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Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update

store.steampowered.com Half-Life 2 on Steam

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.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28151762

Bonus: it also seems that the episodes have been rolled into the base game. Full details of the anniversary update.

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Damn, I already bought it!
..... 13 years ago....
But I can use this when gifting to people, right? There's a couple people I want to send these as a gift to get them to play it.
If not well then I guess I can't be super passive aggressive in telling them to play it because they don't have an excuse anymore and actually have to use words...
- Holy moly, the orange box was the second game I ever activated on steam, way back in 2008, 16 years ago.
  Protip: You can see when you bought different games by using the link https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/
  Kind of a trip down memory lane, and a real reminder of how far the gaming industry has fallen. 2013 was just page after page of great games, 2014, still lots, and slowly it peters out until the last few years fit on one page on the screen. I bought games in the years before that, but many of them were just catching up with the banger years around 2013!

Try the vr mod for this, so much fun
- There's also the "Unofficial Half Life 2 VR - unleashed" mod, which looks really exciting (I haven't tried it yet).
  There's also a trailer for the mod.
  edit: wordz edit 2: found a trailer
- The last PC I built was less than a Valve index. We're in !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I can wait.
  
  My first ever playthru of half life 2 was this year hehe
  
  With the Meta Quest 3S coming out this holidays you may be able to get a used Quest 2 dirt cheap, and that'll do just fine to play PC games.

Gen z whose never played it. Looks like it's time
- Enjoy! Would love to hear a newcomer's thoughts on it. I remember it being so immersive and cinematic the first time I played.
  Though many of its innovations are now common in other games.
  
  That's been what I've heard from others too.
  Like a lord of the rings situation where after coming to it after growing up on things inspired by it, ends up not having the impact. While still being defining and classic of course.
  Always like to see the growth over time and development of trends etc.
- Do Black Mesa before that.
- whose
  who has
  
  Oops. Send feet pic please 🙏

Ah yes, the game that made me get a Steam account, so looks like my steam account is days from it's 20th anniversary.
God damn did I hate Valve for making me get steam back then, I was on dialup and getting Steam to launch was a utter nightmare, and I HAD to have it to play HL2? F you gaben!
Fast forward 20 years and I'm eagerly awaiting the AU launch of the steam deck and reminiscing of how good steam has been for me... EDIT: ACCT created 19th Nov 2004, Steam Deck AU release 29th Nov 2024, so I'm ordering on my accounts 20 year anni

I highly recommend this fine indie title. Please give it a try if you haven't already. And remember, free tvs!

Bummer, I missed the sale. Now it's infinitely more expensive at $0.99, $1.99 if you get the orange box bundle.
Jk, I've had the game for years. If you haven't played it, $0.99 is well worth the price of admission.

Wait, the demo runs on Mac, but the full game does not?
- All old valve games have long been deprecated on macOS since apple dropped support for 32 bit applications in 2019 and valve seems to have given up on mac gaming all together.

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