The Orange Box (6 Viewers)

[Janer]

Steam : The Orange Box :

Ordered it now and getting maximum d/loads from my 8mb line, around 900kb/s for the 5 games...


TF2 get's a 9/10 from Eurogamer.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=83375

Not played TF1 since 2000ish so will be great fun comparing TF2.

Tax was around 9 dollars.

 

[Janer]

Re: Steam : The Orange Box :

Q&A in comments section.

"Great!, Now PC or 360?"

I saw less of it on 360, but if our experience of Portal and EpTwo is anything to go by, it's pretty much identical. The only difference I remember is supported players - 16 on 360, 24 on PC. I don't *think* I'm breaking the Portal/EpTwo embargo if I point out that they run brilliantly on 360!

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Re: Steam : The Orange Box :

You're a steamer.

 

[Janer]

Re: Steam : The Orange Box :

 

[Janer]

Re: Steam : The Orange Box :

All d/l now but after reading Steam forums there def is teething probs, suppose it is a Beta after all but....
Anyway off to try.........

 

[Janer]

Surely the best value games package ever released........
All for 45 dollars or 54 euroes including P+P

Reviews of the whole package itself
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=85044
HL2 Episode 2
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=84997
Portal
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=85005
TF2
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=83375

Can't wait for more CTF maps from Valve, the last few weeks playing TF2 has been so much fun.....easily the funniest/wackiest FPS I've ever played.

 

[oh shit]

Can't wait for more CTF maps from Valve, the last few weeks playing TF2 has been so much fun.....easily the funniest/wackiest FPS I've ever played.

there are so many abbreviations in that sentence, i have no idea what it means but it sounds great

 

[Janer]

/googles abbreviations

 

[magicbastarder]

bought it last night on steam, $45.
since i already have HL2 and HL2ep1, i get to gift those to friends via steam.

 

[Janer]

Add me to friends bastarder,
I use the name Storm|**JANER** (It's a German clan thing )

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Eurogamer gave it a 10.

 

[magicbastarder]

woohoo!

http://www.stroma.org/kevin/ep2.jpg

 

[Johnnyc]

Dunno about buying another multi-player shooter thingy, but as single player games go, Half-Life 1 and 2 are the two best games I've ever played.

Fuck it!

/buys

 

[magicbastarder]

portal is BRILLIANT.

portal guns are the next season must have. plus, i'm a hot looking chick.

 

[pete]

i like the wee recap movie at the start of ep.2

then i had to go pack my suitcase bah.

 

[nofriendo]

was listening to the 1up podcast, they were saying that noone has seen this game run on ps3 ! They are even claiming it would be delayed further on the ps3 which would suck balls

 

[bombidol]

out on xbox yet?

 

[CitySickness]

Don't think the 360 version is out until next week. And there's no cross-platform multiplayer between PC/360/PS3 either. Bah.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Its out on Friday week for 360. Ps3 version is supposed to be out early November. I reckon the ps3 version will be fine despite Gabe Newells constant bitching about it.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

can you get team fortress 2 on it's own?