Portal

LimpingFish · Thu 18/10/2007 23:00:34

It seems Episode 2 won't be available separately at retail, ala Episode One, so I can either buy The Orange Box for E49.99, even though I already have HL2 and Episode 1, or purchase Episode 2 on it's own from Steam for $29.99, but miss out on Portal and TF2.

Yes, I know you didn't ask...

Adamski · Thu 18/10/2007 23:05:40

Just pretend you're buying TF2, Portal and EP2 for Â£25 and whoops, they accidently gave you extra copies of HL2 and EP1!

Domino · Thu 18/10/2007 23:33:54

I plan on getting The Orange Box in a few weeks for the 360. I just want to wait and break in my refurbed 360 that i got back from MS.

All i need is to start playing another awesome game and then have this one crap out on me.

5 games for the price of one, you can't beat that. Plus i never played Half-Life before.

Nikolas · Fri 19/10/2007 00:21:55

Quote from: Adamski on Thu 18/10/2007 23:05:40
Just pretend you're buying TF2, Portal and EP2 for Â£25 and whoops, they accidently gave you extra copies of HL2 and EP1!

which you could always donate to your friends here in AGS... or something...

selling is illegal, how about giving away a gift?

scotch · Fri 19/10/2007 00:31:42

You have the option to transfer the already owned games to a friend's account. Valve explicitly encouraged that to persuade people to buy the bundle.

I don't think reselling would be illegal... but with all the spare copies of HL2 and Ep1 around now you'd be hard pressed to find a buyer.

LimpingFish · Fri 19/10/2007 00:46:34

Oh, I guess I could do that. I am a charitable sort, after all.

...

Or am I?

...

Yes.

Ubel · Fri 19/10/2007 10:10:04

I just finished the main levels of Portal. An excellent game indeed! It was great fun to play.

LimpingFish · Fri 19/10/2007 20:09:01

Well, The Orange Box is installing as I type. Hooray!

Apparently, I now have copies of HL2 and EP 1 to "Gift" to some (un)lucky individual, thus delivering another possible "source" (tee hee) of future income into Valve's "steam"-ing (ho ho) maw.

And I paid for the privilege of doing so! Score!

InCreator · Sat 20/10/2007 04:37:54

Huh. After losing all trust in Valve - my steam account got banned for no reason whatsoever and all they replied was that I have a cheating suspicion... because steam didn't like my dynamic IP -- I decided not to waste money on Orange Box. Installing via internet and only internet is a nuisance alone, and extra automated and buggy gestapo on the account was the last drop. I bought HL2 and Episode One both legally... and concerning episode one, the trouble I went trough to acquire it via some guy in UK (crappy game selection locally here) wasn't really worth the game, neither its price.

As expected, while world plays new games, the stores here are empty again. No salesmen have heard about it, no pre-ordering. I'm not waiting 6 months to either to these morons wake up and game finally appear in stores -- or do whole buying-posting-from-other-country thing again. I doubt it would be worth it neither.

It's not that Russians didn't pirate and crack it already, heh.

Arr!

radiowaves · Sat 20/10/2007 13:00:46

And you can play Portal for FREE in Internet!

http://www.flashgore.com/games/33/portal-the-flash-version.html

Kweepa · Tue 23/10/2007 06:14:58

STILL ALIVE!

DeviantGent · Tue 23/10/2007 13:47:25

... CAKE. MOIST DELICIOUS CAKE.

LimpingFish · Tue 23/10/2007 21:44:48

Very good. Just short enough to avoid overstaying it's welcome. I presume the portal gun will be in Episode 3, what with the clues in Episode 2 and all.

Episode 2, on the other hand, was a little tiresome. I never really dug strider battles in the first place, and that car was an absolute hog to control.

18 months on since Episode 1, Episode 2 was a bit of a drag.