It's just that the demos shouldn't have been that hard to do too. At least for those with older hardware who wanted to try before they make a purchase.
wait....you're complaining because they didn't re-do the demo for a 6 year old game for your platform, only the game itself?
please go back to playing WoW for 15 dollars a month and leave Valve alone.
If your machine can play portal, then you can play HL2 with no problems. If you're wondering if it's "worth it" as far as it's value as a game is concerned, then you need a clue. It's quite possibly the best "shooter" ever created. It's head and shoulder above anything from the last 10 years, at least. The only game I would say might be better, as a game, than HL2 is the original one. Even that, though, didn't end as well as this one. I've played the single-player game straight through probably 4 times over the years, and I literally NEVER replay a game.
The only other single-player games I've ever played after finishing them the first time were Starcraft/Broodwar and a couple of the earlier Mario games.
I just started playing again this week after not having a PC for the last 2 years, and I am really enjoying HL2 again. If I didn't own it, I would pay 60 bucks for it again. I've spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on games over the last couple decades for PC, Mac, SNES, GBA, DS, and XBox360, and still to this day, I can honestly say if I had to pick 1 game to bring with me to the island, it would probably be HL2.
Unless I'm on the island with a couple friends, and then I would bring Rock Band 2.
If portal works on your system, then just buy the orange box and get over it. Stop complaining about the demo. I never even played the demo.
What you're doing is the equivalent of asking the movie production houses to create trailers for movies they released 5 years ago, and to spend time and money putting them together. Nobody is going to buy a 5-year-old movie based on a trailer, and nobody is going to buy a 6-year-old epic adventure game based on a demo.
