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Original Half-Life free until 19th (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 10 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guys, if you havan't played it yet, now it's your time. The game is absolutely fantastic. It has one of the best level designs I've ever seen in a game

[–] PowerSeries@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There is the black Mesa mod/project which revamps the graphics if that's a showstopper for you. But it's worth playing.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

it's nothing like a mod they built a replica from the ground up

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

There are people on Steam who haven't played Half-Life?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago

The real ones remember installing games off physical media into Steam. When it was released we were all like "What do we need this for?"

[–] r0bi@infosec.pub 6 points 10 months ago

In my case I never had it activated on Steam

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got into PC gaming in 2015 and finished HL2 before HL1 then finished BM instead, so technically I've never touched og HL before

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Black Mesa is missing nothing from the original, polished every single aspect of the game to a beautiful shine and it's relatively cheap. You aren't missing anything, it should be considered the definitive way to play the original now IMO.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I've only ever played HL2 on Orange Box on xbox, but I'm definitely thinking I might have to try the original because I remember HL2 being a good time, for the most part.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember the day I bought HL at the store. I also bought my first Korn album that day.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Life is Peachy or Follow the Leader?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

If you haven't played HL1 before and you end up enjoying it and you have the money to spare; give Black Mesa a try. For my money it's the best remake any game has ever received and the fact that it was done by fans is astonishing when you see the level of polish that went into it.

[–] deadly4u@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Played through the original game a few times now. I also played through the Black Mesa fan remake.

Half-Life forever

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Also the complete edition is 5$ incl all HL 1 and 2 extras TF1 maybe CS1.6? I forgof