The Orange Box's HARDEST Achievements 

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I remember asking my mom for Portal 1 as a kid after beating the sequel and getting this on my birthday… I don’t think there’s ever gonna be a whole collection of games this great for a while.

The one bullet challenge in episode 1 actually made the episode insanely fun. The way it makes you use Alex to attack for you, makes you use physics props to kill enemies, and otherwise has you utilise environmental hazards makes me appreciate the level design. I swear most of the game could be played like this after getting the gravity launcher, HL has to be my favourite series from Valve.

I found the hardest HLE1 Achievement was "the One Bullet" where you are only allowed to shoot your gun once in order to open a gate and after that just grenades and stuff. It's not THAT hard but i remember how i got frustrated at one level. Nice video!

I felt that when you said that you lost your save. I understand the pain. It is a shock, everything goes silent as you begin to realize what has happened.

I love how jack is explaining the plot and achievements like im in a class presentatiioon

That was such a good watch, I've got lots of nostalgia for playing The Orange Box (even though I did all my tf2 in 2010-2013 on Steam)

I remember playing this on my 360 everyday for a while because it was so good.

I bought Orange Box on steam the day it came out. It was my first steam purchase. 15 years wow

Mad respects to you getting the portal ones. Those nearly broke me on Steam and I did them legitimately.

this was a lovely video! This gives me inspiration to go and complete the orange box for Myslef. You just can't deny the addiction of getting achievements, especially on 360 games!

Great video man! I cant imagine getting the grub achievement let alone all of orange box’s. Impressive work :]

My god I forgot what the menu looked like, this was a punch of nostalgia

Quite mellow and straightforward, good video

Brother it's super easy to get your saves from the 360 to the newer Xboxes. Just upload them to cloud storage from your 360's hard drive settings on the dashboard, and they'll automatically be downloaded when you boot the game on X1/SX. Orange box is enhanced on new gen too, runs at 4K.

I remember thinking back in the day that it would be ridiculous if not impossible to 100% the orange box, because that's the same as 100% on 5 games. This video is inspirational!

The Orange Box and subsequently the Valve Complete Pack (during Steam sales) are the greatest deals in gaming history, especially the Valve Complete Pack. It used to be an amazing deal at 20$ back in the day and now its costs something like 5$ during sales which is an absolute steal (but it also lost CSGO in the meantime so I guess it kinda still costs the same if you want csgo too, but its still such a steal)

24:37 The game is very popular, it even has a whole discord dedicated to that version of the game. I also got all these tf2 achievements in a modded server. Just started getting the achievements randomly.

i’m so happy i found your channel, i’m really enjoying going back through your catalog lol.

Valve needs to release a new Orange Box.

I played through HL2 EP2 for the first time while also doing the Little Rocket Man achievement. It probably ruined my enjoyment of the playthrough when I look back at it.

This is dope! I appreciate a channel that plays different games! Keep up the great work

This is actually pretty impressive.

Watched all three videos of the series 😮 LOVE IT 🎉❤ Please keep finishing games from yours and mine childhood I love getting a nostalgia rush. Especially since my health is failing me and this is keeping my morale up. Thank you ❤😢

i remember struggling SO much with this achievement! the only ones i'm missing from this game is the grub achievement from ep2, which i've failed at getting several times; and the "play with 7 people from your friends list" achievement from TF2, which i don't even know if it's still possible to achieve

I think one of the hardest achievements I ever did was Portal 2 Multiplayer. Had two controllers and did the whole thing with one hand on each. I must have looked like spiderman.

great video! love the orange box

Really enjoyed it. Keep it up man

this video helped me to get through a very shitty day, thank you a lot

8:44 The term for it is called accelerated back hopping or ABH for short, it's a form of bunny hopping. You can do it on console because it's an updated version of the game which doesn't allow people to do it and that version doesn't exist on the Xbox and PS3 versions however in my experience performing an ABH on controller is incredibly difficult.

Nice video! You have a lot of potential my friend! I wish you great amounts of happiness and success! :)

Also, I have to take a second to appreciate the fact that Jack took the time to play out Half-life just to show the entirety of a piece of gaming history. It really shows your passion for gaming as a whole, not just focused on pumping out content. Mad respect man 😎👍🏻👌🏼

even using a guide those portal challenges are BRUTAL!

Man I miss the orange box I made multiple accounts just to unlock the achievements again 😭

For the broken bridge in half life 2 there is a way on controller to cross it which also uses ABH. It's harder to pull off but still very possible just takes some practice

Omg I remember opening this on Christmas. Geee whizzz! Played it non stop for days hahah

Chill video. Idk why youtube recommended it but I watched it so I guess it's fine.

the nostalgia is hitting me hard🤤

there's actually out-of-bounds tricks for 15, 16, 17, and 18 to save lots of steps and time. but IDK if out-of-bounds is possible on the console version of portal

I remember that grub achievement... absolutely ridiculous. I still remember playing vanilla TF2. God knows what that thing looks like now

You can go to 360 Settings and upload the save to the cloud so when you move to One/Series the data is there

This is very nostalgic of rooster teeth, especially with that classic Xbox achievement unlocked notification

I remember when I got my first ps3, the orange box came with it. I knew about valve but just because of l4d. Great lineup of games right here

Accelerated backhopping etc is possible on a controller it's just more funky and sometimes you can do it and sometimes not because it's a bit tricky.

This is a pretty impressive video

At that broken bridge, you can grab a box and item hop on the cliff over to the left, just change your jump to bumper and mash that jump and item grab against, I've cleared half life 2 console without the car and item hopping over most of scripts. I was poor and raised on orange box, and the amount of glitches you can learn to do on controller is uh actually rather limited but hey you can clear half the game by hoping over walls with a box or barrel

This deserves far more views

I did this one one a back in 2022. Aperture science is a pain but you can lower the difficulty of the challenges by exploiting the shoot portals anywhere cheat and then saving before the end of the level going to dash and going back in to finish the challenge with sv_Cheats disabled and it will give you the completion. The challenges were designed around the kb/m in mind with a controller it's brutal.

I know that it is possible to go with out the car in the very start of that chapter and not have the game soft lock. I think it's because you need to either trigger the lighthouse or something. But I know it's possible. I've done it multiple times after grenade/SMG grenade jumping over the gap. I may need to to experiment again, I still use my Xbox 360 even though I have a PS4. Still, nice job on the achievements. Shame that the file was gone but using a guide for the achievement was the best bet since you already had most of them anyway.

8:42 one of my mates actually learned how to ABH (accelerated back hop) using a controller. It is pretty hard to do and is a lot easier using a controller with paddles like a Scuf or Xbox Elite Controller, but it is definitely possible lol

I bought the orange box for $19 on a whim and it ended up being one of my top 15 favorite games.

I remember the gnome achievement, it was a fun challenge, so was the one for only using 1 bullet in HL2:E1. For some reason I could never find all the grubs, or save all the building from destruction outside the missile silo.

Class video, amazed you don’t have hundreds of thousands of subscribers

Nah man, Aperture Science achievement was pure pain. I did it in the OG portal and then did it again recently in RTX portal. Fuck that lmao.

that xbox intro brought back too many childhood memories

Really underrated channel!

Hello the same guy who posted that it's possible to skip Highway 17 all the way to the light house on Sand traps. And after 6 days, I can confirm that it's possible. Idk how, but towards the light house the game checks for the car, and some dialogue is skipped if you left the car behind before you hit the first loading zone during Highway 17. Idk if it's possible to leave the car afterwards. I do know that the train part where you have to outrun an oncoming train apparently counts as destroying the car even if you left it nearby. But it is possible with some grenade jumping and either 75% or full health and suit. After the initial dialogue skip with the lighthouse the game proceeds as usual. Notable things that can happen that many people may know The gunship where you find the first salvage of cars doesn't appear. As stated above, the oncoming train section will count the car being destroyed if it's left behind that specific section.and the player decided to walk/run the tracks on foot. If the car is left behind in highway 17, ( maybe a bit later) you can just walk along the guard rail thing to avoid the train and proceed as normal. I've only had this happen to me twice, but in that same train section where you need to lower the shielding barrier thing, sometimes a gunship doesn't spawn, however the usual things still happen. That's all I can gather from my testing. It's possible to go through Highway 17 and Sand traps on foot. Watch for antlions and roller mines, lol

That “crossing the beach without touching the sand” achievement for Half-Life 2 is one I went for 20 times…but never got. I’m not sure if it’s because you have to do it in one go without saving between planks, but I know I’ve done it before at least 6 times/ 20! It’s not hard, but the game just doesn’t seem to like giving it out.

When he said "get all gold medals" i physically recoiled.

he could've just used the gravity gun to blast the car out of the water, it's how you get it unstuck any time you can't move it by driving

Great video man

The Orange Box was such a no-brainer I bought the game(s) before I even got my 360.

the xbox 360 intro gave me goosebumbs

just to let you know you can transfer your save file on the 360 to the cloud then you can play that same save on the xbox one

i have a PS3 and xbox 360, both are my mother's and i found the orange box from this box of PS3 and xbox 360 games, and it was amazing when i first played it naturally the first game i played was HL2

Im the 1k sub! 🎉 Congrats🎉

God that intro gave me nostalgia

The amount of hours I put into the orange box omg I loved all of the games so much

Great video very entertaining

great vid man

When this first came out I didn’t have WiFi or anything so I could never play the tf2 game

Aperture Science is BRUTAL. The only way I managed to pull it off was through using out of bounds exploits in several challenges.

I got all gold medals for portal 1 but didn't get all the achievements because the achievements were completly broken on steam for me so there is still 2 achievements remaining but I would like to think that I DID get all of them...but for portal 2 I got about if I can remember 51/57 achievements for portal 2...it is extremely hard because of co-op :(

The PC version does have the Aperture Science AP.

Loved the vid I used to play the orange box all the time. Would you consider getting all of Skate 3's achievement's?

Very underrated

Let's just have a moment of silence for thid man

Rice and beans, Mr. Freeman. Rice and... Beans.

Couldnt you transport save using usb?

"old janky controller" the Xbox 360 has the best designed controller ever

I honestly had the most fun with portal challenges, I rarely do any challenges in games, but portal was my jam. Getting a score that was above the gold medal was delicious. Except for the time challenges. Those weren't interesting to me. That's to say "difficult" can be very subjective.

Here are my only 3 HARDEST Achievements in The Orange Box for me: 1. Keep Off The Sand! Cross the antlion beach in Chapter 8: Sandtraps without touching the sand. (Half Life 2) 2. The One Free Bullet Complete all of the game firing only one shot. Grenades, SMG Grenades are allowed, Gun Turrets are allowed, Rockets, Crowbar, or the Gravity Gun and NOTHING ELSE. Those ONLY 6 are okay! (Half Life 2: Episode One) 3. Little Rocket Man Send the garden gnome into space. Keep the gnome under the shelf throughout the whole game from Chapter 1: To The White Forest all the way up to Chapter 6: Our Mutual Fiend and then put the gnome into the rocket to shoot him off into space and close the hatch and then the achievement will unlock. (Half Life 2: Episode Two) That's it I guess! I hope you like it! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

One time, I joined a modded tf2 match on the Orange Box. One of the things that match did was unlock every single achievement for the orange box. I definitely worked hard for that lmao

Very interesting, but don't let this video distract you from the fact that Tupac became an underground rapper

I’m all for playing on original hardware, but if you wanted to play on modern day Xbox just put the 360 save into the cloud on the 360. Then when you play on newer Xbox it’ll automatically pull this save

Great Gmod video

dont the 360 cloud saves carry over to xbox one?series consoles?

Just you know: jumping across that broken bridge was possible with a rocket jump Still, great vid

Imagine trying to grind all modern TF2 achievements

I still have a full copy of the Orange Box, which is pretty cool. Sadly, I can't play TF2 on it.

Isnt the orange box backwards compatible to the xbone? So you could just transfer the save to the cloud to play it on the One.

underrated asf

Holy shit that Xbox start up is so nostalgic

8:52 I have proof it can be done without a keyboard and mouse. its still funky but also very possible

Ep.2 Also had the achievement for saving all buildings in the last standoff against striders. Funny thing, I've done all of the tough achievements for all the HL2 games, but not the easy ones like the toilet one. Not much of a completionist, just like the challenge.

way cool!!!

One of my last is to crush all the grubs, I missed one recently and I don't know which one, fuck. Also yeah those gold medals, fuck it drains the soul lol, still felt great getting the silvers

I'm sure l passed the sandtraps without touching the sand(or at least antlions like 10 years ago but it didn't count as an achievement just like you said. I never tried that again.

i know i am really late for this, but if you download of 360 profile on usb chip, you transfer it to your xbox one.

I remember carrying that gnome that gnome and getting pstd playing l4d2 from the first time and seeing him as a prize in dark carnival if anyone has played that