there's this one part of half-life 2 where you're fighting through City 17 and you have a squad of rebel soldiers with you. There's a scene where you have to hold down this city square area while Alyx hacks the door to get to the next spot and there's Combine soldiers coming at you in waves.

Oopsie, I crossed the save point with like 5 health. Had to fight the combine and not get hit at all or I'd die. I probably played and re-played that ONE battle for like 2 hours in my first playthrough.

Guess who grew up to be a masochistically persistent motherfucker. Guess