The Orange Box Comments by Kristan Reed
Bananas box, more like.
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kangarootoo
10/10/07 @ 09:45
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Can't really argue with that.
I always thought that this bundle represented ludicrously good value, which for me pushes it above the scores of the individual components. |
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I'm sorry but this Orange Box could in theory last and provide anybody an entire year or so of pure and downright brilliant gaming entertainment.
For £39.99, the Orange Box is the biggest and best bargain I have ever witnessed in my life - everybody who owns the formats to play it should automatically buy it. Fantastic stuff! A well deserved 10. |
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kangarootoo
10/10/07 @ 09:45
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@Apologie
Dizzy mentioned on another thread, the PS3 version is 1 month+ away :( |
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"There are only two reasons why anyone with the kit or the means to pay for it would think of not buying The Orange Box. Number 1) You have some pathological aversion to first-person shooters, or, Number 2) You're a bit loopy in the head and like denying yourself the chance to play five of the best games ever released."
Or how about 3) You correctly thought that HL2 was an overhyped, overly scripted, boring, linear, gimmicky A.I. deficient POS that wasn't fit to lick the sweat off the first HL's goo-sac. ? |
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Mentalist(air)
10/10/07 @ 09:50
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I worry that this will be used as a yardstick to judge the value of other releases. It's becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to produce what are considered 'proper' games, and not everyone has all of Valve's money to throw around.
Maybe it really is too good to be true. Of course, I've already bought it off Steam, though, and early so I got the $5 discount :) I am teh hypocrite. |
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monkie_king
10/10/07 @ 09:54
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Anyone know whether PS3 version will be able to use USB mouse/keyboard? I played HL1 on PS2 that way.
WOPR: you can choose any of the 5 individual titles from the title screen at any time, I hear. So yes. |
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Mentalist(air)
10/10/07 @ 09:54
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You can certainly play episodes 1 and 2 seperately on the PC version.
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afghan_jones
10/10/07 @ 09:55
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aw, hell, I was hoping this might be a bit more shit so I can get on with Halo MP before the lovely lovely COD4 shows up, and now this fecking wonderful looking FPS MP jumps up, yells, 'Helloooo' and entices me into buying it. Too many top-notch FPS's to handle.
After Bioshock, Halo, COd4 beta and now this, I have genuinely begun to circle-strafe round corners in real life. Allow me to indulge in some horrendous 360 fanboyism when I point and laugh mercilessly at all those PS3 owners playing ResistanceFOM. It's childish yes, but guiltily pleasurable at the same time. Ha! |
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useyourloaf
10/10/07 @ 09:55
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And peggle extreme! For $45! Come on, no one had to wait for the reviews before buying this.
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Mentalist(air)
10/10/07 @ 09:55
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@Me:
I worry that this will be used as a yardstick to judge the value of other releases @Twincoil The rest of the gaming industry should hang their collective heads in shame That's exactly what I'm talking about. Perhaps valve should hang their heads in shame for devaluing everybody else's work. |
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SomaticSense
10/10/07 @ 09:59
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"Allow me to indulge in some horrendous 360 fanboyism when I point and laugh mercilessly at all those PS3 owners playing ResistanceFOM. It's childish yes, but guiltily pleasurable at the same time. Ha! "
........who will probably also be playing Orange Box and CoD4 instead. Your point?
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I havn't played Half Life since the original about 10 years ago on PC.
My thought then was that it was very good, but about half way through the game i got bored of it and started playing something else. So the chances of me playing through all these games before the turn of the decade is between slim and nil. I suppose it's excellent value if its all you want to play for the next couple of years. I'll pass on this one. |
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kangarootoo
10/10/07 @ 10:01
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"That's exactly what I'm talking about. Perhaps valve should hang their heads in shame for devaluing everybody else's work."
Yeah, that will teach them for impressing everyone. Thoughtless nobheads.
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afghan_jones
10/10/07 @ 10:01
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@Somatic Sense.
My point being that Orange box hasnt been dated for PS3 yet, 360 owners had several weeks of lovely lovely COD4 beta already, plus they aint getting Halo or Bioshock. So while Im sitting here having played 3 of those 4 games already, with a week to go to the 4th, they are left with nought but resistance to hang their hats upon. (also, I was being a childish little git and only half serious anyway) |
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SomaticSense
10/10/07 @ 10:01
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"I suppose it's excellent value if its all you want to play for the next couple of years.
I'll pass on this one." vufdnhkl;xlvbxnbk *bangs head on keyboard* Ok. Makes no sense mate. |
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But what were they supposed to do? They couldn't selling HL2 separately on PS3 or 360 three years after the fact, and Ep1 was too bite-size to sell standalone. Also, if this had have had just Ep2, Portal and TF2, you'd have had people who hadn't ever played HL2, thinking they can't start now because they've missed the storyline. This solves all of those problems. It's a fairly unique situation.
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penguin_overlord
10/10/07 @ 10:02
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A well deserved ten. I've played, completed and enjoyed Half Life 2 (as well as Half Life before it) and that game alone is better than any Halo title (and I say that as someone who's a big fan of the Halo games).
It's a shame I have to wait longer as a PS3 owner to get this but it wil be worth the wait. It's funny when people say there aren't many games out for the PS3. With this game alone, is it necessary to buy any other FPS this side of Xmas as the experience will last for months? It originally took me weeks to complete Half Life 2. |
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Ace_McCloud
10/10/07 @ 10:03
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Dammit! There's too many 'must have' games. I can't afford them but I muuuust haaave them!!
...and 10/10? No game deserves that ever in the history of the world ever. You are so stupid EG, a plague on all your houses! |
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SomaticSense
10/10/07 @ 10:04
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"That's exactly what I'm talking about. Perhaps valve should hang their heads in shame for devaluing everybody else's work. "
God forbid Valve doing something like this, because £40-50 games are in no way a rip-off at all..... *bangs head again* |
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kangarootoo
10/10/07 @ 10:04
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@Breach
I'm not sure dismissing this on the basis that you didn't take to the first one is ideal. The two games really aren't so similar. I'm not saying you are guaranteed to like it, but its probably worth giving it a shot rather cut of your nose etc. If you have a console, how about a rental? |
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Ace_McCloud
10/10/07 @ 10:05
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"...and that game alone is better than any Halo title (and I say that as someone who's a big fan of the Halo games).
It's a shame I have to wait longer as a PS3 owner to get this but it wil be worth the wait..." A 'big' fan? Surely if you were that big a fan you would've plumped for the cheaper console with the bigger collection of games and the game of which you are a big fan... Facetious I know. But I can't help it. I smell a rat. |
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penguin_overlord
10/10/07 @ 10:05
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Hey, I just realised something. If we include the PS3 version as part of this review it's the first PS3 game to get 10/10.
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Madafunkola
10/10/07 @ 10:06
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I just had a thought which may just save my life... and some others who are complaining about "TOO MANY GOOD GAMEZ AT SAME TIME!!!"
Buy one 10/10 game this month, another next month... and on and on. Will see you through the Feb-Apr drought. |
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Mentalist(air)
10/10/07 @ 10:07
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But what were they supposed to do?
Yes, I understand, but it still makes me feel uncomfortable, because I know the games development company i worked for (or any in the UK, save perhaps Rockstar North) has no hope of being able to produce a single current-gen title with that much content in it. |
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afghan_jones
10/10/07 @ 10:09
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@madfunkola
Yeah but its always nicer getting in on the ground floor so to speak. And there is always the issue of eveyrone on your friends list playing MP or co-op when a game comes out and then that tailing off a few months later. |
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Not too interested in HL2 and Eps 1 as I thought it was a bit meh (7/10 at best) but TF2 and the other stuff might just sell it to me. The orange box is consoles only right?
No. Available on Steam from today on, and if you had pre-ordered, you would have saved 5US$ and been playing TF2 for a few weeks. :) And yes, you need to buy HL2 and EP1 again (as they are included, whether you want them or not), and no, it's still not a ripoff (before the usual whining suspects appear again). |
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Madafunkola
10/10/07 @ 10:15
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@ afgan_jones
I totally agree - I really only said it to try and convince myself. I'm having trouble holding on to my credit card, especially as i walk past a game shop every day, it would be SOOOO easy to "accidentally" pre-order all the AAA games due in the next few months. I'm one of the suckers who bought a PS3 on release day too. :O |
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kangarootoo
10/10/07 @ 10:18
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@Mentalist(air)
"has no hope of being able to produce a single current-gen title with that much content in it." Nothing wrong with that though. Smaller studios just have to be a bit more niche, and spend less on development so the risk is balanced. Not being number 1 is just part and parcel of working in any industry. You don't have to be one of the bafta winners in order to be successful and enjoy your job. |
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