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December 17, 2007

Orange Box for PS3 ()

by fluffy at 10:04 PM
So, my copy finally arrived today. I had a few hours to play it tonight, so I did.

Portal is a lot of fun. Half-Life 2 is also pretty good though it's making me a bit motion sick. The controls are definitely the best console FPS controls I've ever had... unlike, say, The Darkness, the controls on this actually feel natural and responsive. Not quite as good as keyboard+mouse, of course, but they did a good job of at least making moving and aiming feel somewhat natural.

HL-2 suffers from feeling very linear but also very "find the one little tiny clue needed to go forward" which is a bit annoying. Hopefully it'll get better soon. (I'm only to the part where you're trying to escape the city after the transporter fails to work right.)

Unfortunately, I have to go to bed early for an all-day "cultural training" thing down in San Jose tomorrow. Ugh.

Comments

#10216 12/18/2007 06:34 am Half-life
Valve loves to put things on rails. The beginning is a bit weak, especially the tedious bits with the boat that you'll hit soon. After that, though, is the gravity gun and Ravensholm, which is the best part of the game.
#10217 12/18/2007 08:28 am
it is very linear, but the graphics and sound and music and gameplay are fantastic, i think. Portal is awesome but way too short. Also great music. One thing that you might miss out on with the PS3 is that on the computer you can extract the music from the game files, not sure if you can do that on your system.
-bill
#10218 12/18/2007 11:42 am
You almost certainly can't extract it, though PSN has offered game music before. (For Lair, which other than the music was pretty abysmal.)
#10220 12/18/2007 09:39 pm
Gasp! How dare you be so culturally insensitive, fluffy.
#10221 12/18/2007 11:17 pm
I'm already at the end of Portal. I can't quite get GLaDOS in time but that's because I'm being dumb about my portal use.

TF2 is a lot of fun but I really wish people would do something other than 2Fort.
#10222 12/18/2007 11:20 pm
Oh and the cultural training was for how to deal with my Japanese overlords^Wcoworkers. I didn't really learn anything new, and I did feel like the lecturer (who himself is American) was too quick to stereotype Americans in the exact same way that he wants his clients to not stereotype the Japanese. Oh well.
#10223 12/19/2007 08:12 am
You got Team Fortress to run? What I could play seemed fun, but I always got a "Connection Lost" within five minutes of joining a round.
#10224 12/19/2007 08:55 am
Yeah, it ran great, and I played several rounds. So far I like the Engineer the best (go figure), though Pyro is also fun.
#10225 12/19/2007 09:32 am
Damnit. I probably need to quiz you on your networking. I didn't get to play enough to come to any conclusion other than that it looked really fun.
#10227 12/19/2007 03:52 pm
I played TF2 once, it was pretty good. Should we exchange userids? Mine is easily guessable Smile
I assume the two types of systems can play together networkly?
-bill

PS if you want the music I can get it to you.
#10228 12/19/2007 04:05 pm
I believe not, actually. IIRC, the PC, XBox and PS3 all have separate networks.
#10229 12/19/2007 04:05 pm
My PSN id is plaidfluff. The platforms aren't interoperable though - the XBox360 version uses Live, the PS3 version uses PSN, and the PC version uses Steam, and all three of those are completely separate, networking-wise.

The PC version would be seriously mismatched against PS3 and XBox, although PS3 and XBox would probably get along pretty okay, aside from the aforementioned "no I will not share my sandbox!" issue.

At least, I assume. I haven't seen any way of connecting to a specific server, just basic PSN matchmaking functions.
#10235 12/20/2007 11:06 pm
stupid, stupid.
-bill
#10237 12/21/2007 08:45 am
I find it nice in a way. A coworker who has the PC version of Orange Box is already noticing people using hacked clients to cheat on TF2.
#10238 12/21/2007 11:02 am
Also, considering that the friends experience is so central to Live and somewhat to PSN, and that they have completely separate friends and ranking systems which wouldn't do a very good job of dealing with data that comes from the outside, it'd become more confusing and such.

I don't know what the PC or Live ranking systems look like but the PSN one is clearly designed with PSN's own quirks and such in mind.