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I'm still blown away by the fact that halfile still works, even in vista.

I just entered my original CD key into steam, and got an updated version of the game. Incredible.

Now this, however sounds awesome. All of Halflife with modern graphics and such. I can't wait either!

I've been watching the development of this mod off and on for a while now; didn't expect it to make it this far. This will be one hell of a release for the Source community.

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Cute, but it's no "Mario Kart". ;-)

I've been waiting for this mod for years. I think it's going to come out at about the same as Duke Nukem Forever.

The company is Valve not Steam.  Steam is the distribution system.  This is often mistaken since Valve does not market themselves very well on their Steam website.

Valve already came up with Half-Life: Source.  The texture and model quality isn't nearly as good as it was in HL2 though.

At last count, there were still only 2 of the proposed 3 HL2 Episodes in the bag.  Where is Ep. 3, Valve??!?

And for that matter, WTF happened to SiN Episodes?

In other news, Duke Nukem Forever's release date has slipped to Judgement Day, making it impossible for anyone to play....

I've been waiting for EA to announce all these new games they said they'd bring out for Mac 2 years ago at E3....

....still waiting.

(Ok, maybe not.)

HL: Source was just a port to the source engine so  they didn't bring anything to the table there.  In fact that's one of the reasons Black Mesa exists.

Hl2 EP3 was supposed to be june 2009 last time I saw.

And the SIN series last time I checked it was cancelled after the first game.

"HL: Source was just a port to the source engine so  they didn't bring anything to the table there."

They did increase the texture resolution, as well as the polygon count.  In effect, it brought the quality of the High-Resolution Pack that was introduced in HL: Blue Shift backwards to HL1.  HL1 never had that option (unless you had Blue Shift).  Blue Shift is like night and day in graphics quality over the original HL1.  They ported HL1 + High-Rez Pack to Source, not just HL1 alone.  Of course, Source brings all kinds of goodness, such as support for much higher rez vidcards and compatibility with new OS's.  Remember that HL1 was released during the time of 3dfx Voodoo1&2's and 16-bit colour depth.  I had the very first NVIDIA GeForce 256 GPU during HL1.  NVIDIA coined the term "GPU" with that card.  It was a wicked card at the time.

"Hl2 EP3 was supposed to be june 2009 last time I saw."

That counters what they originally said, in that episodic content could be released relatively quickly.  I finished Ep. 1 in about a single 5&1/2-hour sitting.  Ep. 2 in about 7-hours between 3 sittings.  That's just sad.  For the time they spent on HL2: Episodes, they could've put out a much longer game that might've turned into a true sequel: HL3.

"the SIN series last time I checked it was cancelled after the first game."

What a shame.  The first episode was actually pretty good - much better than the original.

The main thing was not having a huge 4 or 5 year development process for the HL2 games(what was the time frame between HL and HL2, 6 years or something like that?)

But they did delay EP2 and im sure they have and will delay a little for EP3.  Its too bad their ending the current story arc with that game.  

Btw I didn't know about the other things they did when they ported HL.  But i do wish they would've rebuilt it better with the source engine than they did(like black mesa is doing).

"i do wish they would've rebuilt it better with the source engine than they did"

It was a quick port.

One thing is definitely true:  The length of time they took is too long.  Whether or not they have enough staff on hand, the playable length of the episodes is just pathetic, considering their development cycle.

Oh, and FYI:  HL1 wasn't meant to be a full series until it started garnering good reviews.  It was going to taper off into one of those "Doctor Who"-style endings that didn't make a lot of sense.  It took a while for good reviews to roll in too, because at the time of launch it was practically an unknown.  Sierra didn't have any hits on their hands at the time, after being bought up by Vivendi Universal, afterwhich they killed all the Quest games and layed off the entire Coarsegold, CA staff where Sierra began.  Half-Life brought Sierra out of a VU-induced grave.

hmm didn't know that about the series.  

I would almost bet money that at least a few games come out explaining what happens to corporal Shepherd of Opposing Force fame.  I think that's where they are going after Episode 3.  (People will debate it all the time but Valve won't tell, or they haven't decided it)

They have taken a lot of time with the games although the last one was a little short.  The biggest difference I see between the games they put out and the community mods that try to fill in gaps in the storyline is the attention to detail.

But everything aside, the Half Life series is the best series of games I have ever played bar none.

And long development cycles?  TF2 took forever, but its no Duke Nukem Forever.  

what do you mean by "it's no duke nukem forever"?

gorath,

Duke Nukem Forever has been in development for 11 years or so.

oh btw so many old games work so great in Vista

Oh, I see what you mean.

Well, they have called it "duke nukem FOREVER"

the clue's in the title!

I don't see what all the fuss is about regarding DN to be honest. I never enjoyed the original. Gaming had just made it's tentative first steps into polygonal 3d environments, end then along came duke nukem "3D", with a modified DOOM engine, and, to my mind, a rather weak game as well.

Of course, may of my friends loved the game, which led to some of the geekiest pub-debates ever.

"oh btw so many old games work so great in Vista"

Oh, I know that, but I was very surprised to get a free, updated version of HL! My original disc refused to install, and of course, could only use a Voodo card.

My Quake disc, on the other hand, didn't have a serial key, so I had to pay for a new version from steam. I was in retro gaming heaven!

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Good to hear this project is till alive.

They've been working on it so long I was afraid it to become obsolete, but lucky for them valve has also been keeping the source engine up to date, so its still very competitive.

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