Steam Weekend Sale - 24th - 27th April 2009 - Orange Box

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » April 24th, 2009, 20:31

Just so y'all know, £5.66 for the Orange Box on steam this weekend.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 24th, 2009, 20:45

blimeh

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 25th, 2009, 9:49

9.99 euros, with 66% off.

I mean it's 11.29 euros without discount on G2Play...

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 25th, 2009, 18:30

If there's anyone who doesn't have this. Buy it right now! No, don't do it in a few minutes, right now.

RIGHT NOW!

Portal is worth far more than £5.66 all on its own. As are the other bits.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » April 25th, 2009, 19:08

HereComesPete wrote:If there's anyone who doesn't have this. Buy it right now! No, don't do it in a few minutes, right now.

RIGHT NOW!

Portal is worth far more than £5.66 all on its own. As are the other bits.

^^ This

Post by **FatherJack** » April 25th, 2009, 22:45

I already have it, but have been evangelising.

I bought the PS3 version as I know at least two lots of my friends would like it if they only saw it. The first liked it rather a lot, so I need to get another copy to show to my other friends.

Portal isn't as hard as I thought it would be with a joypad, and Half-Life was enough to sell it - didn't get a chance to show them TF2, which I thought would be the clincher.

It's a shame HL:S isn't on there just for the story, although five great games on one disk is quite an achievement in itself.

Portal of course works best if you give them the basics and leave them with it and keep your mouth shut, as I can blast through it in 90 minutes and it makes it look like a short game. The "now you're thinking with portals" video would have been a good inclusion on there, too.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 26th, 2009, 0:00

FatherJack wrote:It's a good HL:S isn't on there, such a half-arsed remake of the original would be add price to the package but not value.

Fix'd that typo for you.

Post by **FatherJack** » April 26th, 2009, 0:11

Baliame wrote:Fix'd that typo for you.

Yeah, it probably wouldn't impress. Maybe a video using scenes from the original game just telling the story would be good - a bit like the one included on the Final Fantasy Advent Children DVD of FFVII.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 26th, 2009, 0:24

You familiar with Afterworld? Half-Life would work great told in a similar way.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 26th, 2009, 0:34

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 26th, 2009, 11:38

:lol: It let me in.

Post by **TezzRexx** » April 26th, 2009, 11:55

How does The Orange Box perform on the PS3 Jack?

I had heard that it suffered from really bad slowdown and the like.

Post by **FatherJack** » April 26th, 2009, 21:10

Seemed okay in singleplayer, load times not massively longer than a PC, indeed the initial startup is faster.

Only seen Portal and up to where you jump over the train in HL2, so not anything with massive amounts of enemies or physics. There's a 158MB download patch, which I impatiently didn't apply, dunno if it addresses issues or just adds TF2 maps.

Apparently it's worst in the big battles in Ep2, and when reloading saves - the latter can be avoided by not dying so much.

Given the choice, the 360 version might be a better performer at a slight price premium - though both versions are difficult to source in standard retailers, hinting people are holding onto their copies and playing online. The PS3, with less competition from other online shooters on the system (ie: Halo, Gears) has probably retained more activity online, but sold far less.

But either way, the HL games have been my favourites since they arrived, and it's great that my friends who only have consoles can now see what I've been on about all this time. The demo I forced them to play only had the first few scenes of Ep2, which didn't really sell what a great package the OB is.