"The Freeman Returns" with The Official Orange Box Thread

Ahhh god damn it the wait for the ps3 version is even more painful!

gah why is the ps3 such a cunt !

I'm sorry i didn't mean that, i still love you
 
Cerrius said:
Didn't know Florida qualified as Europe but OK :lol
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Holy shit my mind has just been blown.

Here I thought all this time you lived in Europe.

I think Prine told me this. He lied to me! I'll never buy another Rare game now!
 
Holy fuck, I just finished Portal.


This blows almost everything I ever played out of the water. The mood, the design, it's what the Cube movie should have been.


On to Episode 2, I hear it's even better, contrary to what I believe possible.
 
MrPing1000 said:
After u learn to use the Magnusson bombs he says to you that if you pull this off he might forgive you for the Black Mesa incident, you know the one involving my microwave casserole. This is a direct reference to the microwave in HL1 in the mess area b4 u get the suit, you can blow up the food pissing off a scientist.
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Ahhh...don't remember that in HL1.
 
Mrbob said:
I think Prine told me this. He lied to me! I'll never buy another Rare game now!
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:lol

Just found my first non-laggy TF2 game and am having a blast.

I love how the gibs float in the water on 2fort :D
 
Well this is my first time ever playing a Half-Life game. I started with a little bit of Portal, and now I'm playing thru HL2. I am just blown away so far. Graphics are way better than I thought they would be. I don't know why... I don't game on my PC, and I knew this was an "older" title (HL2), but I am just amazed by it... the scope seems so big. And the first time the music kicks in, wow.
 
TEH-CJ said:
How is the AI in ep 2??

plz tell me its improved over the previous games
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A lot of new stuff. The soldiers SEEM to be generally more clever (especially at flanking you), and most of the other baddies have some new moves up their sleeves. Just finished EP2 btw, completely blows everything out of the fucking water. Even better than the original HL2. Episode 2 is fucking awesome.
 
Jenga said:
A lot of new stuff. The soldiers SEEM to be generally more clever (especially at flanking you), and most of the other baddies have some new moves up their sleeves. Just finished EP2 btw, completely blows everything out of the fucking water. Even better than the original HL2. Episode 2 is fucking awesome.
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Ohhhhh man awesome

cant wait
 
Hmm, which version to get...

I have a capable PC with a nice widescreen 22" LCD, or I have my newly purchased X360 connected to a 32" SD set but with the added comfort of a nice and comfy couch.

I just love the 360 so much right now, that I don't know which version to get...

Whaddaya think GAFfers?
 
Beat Ep2 a few hours ago (my playtime is 5.5 hours according to steam). It was great (
Poor Alyx, I can't see her being her spunky self in Ep3 unless Eli is fixed up like Alyx was
). But I was expecting a teaser trailer for Ep3 at the end :( And what is this stream loading that was supposed to be in it? It still got load points :/ Oh well, back to portal.
 
Spike said:
Hmm, which version to get...

I have a capable PC with a nice widescreen 22" LCD, or I have my newly purchased X360 connected to a 32" SD set but with the added comfort of a nice and comfy couch.

I just love the 360 so much right now, that I don't know which version to get...

Whaddaya think GAFfers?
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its a trap!!

lol, jokes aside, follow your heart. 360 version all the way. c'mon. do it. do it.
 
Spike said:
Hmm, which version to get...

I have a capable PC with a nice widescreen 22" LCD, or I have my newly purchased X360 connected to a 32" SD set but with the added comfort of a nice and comfy couch.

I just love the 360 so much right now, that I don't know which version to get...

Whaddaya think GAFfers?
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Ick.

PC version, if your rig can handle it.
 
Get the version you will enjoy more.

You know what it's like to play PC games, and you know what it's like to play X360 games on your set ups.
 
I just beat episode 2 and I must say, that was one of the best gaming experiences ive had in a long time. Half-Life's scripted sequences are so well put together and seamless. They make the world so much more immersive than in other games. Plus the little touches they throw in like subtle facial animations, great dialogue, and music that swells at just the right time all work so well.
I cant stress how much I enjoyed it. Plus the
fight against all the striders
was fucking incredible.
 
Can anyone help me? When playing HL2 after a while (15 minutes) the game crashes.

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Lobster said:
Can anyone help me? When playing HL2 after a while (15 minutes) the game crashes.

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I usually get lock-ups between map loads on all Steam games which is why I was on the fence about this but Circuit City has it for $37.99 so I'll get it tomorrow and try my luck. Worst case scenario is there are still problems but I'll at least have everything on DVD for the first time (they're not still shipping this shit on CD-ROMs are they?) and get a new computer in the near future.
 
Playing through HL2 now and the HDR additions really do lend alot more to the environments. I still think Ravenholm is the weakest aspect of the game, but having a blast. Building up that anticipation for EP2...
 
Spike said:
Hmm, which version to get...

I have a capable PC with a nice widescreen 22" LCD, or I have my newly purchased X360 connected to a 32" SD set but with the added comfort of a nice and comfy couch.

I just love the 360 so much right now, that I don't know which version to get...

Whaddaya think GAFfers?
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COMFY COUCH!!! :lol

Seriously, though, you should get both!

I bought it on the PC already (you really need the PC version if you can for future mods etc...) And I plan to get it for my 360 as well as soon as I can confirm the American version to be region free and work on my Japanese 360.

If you really have to choose I would go for the PC version because of user mods, user maps and a much better multiplayer environment.
 
Mooreberg said:
I usually get lock-ups between map loads on all Steam games which is why I was on the fence about this but Circuit City has it for $37.99 so I'll get it tomorrow and try my luck. Worst case scenario is there are still problems but I'll at least have everything on DVD for the first time (they're not still shipping this shit on CD-ROMs are they?) and get a new computer in the near future.
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The game used to work though..first time I played through it I nearly finished the game..now it does this..
 
Lobster said:
The game used to work though..first time I played through it I nearly finished the game..now it does this..
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Yeah I seem to have had an opposite experience with Steam as well. Worked fine back when HL2 came out, used to play CSS for hours with no problem, but for a while now I've had the lockup problems on map loads. I'd think it was my machine but I've never had a problem with a non-Steam game.
 
My concerns with HL2:

Does the Xbox 360 version still feel like a pc port?
How awkward is the weapon switching?
Graphically, does the game look more like an Xbox 360 game or a pc port with slightly higher poly models and HDR?
 
Mooreberg said:
Yeah I seem to have had an opposite experience with Steam as well. Worked fine back when HL2 came out, used to play CSS for hours with no problem, but for a while now I've had the lockup problems on map loads. I'd think it was my machine but I've never had a problem with a non-Steam game.
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I might try reinstalling..did you try that? If so..did it work?
 
ok guys...I'm officially stuck...I've never been stuck in a half-life game before:(
I'm on a bridge with the car but bridge starte collapsing how, do I get the car to the other side?

EDIT:just figured it out:lol :lol :lol
 
Episode 2 destroys Episode 1 from every direction. The introduction of new enemies really goes a long way. The Hunters are awesome, and the acid-spewing ants are a welcome addition. Also a hell of a lot more exposition compared to the relative nothing we got in Episode 1. Gunplay feels a lot more solid in this one, likely because of the new particle system that has the blood splatter when shots hit. Good visual feedback from the guns adds more than I realized. The Dodge Charger knockoff is a hell of a lot better than the junker in Highway 17, they really should go back and change the controls on that one. The graphical upgrades are quite lovely, especially the dynamic shadows from the flashlight. Gabe Newell better hurry up the patch for vanilla HL2.

The more emotional parts of the game are done quite well, such as when Alyx gets stabbed you can immediately see the combination of pain and fear in her face. Likewise when she recovers and tells Gordon to stand next to her on the elevator. Little awkward when Eli basically told Gordon to try and do sex with Alyx. How old's Gordon supposed to be anyway? I noticed Eli was calling him "son" on more than one occasion, I assumed Gordon was just a few years younger than Eli and Dr. Kleiner but apparently not.
 
Red Blaster said:
I assumed Gordon was just a few years younger than Eli and Dr. Kleiner but apparently not.
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I believe he was in a time-stasis between the ending of Half-Life 1 and the beginning of Half-Life 2, in which 20 years passed.
 
I'm still stumped on 360 or PC version.
I think I'm beginning to lean towards the PC version though. Despite the allure of a full graphics settings and faster loading of the xbox version, I don't think I can avoid custom maps for portal and TF2 and the fact that it's so much cheaper through Steam for Canadians thanks to the fact that the Canadian dollar is now STRONGER than the American, yet retailers still charge us $10 extra for our games.
 
Jirotrom said:
ok guys...I'm officially stuck...I've never been stuck in a half-life game before:(
I'm on a bridge with the car but bridge starte collapsing how, do I get the car to the other side?

EDIT:just figured it out:lol :lol :lol
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Make your way to the other end of the bridge and use the gravity gun to push some cars over the edge to cause the bridge to slope down

Edit: Oh, well there you go.
 
Wow, portal is awesome. Was able to play for about an hour tonight after towel tricking my 360 after it's third bout with 3RLOD. Didn't want to play any online games for fear of it happening again and getting the boot (was playing Halo 3 when it happened).

Orange Box is such an awesome package, Portal alone is worth 20-25 bucks imo, and it's the smallest part of the package. Hopefully my 360 holds up until the coffin gets here and I can at least make it through half-life 2.
 
finished portal.

i haven't played episodes 1 or 2 yet, but portal could win game of the year. it is so fucking innovative, polished, tight, and satisfying. a++++
 
birdman said:
I've been playing Orange Box for the past 3 hours or so and I must say, it's definitely an awesome pack. Team Fortress 2 plays as good as I thought, and Portal has some very nicely done puzzles. Everyone needs to get this game.
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I'm not online and radically unlikely to system-link, so TF2 would totally languish if I bought the Orange Box. How much of a dive does its value take ? Still get ?
 
So I was having fun until I ran into a huge bug.

During the
reviving of Alyx, as soon as the vortigants turn purple
my system suddenly started to run the scene at 2fps. My system can run the game on medium just fine, but when this started I went back and lowered all my specs and it still ran at 2fps with no sound, exactly the same as before so it seems to be a bug and not my comp just being slow.
In order to get through the scene I had to wait 30 MINUTES for it to complete at such a slow speed and then after magically everything was running fine.

Sitting watching a malfunctioning cinematic for a half hour, how un-HL is that? Fucking ridiculous.

Does anyone have a transcript or something of what
G-man
said? Seems to be kinda important...
 
Let me put it like this.

Half Life 2 is not one of my favorite games. I honestly kind of think it's over-rated. Repetitive and pretty damn easy. I have not really been into Valve games (except TF).

However. Portal is probably one of my favorite games ever made. It's unique, fun, addictive, has amazing writing and good graphics. The atmosphere is perfect as well.

How the orange box didn't get a 10 is beyond me, especially considering Portal deserves a 10 all by itself. Portal goes to show you can make a great, unqiue game, that is pretty casual and has a chance for expanding without making the user dump 40 hours into it or needing a 20 million budget.
 
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