Eventually the games grew old and people moved on, but even with the older Medal of Honor and Call of Duty games, the feel was never quite right. Between the two Day of Defeat was always my favorite, and Day of Defeat Source to follow. I played both for countless hours through beta on to release - at school, at home and even at Internet cafes. The two biggest mods for the Half-Life era were easily Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Mods grew in popularity, but only a select few became stand alone titles, and only a few saw new iterations when Half-Life 2 released. That didn’t last long though, and soon we had mods from creative people with plenty of time on their hands. Half-Life was a smash hit, and a great game to play but once you were bored of the campaign, traditional deathmatch was there for you. The original game released in the 90’s when the Internet was becoming a thing and multiplayer PC gaming over-the-internet was in a state of growth but wasn’t an always-connected proposition just yet. If you were as much of a nut as I was for Half-Life, you’ve likely played a mod or two. This time around, two games struck my fancy, and both for very different reasons.

Sometimes I’ll absent-mindedly add games to my wishlist, and then sometimes I will just buy them on the spot, particularly if something new and shiny has a bit of a discount. Leave it to the Steam Discovery Queue to turn me on to games I’d never heard of.

Day of infamy coop