Well, balls.

[jet_porkins]

My TV tube just popped. There goes my instant-gratification free time.

I'm primarily flustered because of two things:

1. I'm about 55-60 hours into Fallout 3, with no ending to the storyline in sight.
2. The TV broke the instant I was in the middle of my personally fastest run of HL2. I was a little more than 4 hours game time (4:15 +/-), just finishing up the Gordon + Turret showdown against the incoming Combine troops before Alyx joins your party once again, just moments before reaching Mossman.

Since those are the only two Xbox360 games I own (and 2 of the 3 games I currently own period... the third of which is Age of Empires II on my laptop), I don't watch TV, let alone cable TV, and it was an old TV my mom was going to throw away if I didn't take it with me to college... all things considered, I'm not in a terribly piss-poor state of affairs. Just needed to vent that is all. Somewhere down the line I'll probably buy another one. Any suggestions for relatively low-cost TV sets? X < $200.00 would be fantastic.

To keep this relevant to the Half Life series, post the fastest time you recall getting through any of the Half Life franchise.

 

[Xevrex]

10 hours.

If I don't bother to get side-tracked by Zero-Point Energy Manipulator hijinks.

 

[PJ]

you'll be hard pushed to find one that cheap for under $200 that is actually worth it.

this is a british website so you will have to find somewhere else to buy but how bout this-

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134146

it is quite a bit more expensive but it is the cheapest 32 inch panel. you cant get a 26" much cheaper

here is an amaerican one - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889107042

and my fastest time - slowly

 

[kupocake]

People often put smaller CRT TVs up on freecycle for collection. May be worth checking out your local list.

 

[PJ]

People often put smaller CRT TVs up on freecycle for collection. May be worth checking out your local list.

absolutely thats a good place to start if you dont want to spend tooo much. otherwise just scour the net

 

[amaranth]

That sucks.

 

[Barnz]

You will die in seven days.

 

[the cow says moo]

You will die in seven days.

Which is my record for beating HL2.

 

[Satans_Offspring]

Half-Life: 15 Hours, my least played game in the Half-Life Series, only beaten 4 Times.

Half-Life 2: 12 Hours straight, but that was when I got HL2 working again after months of only playing it about 3 times, now a year later I can beat it in about 6 hours.

Half-Life 2: Episode One: 2 Hours, Easily.

Half-Life 2: Episode Two: 6 Hours, Only ever played on my PS3 because my PC can't handle it.

Portal: 3 Hours first time, now in about 50 minutes.