How did you get addicted?

[Greatgat]

Somehow (I don't remember) some of my friends and eventually I ended up with copies. Then, LAN parties for all! That was the end.

 

[knut]

Ur. I was looking through a PC Gamer/magazine(?) and I saw a couple of screenshots including a security guard firing at two deformed men wearing lab coats, some marine type men dropping in through a shaft on ropes and some shots of scientists. Usually when I see a game with something including marines and nasty-looking creatures, I take intrest in it. So I read on through the review and came to a part which said something along these lines.

''Seeing the scientist bang on the window, pleeing for help as the security guard is then picked up by a large hand extruding from the air vent and pulled away from his desk, kicking and screaming before a loud gurgling and crunching sound emits from the vent and the mans guts come spewing out across the floor.''

That got me very intrested.

I remember not finding the game anywhere for a while, then I just seemed to forget about it, until I went to a town along way off from where I live on a spending spree and thought 'hey, while I'm here, I'll check for Half-Life' and alas! I found it going cheap. And what better was that it came with the, unknown to me at the time, games Blue Shift and Opposing Force. 'Ave it.

I played Half-Life enjoying every bit of it, the combat, the storyline, the setting. Everything. I enjoyed the expansions, too. I loved Blue Shift except I found it very short, and Opposing Force just as good which was longer, which I liked.

H-L2, well, the videos I think got me wanting that. And some pics, too.

 

[KetelOne]

Hmm...how did I get started playing half-life. Well..I mainly don't play FPs type games on a PC. I enjoyed RTS games far more for the majority of my life. Not that I didn't play any FPS games on the PC. Tribes I played and killed mercilessly in, and the newest Wolfenstein I used to play quite a bit, but it got old pretty fast. Then came Half-life, when my brother borrowed it from a friend (atleast that what I think he did...you can never tell) I had heard of it's greatness before, so I thought..why not I"ll give it a whirl. Well..I played CS and HL alittle bit..it was good to be sure, but I don't spend alot of time at home infront of my computer.. Well my brother eventaully bought HL2, I started playing single-player and it was good, but when DM came out..I downloaded it right away and started playing. It's fantastic

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Well, I played HL in 2002, which is very late in case you did not know. I loved it, I adored it and I was hooked. A couple of months later, I picked up my monthly Swedish PCGamer and there, on it's shiny frontpage was a stylish picture of gordon and the words Half-life 2 printed on top. I ripped open the magazine and there I saw my first glimpse of HL2, a picture of antlions running across stranded beaches with shipwrecks, and a small text that said; "This is Half-life 2, this is the ingame engine. Hurray!"


And that was it. Since, HL2 has become my raison d'étre.

 

[lukeowitz]

I think it was the trailer i saw that set me running off to buy it, along side the fact that the first half life was brilliant.

 

[Sparta]

Played the original back in 98 but had a poor computer then so it couldn't handle it. It wasn't till 2000 that i actually bought the game and played through it properly after installing the Uplink demo (i think that is still the best demo ever).

So after that i bought OP:F and that was even better. Then at about May 2003, i read a preview for HL2 that had been scanned from PC Gamer. I was so excited, then a few months later my friend burnt a HL2 movie for me (the barricade video) then i found this site and signed up here. The game was awesome, the only thing that disappointed me was that it wasn't as fast or as hard as the original game. Still the best FPS to come out since the original