HalfLife 2 or Halo 2 ? ? ? ?

[Luxury]

Took me 3 hours from putting in the HL2 install disc to finally getting the game running last night.  

Would have been much faster except that all of the official forums were down last night, and the faqs online absolutely sucked.  

Turns out you can't have Steam installed BEFORE you try to install HL2.  That was my problem, but there was no way of knowing that beforehand.

I also REALLY dislike the needed internet connection everytime you want to play.  Don't expect to go to a LAN party and play this game.  I do like Steam though.

[DYNAGOD]

well letsa hope someone cracks this puppy and makes a no cd/dvd and no internet hack..
ive never heard of agame that required internet access to play a single layer game..

someone gonna have to make a proxy proggy to foll the game into thinking its logging into steam.

so if my internet goes out i cant play huh?
interesting..

[DaemonCollector]

You don't need a net connection to play once activated. If you don't have a connection and start steam in will start in Offline Mode, and you can run any of the games

[Magnet_Eye]

You don't need a net connection to play once activated. If you don't have a connection and start steam in will start in Offline Mode, and you can run any of the games

yep.  


you can also install it on as many PC's as you wish, but can only be logged in once...now, who's to say i dont download and install the game to my friends pc and make sure he plays ONLY while the internet is offline? haha!

[Hoagie_one]

i had steam installed previously and hl2 installed flawlessly