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The Orange Box

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:23 am
by DarkOmen
Yup... it's here finally. I don't know if anyone else has been waiting for this like I have, but it seems like its been forever since Half Life 2, and the first expansion, Episode one came out.

Episode 2 is amazing.... Portal is awesome... and Team Fortress 2 is freakin sweet!!!!!!!!


Anyone else here an avid Half Life fan?

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:33 am
by celeritas
i am a major fan of gordon freeman. unfortunately, i still haven't gotten the chance to beat half-life 2 yet so i don't know whats going on in episode 1 and 2. one day, i will finish half-life 2. maybe by the time half-life 3 comes out. as long as its before duke nukem forever comes out... =\

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:31 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Bought it the day it came out. :P
I didn't get Episode One before then, so I really had four whole new games to play.
Omen, were you as stunned by Episode Two's ending as I was? I really did not see that coming...

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:56 pm
by DarkOmen
i actually havent got to the end yet :P

i've been having too much fun playing TF2 lol

But, i cant wait now!!

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:37 pm
by Sionnach Glic
You should get to it, it's quite good. Particularly the battle at the end (spoilers on request).

Just remember; there is no cake. :wink:

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:01 pm
by Azrael
Wrong, the cake is NOT a lie. ;)

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:58 pm
by DarkOmen
Finished Episode 2, and yeah, the end was a stunner. I like how they mentioned the aperture science facility in the game, that was kind of funny. And those freaking striders!! there were like 15 of them :shock:

And portal has got to be one of the wierdest, almost creepy games i have ever played...

Those automated guns... they sound so nice and cute... till they shoot you.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:58 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Wrong, the cake is NOT a lie.
That is correct. You will be rewarded with delicious, moist, cake.

As part of a required test protocol, we will stop modifying the truth in 3....2....1....

GLaDOS made the whole game for me. :D

"I would have invited your companion cube, but you murdered it."
Finished Episode 2, and yeah, the end was a stunner.
I know, completely unexpected. :o
And those freaking striders!! there were like 15 of them :shock:
Those damn Hunters were a pain....kept messing up my shots.

Also, did you catch Magnuson's line before the battle?

"Pull this off, and I may forgive you for that debacle at Black Mesa. You know the one I mean; involving a certain microwave casserole."

I laughed so hard at that...
And portal has got to be one of the wierdest, almost creepy games i have ever played...
Indeed. It was briliantly done.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:42 am
by Jordanis
Rochey wrote: Those damn Hunters were a pain....kept messing up my shots.
I don't know if you figured this one out or not (I know the final battle was kicking my butt before I did), but the hunters die really easily when you hit them with the car. Figuring that one out put the final battle into a whole new light, and turned what I was thinking of as the worst final battle ever into just about the best.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:33 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Yeah, I figured that out...after being killed by them for about the tenth time, and driving my car into them in frustration. :)

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:39 pm
by Tsukiyumi
I am a huge fan of the first Half-Life (finally, a game series written by a sci-fi author, yay); I still haven't played HL2. I just hope it is as mod-friendly as HL - the abundance of mods made the game considerably cooler than it would've been otherwise. Especially the Firearms mod. :D

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:01 pm
by Sionnach Glic
am a huge fan of the first Half-Life (finally, a game series written by a sci-fi author, yay);
It was written by a sci-fi author? Who?
I still haven't played HL2. I just hope it is as mod-friendly as HL - the abundance of mods made the game considerably cooler than it would've been otherwise. Especially the Firearms mod.
I assure you that there is an abundance of mods for it. And you should really get it, it's more than worth the money.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:41 pm
by DarkOmen
well if you havent played HL2, get the orange box... you get HL2, HL2E1, HL2E2, Portal, and TF2... for only $49..... well worth it.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:33 pm
by Jordanis
DarkOmen wrote:well if you havent played HL2, get the orange box... you get HL2, HL2E1, HL2E2, Portal, and TF2... for only $49..... well worth it.
Yes, the Orange box is the best value ever known to man. And I did my first play-through of HL2 on an Athlon XP 2100+ with GeForce 4, so don't tell me you can't run it. :P

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:32 pm
by Tsukiyumi
That is a great deal! I may just spend a little christmas money on this. And more RAM.

Rochey: His name is Marc Laidlaw. I haven't read any of his work personally, but HL rocks, and the story to HL2 looks to be even better.