Hopefully at some point in the future even the casual mainstream community will catch on to the fact that they are being ripped off and simply stop supporting being ripped off even further. The main reason why companies are getting away with this retarded shit is because casual gamers have no idea if there is anything else out there than bullshit like this.
Casual gamers basically require a widely accepted financial advisor sort of system that thoroughly informs them if their cash is being spent well or poorly.
I've played it from start to finish at least four times, so I strongly disagree. Hell, I've gotten all the achievements in both the original game and Half-Life 2: Update. That's how much I love the game.
One of the community guides reminded me That besides gravity and other physics, you can adjust the game speed. Most people find it makes sense to use this as a slo-mo tweak, but you can also use it like a fast forward function. Things can be made to go hilariously fast, or just slightly more sped up. Whatever floats your boat. Either way, the audio tends to get cutoff, although it does not get distorted or anything. Point is though, you can fast forward to an extent through the more laborious sections, like the begging of Red Letter Day and so on.
Don't do this while listening to the HL2: Update commentary; the play bubble will finish before the actual audio will. Likewise, slo-mo will let the audio finish before the play bubble thing finishes.
Putting in a bad review because you tried a product and didn't like it is fine, that's what reviews are for.
If I put a game on steam and 4chan takes issue with it, then I wake up to 800 negative reviews that are all 0 to 0.1 hours, immediate refunds, and not "game does not physically start up" in the review, that's 800 negative reviews from people who literally did not play the game long enough to form an objective opinion on it who are now going to sour potential consumers on it just because they feel they have a right to destroy someone else's hard work over something that probably wasn't worth abusing the refund system for.
Maybe I'm not recalling correctly but I think Arkham Knight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2NKOjYOuGQ
I'm pretty hardcore jaded at this point when it comes to Valve but I feel like I'll regret it if I say nothing so
Happy birthday, Half-Life. You were my first.
It's funny if think about it:
After a long and painful war against alien invaders, humanity finally found out and a way to stop the Combine Invasion and finally free Earth once and for all: the Borealis, a ship which can travel time and space, even dimensions and universes to be used against one of their main invasion-cores. It just required a 2-men team to go and seizure the ship. But wait, they have encountered big troubles on their way.
Something so big that is holding them prisoners in time and prevented them from saving mankind. "What?" you may ask.
A Combine army so big that could easily extinguish any living form on the planet? No.
A mass-murder weapon that have destroyed them both in a second as soon as they reached the Borealis? Neither.
Then what?
A man who runs a greedy videogame company that thinks a micro transaction riddled card game nobody asked for is better than the masterpiece that made the company what it is today.
This thread reads a lot more like a funeral than an anniversary thread
Once upon a time i was a boy full of hope. Hope of things to come, and of sights yet to be seen.
I have a lot of history with Half-Life. A story my mother told me was that when I was about two, we were walking through a store when we passed by Half-Life sitting on a shelf. I pointed at it and said "Half-Wife!" and the man next to us started laughing. I received the game for my third birthday from my aunt, much to the dismay of my father. I only remember playing it briefly on my uncles' computer along with my sisters. My real memories from the Half-Life series come from Blue-Shift, which I had installed on my own computer. That game started to worry my parents because I would stay things like "I'm going to hit you on the head with a crowbar!", which prompted them to delete it from my computer.
I played Half-Life with my dad when I was 4. I sat on his lap and worked the keyboard while he did the mouse.
Made it all the way to the end like that.
i cherish the years HL1 gave me as a 11 year-old infront of a CRT at 800x600 playing svencoop 3.0 with my snarkcafe pals some linkin park playing in the background
thanks gabe
I'm sure Half-Life will get a continuation, eventually. What form it is, video game or otherwise, and whether Valve will have a hand in it or even still be around by that time, is in question.
I have to disagree, the airboat section is one of my favourite chapters. Getting the gun on the boat is like:
https://www.facebook.com/BestFuturama/videos/no-world-you-put-your-hands-up/1686644264949438/
Recent R6 Siege fiasco
The airboat section have an amazing sense of scale. Looking at the HL2 maps in Garry's Mod always makes me amazed that Valve makes them feel so big compared to how cramped they truly are.
Man, that is so cute. I want to sit on your dad's lap.
I dunno, Valve sends us chocolate for new years so inter-company PR is maybe just really inconsistent.
My dad got Half Life as a gift from a friend, but he never had any interest in video games. I tried installing it, but it wouldn't start on the computer. It stayed on the shelf for many years, being that one game I couldn't try out. It annoyed me so much I eventually brought it with me to a friend and installed it on his computer and we played it together. We are both big Half Life fans to this day.
Do you want funeral music?
Half life was the first PC game I played. I remember it exactly, my big brother was playing on Stalkyard on deathmatch, and I just casually asked if I could have a shot, not expecting to really get to play it. He let me though, and I tried playing it with the arrow keys. I think I was 6 or 7 at the time.
Don't do it man. It's just gonna end up like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMYsEJ-vZaQ
I think something that we can all be happy about is the fact that Valve's best years produced not only one great game series, but multiple that have all made memories for us. The love for all those classic games that Valve has made binds us in such a strong way, I doubt we'll ever forget the experiences we have had with them and the community that loved these games so dearly.
The gateway to PC gaming for me personally (barring free online games and educational stuff) was the GMod + TF2 Bundle in 2010 and I can say that the sense of camaraderie and fun I experienced in them has never been surpassed by another company's games since then. After branching out to the rest of Valve's catalog in the years following, I can say I had nothing but respect for what they did and stood for as a game company.
And through these many, many turbulent years where Valve has slowly shape-shifted from an honest game company into a game distributor with benefits, I ask us all not to be sad that we've lost them but happy that Valve was once able to capture lightning in a bottle and create these uniquely wonderful titles for us.
tl;dr - As much as we can lament the loss of a great game company, let us also try to remember the good times we have had with their games.
With that said; happy anniversary and thank you to Gabe, Mark Laidlaw and the rest of the Half Life crew for bringing us something spectacular.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/114086/e44d2ee9-755e-4f48-8a93-4c2e8c37ac62/half-life_fan_art_smile_girl_glasses_22333_1920x1080.jpg
And happy anniversary to you too, Gordon.
I can definitely say, getting the Orange Box 11 years ago was my gateway to PC gaming, and Half Life as a series. Computer was a piece of shit for games, but it didn't stop me getting through the entirety of HL2 and Portal. TF2, wasn't possible to run. Ironically, it was too advanced.
After playing HL2, I got a copy of the original. Despite it being much simpler (which actually worked on my POS) it was still a lot of fun. That's when I knew I needed to pivot from console games to PC.
I think I initially got HL on PS2, after hearing about the hype surrounding HL2. So let's say that was around mid 2003. I wanted to play the original before the sequel came out.
Fast forward a year, I got the HL Platinum Collection with all expansions + CS & TFC, for Christmas. Those were some of my first PC games....other technically the first games I ever played were Wolfenstein 3D and Halloween Harry. At the unbelievably young age of 4 or 5. Thinking back on those times feel a bit surreal.
Anyway, I got the original HL games and then eventually (a few months later) bought HL2 + the Source game bundle though Steam. I had a shitty integrated GPU like most people of the day, so I bought an ATI Radeon GPU from a friend and paid him $50 or something to buy and help install it. I think it had 525mb of VRAM, so it was a good upgrade in performance. Still couldn't quite play Source games on max, but the graphics still blew my mind. To even play it at all was a gift, since the big question at the time among many people was if their system could handle running it.
when Ep1 came out, playing with HDR was a big ask for the GPU, although still somewhat possible, depending on the map. It seemed to work better in CS:S for some reason. It wasn't until 2014, when I got my current PC, and slapped in a GTX 750ti, that I finally got to experience all the Source games at max settings. Even despite having played better looking games at the time, I was so damn impressed to [finally] see the Source games at their full potential.
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