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I was just thinking about how I got into half-life for the first time. These types of thread are done on every imaginable topic and they're always interesting to read the stories. I ask you to share how or who got you interested in the original half life.

I remember how I got interested in half-life. I was talking to one of my friends in the locker room and he mensioned hl and tfc. He was talking about how in tfc you had different characters you could play as and different stuff like that. He also told me about hl and how it was a pretty cool game. One of my other friends gave me that "Day O" demo disk to test out half life. I installed it on my old 486 computer running at 83mhz. I got like .5 frames per second but from what I saw, it was a really cool game. Soon after, I got a new computer and bought it and installed it on there. Good times.
 
i started by watching my dad play then it came out for PS2 and i got really into it and played on the PC.
 
I actually picked it up at besy buy one day. I thought the box looked cool, and I had never heard about it before. I was about 14, or 15 at the time. Played it on my very first computer, the ol' pentium celeron 400Mhz, a mere 64Mb of ram and onboard graphics and sound. lol I loved every minute of it too, ran great. (little did I know then, but the fastest processor was the Pentium 2 500Mhz at the time haha)

Ah well, still love it. Best game ever. :)
 
Well see, i got a bunch of money for my b-day/x-mas. and i walked into media play, without knowing at all what i wanted to buy, accept that it would most likely by a computer game.

so i go into the computer game isle, this was back like in 8/7th grade, whenever hl had just come out... and i start looking at all the games..

and half-life's cover art/inside art (it had like that fold out thing) looked sooo f'ing awesome, and i read about all the AI and no other game was sporting such spiffy flare. So I bought it. Then told all my friends about it.

yeah i can say all of 8th grade was spent with duel 3 ways (i do a 3 way and someone on my 3 way does a 3 way so you have 5 people on the phone at once) playing COUNTER-STRIKE all night, with our own school clan.

hell the most popular kids where in charge of the clan. cuase they had the most money and had the most kick ass computers and cable already.

god life was great in middleschool hahahaha
 
Moved to off-topic.

I first bought Half-Life before I even had a system that could run it. I was a die hard QuakeWorld TeamFortress player and wanted nothing more than to try TFC for HL.

I bought the game, and two months later a new PC that could run it. I was terribly dissapointed in TFC and went back to QWTF for quite some time, before discovering Counter-Strike beta 5.2 for the Half-Life engine.
 
I got it mainly because I had some friends that played CS all day and CS looked SO cool.

Bought HL, installed CS, played it mainly, but played HL single player now and then inbetween CS, loved both ever since (although CS seems to be on the absolute decline since 1.4)
 
I learned of it in early development. I was subscribed to Sierra, so I got their magazine... The very first magazine I got had the FIRST pictures of Half-Life. It was, originally, meant to be a third person game...(NO, Seriously.) The pics are soooo crappy <(Of course it looked so awesome, back then.)>, but I remember scanning that article over, and over, and over... Then the next magazine had some pics, and the next, etc.

-Ghost.

As soon as I get my scanner to work, I'll scan the pages. The article next to it is Starsiege. I love Starsiege, great game. It was also one of the first games to have physics.


I first bought Half-Life before I even had a system that could run it.
-Rec.

Same here. It was very frustrating, and hard, to beat Hl1 on a 166.
 
I saw some of the reeeally oldschool videos on my Diablo:Hellfire expansion CD!

I also saw a preview of it in a PC Gamer and I was hooked! I got it for christmas in 98 I believe. Amazing how I still play it!

My start into FPS games started with Jedi Knight though. Before that game I though first person shooters were just pointless. I only played RPGs before that. Oh how we change!
 
Heard about it in 1997 when it was still in production. Didn't really think too much of it. Saw the screenshots that were shown before the release in late '98 and became incredibly excited... Saw one review with screenshots and promptly went out and purchased the game...

I played it constantly. Finished it for the first time on New Year's Eve 1998... I can still remember going through the Xen levels for the first time... I was completely immersed as drunk people partied around me. I get shivers just thinking about how much fun I actually had playing through HL1. It was the game I'd wanted for a VERY long time. It was semi-realistic, with environments that you could relate to.

Before that, I'd been obsessed with Duke3D, which probably holds a more prominent place in my gaming heart, as it was the first FPS with CITY themed levels that you could explore and interact rather heavily with. Now that game really was revolutionary... To tell the truth, I'd LOVE to see 3D Realms release DNF and blow Valve and HL2 away... But what's the chances of that?
 
Ah.. yes..... Gather Along and listen to my story of Half-Life.

It all strarted With GoldenEye 007 For the Nintendo 64.
I loved that game a lot! Then 2 yrs after o had baught it and had played it repetedly, I stumbled upon something called a computer. Soon After That "The INTERNET" was introduced to me. I started to search for the thing i liked the best. GoldenEye. I happend to noticed a message board(My Very First Message Board ,or Forums, I ever saw)
The Forums were discusing about a "Beta" of GoldenEye and a Secret Island and GameShark. I was Like "what the hell is beta?"
Anyway. I Came across a Webpage that someone sent me in that forum. The Webpage was about a "Mod" For Half-Life. It was a "GoldenEye" mod. I dint know what a "MOD" or "Half-Life" was.
But I totaly Freaked Out! I was Like What The Hell?! Is This the Beta Everyone was talking about?!!
The Pictures a Saw were ****ing badd asss!!!
I decided to do more research about this. And Later i found out it was a Modification to a game Called Half-Life. SO i baught the Game with the soul purpuse of Making Levels. BTW this is the moment when i decided i wanted to be a level desingner.I dint know squad about working wiht WC 2.0. So i went to ValveERC.com and There i started a thread that broke the record for most replys!!! It Had all my history and everyones history about me learning about Half-Life. Sadly the thered was deleted about 7 months ago. Lasted 4 Long Years!!!
And thats how i heard about HL !!
 
Just wanted to say.. is anyone else thrown off by this topic? ;) lol
 
Originally posted by staddydaddy
What do you mean? I don't understand.
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Your very first time.. sounds like when you lose your virginity, but that's just because that's the only time I ever really hear the phrase ;)
 
Originally posted by Shuzer
Your very first time.. sounds like when you lose your virginity, but that's just because that's the only time I ever really hear the phrase ;)
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O yeah. Haha I did write it like that for the humor and interest it would rase. I wrote it to be thinking that it was going to be about losing your viriginity. haha all in good fun.
 
Sorry to say it but I got hl1 from a bargain bin only for counter-strike, but I tryed hl and loved it.
 
BTW this is the moment when i decided i wanted to be a level desingner.I dint know squad about working wiht WC 2.0. So i went to ValveERC.com and There i started a thread that broke the record for most replys!!!
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Im very deeply inspired lol
 
Lol I pretty much dissmissed the hlaf-life hype until I could take it no more and eventually decided to buy the game the everyone was raving about. It was early June and right after school had left where I first played Half-Life single player and fell in love... It was a full month before I dsicovered TFC and the joys of online gaming. Several weeks later I bought a copy of CS retail (did not know about the mod version) and have been playing since that summer of 2000
 
My cousin kept talking about Counter Strike and HL. I went over to his place, and remember being very impressed with CS, the level was estate, and since then i've been hooked.
 
One of dad's mates lended it to us, I was hooked straight away, gave it back, few weeks later got it for christmas and finished it before New Years.
 
I got my copy the first day it came out after reading the reviews. I played the game right through in software mode TWICE before discovering you could play it in openGL! :rolling:
 
Originally posted by GhostValkyrie
As soon as I get my scanner to work, I'll scan the pages. The article next to it is Starsiege. I love Starsiege, great game. It was also one of the first games to have physics.


I first bought Half-Life before I even had a system that could run it.
-Rec.

Same here. It was very frustrating, and hard, to beat Hl1 on a 166.
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ahah i still got starsiege i loved that game great story i hope they will make starsiege2 but there's no chance because of tribes :/
well tribes is cool too i especially like tribes2 but there's no real story and there's no single player.
they say tribes3 will have a single player campaign and it will be before tribes.

so my story (i'll try to make it short)
at the begining there was nothing, and then god created the video games (lol) then i had an amstrad gx 4000 then a NES, then a Super NES, then a gameboy, then a playstation, and a PC, i played monster truck madness, warcraft2, and of course duke nukem 3d (i was a big fan of it at this time ^^ )

then one day i discovered sierra's games with a demo CD and a free earthsiege2 cd with it (there was a lot of free cd with sierra games at this times i loved space quest with roger wilco too ^^ ) earthsiege2 was great! a very good story, i loved it :p then i dont really know how, i found halflife, by that time i had internet 56k and a 166 pentium and a voodoo 1 lol.
some years later i decided to buy EVERYTHING, a pack with halflife, op force, blue shift, counter strike, i finished halflife again, then op force, then blue shift in less than 3 hours..... :/
i tryed counter strike once but i was lagging too much and i prefered swat3 ^^

now i'm waiting for hl2!!!!!!!
 
My mum used to make me go round to her friends house after school, because she was at work and there some-one was playing HL, that was my first experience with it and although I thought it looked cool, I didn't really think about it again. Then, some time later, I went to go and stay with a friend and they had Uplink and I saw him playing on it and I thought it looked really good, so I had a go and was amazed by how good it was, also I thought the graphics were amazing, as the only other FPS games I had played were Duke 3D, Quake and Doom. I decided then that I would buy it at some point and then after talking about it with people I realized that nearly everyone who I spoke to about it had uplink, so I got my mate to lend me his PC Zone CD with it on. I installed it and played it a bit. I then decided to buy HL, so I borrowed some money from my Mum, added it to the money I already had and got the generations pack (the one with OP4, but not Blue Shift or Counter Strike, oh and it had a free t-shirt) from Staples, where it was number 1 in the charts (obviously before the Sims came out). Anyway, that is the story of how I discovered Half-Life, thankyou.

Edit: Oh, yeah and I never ran it in hardware mode untill about 2 years ago and then when I did, I was amazed by the graphics, having only just got a PC with a graphics card.
 
Originally posted by |MaTT|
I got my copy the first day it came out after reading the reviews. I played the game right through in software mode TWICE before discovering you could play it in openGL! :rolling:
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rofl..

i heard a few friends talking bout it and read some articles and reviews. so i got it and played it on a celeron 300 with a matrox g200 ;) and 64mb ram :D
 
I got it 2 years ago last july, I mainly bought it to play counter-strike because I was at one of my friend's birthday party and we played paintball. Then I heard someone make a reference to "counter-strike" when we were playing, I was like...a game no doubt, what is it exactly? They explained it a little and then I got it a week or so later. I only played counter-strike though...I just finished HL for the first time over the summer.

But yea...i started playing cs and I was hooked. We had a local server set up on my ISP's T1 line, right in the building. So I pinged like 30 constantly, it was sooo fun.
 
My bro had Day One, and I was playing it at his house. I was only about 10/11, and the "Butt Chickens" (headcrabs :p ) scared me, but I loved it.
A few weeks after finishing it I went to Woolworths with my mum, and saw this really cool game. I had no idea that it was the same as Day One, and I was thrilled. HL was the first game I played through seriously

I played it for hours, with all my friends watching. It was so cool, they all used to gather round with drinks and food, and we just used to have a laugh. Good times :)
 
im proud to say that i read about HL 1-2 months before its release and well it sounded good back then and since i had some extra money and not too many games, i decided to get HL on its release day :)

i was sorta lucky too at the time because just 2 months ago i had bought a new pc and all and HL ran fairly decently on it but all in all a decision well made :thumbs:
 
I just bought Quake II in December of 1997, because I loved Quake... then I heard about some game being developed on a combination of the Quake I/II engines by a group of relative unknowns by the name of Valve.

I wasn't all that impressed at the time... so I forgot about it for a while...

... until...

I saw a running preview of it on ZDTV (now TechTV)... their video game show was called "Gamespot TV" (then changed to "Extended Play", now "X Play") at the time... and they had it running on a nice big (I'm talking big as in if you had 6 of my monitor and arranged them in a 3x2 rectangle), widescreen LCD monitor.

It was nothing short of amazing... much better than even Quake II.

It had incredible graphics, lip-syncing, great AI, a story, and I absolutely loved the crowbar... I had to have it.

After that, the next 5 years is history.
 
Originally posted by famas_man
Im very deeply inspired lol
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Yeah, 4 yrs latter now im Taking Classes at ITT Tech to become a Level Designer. Im getting my Associate's degree .
 
I've always thought of myself as well adverse in games, i've known what games are coming out, and such, but i lost my flare for info on pc's after i got my ps1, so i didnt really know about Half-life, but i had heard it mentioned acouple of times, and then......
......I was round my mates house, and he said 'i got a game called Half-Life off my mate' i'd heard of it, apparently it was some great game 'yer, thats said to be really good' But i left before he installed it....
...i went back that day, and he'd just started it up, when some girls came round, we were gonna go and meet them, but they came to his house. He went off, and half-life started up, and i decided to play....
.....30 mins later i was still playing, and the girls waiting for me were angry that i still hadnt come out....
....I didnt play it again until christmas when i got it on PS2, and then i played OP force and Blue Shift on pc....and i've never played CS, and doubt i will.
 
i cant remember my first time, i was too drunk...

OH you meant half life? oh yea it was in 1999 (i was 11 at the time) i read about it in a magazine, i stooped playing starcraft as soon as i got it
and i still play HL (wit mods) exclusivly...

im getting nostalgic of those days... ;( + :dork:
 
Originally posted by h00dlum
running Half-Life on a 486 = impossible!
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it was accually a 486 with a overdrive processor at 83mhz. I'm not kidding you, like I said i got like .5 fps
 
True confessions:

HL was the only FPS game I finished from Start to End with minimal cheats
 
True confessions (part 2):
I never actually completed Half_life :eek:
It's not my fault, my saves, they kept disappearing, honest.
 
Originally posted by Hazza
True confessions (part 2):
I never actually completed Half_life :eek:
It's not my fault, my saves, they kept disappearing, honest.
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I'm also guilty of this.
 
Oh did any of you guys get the weird "dark room" bug in HL? It happens after you get knocked out and dragged by the two marines. Instead of ending up in the dumpster you end up in this dark room with what looks like a big table in front of you. You can't really move anywhere and have to reload.
 
Originally posted by Hazza
True confessions (part 2):
I never actually completed Half_life :eek:
It's not my fault, my saves, they kept disappearing, honest.
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Originally posted by nw909
I'm also guilty of this.
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shame on u both :p

and u call urselves HL fans? :rolleyes:

lol j/k dudes, now go finish SP!!! :dork:
 
I remember I discovered Half-Life from my cousin. This was probably around two or three years ago. He played CounterStrike and told me it really fun and I should get it so I went out and found the platinum pack with HL, CS, OP4, and BS. I bought it mainly to play CounterStrike. I had no idea what Half-Life was about. Anyway, I installed all the games and played CS for a while then got bored of it. In between playing CS, I tried playing Half-Life and I remember I did not know where to go so about a week later I uninstalled everything because I was bored of it. Then, around the time of probably May or June this year for I decided to reinstall everything for some reason. I think it was because I was bored of the games I had. Anyway, reinstalled everything and started playing Half-Life again and discovered where to go and all that. Then, after the "accident" in the test chamber, I was hooked. I continued playing Half-Life and then started playing Opposing Force and Blue Shift. Ever since the "Unforeseen Consequences" chapter in Half-Life, I've been a Half-Life fan forever.
 
If you haven't completed HL1 you should at least use the cheat to go to the last map and listen to the G-Man talking. It's pretty much essential to understanding the HL2 story.
 
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