I bought my game and won't even get to play it for five minutes today, hell i haven't even got to see if it actually plays yet, i can't even look at the splash screen because of ****iing steam, I agree, whoever had the genius ****ing idea to connect to steam to play a single player game needs to be fired.
You really need to help me, I finally made it through the installation of HL2(FINALLY). It took a long time time to update the maps to my system. Now that i'm finally ready i'm getting a message that there is something wrong it says: 'Unable to authenticate original disc within time limit'. As you guys can all understand i'm really pissed. I finally madeit through the installation and now i'm into this nonsense.
For F#%$K's SAKE! I took off from work earlier today. Played sick and now I can't even play?!?!?
AAAAARRRRRGGGHHH! $100 for the game. Over $100 in lost wages. Sitting inmy computer room with Cookies and coke all ready to play and all for naught.
AAAAARRRRRGH!
yeah i have just spoken to a friend and he had the same thing, he restartted HL2 for about 30 times and than finally it started, but thanks for the advice anyway