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Half-Life (1998)

Old Gamer’s Almanac

English - June 14, 2023 01:13 - 1 hour - 112 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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We're knee deep in our 90's PC Game season: Now That's What I Call PC Games, but today also feels like a sort of conclusion of a trilogy. You can draw a direct line from Doom, through Quake, and end up at Half-Life and tell a complete story, and today we finish that story. Valve changed the way many people think about story in games and "immersion," but how does it feel to return to that sense of mind 25 years later? Also why aren't Valve games good on Valve's Steam Deck??


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