Half-Life and Portal series, general discussion (v6) - Games

Christmas 2009, Oh boy do I remember the 1 am excitement of learning what Steam was and why I needed to register for it and that games can auto-update what I have to wait for hours on my 100kb connection?

You would've just loved Steam back in 2005.

[QUOTE=Kyle v2;49591632]You would've just loved Steam back in 2005.[/QUOTE] Makes me feel sad haha, i have 11 years of service on steam and today realised that i've worked at my job for like 4 years and 2 months and been a member of fp since 2006, what have i been doing with my life

Are we recalling first HL experiences? A bit embarassing for me, but my first exposure was through the PS2 port.

I don't remember my first hl experience but I remember playing it loads aswell as sven co-op and brainbread with my dad i remember having hl on disk before steam was released, never actually finished hl till recently, i think i may have to start again and get to ep2

you'll just get mad

[QUOTE=xalener;49591784]you'll just get mad[/QUOTE] I am haha, i hate unfinished stories

The first time I played HL1 was when I was 9, I think. I got quite scared by it and didn't make it past Unforeseen Consequences chapter. The friend who brought the game got stuck at Office Complex as he kept going around in circles.

I spent like a week trying to get HL2 to download because I had a dial-up connection, then I spent a week trying to play with the stutter glitch.

The first Half-Life game I played was Blue Shift when I was about 5, no joke, it's the same one in the image I linked a few pages ago. I would always go over to my grandfather's to play games since he had a pretty good PC for the time, after that the next game I played was Half-Life 2, and finally... Half-Life: Source before I got my own PC at the age of 7. A pretty crappy introduction to the games to be honest.

My first completed play-through of half-life was on HL:source with HD pack and 2GB of ugly gamebanana skins installed this is the version that I will forever keep in my heart as the canon HL experience for me

Taking turns playing Half-Life 2 with my childhood friend, that was fun Never made it past Ravenholm the first time, that watertower jump was too much to handle

My uncle brought his laptop over for family thanksgiving in 2004 to show me half-life 2, and I remember gushing over how it looked and how cool it was that his laptop had a geforce 4 yeah anyway, it got my dad to buy a copy on black friday and the rest is history :v:

[QUOTE=WhyNott;49592664]My first completed play-through of half-life was on HL:source with HD pack and 2GB of ugly gamebanana skins installed this is the version that I will forever keep in my heart as the canon HL experience for me[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, I remember modding half life source, trying to make it look better by downloading texture packs from fpsbanana... Christ the texture mods I used are still up. [t]http://files.gamebanana.com/img/ss/skins/37246.jpg[/t] :vomit:

On that topic, remember the GameBanana texture pack Alfred added to HL1Source during the steampipe updates? [URL="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/1238"]I was the one who linked it to him.[/URL] I am responsible for making the game worse. I am sorry. I am very, very sorry. [editline]23rd January 2016[/editline] [URL="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/1372"]Heh, I forgot he took the horrible world textures out[/URL] Lambda- was a gmod server alias :v:

[QUOTE=FpShepard;49592984]Oh yeah, I remember modding half life source, trying to make it look better by downloading texture packs from fpsbanana... Christ the texture mods I used are still up. [t]http://files.gamebanana.com/img/ss/skins/37246.jpg[/t] :vomit:[/QUOTE] Fucking hell did he literally just google "wood texture" and put that on the crate

My dad was into PC gaming when I was really young. I remember watching him play quake in like 1997, I was probably around 5 years old. Years later, he always talked about this game "Half Life". It was when Half Life 2 came out in 2004 that he bought that 5 cd box that had Half Life 1, CS: Source, and Half Life 2 in it. The rest was history. With my first real hands-on experience with FPS's being on Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001, everything the Half Life series brought to the table took my experience a step further, and was just something I knew I would never find in another FPS.

HL1 was one if not the first game on the pc that I played and completed, my dad bought it one day, he tested it a bit and said to me "its about a guy who rides on a train". I fell in love instantly and completed it more than 15 times to this day (10 where probably the same year I got it). Unforeseen consequences and Office complex scared me shitless for some reason. Also a bit of trivia, the first time I played Hl2 I could barely get through Ravenholm, each step I made made me shit my pants, like a true horror game. But it didn't happen on the next playthroughs.

Although I played Half Life 2 in 2009 I learned about months earlier through this [URL="http://youtu.be/b6Q_koTHB54"]Machinima[/URL]. After deciding that Portal was something I should experience, I discovered that just Portal was way more expensive then the Orange Box. Subsequent searching lead to [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffplwh_jGf4"]PCGamer999's LP of Half Life 2[/URL], where I immediately spoiled myself for anything that wasn't the original Portal I desired so much. I followed PCgamer999 for years until I agreed to be a viewer-guest video with him and a bunch of dudes and bailed out without saying anything. But even to this day I still preform the [URL="http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Gate_5"]Gate 5[/URL] Skip that his LP taught me all those years ago.

My brother had an extra copy of HL2: EP1 from The Orange Box and sent it to me. I played HL out of order, EP2, then HL2, then HL1 and the expansions.

A friend of mine brought copy of HL2 back in 2007 (I was only 9 at a time). That was my first fps experience ever and, oh boy, was I amazed! Shortly thereafter same guy lent me HL1, both Episodes and Portal, resulting in continuation of this marvelous (even if non-linear as hell) journey. Years later, in 2011, right after establishing Internet connection, I laid my hands on Blue Shift and Opposing Force, as well as newly released Portal 2... And that's pretty much it, I suppose.

Some of you guys make me feel too damn old, I first played HL1 roughly around the same time I started playing CS 1.5 in 1999. I started playing TFC a year later, but I didn't get Blue-Shift and the full version of Opposing Force (just had the multiplayer) until 2005 when I bought the HL1 Anthology box right after I got the HL2 Gordon box with CSS included for my birthday.

[QUOTE=xalener;49591752]Are we recalling first HL experiences? A bit embarassing for me, but my first exposure was through the PS2 port.[/QUOTE] Same. I never finished it because I kept getting lost and I remember being really frustrated by the loading screens that kept coming up because of all the backtracking. Then the Orange Box came out and my I played HL2 for the first time at his house and fell in love with it. I bought it a little while later and played it and all the episodes for nearly a year. I was obsessed and kept playing them over and over and over. Nothing else really lived up to it.

[QUOTE=xalener;49591752]Are we recalling first HL experiences? A bit embarassing for me, but my first exposure was through the PS2 port.[/QUOTE] Same here. I had it on a demo disc, played it at a friend's. :v: It was pretty great.

It took me 2 years to beat the PS2 version of Half-Life. I was mesmerized by the whole thing. And i got it in like 2007.

I first played Half-Life on my PC in 2001, and I was 11 years old at the time. It was a bit too scary/intense for me and I barely completed the first few chapters though. In 2006, a friend of mine was going off about a mod for Half-Life 2 called "Garry's Mod" and I got really excited about playing it with him, so I went out and bought the game of the year edition. I still think it's funny I originally bought one of my favourite FPS series, just so I could play a mod. My toaster of a rig at the time, ran HL2 on Low/Mid settings at about 15-20 FPS. I knew it was an amazing game I played at the time, but years later, I compare every shooter to it still. No game has done what Valve managed to capture over 10 years ago. I think it was in 2010, I decided to finally give the original Half-Life a full play through. It was a lot more of a stressful game to play. Felt way more like you're just trying to make it out alive, whereas, Half-Life 2 was a lot more run n' gunning.

I first played the Opposing Force demo. I asked for the original Half-Life but ended up getting Blue Shift instead. I got the GOTY the next Christmas, and soon found a disk with a fuck ton of mods, eventually getting me into Sven Coop. Due to dial up days, I never did play multiplayer until I got the TF2 beta.

[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/42gcn2/possible_arg_discovered_involving_multiple_steam/[/url] [QUOTE]There appears to be an ARG connecting several Steam games together with one symbol originally found in a file called eye.jpg with this image. So far this symbol seems to be accompanied by a puzzle, and in the one case that we have solved a puzzle we got a new image. To make progress in this ARG we're going to a lot of people on the lookout for this symbol as you play various games so we can solve the puzzles surrounding them. Here is a list of involved games so far and a description of their involvement: Crypt of the NecroDancer - Around May 29th 2015 a file called eye.jpg was added to Crypt of the NecroDancer directory. Using a hex-editing application another image was found inside of eye.jpg. This image might be to lead us to Mini Metro, or it might be a circular puzzle piece. The Magic Circle - I'm unsure when this "eye" was added. /u/Tambox discovered a "eye" in The Magic Circle and provided this image and video. No progress has been made past its discovery. Mini Metro - Around February 13th 2015 a secret map was added, and could be accessed by following these instructions to find and click a "eye". An email sent to the developer confirms that there is a puzzle, a solution, and that it is solvable. The secret map has stations shaped like the "eye", and the puzzle seems to revolve around recreating the "eye"'s shape by drawing lines. You can view progress for this puzzle here and help out! Hopefully you'll join in and help to solve this together! EDIT: The /r/GameDetectives Discord is open for discussing this ARG here. They're also creating their own ARGs if you want to help create them or solve them.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Solomon;49599549][url]https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/42gcn2/possible_arg_discovered_involving_multiple_steam/[/url][/QUOTE] None of these games are portal or half life related?

[QUOTE=usaokay;49599594]yo dude, Blue Shift was the shit You weren't some nerd protected by a rechargable sci-fi suit nor a trained Spec Ops marine you were one of the loser security guards who has to pick up new armor and have a little bit of training Screw Freeman. I want another game with Barney Calhoun.[/QUOTE] It's also one of the more sensible implementations of armor since the helmet is worth 40 points, the vest itself is worth 60, so Barney could be seen as dumping off broken and worn pieces from combat for new, compared to the HEV and PCV that Gordon and Adrian respectively had which basically ran off of batteries and rechargers to re-energize their defensive armor capabilities. Actually makes Barney come off as a lot more improvised which fits the character.