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» Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Update

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The weekly Steam news post has an update on the development of Valve's first person shooter Half-Life 2: Episode 2 along with some concept artwork for the game:

Right now, we're working hard on putting the final parts of Episode Two together. Early on during development we spent a lot of time working on concept art of key areas of the game, so that everyone on the team could share a vision of what the final game would look like. The three pieces below are some examples of that work. Once the game is released you'll be able to see how these concept pieces were eventually turned into the final product.

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Click to view w00t's User Page w00t (924)  My XFire username is: w00t Talk to w00t in the Shout! Box May 08, 2007 - 03:28 am
Valve sucks, all this waiting crap for 6 hours of gameplay... what a fucking joke.

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Click to view Squiddy's User PageI am an AMD Agent Squiddy (1170)  Talk to Squiddy in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent May 07, 2007 - 04:25 pm
Me want Portals!! (beeyatch)

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Click to view MikeP's User Page MikeP (4)  Talk to MikeP in the Shout! Box May 06, 2007 - 10:11 pm
» You never cease to amaze me...
Get a little patience why don't you. You bitch bitch bitch when games take too long, and you bitch bitch bitch when games come out too early and you have to wait for three patches to get the damn game to work properly. Good for Valve for taking their time to create a polished product.

And as far as episodic content goes, I've never gotten though a game that takes 40 hours to beat - it gets boring after 10 hours or so. Perhaps that's just me.

HL2 Ep. 1 was a hell of a game and Ep. 2 should be just as good.

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Click to view Spino's User Page Spino (9)  Talk to Spino in the Shout! Box May 07, 2007 - 08:54 am | Edited on May 07, 2007 - 09:06 am
HL2EP1 was a helluva game? Wtf are you smoking? HL2EP1 was 6 hours' worth of the same old crap for $20. Talk about milking a name brand for the sake of sales. Hey HL fans, here's a bowl of premium dogs--t called EP1, doesn't it look tasty? Mmmmmm, hey it's HL so it just HAS to be good! EP1 was fine... for a mini-expansion that should have cost no more than $10. Even the Great Satan of game publishers (a/k/a EA) had the courtesy to charge less than $20 for those direct download mini-expansions for BF2. Calling EP1 a helluva game is like calling the SW crapquels a superlative cinematic experience.

Everyone is looking forward to EP2 because of Team Fortress 2 and Portal. Valve should take as much time as it needs to debug and tweak those two games because that's what everyone is going to be raving about for year or so after their release. TF2 is shaping up to be the next big deal in online shooters and Portal is a revolutionary step forward for a genre that is in dire need of new blood.

Man, I'd hate to think EP2 is the reason for these delays. Methinks Valve is simply testing TF2 like mad to get the class balance and level designs just right.

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Click to view Yoshi's User Page Yoshi (2239)  Click to view Yoshi's User Profile Talk to Yoshi in the Shout! Box May 06, 2007 - 12:35 pm
Really how hard would it have been for Valve to figure out what they wanted to do with the story and make the whole 3 episodes at once? You can't say that having all of the models is an excuse because before we see Episode 3 it will no longer have a top of the line engine. After games like Crysis comes out it will be like compairing Half Life to Half Life 2.

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Click to view Stories's User Page Stories (314)  Click to view Stories's User Profile Talk to Stories in the Shout! Box May 05, 2007 - 12:34 pm
Valve is too much of a perfectionist company. They find millions of things they want to add and will just delay it further because they want it to do everything they want. Once they've done that, they discover some new graphical cookie to add, so it adds more time. If they just set hard deadlines, they'd have gotten Episode 3 out (albeit with less features).

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Click to view dbd's User Page dbd (22)  Talk to dbd in the Shout! Box May 05, 2007 - 04:09 pm
Isn't that an important part of what makes Valve's games so special though? I've bought everything Valve have made since HL 1, and although that's not a huge number or products, every single one of them has been amazing and fine tuned to perfection.
I'm glad not all developers work like this, but I wouldn't want Valve to do things any different.
When it's done, for the win :)

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Click to view Stories's User Page Stories (314)  Talk to Stories in the Shout! Box May 05, 2007 - 04:15 pm
Yep, that's what I was trying to say. More companies should follow Valve's line. That way, we wouldn't get half-complete shoddy products from all these developers. Although there should be a balance (Duke Forever :cough cough:).

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