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[gufu1992]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Doctadeth @ Nov 12 2007, 07:24 AM) [snapback]318985[/snapback]</div>

Also, Portal does link into Half-life 2. If you listen up in the credits music "Still alive" the AI says - who you gonna call? black mesa? Fat chance. The disappearance of a ship in mysterious circumstances at the end of episode 2 also links to the portal device. However I will see in episode 3.
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It was:

Maybe Black Mesa... that was joke, Ha Ha - fat chance.[/b]

[_r.u.s.s.]

so any other showoffs and spoilers are gonna post stuff?

[zafo999]

I've been obsessed with getting the achievements. I got the gnome one, can't find every grub after 2 play-throughs, and the neighborhood watch one seems impossible to me! Anybody get that one?

[Pietafon]

Ahhh, on tuesday I'm gonna buy The Orange Box

Anyone own it already? What's Your opinion about it?

[Blood-Pigggy]

The games are all good that's what.
Episode 2 is good, and it's a bargain considering you get all of the previous HL2 games as well.
I consider Episode 2 to just be a supplement though, TF2 was obviously the draw of the compilation, and when you're not exactly as excited to contend with online gaming's moronic population (which was basically my feelings) it's not exactly the draw it was intended to be, it doesn't have any singeplayer either, no bots or anything, which was rather disappointing to me, considering that if you buy it for the 360 you'll have no other choice but to play it online, whereas on the PC I'm pretty sure there's already some mods making bots for it.

Portal is absolutely fantastic and my favorite part of the package, I'd buy that for $50 alone, but it's quite short, it seems like Valve thought it would be taken as merely gimmicky and didn't apply too much to it. It's also evident that they didn't think it would be received very well by the mainstream audience because it's given the least attention out of all the additions to the collection.

The HL2 games aren't terribly exciting if you've already played/owned them previously, so Episode 2 is the only big thing there in the HL realm, it's still worth it and very good, but I'm getting tired of this episodic method and I felt that I didn't get the best effect from Episode 2 if I didn't play HL2 and Episode 1 all the way through in one continuous play through, instead of just playing it from the get go.

So my final verdict is that Valve was a bit too cautious with Ep2 and Portal, they didn't seem to be very confident about Portal doing well, and Ep2 is rather short although still very good and intense.
It's worth buying, and I did enjoy TF2 for the brief periods of time I've played it online, but just beware of the HL2 and Portal content because it's just too short for something so great.

[zafo999]

Recent bit of news from Valve:

"We're planning on adding achievements to all of our games you touched on in your mail [Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source]. We're just now coming out of the post-shipping haze, so these should start showing up on Steam pretty quick here. We're also planning on adding a bunch more to TF2, starting with an achievement pack for the Medic in the next week or so."



They are just dedicated to making sure I never leave my house.

[Blood-Pigggy]

I don't get it.

[zafo999]

It's complicated, BP.

[Spoonman]

Originally Posted by J@nek

Ahhh, on tuesday I'm gonna buy The Orange Box

Anyone own it already? What's Your opinion about it?

Got it, love it and now I'm broke Still worth the money though, considering you get the whole lot on HL2 so far. I just finished Portal and now I'm busy with Episode one. So far so good, I really hope more maps wil become available for Portal though (or a mapmaker perhaps?)..