It's nice that you can also skip to later checkpoints within a chapter if you want to play it mostly straight but a certain gameplay section begins to drag.
I think I'm going to mainly skip around using the developer console to warp to chapters. I decided to play Half-Life 2 last night. Boot up any Half-life game then post some comments about it!
With the recent Half-Life: Alyx announcement reviving the series, it's a good excuse to revisit some of the older games, so.