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Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
      • Jeffool @lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Even if they do repeat 3 (and I kinda feel they will,) it’ll have a cliffhanger too. And I’m okay with that.

    • Grey Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Tyler McVicker and Gabe Follower are saying that HL3 is in heavy development currently. Apparently they even have hired experienced devs from Rockstar, Id Software, Epic Games, Respawn, Sucker Punch and others to work on the game.

      • lentildrop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        I’m skeptical tbh, I feel like VNN has been saying HL3 is in development for as long as I’ve been alive

        • themusicman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Nah this is pretty concrete. There’s a flat screen single player game in active development with features being added like vehicle physics, surface temperatures, NPC AI handling for non standard gravity, etc. And there are half life related strings all through it. HL3? Who knows, but it would explain why they actually acknowledged their two anniversaries…

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I swear to God, if you are fucking with me I will find you somehow. I have a very specific set of skills, and they mostly pertaining to cooking, building, and drawing things, but they are skills nonetheless!

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago
      Half-Life: Alyx spoilers

      It’s gonna be wild watching Valve try to explain that Eli was brought back from the dead in a prequel game that took place years before Half-Life 2, that 90% of their fans couldn’t play.

      • naticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Oh hell, mine too back in August. Guess I’ll have to take it out drinking next year.

        • FilthyHands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          we old lol.

          I probably have 500+ hours in Counter Strike Source and about the same in Day of Defeat Source, (edit def add cs1.6 and original dod to those numbers) from 2003-2005. All before steam kept track of play time. So many games (including HL2!) show “no recorded activity”. It really irks me but it’s also kind of funny. Took a near total break from gaming until about 2015. Didn’t get a decent PC until 2020. I Was surprised I even remembered my steam login.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      Originally played on orange box on the 360, I’m surprised I didn’t already have it on steam. Glad I stumbled on this post

    • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      [old woman memories mode]

      I remember registering my CD key of HL1 on Steam and was surprised when they gave me the expansions for free. Cool, because I didn’t have them.

      I remember buying The Orange Box on Steam. I remember it because Steam gave me a warning because I already had Portal - it was free at some point. Was a bit miffed when TF2 went free to play later on.

      And I somehow still haven’t played HL2 on Steam, I think? I played it about 1/3 way on Xbox 360. Played the shit out of Portal on 360 though.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Well, they implemented some graphical improvements and options, as well as workshop mod support so now would be a good time for a replay.

  • germtm.@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    us Half-Life fans are eating good this month. first, we get Project Borealis Prologue, and now HL2 update and the game going free to own for a limited time. i am so going to enjoy checking the update out. and the documentary as well.

    • Masta_Chief@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      Imo the best enjoyment to time ratio is:

      1. Black Mesa (the Xen level at the end was redone and extended compared to in HL1 and it’s cool but if it starts to drag just move on)

      2. HL2 (main game)

      3. HL2: EP1 start it but maybe skip and watch a playthrough if you get bored

      4. HL2: EP2

      5. HL Alyx, if you can play it on a decent headset. DO NOT MOD IT TO PLAY IT WITH MOUSE/KB it will be extremely boring since it’s designed for VR

      Have fun, there’s simply nothing else like Half-Life games

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      If you start with the second one you won’t know what’s going on and feel like you’ve missed a bunch of important story.

      This is how it felt after playing the first one as well. Half Life 2 is almost an unrelated game. The plots of the two barely line up.

    • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      I played Half Life first time few years ago, and it has aged really well in my opinnion. I enjoyed it more than Black Mesa. Also I don’t think of Black Mesa as a substitute for hl1, but as a good game you can play after beating og.

    • morphballganon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      6 days ago

      Start with HL2 on normal difficulty. Then do 2E1 and 2E2 on normal difficulty.

      Then repeat all of that on hard.

      Then you’ll be where I am. Never bothered with 1.

  • clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    Played 15 minutes and it was very intriguing but motion sickness got the best of me and I stopped playing after barfing at the toilet

  • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    I remember playing this on a Radeon 9550 GPU with 128 MB VRAM and being amazed at how well it was running at 1680x1050.