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Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update (store.steampowered.com)
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Bonus: it also seems that the episodes have been rolled into the base game. Full details of the anniversary update.

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

If you start with the second one you won't know what's going on and feel like you've missed a bunch of important story.

This is how it felt after playing the first one as well. Half Life 2 is almost an unrelated game. The plots of the two barely line up.