More free Steam games? More likely than you'd think.

[Esoterica]

The best part?  These are old as hell; the description refers to Portal as a new game, for example.  Apparently Valve forgot to cancel the deals.

If you have an nvidia graphics card: http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/
If you have an ati graphics card: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

Contains Half Life 2: Lost Coast and Half Life 2: Death Match.  The Nvidia one contains the demo for Portal and Peggle Extreme, but the full versions for both are free on Steam right now so it doesn't make a difference.  To clarify though, you do need to be using one of the aforementioned graphics cards to download these.

Enjoy. :V

[?q]

Once again I ask - should I play these?

[Esoterica]

Once again I ask - should I play these?

I'm still in the process of downloading them, so I couldn't tell you.  But if you have Steam, there isn't really any reason not to.

[communist unity (comm-unity)]

First slice is just a demo of portal, I believe. But Lost Coast, Deathmatch, and Peggle Extreme are all unique, iirc.

[nintendonut888]

Half Life 2: Lost Coast free? That implies that you'd pay for a small unused section of a level normally? :/

[Esoterica]

First slice is just a demo of portal, I believe. But Lost Coast, Deathmatch, and Peggle Extreme are all unique, iirc.

Correct on all accounts.  Fiirst Slice is the first 11 stages, I believe it says.  But like I said, the full game's free right now anyway so it doesn't really matter.

[Helion]

Half Life 2: Lost Coast free? That implies that you'd pay for a small unused section of a level normally? :/

Bah, at least they put it out for free and introduced HDR, which was amiss in the original game. A nice showcase of the possibilities of the Source Engine, if you will. Or, at least, it was for the time.

[nintendonut888]

Oh. I thought this meant that it was actually something you had to buy until now. It came with a Half Life Anthology, so I wouldn't know for myself.

[Helion]

It was never clear, to be fair, but I think they released it for free a little later. I was just entitled to it for having bought I don't remember which Half-life 2 bundle.

[WHMZakeri]

Aww, but I don't want to play half-life.
I wonder if I get still get Peggle ... whatever it is.

[Paul Debrion]

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast costs $10 by itself, but it comes free with a lot of their packages containing Half-Life 2. In fact, I don't think it's even possible to purchase Half-Life 2 through Steam now without it.

I think got it for free three times, once with Half-Life 2, again with Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and again with the Orange Box.

There might have been some earlier boxed copies that didn't come with it, but other than that pretty much anyone who has Half-Life 2 already has Lost Coast. Personally I don't know anyone who has had to pay for it.


EDIT:
I checked just now, and apparently you can't purchase it by itself at all so I guess the $10 price on it doesn't mean anything for all intents and purposes.

I guess the only reason they put the $10 on there is because that's the price of the cheapest package that has it. It doesn't actually figure into the price of any packages containing it, so it's pretty much free.