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  • jim416
    Banned
    • Feb 2003
    • 10606

    #346
    Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

    Is Orange Box strictly a multiplayer affair or can you play it single player?

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    • Pete1210
      MVP
      • Aug 2006
      • 3277

      #347
      Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

      Originally posted by jim416
      Is Orange Box strictly a multiplayer affair or can you play it single player?
      Three games (five if you count the extra HL2 episodes) are packed in the Orange Box. Team Fortess 2 in MP only. Half Life 2 and Portal are SP only

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      • VTPack919
        We Go Again
        • Jun 2003
        • 9708

        #348
        Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

        I am on the fence, without xbox live at the moment, is it worth it?
        YNWA

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        • jim416
          Banned
          • Feb 2003
          • 10606

          #349
          Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

          Originally posted by mike95
          Three games (five if you count the extra HL2 episodes) are packed in the Orange Box. Team Fortess 2 in MP only. Half Life 2 and Portal are SP only
          Yikes, game is going back then. I haven't opened it yet.

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          • stiffarmleft
            MVP
            • Jul 2002
            • 1986

            #350
            Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

            Did anybody pick this up on PC? I have Half Life 2 on PC so I got this for PC also, I can give half life 2 as a gift to someone since I already own it.

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            • Bacardi151
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              • Aug 2002
              • 3114

              #351
              Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

              PA Protip:

              Eternal Salvation or triple your money back!

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              • Heelfan71
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                • Jul 2002
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                #352
                Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                Originally posted by Bacardi151
                PA Protip:

                I usually just run though.
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                • Bacardi151
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                  • Aug 2002
                  • 3114

                  #353
                  Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                  For the PC gamers, http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/...ife-2-portal/:


                  Half-Life 2: Portal

                  By Alex Petraglia on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 12:00 PM EST (Edit)
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                  So you’ve played through Portal and loved every minute as much as we did. Maybe you’ve even gone through the advanced maps and tried out some of the challenges? So what comes next?
                  How about the ability to play through Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes, or other Source-powered games with the portal gun in-hand? We’ve been doing that very thing for the past few days now, and after hours spent experimenting with various techniques and tricks, we’re here to show you how.
                  To start, check out this video we cut together to show you “Half-Life 2: Portal” in action.
                  Now, follow our instructions below to the letter and you’ll be firing your gravity gun through portals at unsuspecting Combine in no time.
                  • First off, backup up your entire Portal directory in a safe place. It’s the folder marked ‘portal’ in ..\Steam\steamapps\(your_username)\. We, nor Valve, take any responsibility in the unlikely event of you hosing your game files. Worse comes to worse though, you could always just redownload.
                  • Next, download and install, if you haven’t already, GCFScape. This handy program will allow you to access the cached game files for any Source-powered game, in addition to several other Steam games you may have downloaded.
                  • Once that’s done, browse to the directory ..\Steam\steamapps\. There, you’ll see all the available GCF archives. We’ll start with Half-Life 2.
                  • Open the GCF marked ‘half-life 2 content.gcf’ You’ll see a directory tree in the left pane. Click the box to the left of the folder marked ‘hl2’ to see the directory listing contained within it. Then, right-click ‘maps,’ select ‘Extract’ and extract the entire folder into the directory \Steam\steamapps\the_great_bundini\portal\portal. This will merge it with the existing Portal map folder.
                  • Do the same with the ’scenes’ folder
                  • Fire up Steam and run Portal. When it’s done doing its thing, open up the developer console with ‘~’ (you may need to enable it under your keyboard options).
                  • At the console, type ‘maps *’ to list all the available maps. Now that you’ve imported the Half-Life 2 maps, this will be a fairly lengthy list and some of the names, like citadel and canals, should seem familiar.
                  • Type ‘map’ and then the map name to open that map. For instance, ‘map d1_canals_01’
                  • When the map is done loading, pull up the console again and enable cheats by entering ‘sv_cheats 1’
                  • To give yourself all weapons, including the portal gun, enter ‘impulse 101’
                  • Depending on how far you got in Portal, you may need to upgrade the portal gun to fire both portals. Enter ‘upgrade_portalgun’ to do so
                  • Go lay waste to some alien scum with the power of portals!

                  Here are some more thoughts on our experiences:
                  • Follow the same steps if you’d like to try it out with Half-Life 2: Deatmatch or Episodes 1 and 2.
                  • We actually highly recommend starting with the HL2: DM maps to give you a feel of how things operate and allow you to experiment with various techniques. You can spawn an enemy by first looking where you would like him to be placed and then entering, say, ‘npc_create_equipment weapon_shotgun; wait; npc_create npc_combine_s’ to create a Combine soldier with a shotgun. (Visit this HL2 Filefront page for more details)
                  • Sorry, but we’ve racked our brains and can’t figure out a simple way to get multiple people into a game of HL2: DM this way. We’re sure some enterprising group of modders will come up with something in the coming weeks, though.
                  • We did not attempt to do this with Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, or Day of Defeat: Source. As fun as it might sound in theory, we would like to dissuade you from trying it as well, as it probably won’t yield any real satisfactory results.
                  • All the same basic concepts of Portal apply here, including realistic momentum and gravity. You’ll also automatically regain health very quickly as in Portal. We’ll try to find a fix for this and post it soon.
                  • It may take some time to figure out which surfaces work and which don’t, since obviously this is no longer clearly indicated by the textures. Generally speaking, shoot only for flat walls, floors, and ceilings and not objects like rocks or boxes.
                  • Sadly, NPC’s and enemies cannot pass through portals. However, almost all ammunition, from bullets shot to grenades tossed to objects flung with the gravity gun, can and will make their way through smoothly.
                  • You’ll also probably notice a weird, floating colored cloud that follows you around (it appears a few times in the video above). We couldn’t figure out a way to disable this, but thankfully it’s only a minor annoyance.

                  We encourage you to post any questions or comments below, or share your own screens and videos.
                  We’ll continue to update this page whenever we figure out fixes or cool tweaks and things to try out, so keep checking back over the next week or so.
                  Until then, keep thinking with portals!
                  Eternal Salvation or triple your money back!

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                  • Heelfan71
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                    • Jul 2002
                    • 19940

                    #354
                    Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                    I love commanding those sand thingies. Forgot their names
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                    • RobtAndProud
                      Rookie
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 310

                      #355
                      Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                      I played hl2 the day it came out and thought it was amazing. I decided to wait for the orange box so i can play episode 1 and 2 in a row and so far Episode 1 is amazing. I love the story of HL2. I cant see how anyone in their right mind would think halo is a better game than half-life. Episode 1 is one of the best games ive ever played.

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                      • dave360
                        MVP
                        • Mar 2003
                        • 4081

                        #356
                        Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                        I played Half Life 2 on the original XBOX and am going thru it again on 360 and it seems easier to me this time. I guess it's because I know the tricks to get thru certain levels, but it seems like the enemies aren't as hard as before. I'm playing on normal and I played the XBOX version on normal. For Episode 1 and 2, I may go up to extreme. I need to get some TF2 and some Portal in. I haven't even touched those two yet.

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                        • tanis38
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                          • Jul 2004
                          • 1100

                          #357
                          Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                          Originally posted by RobtAndProud
                          I played hl2 the day it came out and thought it was amazing. I decided to wait for the orange box so i can play episode 1 and 2 in a row and so far Episode 1 is amazing. I love the story of HL2. I cant see how anyone in their right mind would think halo is a better game than half-life. Episode 1 is one of the best games ive ever played.
                          And I hear Episode One is actually the weakest of the HL2 games. Episode Two is supposed to be amazing.
                          Last edited by tanis38; 10-20-2007, 10:38 AM.
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                          • dave360
                            MVP
                            • Mar 2003
                            • 4081

                            #358
                            Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                            To me, no other game's single player comes close to Half Life. It has the perfect amount of puzzles and the story is great. Now if we could just get a 360 version of Counter Strike Source

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                            • MachoMyers
                              Old School
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 7670

                              #359
                              Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                              I finished through Episode One and thought it was great. I'm about 2 hours into Episode Two and right now if I had to choose I would pick a favorite I would say Episode One was better.

                              I'm sure Two is going to get good right about now though.

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                              • Candyman5
                                Come get some!
                                • Nov 2006
                                • 14380

                                #360
                                Re: Half-Life 2 Orange Box (360/PS3)

                                Well I decided to "bite the bullet" and pick this bad boy up. Never opened it up yet though. I am hoping this holds me until Naruto(Oct. 31) and Mass Effect(Nov. 20) comes out.
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