So I slowly started working my way through everything I missed.
At the time I just felt like I missed the boat, and still had a truckload of other games to catch up with that I missed when I was playing MMORPGs.
DUKE NUKEM FOREVER CAME OUT BEFORE HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE 3 PC
I began to notice news articles calling it one of the best PC Games of all time, and saw the passionate fan reaction to wanting a Half-Life 3, as well as all the funny memes about it. It was only after being done with playing MMORPGs exclusively in 2012 that I seriously got back into singleplayer oriented PC Games, and when I first started noticing Half-Life's reputation within PC Gaming. Eventually I left EVE as well and got into SWTOR shortly after that, which I played continuously for a solid year or so, and on and off until around 2014. I was also pretty deep into Eve Online, and that combined with WoW meant I had no time to play anything else. I stopped playing in 2010, a week after the release of Cataclysm after being dissatisfied with the expansion. As you can imagine, this game took all of my time and attention for quite some time. I bought my first PC Gaming machine with my own allowance money in 2004 and tailored it specifically to be able to play WoW. It was my most anticipated game of the year, and I was closely following the development of that game since at least 2002. In 2004, I might have had the opportunity to finally get acquainted with the Half-Life franchise considering Half-Life 2 was releasing that year, but something quite significant was also happening during that time: World of Warcraft released shortly after Half-Life 2. I also didn't speak much English, so any news or posts about it was probably flying past my head. By the early 2000s, I was too focused on Deus Ex, Unreal and Unreal Tournament to even think of Half-Life at the time. I first had access to the internet in 1999, but it was piss poor dial-up that I never bothered using much until the year 2000 when we finally got a decent connection and I started going online regularly.
I also wasn't looking for it because I never heard much of Half-Life until much later in my life. I think I was just unlucky and never stumbled upon Half-life while shopping for games during my trips. I always bought my PC games whenever I visited the United States, usually on summers. I still live here to this day and in fact, all through my life I only ever saw two PC games legitimately release in this country: Diablo II and Unreal Tournament. In 1998 I was only 8 years old, and living in a third world country where finding a retail release of a PC game that wasn't some dodgy pirated version was almost impossible.
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