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

[kpedersen]

Like https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife ?

That's only the SDK for the single player game. Think along the lines of the stuff that people drag and drop into Unity3D rather than the code required to build Unity3D itself.

You would also need the source to the engine, such as Flying with Gauss (open-source reverse engineered engine) to create a working program.

[Adarion]

Heretic: What about Half Life 3?

SCNR! ;-)

@ people with unavailable key in countries... be glad you don't live in Germany. It's often even worse here, all in the name of youth protection (even if you can't have a credit card, PayPal or whatnot under 18... and thus you're like to to be adult if you buy something online...).

PS: SAAS is crap and should be avoided by all means. It is acceptable to support something, to pay for a larger upgrade, but in the end the SW on your HDD/SSD should be at your disposal at all times (as long as you have a hardware and OS API fit for it). However, Steam does not enforce DRM, it is up to the publishers. A good amount of Steam games runs also offline and some maybe even without a runnig steam environment.

[QwertyChouskie]

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.

If you really want to experience the first Half-Life, the semi-official remaster "Black Mesa" is probably the best way to do so.

[ssokolow]

Truth. It's even in the TOS.

I highly recommend this Ross Scott video:

"Games as a service" is fraud.

See some of the subsequent cases mentioned in the comments of both that video (eg. Audible) and also the comments of these later videos if anyone needs clarification on why the lawyers knee-jerk saying that he's wrong are probably wrong:

• Dead Game News: France vs. Valve + maybe the rest of the world
• Dead Game News: Lawsuit against Apple on digital ownership

It's a complex issue that I really would prefer not to be TL;DRed so, as a "sampler" of his argument, he's pointing out that consumer protection law sees goods and services very differently and that, if the customer only pays once for something rather than a recurring fee, it's probably a good rather than a service in the eyes of the law regardless of what the EULA says, and it's probably fraud in the eyes of consumer protection law to sell someone a good and then remotely brick it at a later time without their consent.

[Vermilion]

Link sent

Thank you!

[skeevy420]

I'm going through my Humble keys and I saw that I had a few unused keys from a Capcom bundle so I can also gift the following games:

Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Resident Evil Revelations
Strider

Strider is as restricted as the other keys, but the Resident Evil games are only restricted from:

AM AZ BR BY GE JP KG KZ MD RU TJ TM UA UZ

Please ask in the thread. I already missed one PM. I'm bad about seeing those.

[m4tx]

As much as I agree, I doubt that will ever happen as GOG is a direct competitor. Though if you ask me, they should just open source 1 & 2 at this point like id did with Doom releases before they got bought. It's obvious Valve is largely resting on its laurels at this point and only doing the minimum to get by (yes, this even includes Steam Deck - it's a conspiracist's bet against MS locking down Windows which is growing increasingly irrelevant in the gaming market anyway).

Like https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife ?

[skeevy420]

Can I ?

Link sent

[dianiu]

Mad Max

Can I?

[Vermilion]

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor

Can I ?