wow it really weird when from 2004 - 2014 felt so long in my life and 2014 - 2024 feels so short.
Half life 2, at first really made me angry I couldnt play without steam account, thats why i had to get an xbox and play that port. Now i realize I will never be able to play HL2 1.0 ever again.
So what's the new anniversary build like?
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UCyborg wrote on 2024-11-21, 20:02:So what's the new anniversary build like?
idk i dont have a steam account anymore
twiz11 wrote on 2024-11-20, 21:19:Now i realize I will never be able to play HL2 1.0 ever again.
Why though? It's still perfectly possible to play in various ways. I wouldn't install anything onto a retro/nostalgia PC other than the release day version.
I enabled the new commentary mode, played for an hour, and I'm about to meet Alyx for the 'first' time. It's interesting to listen about the choices the devs had to make, or how stuff works. The updates/upgrades/bugfixes are also an enrichment.
And the funny thing that happens when you throw all the boxes out the window.
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Orion 700 | TB 1000 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
It still seems strange to me that it's 20 years! There are grown adults for whom "old" fps games are the likes of HL2 which is not that far removed from the latest FPS in terms of graphics etc, at least the distance from 1994-1999-2004 is, in each step (but esp 94-99), more impressive than the distance between 2004-2024
These days size of these games is most shocking.
wrote:A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
