Favourite HL2 moments?

[Rob(QG)]

Personally I don't think Valve have a leg to stand on - that cd-key is not illegal. There is no such thing as an illegal cd-key.
Microsoft didn't dare to disable Windows with SP1 or SP2 for people who used dodgy keys - as they knew that plenty of people with legit copies, used that key for convenience.

It's not a case of them banning the cd-key it's more a case of them banning accounts which may have spent money on the game.

Daft thing is that they are only getting people that actually use the system properly, and are most likely attempting "casual" piracy. The warez version doing the rounds doesn't connect to Valve at all, so won't be affected.

[Paddy]

Juggling grenades with the gravity gun

Sending Ant Lions to their doom (trip mines )

[Helevitia]

The ending of Nova Prospekt was brutally hard. I am currently in City 17 and I have to say there have been more amazing moments in this level than in most games in whole.

[Paddy]

Carrying a turret through the whole of Nova Prospekt

Personal body guard baby!

Not quite at city 17 yet..

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Rob(QG)
Personally I don't think Valve have a leg to stand on - that cd-key is not illegal. There is no such thing as an illegal cd-key.
Microsoft didn't dare to disable Windows with SP1 or SP2 for people who used dodgy keys - as they knew that plenty of people with legit copies, used that key for convenience.

Valve is perfectly safe here.

The reason MS doesn't disable those hacked versions of Windows is that they'd rather have a cracked, patched system out there, than a cracked, unpatched, infected system.

[Fat Tone]

Crane driving - now that's fun :evil:

I hate the car btw, except when blasting it out of the sea

[Paddy]

the car is a bitch - but made easier when you know that you just have to drive from 'thumper' to 'thumper'

[Wombat]

I love the scenes with Dog. Watching him kick ass and take names just makes me smile and laugh. Especially when he acts all happy about it.

[SaTaN^666]

Originally posted by Kruzin
My fav moment of the HL2 experience?

Finding that the retail package I purchased was so cheap that they couldn't even include any type of manual or docs, aside from a single quick ref card?
Nah.
Perhaps finding out that I would be required to intall some 3rd party crapware to 'activate' the game on-line?
No.
Maybe it was when that crapware failed during release day, and nobody could play the game for the first 18 hours....?
Nah.
Could it be when I learned that the game came with NO MULTIPLAYER included on release?
There ya go! That's the one!

I will admit that the Source engine is great. We should see many good games spawned from this engine. I've had fun with the SP part of the game, though it doesn't seem to inspire the same feelings of immersion that the original HL did.
But IMO the whole Steam thing is a Steaming pile of crap.
And the ommission of MP (aside from CS:S, which doesn't count in my book) is pathetic.

As Triumph would say...Valve is a great software company...FOR ME TO POOP ON!

rofl hahaha