Comments on: Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:15:28 +0000

When I first purchased HL2, I couldn’t get Steam to work. Now that I’ve been able to get Steam to work I can’t find my box that contains the serial numbers to activate the game! Oh how I would really love to play it.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:19:56 +0000

Hell it’s a tech demo to demonstrate HDRI – they didn’t even have to put any gameplay in there…..Did you try it with the commentary on?

Judge it for what it is – it wasn’t sposed to be a ‘level’ in that sense – and hell it was free.

It was cool, but not jaw dropping. It said my 2.6ghz pentium wasn’t up to the job, but it seemed OK to me.

Anyhow since I got broadband steam had been relatively painless, but before that it was a complete nightmare.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:20:48 +0000

No crashes for me, I thought it looked awesome. Marked improvement to the experience but as you say way too short.
Not to sure about steam yet, if it dealt with my saved games across machines it might start to get my vote, but it does save trying to find the game cd and have it in the drive to play.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:55:33 +0000

‘Lost Coast’ only took 15 minutes to finish, minus the commentary. It did not even seem like a demo. Still glad they are showing what they are working on.

By: zeh

zeh — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:01:12 +0000

Probably the biggest joy I’ve had recently (related to games) has been in uninstalling Steam. I haven’t even bothered about Lost Coast even though I’m supposed to get it free.

Thanks Valve, but I like when my games don’t take 10 hours to load because of an horrid distribution system. HL2 was great, but only thinking about running it made me shiver.

Here’s to hope ‘Games xStream’ will be better. I sure as hell don’t need 10 different steams for 10 different publishers.