To who is a 10 hour game, a 2 hour game, a puzzle game demo, and a long lasting multiplayer game NOT a deal?And then you Get HL2 and EP1.In case you were sleeping the last 5 years, most games nowadays are 5 hours long.
No, games aren't "5 hours long" unless you're a Valve fanboy and all you've ever played are their overpriced, underdelivering, delayed 'episodic content'.
As for the Orange Box, the only people it was a 'good deal' to were the people who WERE 'sleeping for the last 5 years' and didn't own half the games it came with.
They canceled the Black Box for a very specific reason - because idiots would think the Orange Box was a 'better deal' somehow.
The Orange Box tried to 'justify' itself by tacking artificially high prices onto lackluster games. Portal is $20? I wouldn't pay $20 for what was effectively 1.5 hours of patronizing 'training' levels, and .5 hours of actual game.
Team Fortress 2 was a serious let-down. For a game that is multiplayer-only, you'd think for the $30 justification they could've put more than 6 maps in the game at release. The irony is that two of the maps, cp_well and cp_granary, are nearly identical, and everyone hates them both, two of the maps were just more or less copies of old maps, and there was only one original, fun map in the entire game (gravelpit).
And I don't pay for demos.
You pay $50 and get:
- A game you already have.
- An extremely brief game you already have.
- Another extremely brief game.
- A dramatically overrated game so brief if you blink, you'd miss it.
- A game that lost its flavor faster than a stick of Juicy Fruit.
Oh, and the reason most old Valve games are $10 seperate is the same reason you have a Totalgaming.net subscription for indie games...Your supposed to buy it in packs, to get savings.
