Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  the orange box wasnt released along side any steam hardware? that i can recall at least.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, Steam didn’t have their own hardware back then afaik, but it introduced Portal alongside new installments of two extremely popular existing franchises. That’s why I said it was similar instead of the same thing.

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        man… I really wish valve would go back and make new Meet The videos… or just TF2 videos in general. The first ones, like Heavy, got so ripped off compared to later ones like the Pyros

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        TFC was one of the most-played mods for HL1, there was plenty of anticipation around it

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