The Orange BoxI decided to buy the Orange Box. If you don't know, the Orange Box contains 5 games: Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1, Half Life 2 Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress. The games will be called HL2, Ep 1, Ep2, Portal, and Team Fortress, respectivily for the remainder of this post, and maybe future posts.

I played, and beat Portal already. That's an awesome game. It even has replay value. I've beaten it twice. I've been playing the bonus maps, and what not. I am also trying to get all of the achievements. It's pretty hard to get some of them.

Especially when you have to play advanced maps. Basically they are maps from the main game, but with things removed, or modified. Some of them I scratched my head at for a few minutes then finally figured them out. One of the advanced maps had me thinking for a very long time, and i even had a friend helping me figure it out. Once you do figure out the advance maps, you feel a big sense of achievement.

The story is really good. The dialogue is amazing with GLaDos, and the turrets. Valve is going to put the main character of Portal into Episode 3. That'll be cool.

I haven't had a chance to Half-life or Team Fortress. I am playing through the first half-life. I haven't gotten very far. I've been playing a lot of Portal.

Not to mention I was going through Steam's shop, and found the Psychonauts Demo, and I was like "I wonder if they have the full game on here" and behold they did. So I paid the 20 bucks and bought it. I was happy. I downloaded the demo first, to see if the controls would work well with my controller. They did. It's a really fun game.

If you didn't know, the game was made by the mind of Tim Schafer, who is one of the more funny people in the video game industry. He also made the Monkey Island series, and Grim Fandango, among others. If you get a chance to play the Monkey Island series, it's funny. It's a point and click, items on screen kind of game. It's also probably hard to find since it was made for DOS.

So far psychonauts is hilarious and fun. Nothing screams funny then a kid talking to squirls that are telling him to kill everybody.

I think that pretty much cover's everything.

Wait. I'm kinda thinking about getting a Playstation 3. I'll probably wait until I get my tax return back or something, unless rumors start popping up about another price cut. I mean, Blu-Ray is probably going to win the HD War. Might be awhile for the official crowning, with regular DVDs still in full swing, but I think HD is down for the count. I could be wrong. I was going for HD DVD, but it just doesn't look good for them.

There's other things I like about the PS3, but I want a few games for it too. Assasign's Creed, Burnout Paradise, and Heavenly Sword. That's expensive though. I mean that's 180 bucks for just those games. That's kinda why I'm waiting for a price cut on the PS3. Hopefully by then some of those games will go down in price.

Now I think I'm done. Peace out.