what made you play half life

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so yeah, what got you into half life becides that its a shooter, for me it was the story, i hate games were you start the game and your killing people for no apart reason, i dont know why but i got attached to the story.
 
Tried HL1 on my uncle's PC ages ago.

Liked it. Bought the expansions. Also liked them.

Tried to learn more about the story. Downloaded sven-coop.

Waited until september 30th, and so on.
 
Played it over my cousin's house. Thought it was good. Got it from one of my mother's co-workers and thought it was the greatest game ever.
 
Played the demo. Liked it. Played HL1. Thought it was awesome till I got stuck a little way after the tentacles and gave up. (Hey, I was nine.)

Played HL2. Thought it was more awesome than HL2. Became a fan.
 
First played HL1 and Decay on the PS2. Then HL2 two years after it's release. Naturally, I like games like these because of the technology and stuff. I'm a sci-fi nerd.
 
Half life for me, was something I kinda really didnt know what it was about, all i knew was that it was a first person shooter ( which was not familiar with much ). I had just got a "new" computer as a middle school graduation present ( why they thought this "necessary, i dont know ). A friend of mine at school had told me about half life and that it was a pretty good game and that he could get me a copy and would bring it in the next day, i said "cool, sounds good." seeing as he asked for nothing in return, i took the offer.
So my copy of Half life is Pirated, sorry, what can i say though. If it wasnt for that "shared" pirated copy of half life, i would have never got into the series and would have never bought HL2, or any of the other Valve Games for that matter. I love the series and while pirating is usually considered bad, in this case it led to greater things.
 
Purchased it because it was r16 and I could afford it. And I wasn't 16.

Fvcking loved it.
 
Didn't have a PC when Half-Life actually came out, thus never bought it. Played Half-Life 2 due to friend's hype and high expectations. Found it ridiculously awesome in all respects. Bought HL: Source after Episode Two because I couldn't wait any longer for Black Mesa. Up to the first Ichthys. Graphics are literally giving me headaches, but otherwise good.

Narvi said:
Played HL2. Thought it was more awesome than HL2.
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I'll let you get away with that recursion, but only because it underlines how awesome HL2 is.
 
Got Uplink from a CD that came with Chip magazine. Instantly fell in love with Black Mesa - a secret government research facility and advanced techology, and I loved the way it was coming apart and the three-way struggle between scientists, soldiers and aliens. Buying the game was a no brainer.
 
Played Half-Life: Uplink, which was included on a computer game magazine CD. Had no idea what it was!
I loved the NPC's acting and talking about things, the yellow blood splat on a wall after shooting a zombie with a shotgun, marines fighting with the Vortigaunts - felt like in a middle of a war. Also, the awesome ending with the Gargantua (?) destroying the environment. All I could think of after playing it for the first time was: get more RAM (I believe HL1 required 64MB and I had 32) and get the full version. Mission was successful :)
 
Saw it in a shop and read the back, because I though it had cool cover art. Put it back when I realised it was an FPS, forgot about it for several months. Later I was reading this book about computers and I saw it mentioned when it was saying how awesome games in general were. I looked it up on t'internet, then got really excited about it and spent several months reading about it (including reading this forum) and spoiling as much of it as possible. Finally bought the HL Holiday pack (HL: Source, HL2 & Ep1) after we got a new computer to replace our five-year-old piece of shit.
 
Counter-Strike. I played that before Half-Life at a friend's house and he informed me of the wonderful world of mods. He also said HL itself was a pretty good game. So I got it for Christmas along with OpFor.
 
I first played HL1 on a Thanksgiving at my aunt's house on my cousins computer. I wasn't really into it. Then when I got a Xbox (original) and rented HL2 and kinda liked it, I quit after water hazard. the I got a 360 this Xmas and I really wanted to check out Portal so I rented OB and after I beat Portal I went on to HL2 again this time I loved it thanks to cheat's and the fact my taste's for story's changed since I rented it for Xbox.
 
Was looking for a cheap game with decent multiplayer to keep me busy and came across the
Steam multiplayer pack (CS:S, Hl2 DM,DoD) and after playing DM for abit I thought the weapons and areas looked fairly intereresting so I picked it up....Sense then I went back and played the first game and all its x-packs and every episode. ^-^
 
Played Counter Strike at my friends house in about 5th grade. Moved away, came back in 7th grade and he still plays it.

I got the platinum edition, and played through Hl, Opfor, and Blue Shift.

Then I played through all the mods I could find, then onward to Hl2
 
I actually played HL2 first and I loved it, so I bought HL1
 
I've known about hl since I was small, but I really got interested once I saw the HL2 E3 videos, then I found out about hl2's story which really got me hooked as I loved the whole "fight against oppression". Then, after playing HL2 I just thought to complete the experience, I needed to play hl1.
 
Well my friends were playing Counter-Strike and Half-Life 1, then I got into that and you know the ending :D
 
I'd played HL1 with a friend, back before I was a proper gamer, and I think I'd liked it even then.
But I bought HL2 the day after I got dumped by my boyfriend because I was angry and needed a way of venting my anger without smashing the guy's face in. Needless to say, got hooked by the storyline, then bought EP1 and HL1 after that.
 
My friend brought over it over. We played it like a million times.
 
Nothing made me.

I just thought adrian shephard looked cool.
 
My dad brought HL home one day after he went out of town. Loved the series ever since.
 
When the game was release I did not have a computer but I heard about it on a TV show and it got stuck in my head because it looked so cool. In 2000 I got my first computer and a friend lend it to me. Later I bought my own copy, it's my favorite game since then.
 
A friend at work

I was a Duke Nukem 3D fan first. I thought "what could ever beat this"? So then one day I was talking to a guy I work with about what he recommended for an FPS game, enter Halflife-1. I had tried a few other games, but there was never much thrill in any of them until I played HL1. I got hooked. I have bought every version of HL and HL2 since then, I am an addicted die hard. I have tried many downloaded playable demos since that time and nothing has really caught on with me. All the rave reviews on games turn up hollow. Not to mention, I do not know what the Valve people do to optimize that game engine, but MAN, that sure is smooth! Other games with not nearly the game play and detailed graphics of HL tend to bog down in too many places, and just have jerky screen rates all too often.

I can't wait for EP3!:smoking:
 
Holy smokes, no THERE is something you don't see every day. A girl hooked on a shootem' up game. LOL! Good for you! by the way, the story line IS quite awesome, and continues to grow, they make it all fit together quite well.

Oh, and don't go shooting any ex-boyfriends, they were never worth it in the first place.
 
Haven't played Half-Life unfortunately. But I got into Half-Life 2 after searching the internet for a good FPS to keep me going. I found the demo, downloaded it, and played it. Who knew the demo would make me love it to death? Anyways, I asked my mom (...I'm 13...) for Half-Life 2 even
though she thinks I'll turn into a homicidal maniac. She didn't buy it for a year. THEN...PORTAL! It rekindled the flame of my desire for HL2, so I got Orange Box for Christmas and I married it. That was an exaggeration.
 
Played HL1 years ago for like a few minutes at a friends house.

Downloaded the HL2 demo, liked it, got HL2. Played some more HL1 source but wasn't fussed with it. Waiting for Black Mesa mod.
 
I played the demo 25+ times when I was five, and figured out a few parts my Mother couldnt when I was 6.
 
I used to work at a game store, and every day I'd see that gleaming orange box. You remember the original orange box? The one that was very nondescript, completely orange with scientific markings etched into it (the only one I remember is c14), and it said "Half-Life" at the top? I stared at that box every day because it was on a rack in the middle of the store, facing the counter. And the graphics on the back of the box blew my mind. This was still the PS1 era, mind you.

I'd never owned my own computer, but Half-Life made me get one. The whole reason I bought a computer was Half-Life. It had to be state of the art, just for Half-Life.

It's funny that in all that time nobody bought the game from our store. We only had one, and I ended up being the one who bought it.
 
It was your evil twin. He crept down from the attic, logged into your account and posted.
 
Well, I installed it and thought that it would have been a wasted time if I didn't go ahead and play it.
 
I started with Wolfenstein when it came out in the early 90's and followed the natural progression through all the Dooms and Quakes (and Duke too, but for some reason never got into it as much as the others).

I loved all of them, but they were getting a bit stale and repetitive.

Not long before HL1 was released I read an article about it in some magazine. I thought, "Hmmm interesting..a FPS with an actual storyline. I'll give it a shot." The week it came out I bought it and loved every second of it.

Since then I've played all the games in the HL world as soon as they came out.
 
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