 2 pattern for storage is a new thing with solid state. It just used to be a multiple what whatever they could fit reliably on a platter in a given form factor. As media got better and heads got smaller they just increased to roundish numbers.
We’ll have petabyte drives for $50 before HL3 appears.
Most of the people that made half life 1 and 2 are gone I think. Even if they made half life 3 it likely wouldn’t be the game we wanted all those decades ago
Half life 3 will simply never live up to the hype/fantasy people have for it ( I think ).
After all this time I feel they’re either never going to release it, or release it when the bar from the public becomes… Realistic.
I don’t think they care much about general public expectations, they released Alyx with general public not even having an option to play it. If HL3 will ever be released by the current Valve it will be a game they are proud of themselves to produce.
That was maybe true once, but it’s fading into nothing but a meme. Half life is just not relevant for newer generations.
But that may just be the opportunity… Giving them a reason to care.
We said the same thing about Baldur’s Gate and then BG3 sold gangbusters. It’s possible.
People really liked Half-Life Alyx so whoever is in the development team is still capable of making a game people love. Though, ultimately, whether a hypotetical release of Half-Life 3 could live up to the hype or not is irrelevant since no such game will ever be released.
Should I give it another try? I hate the movement so much
I don’t know, I don’t own a VR headset. But I never heard anyone talk about it negatively. Apparently the gameplay is rather restricted since it’s supossed to be a beginner’s VR game but that’s about it.
Tech prophet circa 2003.
surprised there hasnt been a linux distro called SiskOS yet.
monkeys paw: it gets released but its named after the thong song guy
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised. Space Jesus needs his own OS.
Not many people these days understand that Steam used to suck bad.
I have heard that people used to be super PISSED that steam is required for valve games. I guess it makes sense now considering hdd sizes back then.
I’ve never been pissed off over a game before i even played it, except for Half Life 2.
Full game on the disk.
Requires internet to install.
Requires Steam.This was before broadband, so the awesome game you bought hung over won’t be installed until late tonight, instead of the normal 10 minutes off the cd.
Now what sucks is that people are okay with underaged kids gambling because, come on, it’s Steam!
I might be hijacking conversations too much…
wait till you hear about CCGs
To be honest yea, I just feel like it’s pretty much gambling, now that there’s a real market around it. I would be for banning them for minors and regulating them in a similar way
The reason why HL3 is not out yet is because valve is waiting for consumer adoption of 10TB drives
I still remember when I had to reinstall my WindowsXP from the 3GB HDD onto my 1.5GB HDD so I could install The Sims 2
And now 1.5GB RAM won’t even load Windows.
Not even close to loading it
It will. I’ve tried. It’s not a pleasant experience though.
But 2GB on Fedora was pain as well, though definitely more usable.
Puppy linux works quite well with 2gb, on the other hand.
Gone are the days when a game delivered on seven floppy disks was considered “overblown”.
I installed HL2 from five CDs back in the day
Saaaame
I can’t be certain but I seem to recall installing Unreal Tournament 2004 from seven CDs
Lol.
I’ve now got Steam games spread across 5 hard drives. One of which is a 5tb old school disk drive for the games I have A LOT of user made content for. I’ve gotta be in the terrabytes range at this point.
This is funny on so many levels, also a vit bitter as well…
Lol we got affordable multi terabyte SSDs before HL3
Well, Petabyte drives are out there for a while. I think their price drop is imminent.
Oh really? I’m assuming not in a consumer form factor? If so that’s completely passed me by
Uh, source?
The biggest I could find is this 245TB SSD from Kioxia
Not in a single drive yet, but very viable in a single server these days.
I haven’t bought a non-NVMe drive in the last 5 years.
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Or, even better, repurpose an old computer. Just stuff it with drives and install truenas.
Me neither, haven’t bought any drives
Wait until they get to the end of level one and have to turn the tape over and press play.
I hope 100 TB drives are out by the time HL3 comes out.
By the time H3 comes out your great great great grand children will be reminiscing about how games once were about gameplay and plot and not the 100th version of Call of Duty or Assassins Creed. I’d say Madden too but let’s face it no one will play it 150 years from now unless it’s VR.
Nah, I’m willing to bet HL3 will come out (at the latest) 5 years after Gaben’s death. Not because he’s witholding it, obviously, but because whoever comes next will probably try to make as much money as possible and that’s an easy first way to do it.
It’s gonna suck when Steam immediately enshitifies to the max after he dies.
Yeah, fully expecting that to happen. I wish that guy a long and healthy life and there isn’t an ounce of altruism in that statement.
Any containment plans for when Steam joins the club of shit eventually?
Die, I guess
I’m still holding out hope that Valve becomes a worker-owned coop when Gaben goes. Internally they’ve been structured that way for years, without traditional “management,” everyone having moving desks where they work on whatever they feel motivated by and most useful at, etc.
Forgot about Valve taking a giant 30% cut and making thousands of people gambling addicts?
unless its VR
I thought the same thing about touchscreens when they first came out. I really did think they were the future of gaming. Seemingly limitless buttons in limitless combinations. Touch and drag game pieces directly, action and vision in the same place.
Turns out gaming on mobile is shit. So so shit.
Maybe VR will end up the same way. Its pretty neat now while its still new and shiny, but maybe it never actually reaches potential.
Its pretty neat now while its still new and shiny
The current crop of VR tech dates back to 2012, not exactly what I’d consider new and shiny
I hope SSDs and NVMes are cheaper by the time HL3 comes out
I hope not
1.82 GB out of 160 GB and they are worried. Imagine how they feel now with 500 gb and 1 TB drives with some AAA games being 250 GB.
