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[IbizaPocholo]

One of the best game I've ever played.

 

[hybrid_birth]

Loved half life 2 when it came out. Played it on my friends pc all the time. Finished the game on my og Xbox and then played the game and episodes on the orange box in 2007. Such a great game series.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Did a replay of the entire series a few months back including expansions and Black Mesa. Such an amazing series and leaves you thirsting so much for more.

 

[The Pleasure]

One of the best game I've ever played.

Why did they put lonely island into a game?

 

[Tschumi]

Not trying to be mean but gman in that gif looks like alex battaglia from digital foundry

 

[Spukc]

Damn 17 years already?

 

[carlosrox]

Great game but the first game is better in nearly every conecievable way.

2 actually disappoints me to this day. There's a lot wrong with it.

I'd be down for a remake actually. The game deserves better than it got. Lot of jank and a lot of flaws.

Again, I still think it's an awesome game but coming off of the first game it was just a step down.

 

[Moses85]

Loved half life 2 when it came out. Played it on my friends pc all the time. Finished the game on my og Xbox and then played the game and episodes on the orange box in 2007. Such a great game series.

I Shot the Dwarf into the universe

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Tschumi]

Not sure where "hell" called from, I've heard of worse development cycles lol, and it only took 5 years or so, by today's standards that's snappy haha..

..goat fps

I had SteelSeries,yep, and it was great, yep, until summer came and the glue holding the thumb and finger pads to my mode melted. Back to Logitech.

 

[CitizenZ]

Bought a $400 BFG 6800Gt and $60 HL2 copy(one of the few things I guess I still own and somewhat cherish?) day one and still one of the best days ever.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Good point of the video, but it's not evil. Unforeseen consequences...

 

[Unknown?]

Back before Steam was big and Valve made games.

 

[base]

Who is this G-man anyway. It was never explained.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Most of the art featured was official beta art, but I'll credit the other great artists: Decepticoin (https://www.deviantart.com/decepticoin) TheNebeskyMuz (https://www.deviantart.com/thenebeskymuz) A-Shift (https://www.deviantart.com/a-shift)

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

Finished the game on my og Xbox

what an achievement it was to port the game to the OG Xbox. I mean the framerate was bad, but dammit it was still absolutely playable.

 

[6502]

After buying ram and having to enter lines of code to get the sound right, plus fn steam not connecting half the time, I decided to get it on xbox.

It dropped frames sure, but it was a technical marvel which probably wouldn't have been possible without the hdd. Fantastic pairing.

 

[bender]

Disappointing sequel with awful pacing throughout. Ravenholm was easily the highpoint. Thankfully we got Episode 2 which lives up to the quality of the original.

 

[Romulus]

Yeah the OG Xbox version is a marvel to behold especially at that time.

 

[amigastar]

I remember being blown away by the graphics and Physics of HL2 by a trailer back in the day.

 

[skit_data]

I remember playing the Lost Coast tech demo and playing around with console commands, good times.

 

[JimmyRustler]

One of the few games that I, to this day, can’t enjoy due to motion sickness and I was never able to fix it no matter how much I tinkered with the FOV.

 

[Loope]

One of the few games that I, to this day, can’t enjoy due to motion sickness and I was never able to fix it no matter how much I tinkered with the FOV.

A friend of mine had the same problem, while i finished the game 5 or 6 times. The fov is kind of wonky but it doesn't provoke anything in me, he just can't play for more than 10~15 minutes.

 

[playXray]

Not sure where "hell" called from, I've heard of worse development cycles lol, and it only took 5 years or so, by today's standards that's snappy haha..

It probably had a lot to do with this:

The boy who stole Half-Life 2

At 6am on 7th May 2004, Axel Gembe awoke in the small German town of Schönau im Schwarzwald to find his bed surrounded …

www.eurogamer.net

 

[Kydd BlaZe]

Favorite game of ALL TIME. Greatest game ever made IMO. I remember I couldn’t afford a decent PC at the time, nor was I into PC gaming at all, so I patiently had to wait for the Xbox port (Xbox had some amazing ports of PC games: Doom 3, Riddick, Far Cry Instincts, and HL2 were my favorites at the time), and it did not disappoint.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

I can remember following the game, all the trailers and previews, hyped af. Get it launch day and...steam servers are jam packed. Days of error messages. When it finally worked it was all worth it though. Shout out to Gary's Mod too, great way to mess around with the physics game impressed me so much in all the previews leading up to release.