I'd be remiss for saying I didn't get the hype around this game while I was playing it, but then again, my Steam account says I've been playing it for around 70 hours or so.

I played through it twice: my first playthrough was with the HD graphics on normal difficulty, and I was absolutely terrified by the Nihilanth. The second one was with the original graphics, which were so much better and immersive, and I almost crapped myself by the original Nihilanth WHICH JESUS CHRIST, WHAT IS THAT THING?

It's a really fun game. Maybe in 1998 the story and the way it was presented was very new and innovative, but I actually thought it was rather just there. I did really like there were no cutscenes and everything happened in real time while you were playing, which is pretty neat and makes me wonder why more modern games don't do that more often.

I was definitely not made to play with WASD and mouse, tho. I feel so odd when not using controllers.

Overall, I'm really glad I finally got around to play this one. I'll try to complete the entire franchise - sans Alyx because no VR -. I'll probably leave the Source remake last since I don't feel like threading the same path again with better graphics, so...