A new Half-Life 2 speed record has been set - 2 hours, 14 minutes. Download the 1.1gb movie showcasing the record; at the moment we only have a BitTorrent download but you should get decent speeds (please leave your torrent open for a while after downloading!).

wow took 45 mins off the previous record.

Quake Done Quick was the s***!

13-15-17 mins or so was the one :P

nightmare, all levels.

Now hl ey???? well... how gay.

Pity quake was a s*** game.

Bulls***, the original quake is still the best FPS game ever made.

And it always will be too :).

Yeh, that complete and utter sterility mixed in with a palette of brown and browner was great!

thats why u use clients which have 32bit textures!!!.

:P

or u can be hardcore and go software :D

preferred quake2 mehself

Q2DM1 for the win

Doom 2 Nightmare in 49 minutes, 49 seconds in one go. Now that was something special.

is there any duke nukem 3d speed runs?

quake 1 was overrated in my opinion

You have way to much time on your hands if you can sit through one of these. Get a haircut and get a real job ;)

reckon, who wants to sit and watch 2 hours of someone playing. They need a "cool speed tricks" edit version where they just show off the highlights. I remember some of the awesome grenadejump tricks from QDQ that were particularly cool, but I wouldn't want to have to sit through 2 hours to find them again :)

But I dont have the game, so i think it would be interesting for a bit to see how it plays. I have no plans to buy it at the moment so I dont care if it ruins the "storyline", just would like to see what all the hype "was" about

anyone got a link to a quake2 speed run? i can only find demos

Mario bros speed run was the s***.

You can't compare Quake to current games. You have to compare it to what was out at the time. They were limited by the technology of the time. It was a milestone in gaming.

Back on topic, it will be good to see how much the time for HalfLife2 can be reduced as people learn a few more tricks and holes in the maps.

You could pull off some damn fancy stunts in HL2 just by adjusting cl_timescale then speeding up the video accordingly.

Agreed, Q1 is still the best multiplayer FPS ever made, and I doubt it will ever be exceeded.

cry more that someone said they didn't like a game you liked Hakin

I Belive my SPEED DEMON LINK COVERED THAT!!

they are demos, i dont want that. plus they are fileplanet.

That Doom 2 demo was awesome.

I'd like to see a Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy speed demo. Or Zork. ;-)

Just read a bit of the latest John Carmack plan update he made recently, what surprised me was this quote from him.

There are still bits of early Quake code in Half Life 2

I would have thought that the Source engine was a completley 'new' engine..guess I was wrong.

its supposed to be a completely new engine.

Carmack:

Quake 3 Source

I intended to release the Q3 source under the GPL by the end of 2004, but we had another large technology licensing deal go through, and it would be poor form to make the source public a few months after a company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for full rights to it. True, being public under the GPL isn’t the same as having a royalty free license without the need to disclose the source, but I’m pretty sure there would be some hard feelings.

Previous source code releases were held up until the last commercial license of the technology shipped, but with the evolving nature of game engines today, it is a lot less clear. There are still bits of early Quake code in Half Life 2, and the remaining licensees of Q3 technology intend to continue their internal developments along similar lines, so there probably won’t be nearly as sharp a cutoff as before. I am still committed to making as much source public as I can, and I won’t wait until the titles from the latest deal have actually shipped, but it is still going to be a little while before I feel comfortable doing the release.

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I guess at some levels of code it's simply easier for Valve to pay royalties to Id rather than develop it themselves.

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