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Half-Life 2 is the BestGame and great!

Jaksaa viihdyttää yhä uudelleen, kannattaa kokeilla.

The year was 2004. "Friends" had its series finale, "The Apprentice" had its premiere, and I as a young teenager in a small town spent long winter afternoons at my friend's house playing video games. It was always at his house. He had a shiny new GeForce 6800, compared to my aging Voodoo. PC games never really held much more than a passing fascination for me since any game worth playing was available on a console, largely Nintendo ones. What a fool I was. On Christmas, he received a copy of a computer game he said would change everything. That game was Half-Life 2. That December everything changed.

We were the right man in the wrong place. We picked up the can. We learned why we don't go to Ravenholm anymore. We launched barrels into the sky just to watch them fall.

My PC had no chance to deal with all the physics calculations, let alone the lighting and particle effects. It ran, at best, 15 fps. So I played the whole thing with my friend. Then I upgraded my computer, and explored the world of City 17 once more. A few years later I upgraded again, and played again. And then I played Portal. And countless others. I upgraded once more, and played more.

This game is the reason why I got into PC gaming. This game is the reason why I have experienced the length and breadth of every game I've experienced since.

Fast forward fifteen years. "Friends" is the most-streamed show on Netflix, "The Apprentice" is our President, and we will soon revisit City 17 in virtual reality. This game is no longer the technical marvel it was, its innovations copied and improved upon by those developers who followed. The physics and lighting effects that brought computers to their knees are now standard. Indeed, my mid-range build now runs this game at 300fps. But the story, although unfinished, is still as engrossing as it ever was. Leading the resistance against the Combine is just as exciting as it ever was. Gordon is just as enigmatic as he ever was.

HL2 has aged, and it has aged well. It's still fun, it's still a masterpiece. But at that time, in the long nights and deep snows of December 2004, it was perfect.

Its simply clever. Wish there would be more games like these.

Whoever invented the poison headcrab is a danger to society

I will continue to pick up cans until HL3.

I just recently finished Half-Life 2, for the second time. The first was some time ago. But this time, finishing the game was different. My daughter watched me play through the game, always pointing out little things. After I completed the game, she said "Dad, I really liked watching you play Half-Life 2" And I said "I know, it was fun, but now it's over and I will be playing something else." She looked at me, full of innocence, and said, "Well, maybe you can get Half-Life 3, and I can watch you play it?" I looked at her, moisture rimming my eyes, and said, "I don't think that is going to happen hun, there isn't a Half-Life 3, and likely won't ever be." I will give this game a recommend, because it is amazing. But with no closure in sight, it's a difficult decision. All I can say is:

"Wake up, Mr. Freeman"

Scariest thing i just learned, half life 2 takes place in bulgaria

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