Your first memories of Half Life

Myrddin

So what are yours? My first memory if the game is the demo, Half Life Uplink. Such a revelation to me back then, & it was the first proper game I ever really played on the pc :eek:

Moneymaker

Getting impatient in the rail car at the start and trying to jump out. :pac:

Sarky

"Oh cool, a rope, I'll just climb it and OH GOD IT'S NOT A ROPE ARGH MY FACE KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT"

Myrddin

Moneymaker wrote: »

Getting impatient in the rail car at the start and trying to jump out. :pac:

I think it was actually possible to do somehow was it?

Sierra Oscar

Getting a mini army of NPC's to keep me company in those spooky areas.

Used to hate when you had to leave them behind!

KonFusion

I remember sitting in a cyber cafe, and they had it installed as part of a pack (they had CS, which I'd played before HL, youth that I was). I started it up and sat there thinking 'wtf is this? Some sort of scientific RPG'.

Then the resonance cascade happened, hours passed, and I had what is probably my favourite gaming experience to date.

What a game! *sheds single manly tear*

I wouldn't complete it until I got my own PC years later. The Half Life anthology was the first game I bought.

SouthTippBass

My first encounter was with the uplink demo. Came free on a magazine, I remember. I also remember walking for over an hour from a PC shop on the bypass back to town to use the ATM, then back out to the shop again to pick up my copy of Half Life when it was first released.

I'm not trying to impress anyone now, but I still have the original boxed in excellent condition. :cool:

Myrddin

SouthTippBass wrote: »

I'm not trying to impress anyone now, but I still have the original boxed in excellent condition. :cool:

I had the original three boxed, but threw out the cardboard boxes years ago. I still have the original Half Life, Opposing Force, & Blue Shift in their jewel cases

CastorTroy

RopeDrink wrote: »

Oh yes and I fondly remember being gunned to my death for the first time at the hands of big breasted latex wearing ninja-women of doom.

Trying to remember this. you sure it was Half Life?

I remember pushing the trolley into the beam, not knowing why I did it other than the fact it was the only thing to do. Played it on my 700MHz PC with 17GB hard drive.

RobertFoster

CastorTroy wrote: »

Trying to remember this. you sure it was Half Life?

These backflipping hoors:

Banjo

That's opposing forces... doesn't count

Played HL : Uplink first. Amazing stuff. Other than that the standout moments are when the words "Surface Tension" appear on the screen, can't remember why but that always put the sh**s up me. And the endless radio chatter between the grunts - It's impossible to explain today how impressive it was to be flanked or grenade-flushed out of cover by a game, and then have the game congratulate itself while ran around looking for health packs.

Sarky

No, they're in Half Life as well.

Bandito909

Remember doing absolutely ****e in my leaving cert because of this bloody game!

I was absolutely hooked, and have never been hooked like it since. Multiplayer. Shotgun. Boom.

Lemming

So many memories!

The train, resonance cascade failure, the grunts chatter/AI, and of course probably the most memorable memory of them all for me: *tap*tap*TAP*TAP*TAP*TAP*

I remember the first time I heard the noise and thought "WTF am I about to walk in on ... "

Still have the original boxes too.

CastorTroy

Lemming wrote: »

So many memories!

The train, resonance cascade failure, the grunts chatter/AI, and of course probably the most memorable memory of them all for me: *tap*tap*TAP*TAP*TAP*TAP*

I remember the first time I heard the noise and thought "WTF am I about to walk in on ... "

Still have the original boxes too.

I'm assuming that noise is what I think it is. Sure let Barney go first. "Oh my God, how the feck am I meant to get by that"

Still never understood how Barney got his own game and made it to Half life 2 with the amount of times he died.

SouthTippBass

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SouthTippBass

^^^^^^^^

This thread was making me nostalgic, so I had a root around for my original Half-Life box at the weekend. Its in pretty good shape for a 15 year old cardboard box!

Note the pic of the letter from Black Mesas HR department to Gordon Freeman, completly forgot about that.

kaimera

Uplink as well. Played it to death until I bought HL.

The ninjas of death, fecking whores that they were at the time.

Getting trapped in the subway with the giant mother****er...ah the terror.

Myrddin

kaimera wrote: »

Getting trapped in the subway with the giant mother****er...ah the terror.

Now that was a heart pounding part of the game

Senomad

The crowbar

TerrorFirmer

What I really liked about it, as someone who only really played 'action' FPS titles back at that time, it was one of the first 3D action shooters that drew me into a believable world...I used to think storyline was irrelevant before Half Life.

grugni

First memory was playing it on multiplayer at my local internet cafe. I was a hardened console gamer up to that point but that just changed everything. Within several months I had my first PC rig and half life installed.
My favourite memory from there was the tram ride at the start, even though it was on rails I was totally engrossed in all the little things that where going on around the complex you could see from the tram.

Roll on half life 3!!

super_furry

Playing it for the first time in 2001 and not really seeing what the fuss was. I think by then that I'd played so many other games influenced by it and that had taken so much from it, that it was no longer impressive.

Skerries

I remember that I played Uplink and so I wanted to play this game so much
it must have been a while later as I got my emergency tax back from my current place of employment which I have been working for 15 years and I bought a Half Life/Opposing Forces box and totally loving

loveBBhate

Just after buying two copies of Half Life, taping them together with Sellotape and Prit stick to get a new game called Life/Full Life. It's like nothing I've seen before, amazing! That's what I'll remember!

Amalgam

Getting my first ever bootleg PC CD, from Russia, (Half-Life: Day One demo) and pushing through it on an Apricot Pentium 75... (playable, sort of, not really.. who was I kidding?)

loveBBhate

Amalgam wrote: »

Getting my first ever bootleg PC CD, from Russia, (Half-Life: Day One demo) and pushing through it on an Apricot Pentium 75... (playable, sort of, not really.. who was I kidding?)

You were only kidding yourself Amalgam.

GhostInTheRuins

My first memory of it is a two or three minute gameplay video that came on a cd of some pc gaming magazine, possibly a year before it was released. I remember showing it to some friends and they were all blown away, especially by those claw-arm things. Everything looked so real

vangoz

Firing the crossbow was such a treat, I could listen to that heavenly twang and impact to skull all day.

Sound got better in halflife 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfF3cP6rn_A

Also first time playing it was when my cousin lent it to me, about three days later calls me panicking on the phone wondering did I "save over" his progress Tried explaining it gets written to the HD and not the CD, but he was too panicked to listen.

Mr. CooL ICE

What a game. I never played it multiplayer, but the single player was so immersive. It was the first game that truly scared me. Everything scary before was somewhat predictable (dark room - you know something is gonna jump at you), but in HL, you never really knew what was coming.

Scariest moment was the cliffside part. After jumping from ledge to ledge, killing soldiers and hiding from the helicopter, I finally got to the end, climbed a ladder and entered a storm drain. Then a fcuking crab jumped at my face! I smacked my knees off the underside of my desk in fright at that moment.

Mr. CooL ICE

Also, the second (i think?) gargantuan guy whom you needed to take out with the airstrike. I remember dying a few times from running around, not knowing what to do. But then I found the airstrike console on top of the tower, was lining it up and suddenly heard thundering footsteps while my screen shook. Then I looked around and realised he was after following me up the tower. Jumped again in fright, but managed to initiate the airstrike and killed him. A major WTF moment right there

grugni

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Cant believe its been 15 years!!