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NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
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Great catch! I was actually thinking of buying it yesterday as I was surprised to find out I didn't own it on steam.
Dibs on all the good games.Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I still have a few hundred random Steam codes from back when I hoarded the first few Humble Bundles and such. I should really dole those out to GAF someday, if I can ever find the spreadsheet.
Sure I've seen an RTX & VR mod for this that should make it worth returning to
I held out buying HL1 on Steam for 22 years and now they make it free?! Sumbitch, there goes my $2.
no i wish but noSteamVR fest dec 4th is coming up....
Just saying that Half Life 3 would be on VR, those who played Half Life Alyx knows.
That's what she saidLooks like it lasted about an hour.
That's what she said
Seems strange, BTW, that Valve never brought an Orange Box (or better yet, a "complete" Half-Life Complete package) for Switch and maybe other consoles. Valve brought Portal: Companion Collection to Switch but the Portals pack never came to any other platform, and otherwise no other Valve product has come to consoles since the PS360 era.
(And BTW, that Portal CC build of Source Engine has some resident HL2 code and can be hacked to side-load Half-Life 2 on a modded Switch, where it is partly playable but has some incompatibility/incompletion issues which crash attempts to progress even though the core runs nicely.)
I get that Valve has its own interests to look out for and a PC storefront to push (Valve knows first-hand how much that 30% of profit cut adds up for the other guy...) They may also be concerned about reputation hits for bad ports if not handled well. Plus, most of their experimental/promotional rebuilds of classic games have been RTX partnerships with NVIDIA, and since the two current-gen consoles run on AMD, they may not have the latitude legally or otherwise to bring the freshest versions over if they wanted more than a legacy release of any of these.
Even so, these are quite-old games still attracting an audience; it's not like gamers are buying a Steam Deck or new PC and logging onto Steam for their first time to get HL 1 or 2. (And it's not like those holding their breaths still for HL3 are expecting to play it on anything but a PC... Then again, nearly every PSVR2 post gets an ask where HL2 Alyx PS5 is, so...) Valve also tried out HL2 and Portal 1 on NVIDIA Shield, and also out of nowhere did the Switch Portal collection, so they don't seem immune to the idea of being outside the Steam ecosystem, but they sure aren't showing any signs of being in any rush to expand platforms.