1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve's debut title wins more than 50 game-of-the-year awards on its way to being named "Best PC Game Ever" by PC Gamer, and launches a franchise with more than eight million retail units sold...
But I can use this when gifting to people, right? There’s a couple people I want to send these as a gift to get them to play it.
If not well then I guess I can’t be super passive aggressive in telling them to play it because they don’t have an excuse anymore and actually have to use words…
Kind of a trip down memory lane, and a real reminder of how far the gaming industry has fallen. 2013 was just page after page of great games, 2014, still lots, and slowly it peters out until the last few years fit on one page on the screen. I bought games in the years before that, but many of them were just catching up with the banger years around 2013!
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Damn, I already bought it!
… 13 years ago…
But I can use this when gifting to people, right? There’s a couple people I want to send these as a gift to get them to play it.
If not well then I guess I can’t be super passive aggressive in telling them to play it because they don’t have an excuse anymore and actually have to use words…
Holy moly, the orange box was the second game I ever activated on steam, way back in 2008, 16 years ago.
Protip: You can see when you bought different games by using the link https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/
Kind of a trip down memory lane, and a real reminder of how far the gaming industry has fallen. 2013 was just page after page of great games, 2014, still lots, and slowly it peters out until the last few years fit on one page on the screen. I bought games in the years before that, but many of them were just catching up with the banger years around 2013!