First I'm going to play it through once normally and by the time I finish Doom 3 will be out and I'll have lost any and all interest in anything even remotely related to HL2. Unless, of course, HL2 does happen to get pushed back to April in which case I might actually be playing Doom 3 by then and will totally miss the HL2 launch (yeah I know, it's Id and they tend to move at a snail's pace when it comes to shipping games, but it is possible that D3 might be out by then, or monkeys might fly out of my butt), then one day one of my friends will say, "Hey, what do you think of Half-life 2?" and I'll look dazed for a moment and say, "Half-life 2? They actually managed to ship that?" and my friend will say "Yeah. But it's not as good as Doom 3. Still cool though." because he has his lips firmly suctioned to John Carmack's ass at all times, then I'll say, "Hmm, I may pick it up when it hits the bargain bins. I'm too busy with school to play it right now anyway." Then I'll totally forget about it for a few months until CompUSA or Best Buy has a sale and puts HL2 in their ads for $20 one weekend only.