Stewy
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| Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Software and the company's debut product. First released by Sierra Studios on November 19, 1998, the game was also released for the PlayStation 2 on November 14, 2001. Valve, set up by former Microsoft employees, had difficulty finding a publisher, with many believing that the game was "too ambitious". Sierra On-Line eventually signed the game after expressing interest in making a 3D action game. The game had its first major public appearance at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Designed for Microsoft Windows, the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine, called GoldSrc.
On its release, critics hailed its overall presentation and numerous scripted sequences, and it won over 51 Game of the Year awards. Its gameplay influenced first-person shooters for years to come, and it has since been regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. As of November 16, 2004, Half-Life has sold eight million copies. As of July 14, 2006, the Half-Life franchise has sold 16 million units. According to GameSpy, Half-Life is the most played online PC game (excluding MMORPGs), ahead of Half-Life 2.
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I still remember buying it the first day it hit the shelves and my comment to my wife after playing was "wow what a ride" 
This is a pic I did back in the day.
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Kibbles
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| Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th I remember playing it on my first PC which was a Gateway PC which I added a second Voodoo card to. 
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Steimes
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Belle Vernon, PA | I think I got it in 99, GOTY edition.
I don't want to even think about how many hours I put into that, its mods, and its community...
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JIGA
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clubs: | I purchased Half Life back in 1999. I remember playing through the whole campaign and what an excellent single player game it was. I thought it was the best thing next to sliced bread! | |
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| Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th said by Metatron2008  :Hey guys with discs... if you have your old cd key for half life or counter strike you cann register it on steam, and get hl1, blue shift, cs, opposing force, hl1 deathmatch, day of defeat, deathmatch classic, and Richochet. If you don't believe me try it! If it's already used in steam before it won't work. I got HL2 because I got that bundle with ATI back when they offered it.. I have blue shift but I never installed it same with CS (I hate it) and opposing force.
the funny part was I used to play TF like crazy but after i got it in the HL2 pack it was just meh now..
I tried TF2 but it would be more enjoyable with a faster system.
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VegasMan
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1 edit | said by LaZ3R :LOL!! VALVE SPECIAL OFFER TILL NOVEMBER 21st: BUY HALF LIFE FOR 98 CENTS! Happy Birthday Half-Life! Only $0.98 To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the game that started it all, Half-Life is on sale for only 98 cents. Ends Friday, November 21 at noon PST. » store.steampowered.com/app/70/Hahahahahhahahahahah Oh man..  Damn I'll have to get me one. I've been wanting to play this game again for a while. I gave up playing after spending weeks trying to blow up the damn baby at the end, I got too pissed off since I refused to cheat.
My other copy got lost in a move or I gave it away I don't remember.
This should run great now on my current system Q6700 with 2GB RAM compared to my P2 300 with 256Mb RAM.
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| nihilanth said by VegasMan :Damn I'll have to get me one. I've been wanting to play this game again for a while. I gave up playing after spending weeks trying to blow up the damn baby at the end, I got too pissed off since I refused to cheat. | |
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| Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th said by VegasMan :I gave up playing after spending weeks trying to blow up the damn baby at the end, I got too pissed off since I refused to cheat. Hit him enough times that his head pops open, then get up high and hit him directly in the brain. That will do him in.
I have even been able to jump inside his head and whack him with the crowbar to kill him!!
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1 edit | Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th said by Jim Gurd :said by VegasMan :I gave up playing after spending weeks trying to blow up the damn baby at the end, I got too pissed off since I refused to cheat. Hit him enough times that his head pops open, then get up high and hit him directly in the brain. That will do him in. I have even been able to jump inside his head and whack him with the crowbar to kill him!! I got the brain exposed I always ran out of enough ammo to kill him or don't have enough time to kill him with the crowbar before the floating balls hit me.
I downloaded last night and just ran through the training course again. It's nice not having to wait on loads when you enter different parts of the game.
My wife is going to feel abandoned for a few weeks.
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DaMaGeINC
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clubs: | Um no. There are crystals on the sides of the cave, you destroy those then you shoot him. | |
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Ratman_84
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| I remember getting it shortly after it came out. I also had just gotten my first computer...a Gateway...that is still alive...barely.
I've pretty much been playing Half-Life in all its forms non-stop since then. I'll never forget the original deathmatch though. That picture brings back some memories. The Homer and Rat models specifically.
P.S. That picture reminds me of a lot of the screenshot of the days that used to be on PlanetHalfLife.com | |
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Stewy
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| Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th
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said by Ratman_84 :That picture brings back some memories. The Homer and Rat models specifically. don't ask me how or why I still have that pic
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NightLinks
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Bronx, NY | I remember getting it but never got into it because i was too much into quake 2.
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CylonRed
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FiL
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Silver Spring, MD | Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th I remember the intro the most... what an enthralling entrance to one of the greatest game franchises ever. | |
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CylonRed
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| Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th It was one of the first ones to have a story - I did not like Wolffenstein and Doom because they had no story to it. Valve took the FPS genre and created and entire story on it. Only thing I hated about HL was the space part as I wanted a FPS based on land. It also had so much better AI than any other at the time - those were the 2 things that hooked me onto the game. | |
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Trooper
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| said by FiL :I remember the intro the most... what an enthralling entrance to one of the greatest game franchises ever. I remember this as well. I felt like I was watching an intro to a movie! Half Life is and will always be my favorite fps. | |
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Reck Havoc
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Grand Rapids, MI | Awesome, been playing the Half-Life series since the beginning, good times.
Now when is Black Mesa Source finally going to be released? | |
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2 edits | I went and bought my copy of HL1 the week it came out during lunchbreak at highschool. I ended up skipping that afternoon and playing until 2am and then skipped the entire next day to revel in its awesomeness. Good times Black Mesa: Source is going to be one of the greatest things ever made if it is ever released. Check out »www.blackmesasource.com/ to read the update they posted yesterday, in it they confirm that the project has been converted to the Orange Box version of Source. There are also a TON of new screenshots in the Media section.
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renton
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Norwich, CT | with the multi-player action and all the mods available, this game ranks right up there as one of the best ever.
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delt4
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I Can't Be Bothered Right Now................
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Stewy
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Kitchener, ON | Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th page doesn't load for me. is it working ? | |
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CylonRed
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kywirelessgu
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| Re: Half Life 10 years old today Nov 19th I got all the official sequals as well.
Opposing force I liked alot. Blue shift I wasn't as excited to play, but it was still fun.
What was the name of the game that was built on the HL engine that had you packing pistols in a space western? I can't remember the name, though the storyline was pretty enjoyable. | |
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1 edit | Looks like they weren't quite prepared for the consequences of their awesomeness. I'm getting:
"We are currently experiencing an extremely high server load. The website will return shortly!"
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