What was Half Life 2 like during launch? I didn't have a PC as a kid, only a SNES
What was Half Life 2 like during launch? I didn't have a PC as a kid, only a SNES
Ian Nelson
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Tyler Long
>2004
Where's your rainmeter, bro? And where's your xfire?
Dylan Wood
I miss green steam so bad, and also like 2009 era steam too
David Evans
i miss when UI looked consistent
Aiden Roberts
It had a lot of cool shit no other really successful game had done before, or done so well, mostly TECHNOLOGY that was fun to play with. I remember being entertained by that alone but finding the story tedious with all the time you just stood there getting talked at and the shooting to be a worse than it’s contemporaries and even it’s predecessor. I didn’t play it more than once, and I remember WoW’s launch more fondly that same month.
Nicholas Rodriguez
whos the anime girl?
Jaxon Sanders
It was the best looking game back then, and it was fun to mess around with the physics, especially when gmod launched. Funnily enough, I've never replayed Half-Life 2 after playing it once back in 2004. The first game was so much better.
Steam however was a stinking pile of shit. Pretty sure everyone used a third party software to directly connect to counter-strike or other games' servers because Steam was too sluggish and patch download speed was pathetic.
Easton Watson
It was mindblowing
for me it was a massive leap from older games. Felt like being in the future
shame nothing like this will ever happen again. Probably the reason valve held off hl3
Benjamin White
Really frustrating multiple disk install and steam didn't help either because I still had dialup internet back then.
The game itself helped bring in a new era though.
Zachary Morris
I'm an autist who actually hunted down the source of this image a few years ago on danbooru, I don't have it or remember it anymore but I think it was from some kind of calendar
Nolan Brown
>What was Half Life 2 like during launch?
LOADING
Mason Scott
Valve used HL2 as an excuse to force you to install Steam. It was the 2004 version of Always Online.
Then, of course, the fucking servers crashed and no one could play the game.
Video games have always been shit.
Grayson Ramirez
>It was the 2004 version of Always Online.
I don't think you know what always online means.
Joseph Martinez
More like the 2004 version of the Epic Games Launcher.
Cameron Reyes
You must be online and connected to the internet in order to first launch and verify the game. This was a legit issue since many users like were still on dial-up.
Ryder Murphy
That's correct, but a one time activation is not "always".
Wyatt Reed
>friend lent me some dosh to pick up the orange box because they wanted me to play HL2 MP with them but my paycheck wasn't due for a few weeks
>literally a week later they start incessantly bothering me for the money even though they know when I'm getting paid
Fuck you, Silvan, you were a cunt then, and I'm sure you're still a cunt now.
Adrian Martin
What multi disc? This one here is from the release day i bought.
Christian White
It was an incredible game though I still prefer Half Life 1. I had a good PC at the time and 512k connection. Never had as many issues with steam as others did, though the friends list didn't work for like two years. Rag Doll Kung fu was the first third party game to be on steam and it was pretty shitty.
Hudson Cook
>friends list didn't work
There's a reason that "steam steamed" was a common saying. The friendslist/community services were ridiculously unstable.
Brandon Rodriguez
amazing thanks to my brother I was able to play HL2 like 2 years before it came out had the leaked build
Michael Wright
I had it on DVD when it came out but i think i had steam installed beforehand so i could continue playing CS. Did WoN shut down before or after HL2? Remember the people wheeling their PCs across town in shopping carts because they didnt have the internet?
Eli Gutierrez
it is still the best game for me
Jayden Howard
Steam was absolute garbage, took them years to make it functional.
Andrew Morales
oh the leak, that was a mess, security was shit back then, as is now
Ethan Scott
I meant more as a forced anti-consumer practice that collapsed upon itself and pissed everyone off who wanted to play the game they paid for.
Tyler Morgan
I'm not so sure about that, you can't even get PC games that don't require a one-time activation any more except for GOG and indies.
Only consoles have offline activation for most games and even then it has so many strings attached that it's hardly worth writing home about.
Lucas Rogers
Isn't she from Da Capo 3? The hair handles look pretty similar.
Landon Williams
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>be some random nerd
>hack a server
>get arrested by cops with fucking assault rifles
truly threatening
Thomas Perez
Fucking tard didn't even release all the files before he got arrested. Imagine what we didn't get to see.
Levi Williams
dont themes exist
Ryder Walker
Old steam was kino, visually at least. Nowadays it looks horrendous
Liam Gomez
Can someone post that webm of different desktops through the years
Anthony Gutierrez
This, I bet people are nostalgic about green steam, not me. This shit bugged every day.
Jacob Clark
Half-life 2 was great during launch. I played it and the various mods it had a ton, but most of them were too grand scale and a lot of them didn't pan out or were watered down versions of HL1 mods, so it was kind of a shame. I think in retrospect though HL2 aged really poorly. I actually don't think there's a single aspect HL2 does better than HL1. Monsters, weapons, environments, even plot. HL2 is actually probably one of the most overrated games of all time. It's one of the few times I really feel like nostalgia is playing a large part in many people's judgment. I played both HL1 and HL2 as a kid, and even loved HL2 for quite a while. But as time passed, I really see how flawed and gimmicky a lot of things in the game is. It was really fun on release, but it didn't age well at all. I think the game is really weak atmospherically too. Everything looks kinda generic and uninteresting. It's a good example of a game that basically just nearly missed the soul barrier and is pretty soulless in retrospect.
Cooper Robinson
There was a CD-ROM version. That's the DVD version.
Noah Baker
>What was Half Life 2 like during launch?
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Easton Hughes
It was just something to play through once while spending 90% of your time on Halo 1/2, Counter-Strike, or WoW
Xavier Watson
Only zoomers used Steam, everyone was actually on Xfire. And by that I mean actual millions which for the time was absolutely enormous.
Jacob Martin
>all my xfire screenshots and videos, gone like tears in the rain
Christopher Morales
Ryan Wood
Liam Walker
XP is pure soul.
Jaxson Hernandez
>ywn get nudged again
Isaiah White
It was mind blowing at the time, but most pc's couldn't max it out
I remember being bewildered at morrowind's water textures as well...
Jack Stewart
not that but there is a pretty good webm that shows the evolution of user's desktop through the years, shame I don't have it saved
William Sanders
Gavin Young
this image is hosted on ebaumsworld
Aaron Allen
I was fucking shocked it ran on my potato computer so well.
Jordan Moore
>what the FUCK
>I need internet to install one game??
My thoughts back then. I also remember laughing at horse armor DLC few years later. Now look at us.
Jackson Lee
1991-2010 were pretty good all things considered, hope for the future after the fall of the soviet union without war, just chaotic collapse but no big nuclear war, reunification of my country. gameboy was swell too.
Jacob Myers
I love Half-Life 1 and it's still really fun to play due to it's simple run'n'gun style gameplay. It's like Quake on crack plus an actual story. Half-Life 2 is good too and it will always have a special place in my heart, but the whole game is just so much full of "those levels". Every time I want to replay HL2 I remember the boat level, the car levels, the prison level, the guerilla warfare levels, the citadel level etc. and I remember how tedious some of them were. I did like that the car levels had still lots of stuff to see and do on the way, for example that one multiple level house that had zombies in the attic. That was pretty cool. Oh and also the tunnel with the car wrecks and zombies.
Cooper Sullivan
grinman or cockmongler?
Asher Green
Yea. I understand what you mean user. That kind of soured the experience for me in retrospect too, is that playing it again as I was older, a lot of the sections I just didn't really like. HL1 feels kind of novel to me to this day because everything about it is distinct. Still, I understand a lot of people like HL2. I'm not trying to shame anybody, I do think it's overrated though, and personally I'm a HL1 guy. It's really a lot more simplistic and feels like a logical progression from Quake like you said.
Luke Harris
Please stop talking like such a faggot.
Jeremiah Morris
I WANNA GO BACK TO A DESKTOP LIKE THAT FUKKS SAKE LIFE WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FUCK FUKKK FUKK IM STUCK IN THIS ETERNAL TIME FLOW DESCENDING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO AUTISM AND HELLISH TORMENT I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO A TIME WHERE EVERYONE WASN'T A COMPLETE FUKKING FAGGOTTTTTTTTT AND GOOD GAMES AND FUN FUKKKK KILL ME Yas Forums KILL ME BEFORE I DIE OF COOMER THREADS
Noah Watson
>HL2
>CS:S
>DOD:S
>TF2
>hundreds of really good mods like PKW2, Garrys mod, golden eye source, synergy, zombie panic, zombie master, neo tokyo and much more (of cource not on release day, but we got them pretty fast)
It was probably the most fun I've had in multiplayer and it's all gone now.
Levi Cruz
I played HL2 on Xbox and it ran at about 8 fps
Benjamin Ramirez
Ayden Edwards
SAY SOMETHING
Jack Reyes
John Baker
The best year of human history, period. Everyone is got their shit together, some maybe not really but at least they're trying. The only thing we got triggered is that we got aimboted by 8 years old in COD4