But it was still a compromised version, and the Xbox 360’s suboptimal backwards compatibility only made matters worse. In hindsight, that port was a technical miracle. The first time I played it was years later when I got an Xbox 360 and decided to check out the original Xbox version. By the time it came out, I was a student with nothing but an Apple iBook to my name, and PC gaming just wasn’t a possibility for me. Half-Life 2, though, I never really got on with. Just witness how Valve still isn’t able to make enough $1,000 headsets to meet demand for Half-Life: Alyx, which is coming out in a couple of weeks. But history has proven my hot take to be a pretty solid one - Half-Life’s blend of first-person shooting and narrative storytelling was incredibly influential, and it went on to spawn a series that stokes near-unparalleled hype and reverence to this day. That wasn’t saying much, really, since we’d only just set up our first family computer, and I’d barely started playing video games.
Upon its release in 1998, Half-Life instantly became my favorite game of all time.
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