yeh - I wouldnt be able to catch yer:burn:

:frog:

:devil:

Oh yes,

Far cry, Half life 2 and Doom 3. Got them, played them and love em.

Well cool.

DC:burn:

Best bit of Halo on the 'Old system' is the multiplayer. Cracking laugh!

Doom 3, after the initial "Wow factor" wore off was dull as ditchwater. Enter room, lights go out, monsters appear, kill, repat ad nauseum.

Far cry bugged me in that no matter how quietly you moved "They" heard you.

And Half Life 2 so far has kind of left me cold. I guess it just doesn't have that "out of nowhere feel" that the original had. Oh yeah and Steam pi$$e$ me off. If I've paid £30 odd quid for a game it's my bleeding game, EULA be damned, I own it. To be made to check in every time I want to play it (My broadband is on permanently so the offline mode is no use) hacks me right off. Rather than stopping piracy its just gonna encourage me to download a hacked version next time.

Darren

Yep...the whole 'activation' thing was a bit of a joke. It went pretty well for me, but I would be piffed off if I had paid for the downloads in advance and then couldn't activate it on the first day due to the demand!

Also, as the copy you have is now registered with you, and you only, if you ever need to change some of the registration details (ie you sell the game to someone else) or invest in a new machine/email details etc...this may mean you will have to 're-activate' your steam acount...for a small fee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a joke!

[Edited on 1-12-2004 by Harv748]

Guys,

I don't know what you've been told or read, but once you've activated your Steam account and registered your games, it doesn't need to authenticate you each time IF you've checked the option to remember your username and password (which is checked by default).

Also, I've re-installed HL2 on my new machine and all you have to do is sign in to Steam and it knows you've got access to those games, so it just unlocks all of the files for you.

Just remember that it's there for a reason - to stop people playing the game without paying for it and bumping up the price for people like you and me who actually pay out for the game.

As far as I'm aware, there is no working patch or crack for HL2 at this time - all the ones available have simply been key-loggers and trojans to steal your genuine registration key!

As for the levels in HL2 - wait until you get the Bug Bait and start ordering the Ant Lions around ... now that IS cool!

I've now finished the Nova Prospekt level (chapter 9) and I'm on the last level "Entanglement", so I'm waiting for some really big monsters to come and kick my a$$!

I have no idea what level he is on, but last night it looked very creepy with lots of dead bodies, spooky music and circular saws that he was chopping people in half with using the gravity gun (i think?).

I assume its an 18 as its pretty freaky.

It was part of the Black Mesa facility and going to Raven???

I'm just glad that whole airboat bit is over, and now looks really scary, zombies etc everywhere, and that gravity gun rocks, just launching circular saw blades at them, sawing them in two :D

Yeah, that's Ravencroft. You'll meet The Priest soon and then you get another vehicle, and then.... well I won't spoil it for you :D

I didn't like the airboat bit either - it seemed far too long as you just whizzed past the scenery trying to find out where to go. The only good bit was the chimney, but that was about it!