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I got my first real introduction to first person shooters with Quake II. I used keyboard only, with page up/down keys for vertical look. When Half-Life came out
by lapetitejort 3y ago
I got my first real introduction to first person shooters with Quake II. I used keyboard only, with page up/down keys for vertical look. When Half-Life came out my friend would only let me play if I looked with the mouse instead. I thought that was so dumb. Why not just use both sides of the keyboard? Why split controls across two devices? But I relented and picked up this wonky control scheme pretty quickly. Then I bought my own copy and wore it down to the nubs over the course of years. I loved mods. My favorite was Action Half-Life. I played Counterstrike a few times when Xena Warrior Princess posters were plastered around maps and scientists acted as hostages. I thought it was too derivative of other accurate combat mods.
When Half-Life 2 came out I bought the pricier version which came with HL1 and all the expansions, mods, etc on Steam. Those are my oldest purchases on the service, naturally.
- solardev 3y agoIt's funny that two decades later, basically the only games Valve still actively develops are Half Life mods (Counterstrike and Team Fortress).
- reubenmorais 3y agoIs Dota 2 not actively developed?
- solardev 3y agoOh, I didn't realize Valve did that! I remember it as a Warcraft mod, and didn't realize Valve acquihired them. Edit: maybe just acquired
- komadori 3y agoIs it an aquihire if the original product line isn't killed off?
- solardev 3y agoThat's a good point, lol. Just an old-fashioned acquisition, I guess.
- jhawk28 3y agoDota 2 is a complete re-implementation that Valve did independently. Dota is a Warcraft 3 mod. Icefrog was the main persona of someone who balanced the game. Valve was able to bring him over from Dota to work on Dota 2.
- AgentME 3y agoQuake 2 just had a remaster released a few months ago, and Quake 1 had one too a few years ago by the same team. The remasters were put into the existing Steam releases, work great on the Deck too, and were also released on consoles. It's really cool to see all these classic shooters get updated to work well on modern systems.