.PCN: 'Looking at my collection of games I still see one disgrace sitting at the bottom of the pile, The Orange Box. Probably the worse ported title in PS3 history, and its mostly due to the fact Valve wanted nothing to do with it.
PSLS. News. PS3 / PlayStation 3 News, Trophies, Reviews, and More. That and their only game on the console, The Orange Box, was plagued. On The Orange Box, and promised for better quality PS3 titles in the future. Because trophies weren't introduced until July 2, 2008, but the Playstation 3 had already existed for two years by that point, some games that were released early in its life cycle do not have trophies. This is a list of Playstation 3 games that do not have trophies.
Now what could easily make up for this horrible mistake? Well we already know going back and fixing ALL the issues are out of question, so why not do the simple thing and add trophies? The other two platforms already have achievments installed, so porting these over would be simple.
Nearly nothing. An hours debate of rather or not the intern doing it will get paid or not.' 3309d agoI never knew the orange box had any problems until i first started going on this site,i have had 0 problems while playing portal,half-life 2 as well as ep1 & ep2 there are no game breaking bugs.it's a great package and one of the best games ever i love the orange box if you have never played half-life buy it,it's too cheap not too!! It still holds up to this day,it can still hang with the big boys tho it's not as pretty as uncharted 2 or anything but it's so worth it even with out trophies!
3308d agoSome trophies complement people's play styles.For example: I like going for 100% in GTA games. I originally got GTA IV on PS3, and I went for the trophies. I treated them just the same way I'd treat the stats screen in-game before trophies/achievements were ever even remotely implemented.Also gives me a reason to go back to games. It's a personal thing, not really hard to comprehend that people perceive them in their own way. Then again, you're having some trouble figuring it out, so maybe it is extremely complicated. I don't put much thought into it. 3309d ago (Edited 3309d ago )It's just an idiot that manages to pull a random crap thought out of the toilet and poorly expresses it on a random website.
Thinking that it's worth something, he typically posts it on N4G under the category of 'opinion piece', because that's the area that protects the lousiness of the content best, where his worthless, non-coherent thought gets attention.As a result, the submission is garbage, but he succeeds in gaining hits. That is the state of journalism with these sites. 3309d agoStupid article is stupid.' The other two platforms already have achievments installed, so porting these over would be simple. Nearly nothing. An hours debate of rather or not the intern doing it will get paid or not.' 'Porting would be simple?
The code has long since been branched off for the PS3, using a PS3 SDK that DID NOT HAVE TROPHIES, it would require porting over to the latest SDK for a start, then clearing up the code that EA no doubt made a pig's ear of, then testing testing and more testing. Some people have no clue how much effort it actually takes to do the (seemingly) Simplest of things. 3309d agoRead further into this comment if you wanna know why A) this article is fucking stupid and B) why TOB on PS3 has no trophies.The Orange Box on the PS3 was done by EA UK, not Valve. At that time, Valve was butthurt due to the PS3 having a difficult architecture and them being too lazy to learn it.
After the PS3 started selling a lot better and other third-party devs proved that once you learn the architecture, it's just as good - if not better in some cases - than the 360, Valve came crawling back.It's up to EA UK, who at the time also decided to be morons and put the blame on Valve. EA UK said it was up to Valve to patch it since it was their game (technically it was), but Valve didn't know how to do anything PS3-related, so they couldn't do it, thus putting the blame back on EA UK. All Valve had to do was give EA the tools to patch it, and it could've been done very easily. EA didn't really give a rat's ass about TOB since it wasn't an EA staple investment, and Valve considered the project done and had no reason to revisit it.As for it being a 'terrible' port, I call bullshit. I bought TOB in Feb. 2008 and beat every single game on it. TF2 ran fine as well, although a lot of glitches still exist on it and will never be fixed.
I own the PC version of all of these titles, and while it's quite obvious that the PC versions are superior since they've all been updated frequently and have mod support, I had no issues beating any of the games. HL2 had a few memory leaks which caused massive temporary frame drops, but that was fixed in a small patch EA UK decided to do later on.Thus ends the legacy of TOB on PS3. 3309d agoFor a second there I got worried about Valve not supporting trophies for Portal 2.PhewBut look every one talking smack about trophies has to remember that trophies do bring sales just look at the HD collections they wouldn't sell as well as they have been if there wasn't trophies, when ps titles first got trophies they were bought more then ones without.They may just be as stupid as achievements but in the end of the day they sell.If Valve were to do this move I would welcome it. If valve did this with TF2 (with all 200+) fuck it that would be awesome beyond words. Half Life 2 + episodes? DamnI'm a trophy whore but if Valve played their cards right they could get a mighty profit out of the ps3 users whether a select few don't like it.
. Summary: Games included in The Orange Box compilation: The original Half-Life 2 - The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into Games included in The Orange Box compilation: The original Half-Life 2 - The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people - people he cares about - are counting on him. Half-Life 2: Episode One - The player reprises his role of Dr.
Freeman, who must immediately face the repercussions of his actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Nancy drew alibi in ashes easter eggs video. Freeman reconnects with Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, as they continue their support of the resistance's battle against the Combine forces. Half-Life 2: Episode Two - the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17. Portal - a pioneering type of single player action game that rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment – much like how Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun reinvented the way gamers interact with objects in the game. Team Fortress 2 - an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games. The game's daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.