Talk:Half-Life 2

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Where is the "List of Characters" link?

When viewing a page about any series with a story line I expect to find a simple and easy link to the characters of the series, games or not. Where is the link to the main article of the Half Life 2 characters? I'm struggling to find it, and am now going to resort to google. Wikipedia should not be frustrating to navigate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.46.43 (talk) 20:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Half Life stopped to support NVIDIA??

There are rumours that Valve purposefully stopped to support NVIDIA graphics chipset?? I have an NVIDIA 7400 and Half Life 2, Episode 1 ... recently stopped working, apparently after a Steam online update. When you google the error message "failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer" you find over 1200 hits - NVIDIA users world wide experience the same problems. There was a blog message from a Valve staff member saying they cant do anything about it.

Do you guys know more about it? Are there NVIDIA users where HL2 still works?

90.152.160.220 (talk) 08:53, 22 March 2008 (UTC) Chris

Mine works. It sounds like another issue with source caused by "paged pool memory low" it can be solved by a registry fix (google it)

No Mp-7 and USP from H&K

He rights theres no Mp-7 and USP from H&K. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.77.107.176 (talk) 19:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Weapons article

Where is it and why has it been deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Preda (talk • contribs) 17:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

One of the common reasons for articles that list and describe objects is that it's simply not encyclopedic, and in the context of the game article, it goes out of bounds of what Wikipedia is. You have to remember that game articles in Wikipedia are not game guides.--BirdKr 20:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Soundtrack Remixes

Compared HL1 Soundtrack with HL2 Soundtrack but I just can't hear anything that differs HL2 Track 32 from HL1 Track 2. Page states that HL2 32 is a remix but it sound exaclty like HL1 2 where is the difference? HL2 Tracks 34, 41 & 42 are for sure Remixes as they differ very clear.

I can't hear any difference between HL2 track 32 and HL1 track 2 either. I also compared the waveforms, they looked virtually identical. I removed track 32 from the remix list until someone can prove it's a remix. 217.149.206.138 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 19:34, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Subsequent Releases

Shouldn't there be information about the current boxed releases down there? The most recent boxed version of HL2 no longer includes CS:S, but comes with deathmatch instead.

68.238.130.229 02:18, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

"Osama Bin Leaker"

'The game had been leaked by a German hacker named Axel G., also known as "Osama Bin Leaker".'

I followed HL2s development, leak and release quite closely and I've never heard of him being referred to as Osama Bin Leaker. I’m assuming this is vandalism unless someone thinks otherwise... Xep 21:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I never heard that term before, sounds like vandalism as well. --86.27.63.75 (talk) 15:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually "leak" means "vandalism". As for him being referred to "Osama Bin Leaker" I do not know. I'll have to read up on it again.Allen Kinser (talk)Allen Kinser —Preceding undated comment was added at 13:38, 17 September 2008 (UTC).

1984 and City 17

Has anyone else noticed that City 17 and Airstrip One are very alike? Cameras everywhere, watching your every move, Dr. Breen (or Big Brother) always everywhere on giant screen, etc. Should this be in the article, City 17's article, or not at all? Thanks. --ASDFGHJKL=Greatest Person Ever+Coolest Person Ever 15:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

No, that type of information is not encyclopedic. --Charleca 18:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

There used to be info in the article about the parallels between 1984 and the game, but were removed since they couldn't be sourced. I agree there are many similarities, but that's it. Thunderbrand 20:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

There surely must be an encyclopedic relevance to establish the literary links to this game. There are also many similarites to 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' by Ken Kesey (down to calling the system of oppresion the Combine, the pronounced muteness of the main protagonists and exploration of somewhat similar themes) as well as The Tripods by John Christopher and War of the Worlds in terms of visual and thematic content. These sources are not hard to reference and the entry is incomplete without them. (Speakafreaka 09:39, 22 June 2007 (UTC))

Seems to me that information of that sort is useful and even "encyclopedic" as long as you can provide an outside source. Throwing in your own observations/ideas would be original research and outside the project guidelines Maxweinberg 16:20, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

As your reference to "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest" might suggest, there will be many similarities, entirely coincidental, when trying to portray this social order. --THobern 00:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by THobern (talk • contribs)

Actually, that's probably not coincidental at all. The term "combine" (as implied in some of Dr. Breen's comments and mentioned by one of the developers in an interview) is a name the oppressed humans have applied to the "Universal Union", probably in part because of the logo that resembles the letters CMB. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.72.25 (talk) 21:16, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Spoiler Tag

An anonymous IP requested (via comment in the article) that a spoiler tag be added to the plot section. From my interpretations of WP:SPOILER, I don't think this is appropriate considering the length of time the game has been available and that the section is already called "Plot". Any other opinions on this? Useight 05:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Half-Life games

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Source Code Leak section

This section is largely unsourced, and there are some basic punctuation issues. Anyone want to provide sources, or should the last nine paragraphs be deleted? Una Laguna^Talk 15:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

HL Comic

The Half Life 2 comic should be referenced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.2.62.165 (talk) 19:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

That is not an official comic, just a fan thing. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 06:34, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

No timejumps

It says there are no discontinuities or jumps in time from the protagonists POV, but I'd say there is. When Alyx and Gordon teleport together, they remain in the teleporter for a week before materializing again (according to Dr. Kleiner). Would that qualify as a time jump? 85.19.140.9 21:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• What it means is that Gordon has (since turning up to work at Black Mesa that morning) never been out of the player's control, or done anything away from the games. Gordon's experience during the time jump is the same as the player's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lordofthe9 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Information Error

I noticed that in the end of the third paragraph it says "Overall, the Half-Life franchise, including Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, has sold over 20 million units. " and realized that Day of Defeat though run on the Half-Life game engine it is not technicaly part of the Half-Life franchize.Unless someone has objection I plan to change it. --Dalaga Helios 19:14, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Id like to apoligize and say I was mistaken, apparently I had not read the information carfully enough.--Dalaga Helios 21:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Other gravity guns

In the article it is written that there were originally more prototypes for the Gravity Gun. Except for perhaps the blue\charged gravity gun and the Portal Gun, what were the other designs?Nefzen 19:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

There was a physics gun similar to the one used in garry's mod, it was featured in the E3 demo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.214.6 (talk) 20:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

"Tracks 44 to 51 are tracks from the game that did not appear on the soundtrack CD."

So, uh... why are they appearing in the tracklist for the soundtrack CD? You have torn a hole in the fabric of reality —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.100.223 (talk) 07:08, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Black Mesa East

Should Black Mesa East be mentioned in the "Setting" Section? Because the descriptor East would imply somewhere east of New Mexico, and East, as i have seen it oftenly used, is used to describe a location in Europe/Asia-Minor/Africa. 71.215.217.95 (talk) 22:49, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Korin Mod for Half-Life 2

Surprised there's nothing on the Korin Mod. Chris (クリス) (talk) 00:11, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Small Change

The rating by PC Gamer in the USA was mistakenly listed as 96 when in fact it is 98%. Slight Change.

See http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/halflife2  

--Ironchef8000 (talk) 03:23, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Weapons descriptions

I see that people are clashing a bit over the exact nature of the weapons in the game. Please bear in mind that Wikipedia is aimed at the general public, so I believe it would be a good idea to keep this sort of thing to specialised sites and write "a pistol", "a sub-machine gun" etc... After all it's not as if we are looking at an actual weapon as we would in a film: it's a few constructed images and sampled sounds... Mezigue (talk) 15:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Did someone deface the article?? 99.228.17.253 (talk) 23:20, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Relationship with Alyx Vance

The part "Relationship With Alyx Vance" seems out of place, and should probably be moved to the article on Gordon Freeman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.210.173 (talk) 07:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. --Silver Edge (talk) 08:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

John Freeman

This popularity is largely due to the enigmatic and wonderful character John Freeman, the brother of Gordon Freeman, who has drawn much critical praise in regards to his amazingly heroic antics within the game. -- WTF? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.140.156.107 (talk) 07:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

That text in the article has been reverted. --Silver Edge (talk) 08:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

secrets?

There is a secrets section, particularly regarding a tower of terror mod. this is incorrect because it is in fact a homebrew map created for Garrys mod, itself a mod. I will attempt to remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.212.252.73 (talk) 21:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Video Game

Why it's still called computer game? It's a multi-platform since the Xbox port, so it should be called "video game". --Barnz (talk) 10:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, now I understand why it's called a computer game. --Barnz (talk) 22:53, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Most played online game?

“As of February 28, 2007, Half-Life 2 is the second most played online computer game (excluding MMORPGs), behind Half-Life, according to GameSpy.[17]” This is completely misleading. GameSpy is listing all games based on the Half-Life 2 engine under "Half-Life 2", probably because they all use the same executable name "hl2.exe". In actual fact, the #1 is Counter-Strike, based on the original Half-Life engine, and #2 is Counter-Strike: Source, based on the Source/Half-Life 2 engine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.72.25 (talk) 21:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Romania

Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar says that Romania was also used as a source of inspiration for the setting. shouldn't this be included as well? diego_pmc (talk) 20:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Crossbow

I'm pretty sure the iron bars that the crossbow fires are actually electrified, not heated. This would explain both the car battery strapped to the crossbow's underside and the sparks when putting in a new bolt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.193.118.167 (talk) 02:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

The battery could power some kinda heating mechanism, the bold does glow red, suggesting heat. The sparks could just represent this mechanism being activated. Also, if you think about it logically there's no way to keep a simple bolt "electrified" in transit. Rehevkor ✉ 02:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

This counts as speculation/original research, but the heating mechanism should be the crossbow bolt itself. It's functioning as an electrical resistor. When more current is applied, there is more resistance, generating heat. The sparks are from you completing the (extremely dangerous) circuit. Still counts as heated, though. - Zero1328 _Talk? 13:55, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

1984 in Setting

I Wrote a nice bit about resemblances between 1984 and the setting of half-life 2, and someone deleted it. If you really think this doesn't belong here, you should also delete the link to half-life 2 in the article about 1984. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.89.108.51 (talk) 17:02, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi; this is original research unless you have a reference to back it up. Gary King (talk) 17:11, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Do you need screenshots of all the thing I mention? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.206.139.28 (talk) 17:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

No; even a screenshot would be considered original research are you are just drawing a conclusion that others may not see. If you can find a reliable source that describes it as such, though, then please use that to add the information back by citing it. Gary King (talk) 17:59, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

"Plot"

As someone who hasn't played Half-Life 2, the plot synopsis in this article was unfortunately very unhelpful. (explanation: I played Portal, and was interested in how that plotline might fit into the Half-life universe, so went to wikipedia's articles on HL 1 and 2). Frequent references to concepts that would require a knowledge of the game to understand, and phrases such as "...debrief Freeman on events since the incident at Black Mesa," make it clear that I would have to have played the game already in order to understand this synopsis. While I understand most of the information in this article is helpful to those who have already played the game, I think it would make sense for the plot summary to be written for those fully unfamiliar with Half-life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.249.50.110 (talk) 23:49, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Did you read the "Setting" section of the synopsis? That will provide the answer to your example, and probably a few others as well. Green451 (talk) 19:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)