Pros/Cons- the orange box

SX · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:38 pm

Monday from now on

This week

THE ORANGE BOX

Pros-

TF2- Awesome characters, aweome weapons, awesome all around

Portal- Sweet mercy, a portal gun?, top of the list

HLEP2- Awesome striders, everything else is aweome

Cons-

HL- Dude why buy the orange box when you have half life 2 and EP1?

HLEP2- short, and gordon is still a mute...

TF2- 6 maps? that's it?

Portal- Short, but i forgive it.

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:59 pm

Gordons always going to be a mute.

I'm glad The Orange Box has HL2Ep1 in it, cause i need it. And who really cares if its 6 maps, as long as they are amazing, it will suffice.

Pros: 5 games for the price of 1

Bjossi · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:00 pm

HalfLife 2 and Ep1 are a free part of the package, you are only paying for the 3 new games.

Pros:
HL2 Ep2
Portal
TF2
HL2 & Ep1

Cons:
No idea

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:08 pm

Its still 5 games for the price of 1, no matter how you spin it.

Bjossi · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:39 pm

My post was a reply to SX.

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:50 pm

Ah. Sorry. Silly me.

cyberax · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:33 pm

pros:
new games

cons:
downloading 6Gb on a crappy internet line !

Faceless · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:23 pm

Aside from disliking steam, one thing that has bugged me was how there was no good combination of the various HL2 packs that would cover everything. Everything being HL1 Source, CS Source, Day of Defeat, HL2DM, HL2, HL2EP1, HL2EP2, TF2, Portal. There are umpteen pack combos and they always leave something out, so you have to effectively buy 3+ packs to get everything, with some overlap. Where's the freaking platinum-diamond pack with everything in one box? That is about the only combo pack that they haven't put out.

And to cover one response, I'm against downloading whatever I'm missing through steam. See above, I don't like steam. I go for physical products in a box with a disk that's mine. Thank you.

Kaboodles · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:44 pm

Faceless wrote:

Aside from disliking steam, one thing that has bugged me was how there was no good combination of the various HL2 packs that would cover everything. Everything being HL1 Source, CS Source, Day of Defeat, HL2DM, HL2, HL2EP1, HL2EP2, TF2, Portal. There are umpteen pack combos and they always leave something out, so you have to effectively buy 3+ packs to get everything, with some overlap. Where's the freaking platinum-diamond pack with everything in one box? That is about the only combo pack that they haven't put out.

And to cover one response, I'm against downloading whatever I'm missing through steam. See above, I don't like steam. I go for physical products in a box with a disk that's mine. Thank you.

You haven't been doing your homework.

The Valve Complete Pack

Everything Valve has ever released, for a cool $100. That's a lot of gaming goodness right there.

One thing I like about Steam is that I no longer have to keep track of CDs and worry about them breaking. I own my Steam games for as long as Valve exists, and Valve doesn't look like they're going out of business any time soon.

Jerry · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:47 pm

Pros: Awesome Games, Great Price, LONG games. 99 Achievements!

The Song at the end of portal is sooooo good.

Cons:
Limited Multiplayer in the '360 version, just TF2. Or is that the norm?

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:46 pm

TF2 is the only one you can play in multiplayer, HL2, HL2ep1 + 2 and portal are all Single player games.

Kaboodles · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:06 pm

I'm pretty sure you get HL2: Deathmatch with any purchase of HL2. I bought the Orange Box and gave a guy my old copy of HL2, and he was able to download HL2: Deathmatch as well.

Bulska · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:39 pm

Pros:

Hammer Editor is easy mapping, many people will make new maps soon for all games. I heard Angelmapper is trying to map for Portal. And as soon I get Portal, I probably get to doing the same.

Cons:

What has been made by the authors is small, good engine and many possibilities, but they didn't prepare many of these posibilities for us. Portal is short, HL2 Epi1 and 2 are short, TF2 has few maps, HL2 is very long though.

On a side note, I don't have the pack, but I do have HL2 and Epi1.\
I also got a hint for people, don't buy seperate games from valve! Go for packages, if I hadn't bought Hl2 Epi 1 seperate before, I would've saved 20 euros! And waiting a little while isn't too bad is it?

See it like this, I paid more to play Epi1 and Epi2, while I could wait for awhile for Epi1, and buy the 2 epies together and play them right in a row.
Also, waiting for Epi1 and Epi2 is much less painfull then waiting for Epi2 after you've played Epi1... Waiting time is the same... perhaps even less, because you need less money to collect.

ShadowBlade · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:33 am

Gordon is cool mute.. rather that than the crappy 'Unreal 2' route !mistrust

I will soon find out what the OB offers.. i get the feeling that it will be cool.. it is Valve

Bjossi · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:04 am

Bulska wrote:

HL2 Epi1 and 2 are short

Since we are talking about episodic games, that is hardly a con.

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:08 pm

I got this game friday night... Portal is freaking AMAZING!!!! so is Half Life 2.. haven't played team fortress 2 yet but I am NOT crazy about multiplayer all that much anymore.....

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:17 pm

Yeah, TeamFortress2 is okay, but it ain't my cup of tea.

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:37 pm

hmm... dont like it much either do you uglypants?

Bjossi · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:42 pm

Portal didn't interest me nearly as much as HL2 Ep2. The gameplay is innovative and all, but I just prefer first person shooters.

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:53 pm

yeah... multiplayer for any game like FPS, RTS, RPG, MMO in general just isn't my cup of tea anymore.....

Captain Xavious · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:30 pm

MP is great if you're doing a LAN game, you can easily coordinate and you'll usually be with a bunch of your friends. Makes for a fun time.

Bjossi · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:10 pm

I'm not all that fond of multiplayer, with friends or strangers. But I haven't tried it enough to have a final opinion about it, plus I'm unlucky in terms of ping numbers most of the time...

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:14 pm

I am going to try Team Fortress 2 and see how it is.......

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:00 pm

team fortress 2 is not my cup of tea... it sucks...

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:57 pm

Bjossi wrote:

Portal didn't interest me nearly as much as HL2 Ep2. The gameplay is innovative and all, but I just prefer first person shooters.

Same, i really loved Episode 2, great gameplay, the Hunter battles were frantic and exciting and the addition of the strider buster bombs was really great, and the updated graphics were welcomed.

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:02 pm

haven't played Episode 1 or 2 yet... I have played a little of Half life 2 and a LOT of portal mostly....

Bjossi · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:02 pm

The part with the strider busters was extremely exciting. One of the better fights I have ever encountered in a game to date, the best thing is that it wasn't as challenging as I had expected; reading people's opinions about it.

Bulska · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:37 am

Hunters shoot the strider-busters making them go off harmlessly. So you need to get rid of the hunters first.

About Portal, I've started mapping for it and i've come quite an end.
I've made several maps, and ill look if I can fit em all together and make a brand new small map pack.

RoyMustang · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:40 am

I like portal... its amazing...

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