Valve has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 version of Orange Box will be released a bit later than PC and 360 builds - but said the delay is nothing to do with the console itself.
The reason for the PS3 build's late arrival, marketing director Doug Lombardi told Eurogamer, is simply that the EA UK team handling its development are on the other side of the ocean and are necessarily a bit behind the core Valve team's development.
The Xbox One Backward Compatible versions of Xbox 360 titles Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, The Orange Box, and Portal are now enhanced for Xbox One X, Microsoft announced.
Nothing but great memories with all these games! Playing Left for dead series during the college years with friends was the best.
Love to see titles coming to BC with enhancements. Would love even more to see Half Life 3.
The year is 2007. Console owners tap their fingers in barely contained impatience. For years they have been starved of Valve's delicious, full-bodied courses, forced to watch from the bleachers as Valve mixes a unique blend of kinetic first-person with extraordinary tech. Besides a brief dalliance with the original Xbox and the PlayStation 2 - which produce pale imitations of its best work - Valve has remained faithful to the PC.
And then, in a flash, five of them arrive at once; neatly packaged morsels for a new generation reared on Microsoft's & later Sony's consoles. Five games, all in one orange box. Valve serves the PC too, for it is October 18 - a day of celebration - and everyone should feast.
Valve didn't really "release" 5 of its greatest games in a single day, Half-Life 2 came out 3 years before The Orange Box. In no other context do we talk about a port being the "release" of a game.
The orange box was an excellent release. I don't think Valve will do much beyond online only games now.
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Little cheeky to talk about it when you know we're still waiting for Half Life 3...the Orange Box included Episode 2 and is still left unfinished story wise to this day.
At this rate we better get a second Orange Box. Half Life 3, Half Life Remake (Black Mesa Mod), TF3 or L4D3 and the HL spin offs like Blue Shift.
Don't know what valve are going to do with Half Life after Mike Laidlaw posted the short version of Episode 3 in August and changed the names and genders.
This is a title i would have been really looking forward to was it not for the fact that EA have been working on it. I just hope that Criterion of EA UK were given the task of doing it otherwise i have no hope for this title - will go with PC version.
Don't blame the PS3 folks when we see FPS issues in contrast to 360.
The devs delaying PS3 versions of multi platform games work for months to a year only to fail to get the games on par with 360 90% of the time; why would EA cater to such nonsense?.
Thats whats going on you folks try and make it simple and EA's prob when its not. The problem is devs making games with PS3 in mind its not on par with PC and 360 in the ways devs need" to make games if they are to be next-gen.
I hope they have some good development tools. Maybe Sony should hold development classes for the system. I really enjoy a lot of exclusive games for the system but not so much ports..
Just more proof that EA's developers suck ass.
In that article Valve claims that all three versions will be identical in function and performance so I wouldn't worry about the PS3 version looking like Krap.