Jan 14, 2023 - Day 14 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 20

Game: Half-Life: Opposing Force

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Nov 19, 1999
Library Date: Apr 10, 2004
Unplayed: 6853 days (18y9m4d)
Playtime: 45m

I was wrong yesterday when I said that was the oldest unplayed game in my Steam library.

There is another.

On the 10th of April 2004, I installed Steam for the first time, and activated my first Steam key, for the "Platinum Pack".

I went on to just play Half-Life.

I didn't play Opposing Force or Blue Shift.

This game sat for almost 19 years, unplayed. I did open it once in 2019, but apparently closed it again without playing.

(Technically, it's even longer, because I owned it on CD before that, and hadn't played it there, either.)

So much for playing for "15-30min"; at the 45 minute mark, I had to leave to drop my daughter to work, otherwise I might still be playing.

Here we are in 2023; 23 years, 1 month, 26 days after Opposing Force was released, it still absolutely bangs. Here I am playing it natively at 1440p. It runs at normal speed. The head crabs STILL send chills up my spine. There's still a bug in the game that will permanently break the Desert Eagle if you try and fire it underwater (guess what I did!).

I've got games from the mid 00's that are unplayable.

Half-Life: Opposing Force is:

4: Good

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