Can I unregister Half-Life 2?

I'm not a gamer, but the only games I've really enjoyed are:

Wolfenstein 3D
Duke Nukem 3D
DOOM
Half-Life
Half-Life 2

When I got Half-Life 7 years ago I'll never forget sitting at the computer watching the monorail make its 10 minute drive to the Research Facility entrance and having a churning feeling of fear in my stomach that some baddies were going to break through the bus windows and kill me as I sat there without any guns. Nice build-up, great game :cool: Of course, as a 10-year-old I gave up on trying to go through the whole game and decided to just use cheat codes to get weapons, God mode, and no clip mode at the beginning so my friends and I could kill the scientists and security guards.

"What is that smell?"
"It's only a fleshwound...I can keep going!"
"AHHHHHH!"

:p

The only problem I've had with them is that I could never get controllers to work on Half-Life, but now that I've "seen the light" with the keyboard and mouse, I haven't even tried it on the second one. I can't say I've ever had graphics problems either, compared to Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Soldier of Fortune II the HL series was the least flakey in graphics.
 
Half Life was awesome and way head of it's time, every game since then has been compared to it. The game play was fun the story deep and original and the whole time you thinking and figuring, just great.

Half Life II is good, the story line is decent the graphics and more importantly the physics of the game are incredible.

Steam is slow and starting up a game is crazy slow, even a on-line game like DoD takes forever it seems to load up. The friends list for Steam has never worked that I could figure out (although they are working on it?). Steam really needs to be worked on, I can understand the idea of protecting their work but it has to come with a acceptable price and not hurt the game IMO.
 
Forgot to add, DoD rocks but they really left out a few things needed badly in it, Spawn protection is gone on all maps, they can camp in your spawn and just mg the crap out people. Pistols were taken away from most classes and they are needed back in the game, and the ability to use stopsound is gone, which sucks baaaaad! They also screwed up footsteps in the game.
 
NGK-Webmaster said:
Forgot to add, DoD rocks but they really left out a few things needed badly in it, Spawn protection is gone on all maps, they can camp in your spawn and just mg the crap out people. Pistols were taken away from most classes and they are needed back in the game, and the ability to use stopsound is gone, which sucks baaaaad! They also screwed up footsteps in the game.
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Referring to Source?
 
I can't say I'm disappointed with this game, but that's because I can't get it to work. Haven't been able to get past the first disk in the installation process -- keeps telling me that it can't get a cab file, but it's not always the same one.

Admittedly, I haven't been a "computer guy" since DOS was around, but I've never had trouble installing something before. Any of you folks have this problem? If so, how'd you get around it? I spent an hour or so doing searches and found lots of people who had the same problem, but the solution they had (don't NOT install CS: Source) doesn't work for me.
 
I have an older computer that I tried to install The Orange Box on but it will not work, I got a new computer now but the game is registered on the old comp and I was wondering if there is any way to move it over so i can finally play it?
 
mbclk65amgjk said:
I have an older computer that I tried to install The Orange Box on but it will not work, I got a new computer now but the game is registered on the old comp and I was wondering if there is any way to move it over so i can finally play it?
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As far as I know, you just install steam on your new computer using your account and download the game to that computer. I reinstall my OS about once a year. All I have to do is reinstall steam and redownload the games. Has worked every time.
 
I had no problem at all swapping computers and just installing steam on the new one... Then log into your account.

I'm now wondering when, if ever, we will see the finall installment of HL... There were high hopes for last year, then Valve said nope... Hoping for Xmas this year.
Also hoping that if it does show up I won't have to buy a new rig to run it.
All the new games coming out require at least a dual-core chip to run, and I'm still flogging a single-core AMD.

Finally, there are indications that the long-awaited "Black Mesa" may materialize relatively soon... That's the complete conversion of the original Half-Life to the Source engine.
There were rumors of a Christmas release.... But no show. The guys keep saying, "when it's done."
 
Yeah, new guy's first post exhumed a thread that had been dead for over 5 years. It happens.

I think I have about 5 copies of Half Life. It used to ship with everything. I installed it and tried it a few times, but it just never did grab me.
 
mwerner said:
I had no problem at all swapping computers and just installing steam on the new one... Then log into your account.

















I'm now wondering when, if ever, we will see the finall installment of HL... There were high hopes for last year, then Valve said nope... Hoping for Xmas this year.
Also hoping that if it does show up I won't have to buy a new rig to run it.
All the new games coming out require at least a dual-core chip to run, and I'm still flogging a single-core AMD.

Finally, there are indications that the long-awaited "Black Mesa" may materialize relatively soon... That's the complete conversion of the original Half-Life to the Source engine.
There were rumors of a Christmas release.... But no show. The guys keep saying, "when it's done."
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I hate waiting for all these killer mods.

Did you ever play They Hunger ? Awesome zombie apocalypse type mod for HL1. Was supposed to be the final chapter for HL2 for three , four years now.... no update , I guess it got trashed much to a lot of folks dismay.
Black Mesa is looking the same. slated for 2010 release and 2010 is come and gone , no new news that I can find.

At least you'll have plenty of time to upgrade your PC :D

In the meantime there are a lot of well done mods for HL2 and the Episode 1 and Episode 2 are pretty fun/well done to boot.

Tostig
 
Gabe Newell said:
Mike,

Send me an email at gaben@valvesoftware.com with your address and I'll send you a refund.

Gabe
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:eek:

I had no idea the owner of my favorite game company was a Bladeforums reader! Personally i found HL2 pretty fun for a SP game, but the best part is the massive number of mods available for source.
I can see why someone would not like steam though, personally i love it but i play a large number of games on it and use the IM system often. It's perfect for me, but for someone with only one game it could be a little annoying.

Anyway i just have to say, Thanks for running a really good game company!:thumbup:
 
HL2DM, that was really fun. I loved being aboe to uwe that weapon that picks up random objects and launches them. I still play Counter Strike S from time to tike. Battlefielf BC2 is where I'm at now. Waiting on BF3.
 
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