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Old 07-11-2009, 10:44 AM
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i used a fake credit card to buy hl2, got banned and lost my games lol
then i bought hl2 silver pack

leak days were fun too


I did that with CSS.

but then I begged my dad and he bought it for me.
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:26 AM
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Holy.

****.
Holy **** Indeed....



Anyway, I got HL2 after reading about it on TIME.


Installed, played.


HOLY **** OMG
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Old 07-11-2009, 12:22 PM
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The very first I heard of Half-Life2 was on the front cover of a game magazine at a game shop. The topic of the story was the delay related to the Source code being 'stolen'.
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Old 07-11-2009, 12:45 PM
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That story is so sad. Makes me feel sick and depressed.

Even if, for some reason that story is not true... I know things like that happen all the time... all the time. Terrible.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:56 PM
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What? What? What?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=of...5dec00dea9961d

Wow, September 11th?
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Somewhere on or around Sept. 11, hackers broke into the email of Valve founder Gabe Newell, possibly utilizing a security hole in Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) Outlook. Eight days later, they made a copy of the game's source tree.
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Old 07-11-2009, 02:30 PM
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I remember drooling over the 3E videos for months before it got released... Getting my 9600 graphics card, buying the game and waiting far to long for it to install. Playing the first chapter of the game and jizzing my pants. <3
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Old 07-11-2009, 02:30 PM
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I remember I discovered Half-Life around the end of summer 2006. I borrowed it from a friend for the ps2, and I loved it. I soon discovered there was a sequel, and the very next day I went out to buy it for the PC. At this time I wasn't really aware of PC specs and I thought they all worked the same (I was 12!), so I played Half-Life 2 at about 10-5 fps ALL THE WAY TO THE END.

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Old 07-11-2009, 02:44 PM
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wtf, most of you guys didnt even know about hl2 before it was released? Shame on you!!!!

I remember the first time seeing those E3 movies...i would show it to all my friends and talk non-stop about it at school. Pre-Release was the most intense years for me in gaming history.

I remember a few weeks after it was released, i was in school in math class, and the teacher said "so i heard theres this new game that just came out...cant remember the name...started with H or something" and i proudly put my hand up with a smirk on my face "Thats Half-Life 2 sir" to which he responded "huh? no im talking about Halo 3" while the rest of the class looked at me with "wtf is half-life 2? lol what a fag Halo 3 is the most amazing game ever, get with the news noob" eyes.



Ever since that day...i have dedicated my life to hate and kill every last one of you halo fanboys out there. **** you disgust me.
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Old 07-11-2009, 02:51 PM
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I still remember the chatter in the official countdown thread someone created.

The release night was the first night Ive ever stayed awake for when it came to buying a game.

I remember everything being pre-loaded through Steam, and that last 30 minutes or so before the final update came out that 'unlocked' the game basically, it went by sooooooooo slow.

I think I played about an hour of it before I had to drag my feet into school.
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Old 07-11-2009, 03:26 PM
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That story is so sad. Makes me feel sick and depressed.

Even if, for some reason that story is not true... I know things like that happen all the time... all the time. Terrible.
This right here

I cried like a little bitch :'(
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:10 PM
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My dad had mentioned something about there being a sequel for Half-Life coming out, back in 2003. I have no idea where he heard that from. So I looked it up and ended up here.

Over a year later, it came out, but being cheap I didn't buy it when it was released. So when Christmas came around, my sister gave me a textbook covered up in paper with Half-Life 2 written on it and a cut-out of a picture of it from a gaming magazine. I actually wasn't that disappointed since I didn't think anyone was going to give it to me (it was still pretty expensive at the time!). But then she gave me the actual game. Back then I actually savored my games (or maybe I just sucked at them) so I only played on weekends and was able to stretch it out over a month or so.

I haven't really cared about any other game since then...
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Old 08-11-2009, 12:00 AM
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I remember the day HL2 was released. It was a glorious day.

I had been planning that day months ahead of time, because it was a school day and I had a band concert later that night.

I went to bed super-early the night before and woke up at 3am, got all my things ready for school, had breakfast, and then started running HL2 right after it unlocked.

I played HL2 that morning up until Route Kanal or Water Hazard, and then at 7am, my mom drove me off to school, where all I could think about was that friggin' amazing game.

Since I was a poor high school student, I didn't have great hardware to run the game. No water reflections or pixel shaders. It was all low-mid level graphics, but the art style and the atmosphere still gave the game a fantastic and engaging presentation.
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Old 08-11-2009, 04:51 PM
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Your President Nixon, ooo oooohh, do you remember, the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday?
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Old 08-11-2009, 05:24 PM
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I remember the horribleness of Steam when it was first released. Man was it a cluster ****.

I think I just got my 9600XT, and was about to get an x800GTO *Which was NOT any better..*
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Your President Nixon, ooo oooohh, do you remember, the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday?
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor... In case... just in case of depression?
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