This title screen brought me right back to the first time I played it as a kid… Half-Life was one of the first cinematic feeling games, and this feels like the perfect way to replay it 25 years later.

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    10 months ago

    I’ve been playing this at locked 90fps using only 5 watts TDP and getting nearly 10 hours of battery life. It is glorious!

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    10 months ago

    Mine is supposed to arrive tomorrow, no LE though since I live in Sweden but I’m looking forward to it nevertheless (1TB model)

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      10 months ago

      Much better. The OG thumbsticks were some of the worst I’ve used on a controller to be honest (they were too slippery and too flat). The OLED ones are a bit concave and have a grippy material now.

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      10 months ago

      Buggy as hell on the Deck, in my experience. The lighting is completely busted, but it may be a Proton issue that I can’t be arsed to research and fix.

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    10 months ago

    Yeah I snagged Half-Life on the sale plus a couple of others.
    I was hoping for big discounts on the newer AAA games like Hogwarts and Starfield but not so far…

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      10 months ago

      Nah no mods necessary. The first part will feel a little slow but stick with it and remember that these were the quake days, so people talking, acting things out in front of you, etc. was all brand new. So the game sort of revels in that for the first half an hour to an hour.

      But it’s also a great atmospheric and combat game, and so it really picks up once shit hits the fan. Hope you enjoy it!

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      10 months ago

      I played the very first beta of CS when it was an HL mod.

      I remember there was only a few guns and only one model, the teams had different skins and they were long and short sleeves. Friendly fire was always on.

      It was a mess.

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    10 months ago

    I’m 90% done with the campaign and beat it this go round entirely on the deck/with a controller. It’s not perfect but it definitely still holds up and plays well!