I'm thinking of buying the game, but I've heard a lot of nasty things about Steam and the instillation. I know that Steam is designed with the intention of stopping piracy, and I do think that piracy is kind of pathetic, but the Steam safeguard seems to be too much of a hassle.

 

I've read that it is possible to play Half Life 2 without having to log on through Steam, I'm just wondering if this is true or not.

 

And also I hear that this game demands insane requirements to be played, and I have 1.8 GHZ, and 448 MB RAM, not sure about my video card though, what specs are you guys playing it at? And how does it perform?

Okay I'm not much of a computer person at all but I'll add my two cents and say that on my computer anyway the game performs really well and its very fun.

 

Ok I feel like a noob :embarassed:

haha, don worry. Yeah, I really hope the game works on my laptop, my bro's laptop would overheat and automatically turn off after half an hour every time he played it. So I'm just hoping I'm not wasting my hard earned money here.

Well, if it winds up being a waste of your money, it won't be because of the game's quality. Half-Life 2 rules.

 

I'm not a big Steam fan either, but I've gotten used to it.