So I just picked up the Orange Box

[Heathen]

Any good mods I should look at? Anything I should know? Anything you guys suggest?

[Bodzilla]

minerva i hear is fuck win.

they guy now works for valve

[Timo]

Minerva is amazing.

[Ifafudafi]

Outside of the assloads of great multiplayer mods, you should also check out Research and Development (http://www.moddb.com/mods/research-and-development), a short but awesome puzzle mod.

Just do some googlin', a lot of the good stuff isn't too hard to find

[n00b1n8R]

R&D was shit, it hated one of my solutions so much it killed me every time i did it (and trying to get the lego car to assemble took FOREVER FOR NO REASON).

Bout time you bought it but, just for the Gmod content or did you want TF2 too?

[Heathen]

Already had Tf2 so basically the first part. Plus to play through the Hl's.

[Botolf]

*shameless thread promotion*

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=383302

[legionaire45]

MINERVA (http://www.hylobatidae.org/minerva/)
Mission Improbable (http://www.planetphillip.com/posts/mission-improbable-half-life-2-ep2/)
Nestlings (http://www.moddb.com/mods/nestlings)
Radiator: Part 1 Episodes 1 and 2 (http://www.radiator.debacle.us/)
Flesh (http://www.moddb.com/mods/flesh)
Provenance (http://www.moddb.com/mods/provenance)
Dear Esther (http://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/esther.htm) [Note: this isn't so much a mod as it is basically you walking around listening to audio and looking at stuff.]
Missing Information (http://www.moddb.com/mods/missing-information) [Note: Only if you've played through all of Vanilla HL2]
Dino D-Day (http://www.moddb.com/mods/dino-d-day)
Curse (http://www.moddb.com/mods/curse)
Post Script (http://www.moddb.com/mods/post-script) [Note: Similar concept to Dear Esther]

Besides these, if you want to keep up with HL2 mods and such look at planetphillip (http://www.planetphillip.com/) or moddb.

[Heathen]

best list ever thank you oh my god

[seanthelawn]

Just played a few on that list and they were really good, thanks

+rep

[Heathen]

agreed. Gonna finish hl2 first before playing some though.

E: ARGH...so I just realized why I was a little confused at some parts. I gotta play blue shift and opposing force. I know they arent vital, but I would have loved to have recognized barney when I saw him in Black Mesa, and I would have loved to know where the combine came from without having read the wikipedia entry.

[Ifafudafi]

Valve considers both of the HL expansions as non-canon; neither of them explain the Combine's arrival, as the player is meant to extrapolate from various tibits from characters (particularly Kleiner's breencast in Ep1), and the Barney gag is a reference to the HL security guard's model filename and that one of their lines pre-Resonance Cascade said something about catching a beer later.

[Heathen]

Meh. Alrighty then. I gotta say though, I am glad I decided to get into the series. its fantastic. I love how its all in one continuous, sleepless, speechless, cutsceneless shot.

[legionaire45]

Gordon Freeman never takes breaks.

Not even to go to the bathroom man.

That suit has to be soggy.

[Bodzilla]

nah it's got a catheter that harness's his bodily fluids to drive the buggy