# Half Life (the old one) **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 13, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508 "2004-07-13T20:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/1 "2004-07-13T20:50:05Z")
So, after several years of never having played this game, I gave it a run a few days ago. This game rocks - even now! I got this game last summer only to play CS, but I finally gave the single player version a shot yesterday. I wouldn’t have installed it if Voets didn’t mention how HL was a great game a while ago on AIM. I also have Deus EX laying around with only the training mission completed. I hear that is great also. [ot]I usually play games a few years after they have become popular. It’s some sort of a weird habit when it comes to playing games that I don’t really have any driving interest to play. I bought SC only two years ago hehe.[/ot] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/2 "2004-07-13T20:56:40Z")
[ot]I hear SC is getting a new patch. :nerd: [/ot] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/3 "2004-07-13T21:14:48Z")
You should play deus ex too, great great game! I love the music of that game 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/4 "2004-07-13T21:33:15Z")
my problem is that i keep playing games in a cycle like ill play them for 3-6 months straight then stop for like the same amount of time… my skills have decreased in a few games because of this ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/5 "2004-07-13T21:37:03Z")
> [@prstudio](#): > > my problem is that i keep playing games in a cycle > like ill play them for 3-6 months straight then stop for like the same amount of time… > > my skills have decreased in a few games because of this I hear ya pr. Back when I was in HS, I used to play games all the time. I don’t have time to do that anymore. Good thing for summer breaks. After that I need to find myself a job similar to what most of you have here where I can surf the forums from work also 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/6 "2004-07-16T05:38:28Z")
I work full time (design/IT), go to ASU as a full time student (15 cr/sem), cruise forums, design in my spare time, and STILL have time to get a good hour or so a day into gaming. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/7 "2004-07-16T05:41:57Z")
kirupa, funny thing is, is that I’m in HS, and all I do is play video games 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/8 "2004-07-16T05:54:03Z")
Deus ex is awesome… I love it how a mission failure doesn’t end the game… life goes on 😉 but deus ex 2 had an fps of 4 on this pc (gettin’ a new one in a few days… hopefully) and didn’t look that good… gonna try again whe ni get my pc… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/9 "2004-07-16T06:13:47Z")
it takes a good job position to be able to surf the forums and not worry tho k-man lol - ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/10 "2004-07-16T13:46:55Z")
man i love dues ex !!! its the best the story line, the choices thhat you make in the game !!! man it got everything !! [:ninja:EZEkiel:ninja:] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/11 "2004-07-16T13:52:23Z")
I play too much battlefield '42. I gotta get a job. :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/12 "2004-07-16T14:24:48Z")
> [@grinch](#): > > kirupa, > funny thing is, is that I’m in HS, and all I do is play video games 😉 That’s what I did also in most of my computer classes 🙂 Nothing like UT on the network. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/13 "2004-07-18T23:00:14Z")
Just finished Half Life. This game rocked! Such a shame I didn’t play it when it came out…5 years earlier 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/14 "2004-07-19T07:27:53Z")
Congrats! Now you’ll be more up to speed when you play HL2. Good luck with whatever you decide to start out on next… (Deus Ex?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/15 "2004-07-19T16:55:03Z")
> [@Disco-Stu](#): > > Congrats! Now you’ll be more up to speed when you play HL2. Good luck with whatever you decide to start out on next… (Deus Ex?) 😉 Probably 🙂 I have a lot of work on the site and other stuff I need to wrap up before I spend a whole week on another game. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/16 "2004-07-19T16:59:27Z")
Haha! I just opened up my steam app today, to play some counter-strike, I just noticed that I have HL! I never really looked at the games that came free with steam, and I started playing HL, and man this game is great for being out for so long!!! _opens up HL_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/17 "2004-07-19T17:24:43Z")
Steam is cool, but they need to fix it before they release HL2. Fortunately, Valve hired Bram Cohen (creator of BitTorrent) to help them improve the distributed net-code. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/18 "2004-07-19T20:49:37Z")
> [@kirupa](#): > > So, after several years of never having played this game, I gave it a run a few days ago. This game rocks - even now! I got this game last summer only to play CS, but I finally gave the single player version a shot yesterday. > > I wouldn’t have installed it if Voets didn’t mention how HL was a great game a while ago on AIM. I also have Deus EX laying around with only the training mission completed. I hear that is great also. > > [ot]I usually play games a few years after they have become popular. It’s some sort of a weird habit when it comes to playing games that I don’t really have any driving interest to play. I bought SC only two years ago hehe.[/ot] > > 😛 i never played half-life up until about 2 months ago. i got it to play CS also. i must admit it was quite entertaining for being an old school game. the last couple of levels were fun! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/19 "2004-07-20T10:30:58Z")
Hehe Half-life indeed rules ![](http://www.kirupa.com/vb3/images/smilies/d_smile.gif) I’ve got this video with a speed run of half-life, this dude finished the whole game in only 45 minutes! [http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/halflife.html](http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/halflife.html) You should check it out, it’s really funny! ![](http://www.kirupa.com/vb3/images/smilies/d_smile.gif) (some think it’s a rape of half-life though ![](http://www.kirupa.com/vb3/images/smilies/silly.gif)) Greetz, ScHAmPi. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508/20 "2004-08-24T23:18:36Z")
That video was amazing. It’s really cool how he was able to pretty much skip an entire stage by using trip mines as a ladder 🙂 [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-the-old-one/57508.md?page=2)