Originally Posted by CardJoe :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
You make me so angry and sad. A team of hundreds of people work on a game like HL2 for years, crafting story and plot and manipulating and tweaking gameplay mechanic and you can't even remember the name of the main characters from a series which is in it's third/fourth installment depending how you count it?
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its ok, after a couple of pints i can probably recite the entire half life story word for word B)
Originally Posted by CardJoe Nope. Wonder if it messes things up or not...
I thought that, too. Especially when I pressed the launch button and the countdown started, I was all set for, '5..4..3..2...... parp'. Oh dear, Gordon, looks like something's gone wrong, be a good chap and have a look will you, because everyone elses hands appear to have dropped off.
Originally Posted by CardJoe To actually come up with a concept? Yeah, probably a week or two. To write all the dialogue and work with the art and sound and design departments to carry that idea through from a single concept through into a fluidly told story with great gameplay but very stringent design rules (no speaking, taking control of character, 3rd part cutscenes)? Takes a lot longer.
Fluidly told? They make it up as they go along tieing in portal with it all Hell the chars don't even react when you shoot stuff at them with the gravity gun, I shot that little plant pot right in the face of the guy with one leg, it didn't even interrupt what he was saying, no Gordon you "four letter word" or him throwing it back at me, it feels stupid :)
It's not made up as they go along (mostly, I think some is). As for the rest of it, it's called gameplay. It's deliberate to stop the game either breaking or ending if you did that.
Sure, they could make a game which adapted to every single scenario, but you whinge when you have to wait for a year. You really going to wait decades?
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...but I hear there's an achievement that has something to do with a gnome, so I gotta play through it at least one more time.
Also, regarding little story quirks: ...am I the only one who figured out Lamarr went for a rocket ride? ;-D
its ok, after a couple of pints i can probably recite the entire half life story word for word B)
phew, thank god someone else cares!
I thought that, too. Especially when I pressed the launch button and the countdown started, I was all set for, '5..4..3..2...... parp'. Oh dear, Gordon, looks like something's gone wrong, be a good chap and have a look will you, because everyone elses hands appear to have dropped off.
Fluidly told? They make it up as they go along tieing in portal with it all Hell the chars don't even react when you shoot stuff at them with the gravity gun, I shot that little plant pot right in the face of the guy with one leg, it didn't even interrupt what he was saying, no Gordon you "four letter word" or him throwing it back at me, it feels stupid :)
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?p=1582298&posted=1#post1582298 - discussion on the topic
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.shaw.ca%2Fhalflifestory%2F&ei=FucUR7CPHJyigQOg3P2uCA&usg=AFQjCNH4KpBzxYAGIQNzflI6_tNKbTOejQ&sig2=SxZ5rPQqQXeHoNLPmKTpgg - the half-life timeline
It's not made up as they go along (mostly, I think some is). As for the rest of it, it's called gameplay. It's deliberate to stop the game either breaking or ending if you did that.
Sure, they could make a game which adapted to every single scenario, but you whinge when you have to wait for a year. You really going to wait decades?