Opinions: Orange Box only $9.99 This Weekend
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Steam have worked out a smart business plan where they keep their customers happy, they sell older stuff that , if physical copies, would just be clogging up a warehouse somewhere. Instead they can charge a cheap price, and get the steam software onto people's PCs.
Now, I'm making it sound sinister, and it's not, I think. It's just that Valve realise once you have Steam, they can keep on hurling great offers at you, literally at times, great games for the price of a McD's meal, and it's so easy to just click, tap in card, got new games.
I bought OB from Game for £17.99 ages about, and since then I've bought all the GTAs1-4, First two Oddworlds, first five X-coms, a pinball game and a few other bits n pieces.
If I hadn't bought the Orange Box, I doubt I'd have had any of that except maybe GTA IV.
Now, I'm making it sound sinister, and it's not, I think. It's just that Valve realise once you have Steam, they can keep on hurling great offers at you, literally at times, great games for the price of a McD's meal, and it's so easy to just click, tap in card, got new games.
I bought OB from Game for £17.99 ages about, and since then I've bought all the GTAs1-4, First two Oddworlds, first five X-coms, a pinball game and a few other bits n pieces.
If I hadn't bought the Orange Box, I doubt I'd have had any of that except maybe GTA IV.
Is there a monthly fee with Team Fortress? Someone told me there was and that currently is my only reservation against it
Nah dude it's not an MMO, you buy the orange box for dirt cheap on steam, and then go to town as much as you want.. it's decentralized servers how could they charge you monthly fees?ghostgnome said:
I'd highly reccomend the orange box to anyone. Good single player FPS with a decent story and an epic war of the worlds like confrontation towards the end (and some cool vehicle segments) along with both of its episodic expansions, the best puzzle game since Tetris with amazing dark humor and innovative gameplay, and the most balanced class based multiplayer FPS in the business.
$10 is a freaking steal man, I just gifted it to a friend cause hey for $10, and it gets me someone else to play with that is one of my best friends irl, no problem.
You realise this post [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91222-Valve-Squeeze-More-Juice-From-The-Orange-Box] was up for an hour and a half by that point? Front page guysRRilef said:
Analog sticks for aiming is the worst control method for any fps.. freaking terrible.Zeeky_Santos said:
That's why I can't abide Halo 3 and Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 fans, you're playing with inferior controls for the genre.
Though.. Wiimote would be the BEST controls for an FPS. If only the rest of the hardware wasn't so bad so it could handle a modern fps.
QFT!!Eldritch Warlord said:
Which is why they should have won the March Madness. But turbine "hacked the vote" so to say. grrrr
Well, that makes the £15 I spent on portal seem pretty silly about now, ah well, was going to get this a few weeks ago but lost my job, couldnt' spare £25, but £5.66, hells yes.
Heh, I wouldn't buy portal separate, I mean the game is brilliant but too short to be worth a purchase alone. I always considered it the "bonus game" for buying the orange box.Sgt. Dante said:
I suppose you do get a few more puzzles for the standalone version
well months and moths ago i wasn't really interested in the orange box, i played TF2 at a local LAN center and halflife didn't look all that hot. so just picked up portal for £15 because it's a fantastic little game. but seeing the orange box for £5.66 you can't really say no tho that.Devildoc said:
