The Orange Box Turns 10 [Oct 10, 2017, 7:48 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Team Fortress 2 blog
notes the 10th anniversary of the original release of The Orange Box, which
bundled Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal all on one package,
as games used to be distributed in places called stores on these things called DVDs. True to the blog,
the post focuses on TF2, though they also reveal that Valve was never happy with
how The Orange Box was marketed at the time. Speaking of unhappiness with how things
were marketed, there's this little matter of being promised a three-part
episodic
expansion for Half-Life 2 that's gone without a part three for a decade now, but we're
not getting our hopes up that we'll ever hear anything more about this, much
less ever get to actually play it.
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mch wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 11:22:
It included HL2, HL2:EP1 and HL2:Ep2 (and TF2 and Portal)
I bought it on release and for the life of me I don't remember that part. Thanks.
Suckage wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 10:52:How Valve Made The Orange BoxVaranDragon wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 02:24:
Im looking at it on one of my shelves right now. I actually bought it for TF2, so I actually bought Half Life 2 twice. Heh.
Pretty sure that the Orange Box only included Episode 2 and not the whole sequel? Hmm..
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Muscular Beaver wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 10:13:subx wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 04:34:Yeah well... I bought the Orange Box mainly because of Team Fortress 2, but quickly noticed that it wasnt nearly as good as TFC.
I quit playing team fortress 17 years ago.
Who says the games industry has stagnated?
I played TFC for almost a decade and still laughed my ass off every day, because of funny situations, made possible due to its design. While in TF2 all the humor came solely from the graphics design, which only lasted a few hours. Its gameplay was far inferior, because it got dumbed down massively.
Never understood how it got that popular.
Hats. Duh.
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Suckage wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 10:52:VaranDragon wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 02:24:
Im looking at it on one of my shelves right now. I actually bought it for TF2, so I actually bought Half Life 2 twice. Heh.
Pretty sure that the Orange Box only included Episode 2 and not the whole sequel? Hmm..
It included HL2, HL2:EP1 and HL2:Ep2 (and TF2 and Portal)
VaranDragon wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 02:24:
Im looking at it on one of my shelves right now. I actually bought it for TF2, so I actually bought Half Life 2 twice. Heh.
Pretty sure that the Orange Box only included Episode 2 and not the whole sequel? Hmm..
Orange is the new black ...... 
subx wrote on Oct 11, 2017, 04:34:Yeah well... I bought the Orange Box mainly because of Team Fortress 2, but quickly noticed that it wasnt nearly as good as TFC.
I quit playing team fortress 17 years ago.
Who says the games industry has stagnated?
I played TFC for almost a decade and still laughed my ass off every day, because of funny situations, made possible due to its design. While in TF2 all the humor came solely from the graphics design, which only lasted a few hours. Its gameplay was far inferior, because it got dumbed down massively.
Never understood how it got that popular.
I have given up on waiting for BIS to come back to their senses and do a real ArmA 2 successor.
I picked up the Black Box and still have my shirt 
I quit playing team fortress 17 years ago.
Who says the games industry has stagnated?
Who says the games industry has stagnated?
jdreyer wrote on Oct 10, 2017, 22:17:
Still got my Orange Box box sumwhar. It was awesome.
Im looking at it on one of my shelves right now. I actually bought it for TF2, so I actually bought Half Life 2 twice. Heh.
jdreyer wrote on Oct 10, 2017, 22:17:A decade? Dang. I remember buying from a local Best Buy store to pricematch. The gal refused at first too. Jerk.
Still got my Orange Box box sumwhar. It was awesome.
Installing Steam to run it sucked tho.
Anyways, this Orange Box was worth it! I didn't think I would like Portal 1 too, but I was wrong. TF2 was OK. I got rid of the retail box and discs a few years ago at work though. I kept my account and key though.
Still got my Orange Box box sumwhar. It was awesome.
Installing Steam to run it sucked tho.
Installing Steam to run it sucked tho.
I'm a smoldering volcano of virility. At least, that's what I tell myself.
episodic gaming is the future!
Something something episodic content allows faster releases.
maybe they can outsource it to gearbox, iirc they did some expac for hl1.
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