Ripten:
"Yep, Valve has finally broken its silence over the reportedly glitch-ridden Orange Box port to the Playstation 3, which has seen some of the most serene gamers embed their pad in the nearest wall in frustration.
It looks more likely when, in another thread over on Steam about The Orange Box's poor audio, a second Valve rep weighs in."
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.
Robin Walker discusses the impact of Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more.
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.
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valve is a PC game developer. they know all about patches, and hopefully Gabe is smart enough to figure out he has to help fix EA's lil mess up so ppl buy his game. i got the OB for PC and im loving it. TF:2 ftw!
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So the basic code does not have features that the PS3 can take advantage of. When they add it, then all platforms including the PS3 can take advantage of it. How the optical connection code is going to improve the audio is a bit beyond me. If the audio is poor, then it is poor. Possibly for all platforms as it will be the same basis.
For the rest... not much of a hint here fellas. You don't just grab other peoples code and hack away. Especially if you are not focused on a platform like the PS3. Most probably just a bit of pressure. EA can most probably hire some more PS3 coders or outsource some of the improvements that they need.
Hopefully they can patch up the terrible loading times compared to the 360 version!