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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Semi-related, but to this day I remain impressed they got Half Life 2 ported to the original Xbox.

[+] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Right, architecturally it was probably pretty simple. But the minimum system requirements for HL:2 versus the Xbox's hardware is pretty stark:

Half-Life 2 minimum requirements for PC:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Xbox System Specs:

CPU:  Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
Memory:  64 MB (shared with GPU)
Graphics:  Custom NVidia based on Geforce 3

Edit: Definitely meaning the original Xbox and not the 360. Was one of the last games I bought for the original and still have it :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

As a point of comparison, 360 has 512MB RAM. HL2 was targeting PCs comparable to PS3/360, but somehow they got it working on an Xbox.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder what corners they cut to get it functional.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The 00s Doom reboot shares a similar story, but for the 360!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Noooo, it was not that simple. Search MVG hl2 port on YouTube and watch and see why the port is actually very impressive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not at all how porting a game works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Half life predates steam

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but HL2 does not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is about half life on the dreamcast, not hl2.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

This comment chain is actually about HL2.