Sounds like just the thing to play... Half-Life 3!!!!!
Posts by Thrik
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Concerning the tactile feel:
QuoteA billion times better [than a standard touchpad]. It feels like you're using a device rather than just gliding your finger, I think to a surprisingly large degree thanks to the subtle audio feedback that sounds like a tiny Price is Right wheel spinning or something. It's hard to explain. I suspect you can disable that, either at the dev level or player level, but it grew on me really fast. I don't really like using trackpads in general. But we were playing Broken Age (traditional point and click adventure game) on this thing and it felt great; I don't think we're going to need to do any special control support for it at all, it just worked.
If this thing ends up supporting loads of old games then that alone is pretty awesome in terms of back catalogue gaming. It sounds like they're trying to make this at LEAST a drop-in keyboard/mouse replacement for couch PC gaming, and of course something far better for developers that fully utilise it. Amazingly, a simple, high-quality, and widely usable way of doing this does not exist for PC gaming.BTW, clickable touch screen? What an obvious yet sweet idea!
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So, Sony and Valve are both going to be supporting PC-like precision thanks to all this touch shit... but not Microsoft. Well done once again proving your complete lack of foresight MS, lol.
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OH MY GOOOOOD!!!!!
It's a controller.
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Gabe Newell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
QuoteDisplay MoreAfter having dropped out of Harvard University Newell spent thirteen years working for Microsoft Corporation, ultimately becoming a "Microsoft Millionaire". Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows". Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the computer game Quake at id Software, Newell and another Microsoft employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft to found Valve in 1996. He and Harrington used their money to fund Valve through the development of Half-Life.
During production on Half-Life 2, he spent several months focusing on the Steam project.
In 2007, Newell openly expressed his displeasure over developing his software for gaming consoles, particularly the PlayStation 3. In regard to the system, Newell was once quoted as claiming that developing processes for the console in general was "a waste of everybody's time" and "a disaster on many levels ... I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'." Nevertheless, at E3 in 2010, Newell appeared on stage at Sony's keynote; while acknowledging his past outspoken comments on console development, he discussed the open nature of Sony's PlayStation 3 platform, and announced Portal 2 for the console, remarking that with Steamworks support it would be the best version for any console. Newell has also criticized the Xbox Live service, referring to it as "a train wreck". He was also intensely critical of Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8, calling it a "catastrophe" and a threat to the usually open nature of PC gaming.
In December 2010, Forbes named Newell as "A Name You Should Know" mainly for his work on Steam having partnerships with multiple major developers. In March 2012, Forbes estimated the net worth of Newell as $1.5 billion, ranking 854th out of 1,226 global billionaires.
my god
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Pretty sweet news!
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Yeah the more I look at the cinematic mod the more I get pissed off with art direction changes. I really wish there was something I could install that adds some of the awesome lighting and shit without making changes that kind of miss the point of certain scenes. It wouldn't surprise me if he even added loads of water to the dock/coast scenes, not realising they're meant to be so dry because of the Combine.
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Quote from [HP]
If you do, I can recommend the "Cinematic Mod 12", It's like 11gb, but it's worth it imo.
Just went through the Cinematic Mod site and it looks good. Did you find it affected the tone/mood of the original game much? While an artistic improvement, it's hard not to notice this environment for example looks much less barren and depressing:
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Yet stuff like this looks amazing:
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I don't like the new Alyx though, the author of the mod even describes the new model as 'slutty' lmao. Good job there's an option to disable those.
As long as it doesn't totally ruin some parts of the game I'll definitely give it a go as it looks like he's mostly done a great job.
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Yeah man, it's hilarious that of all things Valve left us on that fucker of a cliffhanger. Half-Life 3 will probably begin many years later with it turning out Alyx has killed herself from grief, Gordon has become an alcoholic, the G-Man just sits smoking Gs all day, and Mossman is sat on a magical boat still waiting for some help. Oh and Breen is a grub (account is Marc Laidlaw's, HL1/HL2 writer).
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Quote from Rick_D
holy shit can that engine look good
Yeah man. I've never played Half-Life 2 with the HDR update so might have to spin it up soon. Although I don't know if I can handle this shit for a second time (0:45):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea49JjDp1TI
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just kill me now
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So happy to see that Ellie from The Last of Us is getting a second game.
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Can't deny it, I loved both Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain. I know, I know... they had issues. But the atmosphere they created really drew me in and in a really unique way I've not experienced with other games. Their focus on the mundane as much as the exciting works IMO. I guess it's like Metal Gear Solid: a love or hate type thing.
