There are many games I haven;'t heard about before here, one that caught my attention is "Anachronox"... Hmmmm...

Half-Life Blue Shift

That was released in 2001? Few years after that (maybe 2005) I got the game pre-installed of one PC my father bought. I was terrible at shooters, terrible at mouse controlling and still at my begining in learning english. So I only reached 1-2 hours of the games time, repeatedly.