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    Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    Steam users can download and play the classic series for free until sometime in March.
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    Re: Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    Coming next week - Valve discover nobody has downloaded the HL connection because literally everyone owns it already

    Although damn I bet there's a ton of younger people who have no idea about the original game. There's people on Steam now who were born AFTER HL2 came out!

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    Re: Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    Quote Originally Posted by Tunnah View Post
    Coming next week - Valve discover nobody has downloaded the HL connection because literally everyone owns it already

    Although damn I bet there's a ton of younger people who have no idea about the original game. There's people on Steam now who were born AFTER HL2 came out!
    LoL my brother doesn't have it but he will now

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    Re: Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    Ooo, have they added Ray Tracing yet?
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    Re: Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    Quote Originally Posted by Tunnah View Post
    Coming next week - Valve discover nobody has downloaded the HL connection because literally everyone owns it already
    Literally I have never owned, nor ever played, any of the HL games. Literally, you are incorrect. Literally.

    I can quite easily find you a good handful or two of other long-time gamers who have also never gotten around to HL too, if you like?

    Thing is, I'd have taken this offer, were it not time-limited.
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    Re: Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Thing is, I'd have taken this offer, were it not time-limited.
    I did add the games to my library, but like you, I'm unlikely to play it as I doubt I'll have the time in the next two months to complete the lot... and I am not too keen to buy these games...
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    Re: Complete Half-Life Series is free to play until Alyx is released

    To be fair, I borrow HL1 and binged it in a day when it came out. It's not a long game.

    I think I was more "into" the experience by the time HL2 came out, so probably took more time about it - but from memory, you can easily just run through the thing.

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