How is it that only 31% of HL2 owners on Steam have actually got past the apartment block raid at the beginning?

[OzLefty76]

Must be some people who've bought it on a sale and never fired it up (in which case JESUS CHRIST PLAY IT YOU'RE MISSING OUT) or maybe who played it before achievements and never went back... but Jesus. That's a huge proportion of copies that haven't exactly been used!

[desertman2]

I'm sure many of the people got the game in a bundle, such as the Orange Box, and are not interested in Half-Life.

[Bob]

Agreed with desertman2. But I think that people intrested in the orange box probably would of wanted it for half life, because you can get portal and tf2 both cheaper than buying the OB. I think more people probably went for the Valve complete pack.

[Turtleey]

If you're going off the "escaped apartment block" achievement, enabling any cheat disables achievements. A lot of people probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around and noclipped early in the game, so that would contribute to the number.

But yeah, I agree with the bundle theory.

[Rad Russian]

Most people that have it played it way before it was even bound to Steam. I've completed it about 15 times, every single time before the achievements even existed.

[GRIMM]

I actually have completed Half-Life 2 numerous times, on both PC, XBOX, and XBOX 360. However, I have not really touched Half-Life 2 on PC since it went achievements. I'm replaying through it now though :)

Plan to replay through the other episodes as well.

[Deadeye Dunce]

I'm with Rad Russian... when I completed it, there were no achievements... and now I'm playing it with FakeFactory 11 ... which I believe doesn't communicate with your steam account.

[xoxoxeno]

I think people buy it because it's cheap and gives you Source so you can play mods.

[OzLefty76]

It's a bit sad that people buy it and then don't play it, missing out on one of the greatest PC games of all time.

[RushupEdge]

It could be a lot of people played back at launch and not really again since... That's the case for me anyway

[Captain Ahab Gets His Revenge]

There's also the fact that you can't earn achievements playing offline.

[vxscarr]

yeah im going with 1199 because in a few days black mesa scource is coming and you need a scource and black mesa in basicaly a distraction from half life 3

[Supersolenoid]

I've completed halflife 2 about 10 times, but have only got to 'route canal' so far on my steam copy. It doesn't mean people haven't played it before hand. I have the orange box on steam, given as a gift , of which i only really play Team Fortress 2 regularly, as I have completed the hl games and portal many times over previously on console etc.

I see your point though and if anyone does own halflife 2 and hasn't ever played it through, you really only have two options : 1)play the game, it's incredible, and a very important piece of gaming history or 2) Go shoot yourself. It's that simple.:)

[Johnny Peepance]

I think people were just dissapointed in the fact that you can't make corpses explode by hitting them with a crowbar like in the original half life

[OzLefty76]

Ha, yes. That's why it's the WORST GAME EVER.

[zemor3067]

I must admit that i never heard of the game before. I started to play games about two years ago seriously. I just recently bought it on seam for only 3.60 euro, BUT WHAT A GREAT GAME !!!!!! It has everything what a good game needs....for me that is anyway and even more. I can't believe it only cost me the 3.60, ha, ha, ha...