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Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
    • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
      49·
      1 month ago

      Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You’d hope that they’d just automatically stop asking if I’m old enough to view store pages, right?

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        40·
        1 month ago

        My account is so old I have (or had, before they normalized the format) a four digit steam ID. I “owned” Half Life 2 for like four months before it released thanks to getting a code free in the box with my Radeon 9800 Pro back in the day. For a short and glorious flash of time in the summer of 2004, I was guaranteed a copy of the most hotly anticipated game ever, even though nobody could play it yet, and also owned an example of the fastest video card on the planet. Damned if I didn’t mow a fuckton of lawns and reinstall Windows and Outlook an a horde of septuagenarians’ computers to afford that card.

        And no, they do not stop asking about your age.

      • naticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 month ago

        Oh hell, mine too back in August. Guess I’ll have to take it out drinking next year.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        I remember downloading it bundled with CS 1.6 - with the download being behind a queing system, so the servers weren’t overloaded.

        was in the queue for a day and the download took over night

        • FilthyHands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          we old lol.

          I probably have 500+ hours in Counter Strike Source and about the same in Day of Defeat Source, (edit def add cs1.6 and original dod to those numbers) from 2003-2005. All before steam kept track of play time. So many games (including HL2!) show “no recorded activity”. It really irks me but it’s also kind of funny. Took a near total break from gaming until about 2015. Didn’t get a decent PC until 2020. I Was surprised I even remembered my steam login.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      Originally played on orange box on the 360, I’m surprised I didn’t already have it on steam. Glad I stumbled on this post

    • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      [old woman memories mode]

      I remember registering my CD key of HL1 on Steam and was surprised when they gave me the expansions for free. Cool, because I didn’t have them.

      I remember buying The Orange Box on Steam. I remember it because Steam gave me a warning because I already had Portal - it was free at some point. Was a bit miffed when TF2 went free to play later on.

      And I somehow still haven’t played HL2 on Steam, I think? I played it about 1/3 way on Xbox 360. Played the shit out of Portal on 360 though.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Well, they implemented some graphical improvements and options, as well as workshop mod support so now would be a good time for a replay.