Valve Updates Half-Life For 25th Anniversary - Adds Official Steam Deck Support

[gukin]

I have Half-Life on cdrom and even installed it a few weeks ago, it was playable and fun but it was pretty buggy and lacked some of the "refinement" 25 years has added to the game; still it was Half-Life and not tied to Steam.

I must say that I definitely lean towards games from GOG, I can be relatively certain that the game once playable will continue to be playable. Games with awful launchers like UConnect and Rock Star Social Club are going to be a crap shoot. At least Steam is dependable and has good Linux compatibility, other platforms are a hot mess even under windows.

GOG sometimes trails Steam in game updates but Steam doesn't always keep up, which too can be a good thing, Alice: Madness Returns works on Steam but has never worked right on whatever Epic is calling their current game launcher.

GOG, Good Old Games, Good Old GOG.

[skeevy420]

For me personally some games just didn't age very well.
I never played Half-Life as a kid, but I really enjoyed Half-Life 2 and its episodes.
I've tried to play the first Half-Life a couple of years ago... But I just couldn't get into it.
Pushing the little table into beam opening the portal to the alien dimension and stuff.
I guess if you played it as a kid you can appreciate it more.

Same goes for my Sega Dreamcast console which I've recently modded with an optical drive emulator (GDEmu).
I now have a big set of games stored into some sd-card so I can play some of the classics such as Resident Evil Code Veronica.
Because everyone praised that game back in the days and I didn't have it.
I've tried to play it for like 15 minutes before turning it off.
The character movement is so stiff having to turn around with the dpad.
I just couldn't get into that game as well lol.

I'll 2nd the Black Mesa comment. I had a hard time with the oldness of Half Life, too, and Black Mesa makes it a lot more tolerable if you're not coming in wearing nostalgia blinders.

Heh. Old-school Resident Evil tank controls. The older I get combined with playing more games that use dual stick move and look with full 3d movement and scenes, games with tank controls and fixed scenes become harder and less fun to play. I totally get where you're coming from. Earlier this year I couldn't get through RE1 Remake before quitting, a game I beat multiple times as a kid when trying to speed run it. My nostalgia blinders didn't help.

The copy of Resident Evil Revelations that I'm trying...now was trying...to give away doesn't have tank controls

The old Tomb Raider games are like that to me, too. I envy younger folks who didn't have to go through the teething pains of the PSX 3D revolution before dual sticks existed or had to deal with triple grip single stick N64 madness.

[skeevy420]

I have Half-Life on cdrom and even installed it a few weeks ago, it was playable and fun but it was pretty buggy and lacked some of the "refinement" 25 years has added to the game; still it was Half-Life and not tied to Steam.

I must say that I definitely lean towards games from GOG, I can be relatively certain that the game once playable will continue to be playable. Games with awful launchers like UConnect and Rock Star Social Club are going to be a crap shoot. At least Steam is dependable and has good Linux compatibility, other platforms are a hot mess even under windows.

GOG sometimes trails Steam in game updates but Steam doesn't always keep up, which too can be a good thing, Alice: Madness Returns works on Steam but has never worked right on whatever Epic is calling their current game launcher.

GOG, Good Old Games, Good Old GOG.

Plus, practically every older game has been cracked. If Steam quits working I'll crack my paid-for games. Not ideal, but that's my plan.

[skeevy420]

So technically it is an unspecified time limited demo whilst Steam servers exist?

That's anything digital a person can buy from anywhere. I could say the same thing about RHEL subscribers and RHEL/IBM going out of business. RHEL is one expensive limited time demo to risk playing GNOME on.

[Errinwright]

Resident Evil Revelations.

Wouldn't mind if still available, cheers

[skeevy420]

Wouldn't mind if still available, cheers

Check your PMs

[Snak31]

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Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster

May I, kind soul?

[ssokolow]

For me personally some games just didn't age very well.
I never played Half-Life as a kid, but I really enjoyed Half-Life 2 and its episodes.
I've tried to play the first Half-Life a couple of years ago... But I just couldn't get into it.
Pushing the little table into beam opening the portal to the alien dimension and stuff.
I guess if you played it as a kid you can appreciate it more.

Same goes for my Sega Dreamcast console which I've recently modded with an optical drive emulator (GDEmu).
I now have a big set of games stored into some sd-card so I can play some of the classics such as Resident Evil Code Veronica.
Because everyone praised that game back in the days and I didn't have it.
I've tried to play it for like 15 minutes before turning it off.
The character movement is so stiff having to turn around with the dpad.
I just couldn't get into that game as well lol.

Honestly, Freeman's Mind ruined Half-Life for me. It's just so bland now without Ross Scott's offbeat simulation of a stream of consciousness.

[kpedersen]

That's anything digital a person can buy from anywhere. I could say the same thing about RHEL subscribers and RHEL/IBM going out of business. RHEL is one expensive limited time demo to risk playing GNOME on.

If you have archived RHEL and the package repository, if IBM shuts down any kind of servers. it wont affect you. You can keep on installing and running the software on any machine you want.

When Steam servers shut down, you unfortunately won't be able to install and run the game on any machine you want. You won't even be able to replace GPU Hard Disk or it will change the DRM hash key and trigger the need for a reactivation.

RHEL's approach is scummy but not DRM. It is a paywall.
Steam's approach is also scummy and DRM is much worse from a digital preservation point of view.

[JustK]

These Resident Evil games are still missing in my collection, but I can't decide which one to pick.
May I kindly ask if you could surprise me?

Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster
Resident Evil HD Remaster