The Orange Box is ok but Steam has to Go

A review of The Orange Box

Half-Life 2 is fun and gorgeous. Even 3 years after its release, it's still got the punch to stun, awe and envelop you in its complex web of puzzles and fast action. Portal is addictive puzzle gaming and even the Episodes provide more action and good story. TF2....well, let's just say that it's more fun than should be legal. You can read any review of any part of this Orange Box and believe what they say about how GOOD the games are.


However, you cannot possibly know how awful Steam is unless you click every attachment in spam emails that you get. Steam is a virus that runs your games for you and inserts itself between you and a good time. Constant validation bugs ensure that you'll be sitting there watching Steam validate for hours on end without changing instead of playing TF2, or Steam crashing on you just before you beat that puzzle in Portal you've been working on for hours. Or it just spams you with ads for other games when you open it up. Support? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! When Steam hangs on you, the ONLY solution you'll ever get is to spend 6 hour reinstalling/redownloading Steam and all your games and reupdating them. Then, after Steam hangs again, you uninstall it and go buy games that let YOU own them...not lease them from this infernal agent of irritation.

Steam is the WORST thing to ever happen to gaming and I join the other reviewers in wishing its creator to be shot into the sun from a giant cannon using...STEAM power.


Blarrrrgh, Steam sucks as much as HL2 and TF2 rule. If you want the fun, you'll have to put up with the pain of Steam.



This being said, I will never, EVER, EVER, EVER buy a game through Steam, nor will I forgive Valve for implementing a system that is a giant ad delivery system.
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