Valve reflects on The Orange Box, ten years later

2007 was the golden year for games for me. Its been 10 years already... god damn. I was 12 when this came out, TF2 was the first game I ever preordered, it was 2 weeks late to Australians but damn was it worth the wait. Scrimming on TF2 was so fucking fun! Much different from the serious BF1942 all the way to BF2142 that I'd been competing in for the 2 years prior, it was such a nice change. That whole era was amazing. I'm really struggling to find quality games these days as are a few people I talk to who played the same games as me back then aswell. if CSS wasn't dead in Aus and still had all those amazing communities I'd still be on deathrun and minigames/surf/zombie etc servers 4 hours a day.

All I want is a skill based game with good movement/rewards good aim & mod tools that I can play for years like the good old days with amazing communities :( I really miss joining CSS servers and players would be interacting with the server owner telling them about a map they'd been working on for the past 3 months and asking if they wanted to try it, and when they did the quality was amazing and the 40 people in the server were so hyped telling the guy what a great job he'd done. Such a shame we've come so far from that.

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