Just a quick note.
Today was in K-mart (Coles' general goods) store, and noticed half life 2 for just $10.01 (AUD), So I thought I might spend big... lol and bought it

After i'd left the store I noticed they had only charged me $3.50 (Which is something like: 3.50 Australian dollars = 2.77305 U.S. dollars (According to Google)

I then got a little worried about the CD-key (because of the price) - but no, everything works 100%

Does anyone know what the normal retail (approx) for it is?

9.95USD

Really? Even on http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=package&SubId=36&cc=AU (SteamPowered) it sells for $29.95

Well... it's a little different - it only includes Half Life 2 & Half Life 2 Lost Coast, Where I also got hl2 deathmatch & h12 deathmatch source

that isn't Half Life, that is the Half Life 2... there is quite a bit of difference :P

Indeed there is.

ROFL, my bad... didnt realise i wrote that - Yeh, I know its diff... I got HL1.1.1.0 or something somewhere...

So back to the question... How much is HL2? lol

Ive been playing CS source for a while now... still cant understand why ppl would play HL/HL2 on multiplayer. the game rox (as single player Mr Freeman.)

I should know that since I got pSquared and Myself it -.- 29.99USD for the DVD version...

Man I just wish I could play CS Source atm :( It lags like hell on Vista for me ...

Heh - Sweet. Definately a saving.

Matt - Is it possible to Dual Boot vista with a better OS such as 98 :P

I havn't toyed with vista as i've seen the lag on most comps with it - Dosnt have the 'wow' effect on me, I still think 98 pwns for gamin...

Anyhow try and get some CSS up and we will have a game :P

(Account Name: OzJD)

I've had to set up my CS: S install for low end systems (My System is nowhere near low end, middle class yes, but low no.) Vista runs smooth on my system, hell it runs better then XP for me (Anyone find it strange it took my so long to adopt XP but I get vista within 2 weeks of it's release?)

And yes you can dual boot 98 with vista, tho you'll be using the bootloader that comes with vista (which IMO is even better then GRUB)
The only thing is the Vista partition needs to be formatted NTFS :/

I still have yet to find a need (other then playing Source based games) to install & dualboot into XP.

Btw if you do decide to try vista I recommend that you have at least 1GB of RAM, 2GHz Processor and a decent to highend DX9 GFX card with atleast 128MB Mem

Well hell, I'd be fine except for the graphics card. Mine's only DX8 128MB.

Anyways, I still need to see about fixing CS:S on my machine. I think I just have to completely wipe Steam and reinstall from scratch.

Whats wrong with your CS: S?

Nothing in particular. It's more a problem with Source in general. It actually started to hard lockup during loading. I think some gamedata just got corrupted or something stupid like that.

I bought a new laptop 6 months or so ago and i find that most things run slower on Vista, i started messing around and tried to instal a linux build on it to dual boot but unfortunately it wouldn't allow that. I'm considering wiping Vista off the box and going for purely Linux, problem is i have to get a new portable hard drive so i can store all my important stuffs.

Wow, This thread is back! lol

If anyone wants to find me on steam add OzJD (I think).

BTW, I think its you eXonyte, logging into XBox Live all the time and making that damn "XXX has logged in" flash during my movies lol.

doesn't setting your status as away, offline or busy keep that from happening?

Cynamiel = me on XBL. Some fucker already claimed eXonyte on the original XBox.

Also, if it was over this weekend I was playing a lot of GTA4 multiplayer so it could have in fact been me :)

What the, when the hell did I add you exo?...

Fusio, possibly, but I have XBL auto sign me in (not to messenger though) and the XBox has permanint network connectivety, so when my mrs puts a movie on (Downloaded to server, playable on XBOX :)), it pops up during games.

Yes Brandon, it would have been over the weekend, is GTA4 worth all of the Hype?

You need XBL Gold to play multiplayer, eh?

GTA4 is amazing on multiplayer. If you play Free mode, you have the entire city (if you choose to) to run amok, complete with NPCs, traffic and police.

Even the single player is one of the best games I've played in a long time.