Around 2001, one of my friends told me to get this game. So I did.
The end.
Played it at a gaming cafe a couple years back.
Where can I find ‘dem gamin’ cafes?
Just found it while looking for games. Since then, I’ve learned to trust my instincts about games.
Saw that pic of Gordon Freeman which looks like he just bitch-slapped Alyx. Had no idea what is was and got back to playing Vice City and shooting off prostitute’s heads. Got the Nvidia free HL2: DM and Portal: The First Slice thing. Thought deathmatch was awesome and my friends forced me to buy Counter-Strike: Source to play with them as well. I then got Garry’s Mod, then was pissed that I was missing loads of objects because I didn’t have this thing called “The Orange Box”. I knew about Half-Life by that time, so played it through, then bought the Orange Box and the rest, they say, is history.
haha wut
I think he means this
Also, searching for Gordon and Alyx turned up this
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https://pictures.hentai-foundry.com/d/dmitrys/14281.jpg
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When I was below 10, my teenage cousin used to give me old CDs he never used anymore, and one of them must have been half-life.
I was intrigued by the Black Mesa logo on the disc, and I installed it immediately. Ah, the good ol’ WON days… so much easier to install games on multiple PCs 
I immediately knew which pic he meant, but I had never looked at it that way until now.
Look at that massive cock!
Once upon a time there was a place where you could pirate games without the complicated hacking it requires today, this land was called the upper 90"s and lower 00’s. Our sory begins with a childs name who will not be menioned (me). After his fathers work he would watch him play on windows 98. Occasionaly he would wlak out of the room and leave (me) with zombies coming owards Freeman, ( I am five at this point). (Me) The boy would get so scared that he would have to shut off the computer by removal of the cord in the back, and that was how he (I) came to know half-life, (the first scary game for a five year old).
Rule #34 never ceases to amaze me. :what:
My Uncle first introduced it to me; he described it as a cross between Doom and Myst. I thought it sounded pretty neat, so he got me a copy of the game.
I first installed it on a Pentium 1 machine. The framerates were horrible, very choppy, but at the same time I can remember thinking the game was so cool and different from anything I had ever played that I didn’t really care.
Around '98 or so, I gave a buddy a ride to some hole-in-the-wall computer repair place out in the middle of nowhere to pick up his pc or something. We started talking to the guy about how cool Unreal was and he says, “Oh yeah? Check this out…” and fires up Half-life and lets us play for a bit - holy shit, the intensity drew me in like no other game has or ever will. The part during the resonance cascade when all you hear is heavy breathing and suddenly the vorts light up in front of you - I nearly shit myself!
I immediately went out and bought a copy. My machine back then was an E-machines with a Cyrix 266 processor with a Voodoo2 video card - lagged like hell during the Blast Pit and any time there was a chopper flying around, but it was pure awesomeness.
Someone put a gun to my head and forced me to buy Half-Life 
I think it might’ve been Gabe Newell
Ah, those were the days when money went into direct, forceful advertising. 
Why do you keep posting that picture in almost every thread? Is it your work, and you just want to show off?
I played a few levels on my friends PC in 2000. THen at a party in 2004 my friend showed me Hl2 on his $3000 gaming pc. I beaned the cp in the head with a can and that was it. When I installed steam on a new computer a few years later, I bought the anthology and then the orange box.
I’ve heard about the Half Life series long before I got it, but I didn’t hear MUCH about it.
I mean, it really started way back when I started playing Gunman Chronicles, and someone mentioned that it ran on the Half Life engine. Years later, I come across screenshots of Half Life 2, and stumble across a Wikipedia article about it. I only skimmed through it quickly, not understanding most of what I was reading(and events in the game turned out quite different than what I thought them to be.) Of course, I stuck with the game series I already had, like Quake and Unreal Tournament.
And then, one day in the summer of 2007, I was at my uncle’s house. I knew he had Counter Strike on his computer, so I went to play that. When I booted up his computer, I noticed the Half Life 2 logo boldly sitting there on his desktop… Just daring me to click it. I followed suit, and was completely drawn in. When I got home, I bought the game, and it was the first time I ever played it through completely without using cheats. Some time afterwards, I got Garry’s Mod, and then there’s a lot of other history you might not care about.
Three years later; I have Half Life 2 and it’s expansions, Garry’s Mod(which is so loaded with shit, it takes up over 40 gigabytes.), a bunch of mods that take place in the Half Life universe(Riot Act, MINERVA, and Dangerous World to name a few.), and a huge shitload of stuff that I’ve modded into the Half Life games themselves.
i played it on my friends pc when i was 10
I heard of half life for a long time but when I was 11, I found a copy of the GOTY edition of half life one and counter strike source. counter strike source didn’t work but I was just so addicted to half life that I played it two times in a row 
. Then l8ter in my sad life I got Half Life 2 but I wasn’t as interested in it as much as the first one for some reason. But then I got Garry’s Mod and that gave me more appretiation for Half Life 2 and made me addicted to Half Life 2 and the episodes. And now I’m sitting on the computer 24/7 waiting for Black Mesa and Episode Three…