PS3 Fanboy writes: It's no secret the PS3 version of Orange Box is inferior to the PC and 360 version due to the unforgivable amounts of bugs and bad coding. Many gamers have voiced their displeasure about the game, and one upset gamer, who purchased the game despite the highly publicized problems, posted a thread on Valve's forums. Soon after, a Valve employee responded to address his complaints.
The Xbox One Backward Compatible versions of Xbox 360 titles Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, The Orange Box, and Portal are now enhanced for Xbox One X, Microsoft announced.
Nothing but great memories with all these games! Playing Left for dead series during the college years with friends was the best.
Love to see titles coming to BC with enhancements. Would love even more to see Half Life 3.
The year is 2007. Console owners tap their fingers in barely contained impatience. For years they have been starved of Valve's delicious, full-bodied courses, forced to watch from the bleachers as Valve mixes a unique blend of kinetic first-person with extraordinary tech. Besides a brief dalliance with the original Xbox and the PlayStation 2 - which produce pale imitations of its best work - Valve has remained faithful to the PC.
And then, in a flash, five of them arrive at once; neatly packaged morsels for a new generation reared on Microsoft's & later Sony's consoles. Five games, all in one orange box. Valve serves the PC too, for it is October 18 - a day of celebration - and everyone should feast.
Valve didn't really "release" 5 of its greatest games in a single day, Half-Life 2 came out 3 years before The Orange Box. In no other context do we talk about a port being the "release" of a game.
The orange box was an excellent release. I don't think Valve will do much beyond online only games now.
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Little cheeky to talk about it when you know we're still waiting for Half Life 3...the Orange Box included Episode 2 and is still left unfinished story wise to this day.
At this rate we better get a second Orange Box. Half Life 3, Half Life Remake (Black Mesa Mod), TF3 or L4D3 and the HL spin offs like Blue Shift.
Don't know what valve are going to do with Half Life after Mike Laidlaw posted the short version of Episode 3 in August and changed the names and genders.
If this is true, it's great to see Valve cleaning the mess that EA did towards there awesome collection of games.
Hopefully it is true. I keep getting kicked out of Team Fortress after 5 minutes.
I am still beyond amazed at how stupid EA looks when complaining about the PS3 hardware, yet Infinity Ward can deliver GOTY Call of Duty 4 with no problems at all.
I didn't buy Orange box for a few reason, one. I still play HL2 on my PC, but the second was definitely due to EA working on the PS3 port. I hate to think it, but I know its going to be seen by EA's suits as "See, this game isn't selling well. Its the PS3's fault." When in reality, EA is known in the PS3 community as half-ass-f*cktards that pick and choose which ports to pull off well. I am utterly confused because they half ass a release like Skate, but then turn around and blow my mind with the latest Burnout.
Orange box is a great package for those of you that haven't touched Hl2 in the past 4 years. Portal is tons of fun as well. The source engine isn't a technical marvel anymore. It was when it first came out, yes. Sad that EA cant keep their quality control in line. Wonder if they could even port Wolfenstein:3d without failing.
Well, this seems like a stretch but would be welcome in any case.
I haven't seen too many problems on the PS3 version(other than stutters while saving) and have yet to see anything a miss with TF2. I've actually really enjoyed playing though HL again, and that's quite the complement coming from a PC snob :o)
May even help repair some of the damage Jaffre has done within the PS3 community.
Lazy devs like EA should stick to working on the 360. All they have to do on it is make horrible games, and 360 owners will gobble it up because their precious Peter works there.