TF2 Xbox is still pretty active, lots of lobbies and players daily, alongside a community discord existing with thousands of players that organize lobbies daily.

Damn, how small the world seems to be... Near the end of Summer in 2010, after getting a paycheck for a summer program that I just finished for my high school, went and bought an Xbox 360 and the Orange Box. Never played HL1, but all of the Gmod videos, especially Half Life: Full Life Consequences, made me excited to play HL2 and it's episodes. Got of all the achievements for them and Portal, and when I had money from Christmas / Birthday, or whenever my mom bought it, I played TF2 on XBox Live and I sunk hundreds of hours on vanilla TF2. My Senior year of High School between 2010-2011 was filled with memories of TF2 and Battlefield 1943 on Xbox Live... when life was simpler...

This game still gets 3k - 5k players a month which is great. We got a discord and everything and we have mods that have actually implemented pyros pc airblast and lvl3 teleporter recharge time. It’s a good time on this game.

Your video brings back memories for me. When I was in middle school my parents had an HP desktop computer that I first installed Steam on. I didn't have a credit card at the time so the only game I could download was TF2. The PCs specs were pretty bad making it almost impossible to play competitively against actual players. So all I did was similar to you roaming around empty lobbies exploring around. Now I'm an adult and have a full time job and can afford any computer I want, but something about the feeling of being a kid again and experiencing all that for the first time is irreplaceable

I started playing as a kid on PC in 2013, and I was too young and scared to join multiplayer servers. I stuck to "preparing" myself to eventually play with others, I would load up empty maps and try to learn the layouts and gamemodes, see how characters worked and mess around in the training mode. But my fondest memory of this period was loading it up with my brother, and it just being us fighting in an empty match of upward or 2fort. Obviously, I immediately deduced from this that Heavy was the strongest class in the game and that I should play him no matter what. Eventually, after weeks of doing this, I loaded up multiplayer for real and got my ass kicked. I'll always remember that kind of "incubation" period before I started playing the game, just walking around testing maps and playing with my brother. Whenever I play TF2 now I always feel like I'm chasing those feelings I used to have back in 2013-2015. I'm an adult in college now and I've kind of moved on to other things, but in my heart I'm still young and playing this game with my brother on an empty server.

1:04 THIS TRANSITION THO

That nostalgic silent stroll when you were the last person on the server after a long fun night of playing.

I thought that title was saying the XBOX servers went offline recently

i feel like we had the exact same childhood lol, this was my EXACT FIRST experience with tf2 and its what got me to play it on my first laptop a year later

Id like to thank all of you for all your positive feedback! Reading all your guy's comments and own experiences for this old game warms my heart.

I grew up with The Orange Box I didn’t have Gold when I was younger so I mainly ran around the maps. There was a time where I somehow had Gold for 3 days and I played nonstop pulled all nighters and everything. It was so fun. I now have my own PC and play this game for content having the time of my life. I’m so proud of how far I have come. Great video I had a great time watching it! I might have to check this game out again on the Xbox 360 maybe do it for a video. I miss The Orange Box

Quite impressive they managed to put 3 complete games onto one disc

I love this video because I would always just hop on to just to see game mechanics and the maps layout. This video perfectly encapsulates my experience and I’m guessing plenty others experiences as well. I have a feeling this video will start to pop off soon enough.

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING Transformers FOC in the intro. One of my personal favorite transformers games ever

I love your calm edits within your video man, keep it up!

I played 360 version for a few months b4 I got PC version back in 2008 and I'm glad I did cause just like you described it was way lonelier and I got to appreciate the art style and maps more. Also seeing how ridiculous looking the game eventually became with all the hats, the 360 version is like a time capsule back to when Valve was in their prime and purest form. Great video.

i also didn’t have xbox live so I just walked around in tf2 maps alone, i didn’t have a good pc but i loved tf2 vids on youtube

wow, this video takes me back so many years ago, I still play tf2 to this day but gaming and life has changed so much the past few years.. oh how much I miss those simpler times

Watched this whole video, this is how it felt to play offline with many online games I had as a kid. Thank you for this experience.

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the title.

Something that helps a game a lot but is not really talked about is "how much real a place is without player interaction?" Mainly the sound escapes. Hearing the machines beeping, the breeze flowing through, etc. Alongside things like trains passing through, like the place doesn't need players to exist to feel alive. Source games are excellent for this. Team fortress 2, Half life 2 but even Left 4 dead does it. Gmod maps are also a great example for this. Honestly sometimes I think of getting a VR setup with a treadmill just to aimlessly walk on such maps.

It’s still BIG i mean there are lobby’s all day people have hacked, airblast and payload into it so honestly, the community can change it how they want

6:40 this series of statements resonates with me heavily: one of the only games i had for my PS1 growing up was the jampack winter 2000 demo disc, which had about 10-12 games with 30 minute demos for each of them. this console was located at my grandma's house, where there was little else to do but play outside in the summer and come inside to cycle through all the games on the demo disc. contrary to what my elders thought at the time, playing those demos was such a great way to exercise one's imagination, so as to figure out what those games were actually like to play. that thought/gameplay loop was integral to my current and past relationship with video games, thank you for taking me back down memory lane like that lol.

This most nostalgic game ever this game will never end ❤ 2007-2024 17 years !

This video is such incredibly good quality.

this is very close to my first experience with tf2, walking around empty maps and just listening to the sounds of the game with a deep sense of being alone I never did get xbox live so that was my only perspective of tf2 at the time untill much later when I finally figured out how to downloaded tf2 on my familys laptop

the dev commentary makes the single player experience wholly unique, as i dont think its in the steam version anymore and in valve fashion, shows off the tricks they used for the game.

Great video, can't wait for your channel to blow up.

Love the quality man, keep it up!

I actually have fond memories of this even recently. Before me and my friend got our PCs we would play this together and I would always host a public lobby and people would join! It may not have a lot of people but there are still those who played to that day!!

It’s eerie how identical to my first experience with TF2 this is.

The Orange Box was also my first game... on Steam. So that's where our experiences hard diverge. TF2, mind you this was like 2009 or so, was amazing on PC. I dumped so many hours into that with my friends. I made great memories, from playing casually late on weekends, to trying to do the Highlander, to joining idle servers to get the random drops, or farm achievements for the items. I'm sad that Xbox never got updates, but am pleased they still are a strong community. I had the honor to be able to meet many of the TF2 voice actors, including Ellen McLain (GLaDOS, TF2 Announcer), in 2023 at PAX East. I hated waiting in that line for 3 hours, but these were people who lent their voices to media, specifically games in this instance, that had really deep impressions on me. It was worth it. Thank you for sharing your experience with TF2. It's so interesting to me to see how something so transformative for me is interpreted by others and the experience they had with these works.

imma get a copy of the orange box so i can play hl2 on the xbox

Xbox 360 had some fire games🔥🔥🔥🤟

god tf2 was my first game ive ever played i have so many vivid memorys with the game. I was 4 at the time of first ever playing

I experienced a similar thing with this game, only in reverse. Like you, I got a copy of The Orange Box knowing nothing about the games in it. I had heard of Half-Life before, but being a console gamer at the time, I never played it myself, having only watched my friends older brother play it at his house on his PC one time. So needless to say, I was blown away by what I played. But after I got my fill of Half-Life and Portal, I decided to try TF2 on a whim. I was fortunate to have access to Xbox Live at the time, so I just jumped into the first server I could that had a healthy player count. I immediately gravitated towards Engineer and Spy, and was hooked INSTANTLY. I played every single day after school for almost all of my high school years. I watched as the PC version got all these cool new weapons, hats and mechanics, meanwhile the lobbies on Xbox Live were dwindling by the day. It got to a point where there would only ever be 2, maybe 3 matches with players, then 2, then 1, then none. I held hope for so long that they would update the game for consoles, not fully understanding that it was technically impossible. Eventually, I ended up getting a PC that was JUST BARELY able to play the game at a somewhat playable state (it's still a Source game after all,) but I'll always remember my time with the 360 version of the game, and the people I eventually grew to know by name because the community got so small.

I really like this video. I like the part where you discussed having a collection of N64 cartridges. as a kid I always had a fascination with the N64 (I think it was the odd controller and being home to games like Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64) but I just missed it since when I was born right as the GameCube released. Those N64 kiosks (at McDonald’s and such) were legendary finds for me though.

Bought on PC and playing TF2 to this day. What a Christmas

I had a similar thing for me when I was really little on Minecraft. Our game didn’t update and I would see kids with witches and dragons and all kinds of crazy things on their Minecraft shirts and wonder what it was like. Then I got a switch a few years later.

About a year or two ago was the last time I actually was able to find an active lobby. It’s been a while since i last checked but every time I did there was no games available.

Amazing video dude keep going!

i remember that when i tried to pick a class the spy looked the coolest to me and i immediately picked him. Then i discovered he can backstab and he became my favorite class. So im a spy main all the way since i was like 10 years old to now 13 years later never changed

My first experience with tf2 was also on the orange box, after playing half life and portal i eventually played tf2, having never learned about the game and only seeing old gmod machinimas including the mercs, for some reason i could never get into a match though despite having internet, it was really odd going offline and experiencing the ambience, even if it was just grasshoppers and crows.

God this video is SO GOOD!!

I played orange box a few months ago and play on a half life mod, it’s very easy to hack because there is no support to stop them but they just hack to make cool maps or adjustments. Edit: I forgot to mention there are some pretty full servers

THIS VIDEO IS GOOOOD BRO

I moved to TF2 PC recently but played on 360 for years. Loved the ability to bhop and clown with glitches lol

Still try to find a lobby to this day and still can’t find any

I remember I didn’t have a PC at the time so I just used my hand me down Xbox 360. Pulled my first all nighter playing Skyrim and half life 2 and I remember in 2016 and 2017 there were still players on 360 tf2 complete with the same zany antics of the pc tf2 player base. I miss those days since my acc got hacked in 2019 and I wasn’t able to get it back

i preach the use of superliminal soundtrack. nice vibes.

2:17 proof heavy is schizophrenic

I used to play a lot of Xbox Orange box so much so that if you put it at all, there’s a good chance you played with or against me. I go back every now and again to see how the game is doing. It surprises me every time there are still people playing it and having a great time despite the neglect, the game has gotten.

You're very underrated! :>

Lovely video!! :) 💙

I remember buying the orange box on xbox 360 long long time ago, and playing tf2 for the first time. such a sweet long time ago, I wish I could go back.

in a way, tf2 xbox live is a way to preserve the old tf2 before they made soo many changes over the years

the orange box still goes hard

sick video keep it up i want more

I literally had the pretty much same experience when I was playing the orange box by the age of 10, ecxept I was only playing the dev commentary maps. I still had my fun despite me being so lonely with not a single enemy or friend, later on I dug out a realy old gaming pc from the 90s or early 00s out of our basement and I installed steam on it with TF2. I was so happy that I could finally have players to play with, but I didn't realy know how to play the game back then. Despite all that I had a good time.

Damn i used to play this so much 2015 to 2019 then i got a pc i never will forget those years the mods the small lil community always seeing the same players. Its special id love to play it again

Back in late '09 we lost the landline to our house, and with it I lost any chance of consistent online gaming for the next 5 years. I got a copy of The Orange Box the month after that loss, really hoping that console TF2 had some sort of offline experience, as it was mainly the reason I bought it. I wanted a piece of what every GMod animator was playing at a time when I didn't have a suitable PC. The whole backrooms energy of booting up a private server off-network personifies my loss of broadband internet at the time, and it made my waiting for taking my copy of the game to a friends house a really big deal. In the interim the only thing keeping me company was the trains on CP Well.

it's so funny how my most played version of tf2 at all is the orange box version of it on PS3

when you try to find zephenia mann's ghost

Its so sad that things like this happen and servers go offline

Played Xbox tf2 for 5 years til I got my pc. Some of the best times playing it

i bought the game using my moms credit card only knowing that the prorvided preview screenshots in the 360s market place had the physics gun and tf2 that i instantly recognized. best 60 dollas of my childhood, thx moms credit card. console tf2 still is and will probably be the only version i will play in the forseeable future. the glitches and the handful modding community give the game way more life. like the glitch where u can move around just the same but while doing ur static taunt with a combination of a jump and a press of the taunt button is just so fucking funny to see in game.

When I was younger I had an Xbox 360, I used to watch this youtuber at that time named PlayingWithMahWii. He would make playthroughs of TF2 on Steam and to my young brain thought it looked amazing. He had quite a few mods and the game just looked really cool. I stumbled across the very same issue as in the video. I did not have or know about Xbox Live, and was sad that I couldn't play TF2. I didn't even know how to host the server myself. After a few months I ended up convincing my parents to pay for Xbox Live. The ONLY memory I have of playing TF2 online was spawning in to 2fort, walking out of spawn, turning to the right towards the courtyard, and about 6 sentry guns were propped up in the sky and I immediately died lol Obviously a hacker messing around, but that short lived experience is still burned in to my memory. Shortly after, I got a laptop, downloaded Steam and TF2, now all these years later I have almost 8k hours Much love for tf2, forever ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

I still get into games on my xbox every day, it's pretty fun still. Good times, pretty balanced too even with no airblast and the such.

TOB TF2 can't necessarily go offline due to the fact it's p2p. It just means it's upto people to host games, They typically get hosted around 6-9pm UK time (probably around 3-4pm USA time)

I played TF2 on the Xbox 360 yesterday and I found a full lobby, it’s the time zone and Country your from.

This was how I started playing TF2 back when the Orange Box came out... Today I still play it and have been relishing the bot ban! I'm 27 now and I was 10 when this game came out.

going insaneo wacko mode with the quality

i'd argue xbox tf2 is better than pc tf2 (in most aspects, at least)

P.S. there are some people that believe that the servers for tf2 on the 360 are shutdown which is not true, and im sorry for the misleading thumbnail or for anything i said in the video, i definitely didn't mean for it to come off that way

TF2 on Xbox is my only way to play it (my laptop is too potato, can't even run games with graphics on parr with the first Half-Life) and it's basically the same exact experience. Keep running into a dude named Scout II, and it's amazing how alive it is. You'll rarely find full lobbies, granted, but 9/10 timed you're likely to find at least one server.

This video needs more views

Why is this so relatable 😢

peak video man

I still play TF2 Orange box like several hours like once or twice a year. Great times. ❤

This guy is underrated

beautiful vid:)

Still wish this was available

loved the tf2 asmr part lol

Great vid dairY

this game is time capsule of an old original build of tf2. pc had so many patches + new weapons + hats. theyve actually downgraded the graphics / visuals just to lower the speed + performance since it went f2p

The feels

i played orange box on xbox 1 2 days ago i was in a dull lobby and i was shocked

They had ranked matches decade before the PC port

I experienced tf2 on the Xbox just like this when I was a kid

"We got a discord" where might this discord be sir?

I would just listen to dev notes when offline

This makes me miss my Xbox 360 which was sadly sold. I was such a spoiled kid, I got to play on a massive TV (Bigger than 65 inches maybe? It took up the whole corner of the room and was bigger than a person.) With amazing surround sound, But it didn't matter to me, I was too young and as a child I didn't know most of what my console could do, To me the Xbox 360 was as basic as a N64, You put in a game and play it, nothing more nothing less. I didn't know about internet or settings or anything and I didn't care ether. I had fun that was all that mattered. My console was also never connected to the internet during it's entire life. I had Minecraft which was never updated because of it, the OG Xbox Minecraft, Dishonored, Crysis 2 and 3, The Orange Box, Portal 2, And probably 50 more games for the thing that I didn't play. The 360 is and always will be my favorite Xbox console epically since it doesn't require a net connection. I made so many good memories with the console and I had more fun with it than anything else. I want a 360 now and have been wanting one for so long, I'll never stop wanting one and I'll never stop using it if I get one. I can play Xbox games on PC with emulators and I have a wired Xbox 360 controller (I grew up with wireless ones we had 2 and a charger dock) but it's not even close to the same. There is just something so magical about using the 360 that modern consoles can't replicate no matter how hard they try.

Saint's Row 3 and Crackdown 2 was my favorite co-op game to play as a kid. Real shame that titles after were pretty lame.

No one ever talks about not having internet or xbox live, It felt like i was the only kid who didnt have it

I hated having no Internet and no bot support. I would walk around the maps like hydro and look out the map for some reason I found it peaceful. The devopler cometary was awesome haven't seen other games do that since. We can't compare with the features of old games.

I have The Orange Box on PS3, should I plug it in again?

XBOX DEEEEEAD! - Brody Foxx

6:39 no one in history will ever experence this ever

No game for me beats the long dark (single player only unfortunately without PC and some modding) The long dark is basically an end of world ice age scenario where you struggle against wildlife like bears and wolves competing for food and territory, loot slowly runs out as you gather it meanign eventually after hundreds of days bears wolves and other critters like rabbits deer and fish become your only food and clothing source Game is permadeath, if you die thats it that world is deleted forever and the journal of your stats are saved as a memory so you can look at that characters accomplishments hefore death You can see your calories consumed days survived, animals killed, things like that I should mention too this game is a very immersive 1st person view adventure action style game too with an amazing cartoonish looking art style think of borderlands meets paintings made by van gogh in terms of the visuals, all with 4k modern lighting and shadow textures

What was that other game he played? Where you capture the flag and the map gets spooky