New HL2 Screens

[Stagger Lee]

Look at the pics numbnuts. The pics show a OUTSIDE WORLD....Duuuuuuh

You always this stupid or you just save it for special occasions...like writing on csnation?

[GameHopper]

Stagger Lee wrote..

Look at the pics numbnuts. The pics show a OUTSIDE WORLD....Duuuuuuh

You always this stupid or you just save it for special occasions...like writing on csnation?

i didnt know "skies and stuff" was innovative..



i think Doom 3 has "skies and stuff"



plus, I dont talk to AOL users.

[Noleafclover199]

wow just calm the fuck down everyone damn, wait until hl2 is realsed to argue

[MikeJ]

Stagger Lee wrote..

How about all the Doom junkies stay the f*ck out of here

There aren't any doom junkies in this thread. Just a bunch of people who feel "hurt" because valve "lied to them again." So they think they are getting back at Valve by hopping on the iD fanboy bandwagon, which is great and all until they beat the game 10 hours later and wonder what they are going to do next.



Half-Life 2 awaits your return fellas.

[HankPym]

One of the greatest things about the Internet is its uncanny ability to divide users into fundamentalist, single-minded, brainless camps. Maybe one day people will get it through theis thick skulls that you can buy and enjoy more than one game. While I'm on the subject, nobody has to be a "Valve hater" or a "Valve fanboy". It is possible to look at games and companies on a case-by-case basis, and form educated, well-rounded opinions about them. Buy and enjoy both Doom 3 and Half-Life 2. You're allowed.



As someone who's gone on record as saying that the Doom 3 buzz hasn't excited me too much, I've got to say I'm a little more interested now. The in-game graphics are supposed to be much more impressive than the screenshots led me to believe, and so I just might check it out down the road. I think HL2 will still be my next game purchase, though.

[Zips]

xlokix wrote..

Yes those are new high resolution pictures, there were crappy e3 videos before. I even remember the sound that helicopter makes when the bullets go whizzing by you and thought it was amazing. But mostly everyone's complaining because these are new sequences in battle, but basically the same maps and look almost those of the e3 videos. I'm almost sure I saw that helicopter scene though on an e3 video

Yes, they are the same levels as in the E3 videos, but they are NOT stills taken from them, even that picture with the helicopter. In the E3 video you get into the vehicle and then the helicopter shows up. There is no scene in the E3 videos that looks exactly like the images above. Also, to those who are bitching about the similarites, heaven forbid that Valve doesn't want to spoil every damn thing for the customers in showing completely new areas and whatnot. There is the actual GAME for that.

[Noleafclover199]

VERY well said Hankpym

[Smurfzilla]

these screens almost make me not care about hl2 as much, why do they look worse than before? it doesnt make sense

[MikeJ]

Doom3's graphics are way better

http://www.mcsheepy.com/~stig/d3/shot00012.jpg

[Noleafclover199]

LOL mike

[le gritche]

MikeJ wrote..

Doom3's graphics are way better

http://www.mcsheepy.com/~stig/d3/shot00012.jpg

so there are walls and dark places in doom3, big deal.



and at least you can actually play doom3 today, I personally can't play with the HL2 screenshots. Maybe if I print them and fastly switch them in front of my screen who knows...

[alien3456]

http://www.hl2fallout.com/screenshots/s...hlight?full=1



The lighting in that picture is so horribly wrong... Doom 3 is so damn pretty... Half Life 2 hopefully will be more fun. Doom 3 was very very VERY fun but I just don't want Half Life 2 to seem disappointing, since Doom 3 was and still is it's biggest competition. And hopefully half life 2 won't make me literally, shit my pants. I creamed myself at one point because it was so late and I couldn't stop playing Doom 3...



enough said. <_<

[Noleafclover199]

omfg they did fix bugs SINCE that pic was taken 2 months ago...

[Zips]

MikeJ wrote..

Doom3's graphics are way better

http://www.mcsheepy.com/~stig/d3/shot00012.jpg

Wuss. Go through the game using just your fists. You don't deserve the benefit of the soft light that's generated from the plasma gun when close to (read: right up against) a wall.

[Bigun]

just got a few things to say here, hopefully some of the more intelligent members of the board can back me up.



doom 3 is a good looking game, its gone all the way with the lighting which has left less power in the video cards for all the other stuff in the renderer. case in point being the low poly-ish models - bump and normal mapping cant totallytake away the feel of 'this model looks nice, but it looks a bit angular'.



the scope of hl2's graphics are much more grand. regardless of real-time on the fly lighting calculations (as opposed to hl2's mix of lightmaps and dynamic shadowing), hl2's open vistas and inner-city scenes and artwork blows me away a lot more than endless dark metal corridors, lifts and tunnels. in hl2 there is the variety of wide open spaces, coupled with the lovely inner-city and indoors scenes. shipyards, warehouses, apartment blocks, dried up oceans, abandoned ships and the omnipresent combine machine/tower impress me a whole lot more than the claustraphobic doom setting.



dont get me wrong, im sure the doom3 engine is excellent, and ill bet raven do some wicked stuff with it for quake4, but in terms of visuals as a whole, leaving aside the whole 'doom3 real time light0rings lolz!11' thing, hl2 gets my vote. its not just the engine, its what the artists and animators do with it that makes the visuals special.



case in point: Quake 3 vs CoD. Same engine, but I know which one impressed me more visually.