Half-Life 2 on Wired's vaporware awards for 2003!

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Todd - 25 Jan 2004 06:22 GMT

I think that's what it was. Friday nights episode of the Screen
Savers on TechTV featured it.

Of course, Duke Nukem ForEver received a lifetime acheivement award.

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John Eckart - 26 Jan 2004 21:37 GMT

Yes, we know that. Let's have some more people post that information.

What I don't understand is, Doom 3 was also supposed to come out around September but was pushed back to April just like HL2. But you don't see Doom 3 on any vaporware lists. And since when do games get put on a vaporware list for being pushed back only one time, and only seven months. That's not "vaporware". Vaporware is games that never come out or get pushed back an insane amount of time. Everyone's just having a field day on HL2 for some reason.

> I think that's what it was. Friday nights episode of the Screen
> Savers on TechTV featured it.
>
> Of course, Duke Nukem ForEver received a lifetime acheivement award.

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James A. Cooley - 26 Jan 2004 23:32 GMT

Yes, we know that. Let's have some more people post that information.

What I don't understand is, Doom 3 was also supposed to come out around
September but was pushed back to April just like HL2. But you don't see Doom
3 on any vaporware lists. And since when do games get put on a vaporware
list for being pushed back only one time, and only seven months. That's not
"vaporware". Vaporware is games that never come out or get pushed back an
insane amount of time. Everyone's just having a field day on HL2 for some
reason.

> I think that's what it was. Friday nights episode of the Screen
> Savers on TechTV featured it.
>
> Of course, Duke Nukem ForEver received a lifetime acheivement award.

The original Half-Life was delayed for a long time as the team completely
redid it. It emerged a classic. Max Payne took forever to get out. It was
another winner.

HL 2 will be released and the advanced state of progress shown at E3 showed
it to be well beyond vaporware stages. The fact that the source code was
stolen is one good reason for the delay.

I really don't give a rip about release dates being met. Deus Ex: Invisible
War was released right on time and it was so buggy it needed a patch right
out of the box. The fan forums are ablaze with both gameplay and technical
problems in what certainly appeared to be a rushed release.

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Ben Cottrell - 27 Jan 2004 00:52 GMT

> I really don't give a rip about release dates being met. Deus Ex: Invisible
> War was released right on time and it was so buggy it needed a patch right
> out of the box. The fan forums are ablaze with both gameplay and technical
> problems in what certainly appeared to be a rushed release.

Well, I think most games (even HL) need patching straight out of the
box.. IIRC, there was a bug that made it impossible to play HL over a
LAN.. until the 1006 patch which was released almost immediately after
the game's release

--
Ben Cottrell AKA Bench

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills
and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson,
Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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Todd - 31 Jan 2004 02:41 GMT

I wrote...

>> I think that's what it was. Friday nights episode of the Screen
>> Savers on TechTV featured it.
>>
>> Of course, Duke Nukem ForEver received a lifetime acheivement award.

"John Eckart" <JEckart@mail.com> responded:

>Yes, we know that. Let's have some more people post that information.
>
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>never come out or get pushed back an insane amount of time. Everyone's just having
>a field day on HL2 for some reason.

I thought I checked the group for headers with Wired in them, and
didn't find any.

Unreal T 2k4 has similiarly been delayed.

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Len - 31 Jan 2004 05:40 GMT

>I think that's what it was. Friday nights episode of the Screen
>Savers on TechTV featured it.
>
>Of course, Duke Nukem ForEver received a lifetime acheivement award.

Was Doom 3 on the list?--it's due out in June (yeah, right). And
Quake 4 is (apparently) due to be released this year; but because it's
just been announced, it doesn't qualify as vaporware yet.

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