Steam 2012 Summer Sale

[Kevin]

I haven't played HL2: Ep 2 yet and it's $5. Shall I?

Um, yes.

Soooo I shouldn't admit to never having played any Half Life game then huh?

OK so I have changed this as I just completed the original Half Life. Yes I got the Half-Life complete pack for like $6.50 during the summer sale, it was 75 or 80% off at some point. It was fun, though I'm not a great jumper in most FPS games (which I think is part of why I liked Halo it didn't really have many jumping puzzles). But it was a neat story, and I'm moving on to Opposing Forces now.

So yeah I'm about 14 years or so behind and I can see why it was so hyped at the time (and I did want to play it back when it first came out but the situation I was in didn't really allow it). I actually still find the graphics/interface quite tolerable. Sure they are dated, but they meet the good enough standard. I admit there are some older PC games that I simply can't play now because I've been too spoiled. I did get annoyed by a few "you're stuck because you were jumping where you shouldn't have" bugs, there was a lot of reloads on some levels, and there were two references to a walk through. But again I was mostly playing for the story, while being entertained by the combat.