HL1 - now that's a goodie! The game from that era that I keep coming back to is Unreal Tournament. Now that's a fantastic game if ever there was one.
Are there people still playing HL1 over the internet now? Also, don't you just love the way a graphically weak PC of today can play a graphically intensive game that needed a grand's worth of hardware from yesteryear?
I still have Unreal Tournament & I have played it online but I tend to run into aimbotters & wall hackers no matter what remotely populated server I join so Ive pretty much consigned that to my 'great games' archives where it will pick up dust - but wont ever be forgotten!!!
I remember playing that game for the first time ever at a mates birthday. Since all I had been playing since were combat flight sims, Lemmings, worms & the 'tycoon' series of games. UT made me throw up.
HOWEVER my name is still on the wall of great players at college where I played my last tournament there against fellow classmates almost over 7 years ago - They will Always remember me as the 'Angel Of Death' (yeah - I totally called myself that & I lived up to it too! I NOBODY COULD BEAT MY SHADOW SKILL!)
also back then my dad bought a PIII 500mhz, 20Gb hdd, 32mb Nvidia RivaTNT2 Pro/Ultra, 128Mb PC100, 4x CD-Rw Burner, 20-22" CRT & some dodgy 2.1 speakers for around £2300
Games Im currently playing:
TF2
BF2
CoD:1/UO
CoD4:MW
CoD:W@W
L4D
L4D2
Guildwars
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WAS playing CoD:Mw2 but I cant bring myself to play it anymore... I was there at 12am shop opening to buy the game just so i could get the game the minute it was released but Ive probably spent less then 1hr15mins in MP... a real great testament to how fucking great the game is - no lie the game is AWESOMELY crap. - it deserves a crown made up with the runny shit from a hippo with Diarrhea thats been mixed with baking powder & baked in the oven for just over an hour just to get that fine ass smell out of it before being neatly placed on infinitywards head...