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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:24:57 PM EDT
Valve put out a Half-Life documentary 54 minutes ago
  Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:29:04 PM EDT
[#1]
When my parents bought our first computer in 1999, they got me Rainbow Six and Half Life. Good times.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:30:34 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When my parents bought our first computer in 1999, they got me Rainbow Six and Half Life. Good times. One of the first and favorite PC games!! 
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:32:05 PM EDT
[#3]
Still one of my favorite FPS.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:33:31 PM EDT
[#4]
saw that, I'm watching it later.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:33:49 PM EDT
[#5]
Still an epic game.
Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:33:50 PM EDT
[#6]
Wow! So ID gave them the source code to quake engine?
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:38:06 PM EDT
[#7]
I never finished half life
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:39:49 PM EDT
[#8]
Better be a HL3 announcement.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:39:58 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I never finished half life If you stopped at Xen you're not missing much. I never minded the Xen levels though. 
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:41:12 PM EDT
[#10]
I used to play that, and I don't play computer games.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:43:15 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I never finished half life Half Life and Half Life 2 were some of the few FPS games I did finish. Did both chapters to HL2, too. To be honest I was kinda luke warm on Half Life and didn't buy Half Life 2 for years after it came out because of that. I liked HL2 a lot. Much better then I liked HL1. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:44:15 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Better be a HL3 announcement. Shiiiiiiiiit! That's never happening. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:48:46 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I never finished half life The final boss battle is pretty weird |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:49:23 PM EDT
[#14]
Tagarooooooski............................
Half Life and ESPECIALLY Team Fortress Classic and Counter Strike brought me closest to divorce in my life. I had entire computers built, rooms in my house reconstructed and very expensive internet service upgraded just to be able to play it. 12 Hour marathon sessions were common. Online Gaming leagues and "clan" battles became the norm for me. ENDLESS hours of gameplay and cost..... I've never lost control like that in my life..... (Kinda scared to watch that again and rekindle the thought sof playing again) |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:49:39 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you stopped at Xen you're not missing much. I never minded the Xen levels though. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I never finished half life If you stopped at Xen you're not missing much. I never minded the Xen levels though. 
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:51:51 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Half Life and ESPECIALLY Team Fortress Classic and Counter Strike brought me closest to divorce in my life. I had entire computers built, rooms in my house reconstructed and very expensive internet service upgraded just to be able to play it. 12 Hour marathon sessions were common. Online Gaming leagues and "clan" battles became the norm for me. ENDLESS hours of gameplay and cost..... I've never lost control like that in my life..... (Kinda scared to watch that again and rekindle the thought sof playing again) I'm glad I don't have a timer for how many hours I spent on 2Fort or de_dust.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:56:56 PM EDT
[#17]
JFC I'm old
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:57:23 PM EDT
[#18]
With my brains and your brawn we'll make an excellent team.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:58:48 PM EDT
[#19]
I remember being blown away by Half Life when it came out. A major step forward in gaming, at least compared to anything I had previously played.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 3:59:42 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I never finished half life To be fair, the end part in the alien world was pretty weak. Bunch of stupid jump puzzles. I hate those. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:00:17 PM EDT
[#21]
A properly done HL3 would be a license to print money. Even better if they developed it in secret and dropped it out of nowhere.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:00:43 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Xen levels look great but the running/jumping puzzles sucked Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I never finished half life If you stopped at Xen you're not missing much. I never minded the Xen levels though. It took me forever to figure out I needed to crouch-jump over one section. I must have missed that part of the tutorial.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:01:53 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Tagarooooooski............................ Half Life and ESPECIALLY Team Fortress Classic and Counter Strike brought me closest to divorce in my life. I had entire computers built, rooms in my house reconstructed and very expensive internet service upgraded just to be able to play it. 12 Hour marathon sessions were common. Online Gaming leagues and "clan" battles became the norm for me. ENDLESS hours of gameplay and cost..... I've never lost control like that in my life..... (Kinda scared to watch that again and rekindle the thought sof playing again) BOMB HAS BEEN PLANTED. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:03:35 PM EDT
[#24]
Man I love Half Life...maybe my kids will be able to play HL3 with their grandkids one day
I remember writing out, signing, and presenting a plan to do chores to earn the $50 for my dad to buy HL2 for me in 2006, then pre-loading it and staying up til 1am on a school night to install it and play it  I had never and have never since been so excited about a video game.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:03:48 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember being blown away by Half Life when it came out. A major step forward in gaming, at least compared to anything I had previously played. It really was. "What do you mean there's no score?!" Just an amazing, thinking-one's-way through puzzles video game. It had something for everybody: platformers, run and gun types, sneak around and interact with everything, those that liked moving objects in the environment to solve movement puzzles. And halfway intelligent enemies. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:08:40 PM EDT
[#26]
The Black Mesa reboot is phenomenal.
My 13 year olds and I built a PC this summer I had they play HL Source and HL2, they loved them. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:12:07 PM EDT
[#27]
Creators Romero and Carrmack used to have a forum for their games back when I played. They wanted feedback for the glitches and there were a few. Trilinear dithering or filtering was all the rage.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:14:08 PM EDT
[#28]
Buddy of mine got it as a gift and we loaded it on a computer at work. We played every day at lunch and many times after work. Took us 6 months to finish it. Good times!
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:16:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:24:23 PM EDT
[#30]
IN!
See username
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:24:46 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryI'll give you a pass on not having an MP5 with UBGL, but come on man, you gotta have a SPAS-12. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:24:52 PM EDT
[#32]
Still can't count to three
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:31:54 PM EDT
[#33]
I asked for Half-Life for Christmas back in 1998. My father said I wasn't getting it. I opened all of my presents and it wasn't amongst them. My dad had a habit of doing "special" gifts so the last thing he gave me was Half-Life. It was one of the best Christmases ever. I still have the CD too.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:32:07 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll give you a pass on not having an MP5 with UBGL, but come on man, you gotta have a SPAS-12. ...and an MP7. Airsoft version at least. 
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:38:35 PM EDT
[#35]
Snarks! How could I forget about the sharks?!
We would play HL multiplayer during lunch break at work everyday. For years. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:47:36 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow! So ID gave them the source code to quake engine? Valve licensed the engine There has never been a solid answer if it was the Q1 or Q2 engine. Back in the day I was able to use the 3dnow! enabled Glide renderer DLL from Quake2 in Half Life, which made it substantially faster on my K6-2/Voodoo 2 than the default Glide renderer. I never had any issues with it. I don't know how that would've worked if the engine was mostly based on Q1. 15 year old me just looked at the data file layout, console commands, etc and thought hey this looks almost exactly like Q2, I wonder if the renderer DLL would work if I just replace the default DLL with the 3dfx Q2 one. Sure as shit, it did work |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 4:58:50 PM EDT
[#37]
HL2 is still my all time favorite video game.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 5:05:52 PM EDT
[#38]
Never played old versions before but got a free download of Half Life Alyx when I bought a VR system.
It’s pretty incredible in VR, but got stuck at that level where you have to kill this electrified devil dog thing. It’s so fast and sneaky. Just cant get him. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 5:09:29 PM EDT
[#39]
Funny this should pop up. Been reminiscing about those old game I'd play way back when for hours.............and hours like this and Red Alert 2, etc. Wish I could figure out how to play them today. I'm kinda a technology cave man...
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Posted: 11/17/2023 5:09:48 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Never played old versions before but got a free download of Half Life Alyx when I bought a VR system. It’s pretty incredible in VR, but got stuck at that level where you have to kill this electrified devil dog thing. It’s so fast and sneaky. Just cant get him. When in doubt. Crowbar. Nothing was more satisfying in HP than crowbarring enemies. The sounds. The sound doesn’t get enough credit in the game. IMHO it’s what really makes the environment. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 5:10:43 PM EDT
[#41]
Worked well on Xbox.
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Posted: 11/17/2023 5:17:49 PM EDT
[#42]
City 17 was cool.
"Pick up that can." |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 6:20:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:08:56 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow! So ID gave them the source code to quake engine? After a few years, ID gives their source code away for free (GPL open source) to everyone. I think they are up to Doom 3 and Quake 3 now. Keep in mind that just the source is available, assets (textures, music, level designs, etc) are not. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:10:25 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I used the cheat codes The final boss battle is pretty weird It was Space Colonel Kurtz. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:13:06 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: After a few years, ID gives their source code away for free (GPL open source) to everyone. I think they are up to Doom 3 and Quake 3 now. Keep in mind that just the source is available, assets (textures, music, level designs, etc) are not. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Wow! So ID gave them the source code to quake engine? After a few years, ID gives their source code away for free (GPL open source) to everyone. I think they are up to Doom 3 and Quake 3 now. Keep in mind that just the source is available, assets (textures, music, level designs, etc) are not. Neat. I’m distracting the thread but I thought those engines were what made Carmack so rich. He changed the gaming world big time. |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:20:46 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: After a few years, ID gives their source code away for free (GPL open source) to everyone. I think they are up to Doom 3 and Quake 3 now. Keep in mind that just the source is available, assets (textures, music, level designs, etc) are not. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Wow! So ID gave them the source code to quake engine? After a few years, ID gives their source code away for free (GPL open source) to everyone. I think they are up to Doom 3 and Quake 3 now. Keep in mind that just the source is available, assets (textures, music, level designs, etc) are not. Didn't Gary's Mod provide a lot of different tools you could play with? |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:22:47 PM EDT
[#48]
I have never looked at a crowbar the same way since.
I remember when Valve was just a small little office in Kirkland |
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:23:48 PM EDT
[#49]
"Sir, I-hear-something."
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Posted: 11/17/2023 7:48:51 PM EDT
[#50]
Even to this day, if I get hurt or bang into anything or, I will grunt, "Agh! Medic!" A couple of my friends get it and will do it too.
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