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I hope 100 TB drives are out by the time HL3 comes out.
I’m old enough that I got HL2 in a retail box, when it was new.
and the fucking disks installed the game encrypted, and I could not use my computer until the next day, due to it thrashing my HDD and CPU so hard to decrypt the files that my computer was functionally useless that evening, and overnight.
now THAT was some bullshit.
This was too, cause I remember steam games bloating with temp files back in the day and regularly having to clear out the folder so you had HDD space.
I remember when Steam came out and everyone hated it because of how slow and buggy it was. Crazy how times have changed.
The client is still rather resource intensive, it’s just that computers have gotten so much faster that you don’t notice it.
Now, if Valve would ever deal with the download and sync issues, that would be nice.
Steam is still slow and buggy.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Steam used to be slick and fast before it changed over to chromium and started trying to become a social media platform… also wish it had a simplified legacy version so people could still run it on older OSes to run the games they own that only run on older OSes. but apparently thats a super controversial topic that makes people unhinged
I still have my 3 disk box
I still have my original box/CDs too… i have no idea where they are, but I know i have them…somewhere.
did counter-strike 2 come with half life? i vaguely remember half life but i remember counterstrike 2 being played a lot in the dorm floor in uni. i feel like i remember them being connected some how but i can’t recall.
No, Counterstrike 2 came out a couple years ago.
before that was global offensive.
the counter strike that came with HL2 was Counterstrike Source.
CS:S was such a phenominal game… So many years of nights spent staying up till 2am playing on the same server, with the same guys… and all of them gone now, like tears in the rain…
oooh that makes sense; yeah this would have been in 1999/2000ish. i remember a name similar to counterstrike but i wasn’t sure
i did a search and i think it was this one i was thinking of actually (source seems to be 2004 remake of it but i was out of uni at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_(video_game))
I got a code with my 9600XT, it was delayed so long the card was pretty much outdated by the time it came out, but I still had the code that came with it!
Pretty sure I was able to pre load it on steam before release day, I remember I took the day off work just to play it.
That bridge level still, to this day, fires every one of my acrophobic neurons.
The reason why HL3 is not out yet is because valve is waiting for consumer adoption of 10TB drives
Reminds me of the time I had checked my TF2 folder after IDK how many years of playing, and the folder was like 500GB because of temp cached files not being deleted.
This is funny on so many levels, also a vit bitter as well…
This is as much of a valid complaint now as it was back then.
There is absolutely no excuse for games now to be over 100GB in storage space. Unless you have the longest game ever that span across like 1 and a half “normal” game lengths. The biggest games now should be 60GB or less. So many developers refuse to compress things that could be compressed with zero noticeable loss in quality except for maybe a camera being really close to an object with an 8k display resolution.
At the absolute worst, do what games used to do for like 6 months before not caring: make the game for 1080p players, compression and all, then offer a free DLC with all the uncompressed stuff. At least make the storage feast optional.
The most annoying thing is there is a trivial to implement way to close to halve these stupidly inflated sizes: make the highest resolution of textures a free DLC that you optionally install
/c/YourCommentButStroke
I mean, if the base game folder is .8 Gb, then aren’t their 3 mods the 1 Gig culprit? That’s a moddev issues and not many are concerned about optimizations.
Edit: I did misread the bit about the original game size.
You did misread but you’re probably also still correct. The modded game files are 1.82 total while the previous version of the game was 0.837, while I don’t know for sure what the newer version filesize was it was still an odd complaint for them to make.
Reminds of the those shitty Battlefront Remasters with upscaled 8 or 4k textures or whatever it was. Games went from being less than 5gbs to being 60 gb or something like that.
I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was…
Times have changed.
I remember thinking that about a gigabit hard drive that I ordered from Gateway. I specifically thought, “There is no way that I can ever use all of this.”
I was about to say, I recognize that name… Then I saw forum name and the year…
I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago…
Kids these days don’t know how to have a proper brick party in forums anymore.
Tech prophet circa 2003.
surprised there hasnt been a linux distro called SiskOS yet.
1.82 GB out of 160 GB and they are worried. Imagine how they feel now with 500 gb and 1 TB drives with some AAA games being 250 GB.
They are out… They are out before Half-Life 3…
Fun fact:
There was actually 4 games planned with the fourth one being an epic End Game style cross over finally of Portal, TF, Left for Dead, CS, and Half Life all coming together to fight the combine But unfortunately the series only had a Half Life and decayed down to 2 games in each series.
Narrator: Then while Casey sips his tea, dozen of lemmy users think for themselves “heh… stupid casey made me chucke…”. As he puts down his tea he winks, and everyone had a moment there…
People getting whoosed by this is hilarious. Nicely done.
I think the TF2 crossover is just a little too ridiculous.
When I die, I’m gonna close my eyes and dream of this.
I want this to be real
Oh that poor innocent soul. They must not have been old enough to remember needing boot disks because your 90s jalopy couldn’t handle Warcraft or Myst.
heck they should try putting in 40 disks just to install word 3.1
Lol we got affordable multi terabyte SSDs before HL3
I haven’t bought a non-NVMe drive in the last 5 years.
Me neither, haven’t bought any drives
Well, Petabyte drives are out there for a while. I think their price drop is imminent.
Uh, source?
The biggest I could find is this 245 TB SSD from Kioxia
Oh really? I’m assuming not in a consumer form factor? If so that’s completely passed me by
We’ll have petabyte drives for $50 before HL3 appears.
Most of the people that made half life 1 and 2 are gone I think. Even if they made half life 3 it likely wouldn’t be the game we wanted all those decades ago
People really liked Half-Life Alyx so whoever is in the development team is still capable of making a game people love. Though, ultimately, whether a hypotetical release of Half-Life 3 could live up to the hype or not is irrelevant since no such game will ever be released.
Should I give it another try? I hate the movement so much
Half life 3 will simply never live up to the hype/fantasy people have for it ( I think ).
After all this time I feel they’re either never going to release it, or release it when the bar from the public becomes… Realistic.
I don’t think they care much about general public expectations, they released Alyx with general public not even having an option to play it. If HL3 will ever be released by the current Valve it will be a game they are proud of themselves to produce.
That was maybe true once, but it’s fading into nothing but a meme. Half life is just not relevant for newer generations.
But that may just be the opportunity… Giving them a reason to care.
We said the same thing about Baldur’s Gate and then BG3 sold gangbusters. It’s possible.
Damn I miss half-life mods.
New ones are still being made. I can’t give specific examples since I don’t play Half-Life mods but I’m sure you can find some pretty cool stuff by looking around.
There are indeed, but the thriving multiplayer mods community is mostly gone. I miss there being dozens of little multiplayer mods with full lobbies. I haven’t found anything that hits the same spot but perhaps I’m just unaware of what’s out there. I wish I could play a few rounds of HL: Vampire Slayer in a full server.
