Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam

Re:Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam by ufo on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:52AM (#22118544)

Does anyone know what is the difference between "Half-Life 2" and "Half-Life 2: Episode One"?

Did they start counting from zero or is the latter a subset of the former?

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Re:Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam by nudemanonbike on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:00AM (#22118633)

Valve experimented with episodic games with half life. The idea was to release small, couple hour episodes as a continuation of the story frequently, instead of waiting a long time to make a half life 3.

Clearly that didn't happen.

What you need to know is that it's more campaign for half life 2. If HL2 is a movie, episode one is the first episode of the TV show. Smaller, but still good.

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Re:Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam by euler_angles on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:04AM (#22118678)

Half-Life 2: Episode One is a direct continuation of the story of Half-Life 2. Similarly, HL2: Episode Two continues where Episode One leaves off.

Valve originally planned on releasing a series of episodic entries in the HL series, two per year if I remember correctly. However they were never able to meet this schedule.

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Re:Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam by fetus8 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:58AM (#22118598)

Episode 1 is continuation of the story started in Half Life 2. There's a follow up, Episode 2 as well.

Play them in order: HL2, HL2 EP1, HL2 EP2.

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Re:Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam by bordercases on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:57AM (#22118590)

If they use a zero-index numeral system, then Valve does count to 3...?

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