Celebrating 10 years of apocalypse-triggering resonance cascades!
I love Half-Life, but seriously, Xen was the worst.As part of time's relentless campaign to make me feel like an old-ass man, this week marks the tenth anniversary of the original Half-Life. It's kind of hard to believe it's been that long since I first took that tram ride into Black Mesa, wasted a full pistol clip frantically trying to shoot one of those jumpy goddamn headcrabs, and eventually cheated my way through the ridiculous Xen ending (Xending.) And to think, the first-person shooter I was really excited about that year was SiN. Talk about backing the wrong pony!
In a cheeky nod to the game's year of release, Valve is celebrating the occasion by marking down the original Half-Life to the scandalously low price of 98 cents on Steam. However, it's a limited-time offer, and today is your last day to get in on this ridiculous bargain. I have serious doubts about the playability of the original Half-Life in this day and age, but 98 cents is a small price to pay to revisit such a watershed moment in video games.
