Orange Box Redundancy Issues

[Grey Acumen]

Zkuq said:
2. Steam-only games will always require online activation. After that you can play in offline-mode, though.

5. To me the first Half-Life felt like a pretty long game and compared to that, Half-Life 2 felt like a very short one. I'd say it's going to take about ten hours to complete Half-Life 2. The Episodes are shorter, though: I completed Episode Two in one night (yep, I played in from the beginning to the end without any major breaks). Oh, and Source engine loading times are horrible compared to those of the original Half-Life.

6. The last time I played it, it was essentially the same as the original Half-Life with the exception of added bugs. Yep, it was even worse than the original game. If you want a proper remake, you will have to wait until Black Mesa (a mod for the Source engine) gets released next year. And no, the expansions of Half-Life (Opposing Force, Blue Shift) are not included with Half-Life: Source.

2 - okay, that's actually about what I was expecting. If I ever end up offline, hopefully I'll be able to call a number to activate over the phone or something, and if they drop support for it, they'll have whatever patch or instructions are needed.

5 - Okay, hopefully I'l get at least as much gameplay out of the the 3 parts of half life 2 as what I got from half life 1

6 - I know Blue Shift and Opposing Force aren't included in Half Life: Source, but do you know if Black Mesa is planning on touching on those at all, or are they also only just doing half life and leaving it at that?

 

 

NEW QUESTION!

7.) What type of attitude should I expect from the Team Fortress 2 community? I was really kinda hoping to avoid the Halo retard/troll type crowd. I know I'm going to run into some of that no matter where I go, but I was hoping to see as little of that as possible.