It was something my dad had on his computer so I played it when I was a kid and I remember finding it really scary at the time so I never finished it at first
Nowadays the only things that still bother me are the sharks.
The first time I completed HL1 though was the ps2 version, and I also played through decay a bunch of times with my dad
then after that I played through hl1, op4 and bs all on the pc
Around 1999/2000, I was around 8 or 9 playing stuff like Quake 2 and Duke Nukem 3D on my dad's old PC, when he brought home a copy of Half-Life one night. I remember playing it a little with him but he wasn't all that interested himself, but I kept playing on anyways. I just remember being hooked for some reason. Even more so when Team Fortress Classic became a thing, and Sven Co-op. Oh, and Entmod.
For a while after HL2's release. I just didn't have a powerful enough rig to run it, and didn't have the money to buy one, so I grew up playing loads of HL1 mods. Good times.
End of summer 2011. I was like 12 years old. I was in the park playing with some friends when I had the idea of all of us buying the same game so we could play together back at home online, just didnt know which one. At first I heard of a game called well rn I dont remember the name but it was one of those games that was a ripoff of counter strike. Then I found counter strike source on youtube. Saw a couple of zombie mods gameplays and fell in love with the game. By October I bought it andthen played it, I remember feeling awful because there was this strange defuse the bomb game mode and no zombies to be found.
Then back in highschool we had this computers with linux were we could install the game and play it during class. So I downloaded a older version of counter strike source: counter-strike and installed it. Then inside of the game folder there was something called half life, but the game wasnt playable because all the files in there were only the neccesary ones to play cs. So I downloaded it and loved it.
Hell its been a long ride since then.
my brother had a pirated copy of tf2(back when it was paid) and for some reason it included half life 2 in it so i played the shit out of it because the pirated tf2 didnt had any nonsteam servers
I had a friend who had both a PS2 and an Xbox. He eventually got Half-Life 1 for the PS2. We played it to death, passing the controller back and forth every time we died, taking turns. Eventually we got to the Co-op campaign, Decay, and we had a ton of fun, even getting to the Xen Attacks mission. A year or two later, he got Half-Life 2 on the Xbox, and played using a similar method to that of the HL1 Singleplayer Campain on PS2. HL2 is still amazing and blows my mind. In 2014, I got the Half-Life Complete Bundle, so now I can replay everything. It still brings back the good old memories...
I think I actually first saw half life via Freeman's mind. I ended up spoiling like a third of the game.
I got Halflife 2 (alongside Deathmatch and Counterstrike Source) to play Gmod 9 back in the day.
For me it started during a LAN party with a cracked HL2 in 2005.
A friend told us that it was really scary shit and challenged me to play Ravenholm.
And bloody hell, it was intense as fuck!
by snooping around the files in a pirated counter strike 1.6 game in an internet cafe.
was still having a hard time reading/understand English, so when i encountered half life i asked couple of my cousins what does the game name mean, and because they hardly know English they just laugh and said "it means that it will take half a lifetime to finish it". I believed them, of course lol.
I was 13 when HL1 came out. I saw it first during the E3 previews on PC Gamer. then It was the review of HL Day One.
And then it came in november 98.
It was a golden month : at the same time were released HL1... SiN... Grim Fandango... Tomb Raider 3...
(And 1 month later, Baldur's Gate, and then Thief the Dark Project, and then Soldier of Fortune, and then...
Each month, numerous gems! 98 was a "golden year" too... Quake2... Unreal... Starcraft... but HL1 topped them all.
It completly killed FPS as we knew it. Even if there were excellent other FPS, they disappeared in the shadows of HL's release (poor SiN).
I remember clearly that at the time of it's release, HL1 was criticized because there were no true multiplayer mode.
Months later came CS... lol.
I didn't play it the month of it's release...
I did play HL Uplink. Over and over and over...
I was so sick and mad to not be able to play the full game that I ripped open - in stealth mode - the packing of a walkthrough magasine just to see how the game was supposed to go and to end. My first contact with Nihilanth was a B&W picture in this mag.
Finally I managed to get the game, borrowed from a friend, in march, 1999.
One day my dad brought home a collection of loose CDs he found at work. They were just sitting on his desk so I starting rifling through them, and one of them had a grungy orange label that caught my eye. It was Half-Life: Day One.
I had never played a first person shooter before, so I installed it and booted up the Hazard Course. I hate to admit it, but I couldn't get past the target range sequence. I hit all the targets except the one behind the unbreakable glass, and since I couldn't figure out Gina's instructions to use the grenade launcher (keep in mind I was 8 at the time) I just sat there pumping rounds into the glass to no avail. When I ran out of ammo, I went back to the supply room and got more, and so on and so on until there was no more ammo left. Eventually I just decided the game was broken.
I didn't fare much better in Anomalous Materials. The concept of hitting the Use key to access the HEV suit was lost on me, so I just ran around harrassing scientists and blowing up Dr. Magnusson's casserole.
It was another year before I revisited the game, and this time my dad happened to be watching over my shoulder as I played through the Hazard Course. When I got to the unbreakable glass, I told him the game was broken and we couldn't go any further. "Are you sure?" he said, reaching down to the mouse. "Have you tried pressing the right mouse bu--" and KABOOM, a grenade shot out of the gun and exploded behind the glass. The last target dinged and the airlock door [I]whooshed[/I] open, and I caught my first glimpse of the rest of the level.
To nine-year-old me, it was a profound moment. I remember a distinct feeling of awe, as if I was venturing out into a world that until previously I hadn't even known existed. After finishing the Hazard Course, I returned to the main game with renewed vigor. Eventually I figured out the Use key and got the HEV suit. I remember arriving in the control room and looking out over the test chamber, thinking to myself, "Wow, this room is huge!"
Later, my dad took me to Staples and bought me the Platinum Collection. And after all these years, I've still held on to it. Every time I see it I smile. :)
seeing the old war of the servers garrysmod machinima made me discover half-life 2 and compelled me to buy the orange box
My dad let me play a burnt copy for the Sega Dreamcast in 2003.
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[QUOTE=mcharest;52701827]One day my dad brought home a collection of loose CDs he found at work. They were just sitting on his desk so I starting rifling through them, and one of them had a grungy orange label that caught my eye. It was Half-Life: Day One.
I had never played a first person shooter before, so I installed it and booted up the Hazard Course. I hate to admit it, but I couldn't get past the target range sequence. I hit all the targets except the one behind the unbreakable glass, and since I couldn't figure out Gina's instructions to use the grenade launcher (keep in mind I was 8 at the time) I just sat there pumping rounds into the glass to no avail. When I ran out of ammo, I went back to the supply room and got more, and so on and so on until there was no more ammo left. Eventually I just decided the game was broken.
I didn't fare much better in Anomalous Materials. The concept of hitting the Use key to access the HEV suit was lost on me, so I just ran around harrassing scientists and blowing up Dr. Magnusson's casserole.
It was another year before I revisited the game, and this time my dad happened to be watching over my shoulder as I played through the Hazard Course. When I got to the unbreakable glass, I told him the game was broken and we couldn't go any further. "Are you sure?" he said, reaching down to the mouse. "Have you tried pressing the right mouse bu--" and KABOOM, a grenade shot out of the gun and exploded behind the glass. The last target dinged and the airlock door [I]whooshed[/I] open, and I caught my first glimpse of the rest of the level.
To nine-year-old me, it was a profound moment. I remember a distinct feeling of awe, as if I was venturing out into a world that until previously I hadn't even known existed. After finishing the Hazard Course, I returned to the main game with renewed vigor. Eventually I figured out the Use key and got the HEV suit. I remember arriving in the control room and looking out over the test chamber, thinking to myself, "Wow, this room is huge!"
Later, my dad took me to Staples and bought me the Platinum Collection. And after all these years, I've still held on to it. Every time I see it I smile. :)[/QUOTE]
This sounds so similar to me. I found it when I was 8 and my dad took me to the one EB Games that had the platinum pack and Condition Zero and I had to pick.. I chose the Platinum pack expecting to get 5 games, but when I entered the code on steam, all gold source games! I later saw him run down the stairs trying to hide condition zero from me also. I was ecstatic.
First of all, I remember reading on spanish PC magazines around 1997 about "A revolutionary 3D FPS game", being [URL="http://combineoverwiki.net/images/7/73/HECU_scientist_beatup.jpg"]this image [/URL]the first one I saw of it and thinking "wow, is real!". A while after I remember going shopping with my parents on a Shopping Center and seeing through the glass of a cybercafe how people played deathmatch ( one of my images that still coming on my head was of a girl playing with a skeleton playermodel using the Tau Cannon on Crossfire ) enjoying the spectacle.
It would have to pass some years later when a friend had the original WON trilogy and played the fuck of it, but then I don't know why, I forgot about it and HL basically remained unknown for me, even after seeing trailers of HL2 in TV game review programs ( which ironically surprised me more the ravenholm traps rather than the facial animations or the physics ).
Fast forward to 2009, while playing with some friends TF2, I discovered a HL2 fan website called HL2Spain, which made me remember the games and the mods I used to play. Then I played HL2...and from there I got hook on the universe.
Bought the Orange Box for PS3 because I really wanted to play TF2 since my computer couldn't run it, and it came with all the Half-Life 2 games.
I was scared shitless of them for some reason, I kept expecting jump scares.
Then when I found out there's a Half-Life 1, I got it as soon as I could since my PC could run it.
Read about it in a swedish game magazine (I just brought it for a monkey island guide). Just like every other magazine it gleefully spoiled that the army turned out to be enemies.
My dad. He bought it for me when, at the time, the only thing I was playing was UT99.
I met a guy in my first year of high school, we're still friends to this day and he's probably my longest-running friend since those days.
He really got me into everything I do now. Went to his place one day and he showed me a whole ton of games. Up until that point I wasn't super-into video games, I mostly liked to draw and take photos of things. He showed me Spore, Quake, Unreal Tournament, stuff like that. Older games, but stuff I hadn't really cared about until then.
So then he booted up Garry's Mod, and by extension I started asking about the characters & rag dolls, and so he showed me Half-Life 2, and that lead me into Half-Life 1. Ended up playing through the whole series in a matter of days and it was the best experience I ever had in gaming at that point, and still is up there.
So tbh I have him to thank for showing me this wonderful franchise and pretty much everything else as well. Probably wouldn't have gotten into animation if it hadn't been for Garry's Mod, probably wouldn't have gotten into Garry's Mod if it wasn't for him. 👍
With a pirated Garry's Mod my friend hooked me up with around 2013 when I got my first computer. I wondered what those "Combine Soldiers" where, why all the generic civilians where wearing jumpsuits, and where all these unique weapons (mainly talking about the AR2 and Gravity gun) where from.
So after a while I picked up the Orange Box, the Source Multiplayer Pack and Garry's Mod for my birthday the following year and then finally tried HL2 out after I got bored playing CS:S and GMod's various gamemodes.
It felt weird for sure having seen all of these character and assets out of context before seeing them "for real".
My brother installed Cs:Condition Zero and we played it.
When i randomly clicked the folder,i noticed the hl.exe,tried to play it,it crashed.
So,i watched some video about it on youtube,and i liked it.
My dad was pretty much a gamer, and let me play the games he downloaded (Quake was his favorite, DooM, Wolfenstein, PoP, Descent, etc), so sometimes he downloaded new games.
Then he downloaded HL2, and I watched him play throughout "Route Kanal" and "Water Hazard". I was about 8 years old and way too dumb to play it.
Years later, I search random videos with my friend and suddenly I came across "Half-Life 2" (I forgot the game existed). I shat bricks and downloaded HL2EP1, and then HL2 after I realized VALVe has amazing ideas regarding naming their games. I crawled through one of the pipes in Water Hazard and bashed my keyboard after a Zombie popped out of the water, and I made the game freeze with the snarl of the Zombie on an endless loop, made me nope out of the game for a long while.
I believe he also downloaded HL1 after HL2, but I was once again too dumb and got myself stuck in a red room, or something.
2017 and the only HL title I didn't play is Decay (pretty much because I'm the only one enthusiastic enough about HL in my group of friends to play it). Uplink, BS, OF, BM:S, and everything else are done. Just finished C.A.G.E.D a few hours ago, because "Half-Life", and I have over 1100 hours in HL2DM (which taught me strafe jumping, bhopping basics, and all the other terms in competitive gaming)
My friends still mock me for that time that I told them that HL2EP3 will come out in 2008 :')
was at a doctor's appointment and there was some sorta PC gaming magazine in the waiting room, probably PC Gamer, that had a preview article for the game just before it was about to release. Picked it up shortly after. A++ decision.
Watching Machinima like Idiots of Garry's Mod and G-Man Squad with my brother.
We found my dad's Counter-Strike CD and discovered that registering it on Steam got all the GoldSrc games which got registered to my brother's account. We played through the game on that account, though eventually I got the whole collection on sale to play HL2.
I found an orignal boxed set of Half Life and Opposing Force in my cousin's room when I was a young lad. Thought it looked sweet as all hell so I had to give it a try but he'd lost the discs for both so I badgered my dad into buying it. I remember me and both my brothers cloistered around our toaster PC watching the game unfold with wide-eyed awe. Unfortunately, I also kind of sucked at the game, being that young, and took far longer than I should have to understand that rushing enemies with a crowbar = quick and painful death :v:
I found some gmod tutorial videos on youtube, thought the game looked cool and found out you needed to own at least one source game to run it (at the time, don't know if they ever changed that), so decided to buy the orange box from a local store because I didn't know what steam was.
My parents let me buy it even though I was only 16 and the game was rated 17+, they decided I was mature enough. I know that sounds silly in retrospect but it meant a lot to me.
My dad bought it in 98. All i did back then was use cheats in quake, doom, and duke3d so my dad found out cheats from a friend
I spent an hour spamming mp5 grenades at scientists, i noclipped onto the floor beneath the tram and it crashed, and my dad said it was because i used cheats
Hl1 crashing scared me as a kid into actually playing the game
My dad showed me it, couldn't stop playing for a long time.
I was probably around 7 and i spent a lot of time in internet cafes.Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour was the shit mann me and my brother were playing it all the time so one day i saw some guys playing a game that was multiplayer and he had a weird looking gun charging and shooting it at his feet propelling himself and shooting other people when in mid air.I was simply amazed how the game ran and felt so i asked him and he said it was half-life 1.I remembered it from the CS folder and got home strated playing the campaign of course didnt get very far so tried multiplayer.I was the only player in the server because it was lan hosted and the only map was crossfire(it was probably cracked) so i got the snarks and got a gauss gun and i threw the bugs shooting at them with the gauss. i trained with them for a while then i was bored so i invited some people to the internet cafe so that i could finally play with real people.I completely destroyed them and quickly got bored with playing them so i started playing with the other guys that were regularly at the cafe.they were skilled players and it was really fun playing with other skilled people i learnt how to bind weps etc.. andd my parents banned me from going to internet cafe's fast forward to 2012 i found out that there was something called steam and you could buy games from it (i thought it was shipped to your adress :D) so i opened up a account and saw half-life 2 on the store.my mind was completly blown...I quickly bargained my dad into buying me the orange pack and played all the games like crazy in the summer holiday never looked back
My brother was a big fan. Long story short i rediscovered his copy of the Orange Box a few years after his brain injury, and i was hooked. I worked my way back essentially.
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