Is this what you’ve been waiting for? Say “one, two…and four!”
I’m so glad I bought this in a store back when PC games were still available in physical releases. Even though I’m pretty sure this one was just a Steam installer on a CD, I love having an actual copy of The Orange Box on my shelf.
The Orange Box was the absolute GOAT when I was a kid. It still is, but it was back then, too.
I even went and bought it on the Microsoft store for my Xbox One a few years ago, but it’s weird because you can’t just buy it straight from your console. You need to sign in to your Microsoft account on your phone or PC and buy it from the website, then go and install it into your console.
The orange box really was something special.
Orange Box is GOAT, but what is that article? Just mentioning the games with barely any interesting backstories?
Played countless hours of TF2 between 2009 and 2012. Wild that in 3 years, it’ll be 2 decades old.
Need an Orange Box 2.
It was one of the best value for money experiences I’ve ever had. Only beat out by The left 4 dead series based on hours played.
Then, 15 years later, when I rejoined the world of modern PC gaming, those games were all still available for download from my Steam account just because I bought the physical Orange Box back in 2007.
One of my best gaming memories as a kid, what an amazing deal the orange box was. It’s a real shame we were left hanging with the gut-punching cliffhanger of HL episode 2, and never finished the story.
What made this cliffhanger so truly bad was the main game’s story was complete as is until Episode 1 unwinded it. And Episode 2, compared to Episode 1, was a much better game in most aspects for me.
In what world the main story was complete? Like sure you could argue it could have been a legitimate choice to end it in that way but by no mean it answered any of the lingering questions.
