Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament

jvm writes "If you're a gamer with a pulse, you've probably heard about the impending release of Valve's Half-Life 2. As a gamer and a Linux user, I always get a little stirred up about the whole Half-Life situation, where we have a dedicated server but no client. So here's my reflection on the sad situation, past and present. How will the rest of the Linux gaming community react to the release of Half-Life 2? Boot into Windows? Wait for WINE or WineX support? Get the Xbox version? With so many Half-Life servers running on Linux, will the same be true for Half-Life 2?"

I have a lament too

[Dancin_Santa]

GET BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY ENGINEERS!

*caps is like yelling so you have to offset it with lowercase text*

Not sure I can sympathize

[Robotech_Master]

Given that I'm stuck on an old overclocked Celeron 300A/450 mHZ which has difficulty running even Half-Life one at full speed, I have a hard time feeling sorry for this fellow.

My plan is simple...

[Anonymous Coward]

How will the rest of the Linux gaming community react to the release of Half-Life 2?

I dunno about the other three people in this category, but I'm just gonna walk in the office with a rocket launcher. Fun will ensue!

Re:MS does good

[Anonymous Coward]

no no no, you phrased that wrong, the proper way is: I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but DX is better than OGL.

What about us Netware users?

[Chairboy]

I'm running netware, that means I can't even play tuxracer! Why oh why won't Valve give me a netware port?

One other thing, I have this Amiga....

Re:Sorry, sympathy meter's reading zero, dude.

[Dancin_Santa]

it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound.

Wow. That brought back some bad memories.

Continue playing...

[The Revolutionary]

...nethack?

How do you think I should react? I mean, I could switch to Slash'Em, but don't you think that's a bit extreme?

Boot Windows

[toupsie]

It won't kill you. Just think of it as a Wintendo.

Let me get my wallhack...

[Trent_Alkaline]

and I'll look into valve studios and find out for you.

Too lazy to finish my karma whore post

[Anonymous Coward]

Blah Blah something about DRM blah Steam is some form of DRM, or something, Steam is part of Half-Life 2, shallow summary of linux community, sudden appearance of the baseless assumption using Half-Life 2 would be some kind of acceptance by the linux community of DRM. Innuendo? Strange assertion that hacking Steam would somehow be easier in linux than windows becuase linux has an open-source kernel, totally hypothetical question as to whether or not whoever it is that makes Half-Life 2 would allow Steam on linux or whoever it is that makes linux would allow Steam on linux, inexplicable reference of DMCA, betrayal of the fact that I know very little about economics, witty but meaningless remark.

[Think of creative Sig to put here before submitting]

Half-Life 2

[product byproduct]

Since 1/2 * 2 = 1, shouldn't this version of the game be simply called One-Life?

Re:Not sure I can sympathize

[Robotech_Master]

Well, all right, I was exaggerating slightly (I probably just need to reinstall Windows is likely what the trouble is) but the truth is, I'm feeling kind of bitter about having been waiting for Half-Life II all this time (I even wrote a chapter of Half-Life fanfic [eyrie.org] for crying out loud) and I don't know when I'm ever going to get to play it. Sigh.

Re:We just write our own!

[Babbster]

If you play an FPS for the story, you have problems.

According to Joe Lieberman (and obviously others), if you play an FPS for the killing virtual people you have much bigger problems.

Why?

[_ph1ux_]

Why do they Lament for half-Life 2?

I have not the heart to tell you.

Re:why not support the companies that support us?

[nacturation]

Money talks, bullshit walks. With Microsoft you get both.

So that would be... expensive talking bullshit?

Re:why not support the companies that support us?

[sniser2]

I take it you have no fucking clue what kind of revelation and gamers dreams coming true HL2 represents.. I mean the physics.

The only way around halflife2 is another game using the havoc 2 engine.

Valve doesn't care about you? Think of it as a *really* hot chick wanting you to be something you're not. Usually you'd say screw that (no pun intended), but if the hotness is too big you'll end up in that janitors uniform going "quack, quack!".

It might be worth the humiliation.

The real reason why Half Life 2 isn't on Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody's willing to pay the $699 they would have to charge in order to sell it.

The same way I reacted to Duke Nukem...

[Ieshan]

Wait a long time for it's release.

ohhhhh...

[utexaspunk]

so THAT's why they call it W(h)INE...

Inexcusable Insult my ass

[EnglishTim]

They haven't written it for OS/2, either!
Or BeOS!
Or PalmOS!
There's not even a whiff of a C64 or Amiga version!

THE BASTARDS!

Re:Not sure I can sympathize

[Setsuna]

Since you are running at 450 millihertz (mHz) I can understand your problems... Probably you should try overclocking to, say, 450 megahertz (MHz)

Use your real name

[rostfrei]

It is unfortunate that you (and many others) will sacrifice your principles for a game.

It's sadly amusing that we get lessons in morality from somone that doesn't even have the wherewhital to use their name.

Oh, wait... this is Slashdot.

Re:why not support the companies that support us?

[tuba_dude]

That's "expensive talking WALKING bullshit" to you bub.

Re:Use your real name

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, right on. I mean, why should I respect the opinion of somehow who posts under the name Anonymous Coward? No, I believe it is important that every logs in. That way I know to pay attention to the opinions of important posters such as Fuckface98 and rostfrei, simply because I know who they are! If I want to contact a poster about a post I have read on Slashdot, all I have to do is call directory assistance and ask "Can I have the number for Fukcface98 please?" and I can call them right away!

Why just last week, I read an amusing peice by the poster Foobarblaz. I remembered him from last year; I believe he's a male causcasion, 25 years old, lives in a 2 bed rented house in PA.

You idiot.