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I’m sorry to report that, at least in my experience, Half Life 2 has been nothing but a series of disappointments. So far, the ultimate experience promised by the game is seems as unreachable as the top of that blue tower dominating City 17.<\/p>\nI’m sorry to report that, at least in my experience, Half Life 2 has been nothing but a series of disappointments. So far, the ultimate experience promised by the game is seems as unreachable as the top of that blue tower dominating City 17.<\/p>\n
Over the past week, I have barely played a total of 4 hours into the game. This time was not spent at once, but it was spread out over multiple attempts. <\/p>\n
Here is how these attemps ended :<\/p>\n
1- Sound glitches. One security guard dismembered with polygons for arms and legs orbiting around his head. PC freezes.
2- Sound glitches. PC freezes during a scripted sequence. Sound stuck in a loop during the freeze.
3, 4 ,5 – Dead end. New level not automatically loaded. Menu scrambled – impossible to quit. Had to reboot.
6- Game freezes just before loading a new level. Sound stuck in loop.
7- PC reboots by itself just before an explosion in the game<\/p>\n
Attempt #7 was the last time I could play. Since then, saved games won’t even load. I can’t get past 80% of the loading progress bar before the game crashes back to the desktop with two ‘beeps’ from windows.<\/p>\n
I tried the game with and without Norton running. I tried it with and without sound. With low and high graphics settings with no result. Now I basically have to shelf the game until they come up with a patch which, hopefully, will make it functionnal. In the meantime, I will have to take a seat and watch the news about Half Life issues and monitor the Steam User Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n Needless to say, I am less than impressed for a game that has been hailed so far as the Second Coming by every game site I could find. Have any of these places experienced any glitch so far ?!<\/p>\n Between the Steam platform and the game itself, I have never seen such a convoluted installation procedure. Valve should have spent a little less time trying to block piracy attempts (that will happen no matter what) and invested more time into making sure the game would just work. <\/p>\n In no other industry are we willing to live (and spend money) on deficient products. I know bugs cannot be avoided, but there has to be some limit to what you put on the market. <\/p>\n Is that so much to ask to have a game that just works ?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sorry to report that, at least in my experience, Half Life 2 has been nothing but a series of disappointments. So far, the ultimate experience promised by the game is seems as unreachable as the top of that blue tower dominating City 17. Over the past week, I have barely played a total of 4 hours into the game.… <\/p>\n