Poll: Favorite Corner of the Orange Box?

[Hat of Controversy]

Yeah, I just got this thing about a week ago and I must say... It's not quite as awesome as the hype led me to believe (surprise surprise!).

BUT that's not to say I'm not having fun with it! And I just thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone else liked the most about it!

Oddly enough, I've liked Portal the most, out of the whole bundle. Half Life 2 was just one long collection of sewer/collapsed building levels (minus the final few in that giant tower which were AWESOME, by the way). Half Life 2: Episode 1 seems pretty good so far, but still nothing all that amazing. I haven't gotten to Episode 2 yet, though I'm sure it'll be more of the "meh" and "purty awesome" that the others have been so far.

Team Fortress 2 has just been a massive cluster of people randomly running around and blowing each other up. BUT the art style is so awesome that I can't help but give it credit.

Portal on the other hand, despite being only a few hours long, and shallow as can be, I've had a lot of fun jerking around in ways that no mere mortal should ever be allowed to!... Nasty...

ANYWAYS my overall feelings for VALVe seems to be "slightly above average". Even the Left 4 Dead games just come across as being "okay" but not really pushing too hard to try and be super awesome. It's just weird because this company and its games have received quite a lot of praise and hype (even from Yahtzee, no less.) and yet I have such mild feelings towards them...

Eh, ah well...

 

[AkJay]

Half-Life 2 opened up all new doors for me.

 

[Mad World]

Probably Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Portal was awesome, too, though.

 

[dududf]

Half Life 2, followed by Team Fortress 2.

Portal in close third.

 

[Axle_Bullitt_19]

Portal by far.

Then the Half-Life games with Team Fortress in last. I could never get into that game for some reason.

 

[CODER]

portal;
with halflife 2; halflife 2, chapter 2 tyeing for a very close second.
halflife 2, chapter 1 wasnt as fun as the other halflife ones.
Team Fortress last by miles.

 

[SantoUno]

Definitely Portal, I still haven't played through Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but so far I don't really like Half-Life 2 that much. And Team Fortress 2 was just lame for me; even though I only played one game I didn't like the retarded physics (my rocket blasts didn't kill anyone while some dude with a shotgun killed me from across the room).

 

[thatstheguy]

Half-Life 2.

I don't need to say much more. Thousands of other gamers have already said it.

 

[Zeromaeus]

The bottom corner with a chip in it below the un-phased heart.
...
Portal.

 

[Dorian]

I'm torn here.
TF2 has EPIC replayability, and yet very nearly no story other than KEEL KEEL KEEL.

And yet Portal has EPIC story, and yet very nearly no replayability other than I MEMBER DIS WUN.

Both are pure awesome, and are fun to play, so......

Portal.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Half-Life 2 opened up all new doors for me.

..then Portal let you walk through them.

HL2 is, and always will be my favorite game in the Orange Box. It's not perfect but it's a fantastic interactive journey, the first game that truly made me feel attached to its world and characters.

 

[RatRace123]

Portal, the 50 dollars was worth it for Portal alone.

 

[killgannon]

Portal with HL2 coming in a close second, I started episode 1 but it just felt like more of the same. It's not a bad thing but I think I started it a little too soon after playing through the main game, I'll probably pick it up again at some point and get through the rest.

 

[Daezd]

Team Fortress 2 if only because I've had it since launch (about two or three years now?) and I still play it pretty regularly.

 

[Jark212]

I most enjoyed Portal...

 

[Omikron009]

Half life 2. The epic strider battles in the streets of city 17 were fun but not frustrating like the end of ep2.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

A million times TF2.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Team Fortress 2 has just been a massive cluster of people randomly running around and blowing each other up. BUT the art style is so awesome that I can't help but give it credit.

Play something besides 2fort.

Actually, that's really all TF2 is about. BUT

But.

That's really all any FPS is about.