I have nightmares of dragonfights in NWN. Anything else that's rated impossible is peanuts but the dragons always kick my ass around.

I don't know why HL ran so badly on my pc, but because it did I didn't like it.

If there's a half-life 2, I'm probably gonna buy it. I might wait for some reviews, just to make sure it's not crap. That's a rather long dev cycle though, isn't it? I mean, how old is half-life? Kinda reminds me of Duke Nukem Forever, eh?

Trust me, it won't be crap, i've read a 8-page story in my brother's pc games mag about some guy of the mag visiting sierra with accompanying screenshots, man i was impressed! I'm not gonna spend tonite telling stuff that was in the preview but i'll link you some screenshots:











All ingame that...



Btw Satis, HL2 was never officially announced actually, unlike DNF which has been delayed for years now. HL2 is quite steadily set for september release.

great news. Looks like a rocking game. We'll see what happens in a couple months, eh?

Is GF in that story?

Prepare for NASTY-NASTY-NASTY!

yea, it's still on track. Haven't heard a WHOLE lot lately...definetely one I'm waiting for. I really loved Deus Ex. Deus Ex 2 should be rockin'.

Been hearing ubercool things about Deus Ex 2. Something with biomods (upgrades to a certain bodypart/function) for example. A lvl 1 enhanced vision for the eyes-slot biomod upgrade gives nightvision, lvl 2 allows you to see ppl tru walls, and lvl 3 ppl and objects. (like robots)

Combine that with the fact that there are upgrades for weapons that allow you to shoot tru walls= MAYHEM.

Some biomods are rather shady and not freely available in stores, but rather on the black market, like the ubercool-sounding Skull gun upgrade for the eyes slot...allows you to shoot beams from your eyes. Other than that there are drone Biomods, little robot drones flying around you, for reparing, defense, and whatnot; the Bot Domination biomod which allows you to take over all sorts of robots, and various upgrades for guns: enhanced firepower, silencer, sedative arrows, etc. Even bullets that follow ppl behind corners.


Other cool things: the AI chars are hindered by lighting effects just like you. If you direct a halogen lamp onto an opponents face he'll be blinded by the sharp lighting and won't be able to aim succesfully.


All very cool features imho...if i can run it i'll get it. Oh, and they adapted the previous, crappy, interface.

Yea it looks good - and what's better is the dynamic shadow thing. Thief III uses the same engine as DX2 (same developers) and you get to have a shadow meter thing to tell whether you are hidden or not. And if a dude with a flashlight come along, it makes all the shadows really dark except where he's pointing the torch.

Sounds great.

HL2 looks like a possible buy for me - I might wait for a demo or borrow it off a friend though.