Portal 2 (and not Episode 3 :maf)

[Great Rumbler]

Curse you, Valve, for releasing such awesome games! CURSE YOOOOUUUUU!!!

[GilloD]

So, the E3 event is NOT Portal 2, it's NOT Half Life 3 and it's NOT Ice Frog's DOTA game. What is it? If it's Counter Strike 2, I'll actually cry*.

*No not really.

[Joe Molotov]

Cellphone games.

[pilonv1]

valve time

[fistfulofmetal]

I used to love Valve, man, it used to be beautiful. But I can't put up with this shit anymore. Like Biz said earlier, their last full-length game was Half Life 2. What the fuck!?

Took Valve 6 years to make Half Life 2. It is how it is. They make game slow but they make games goood.

[brob]

They've just started to beef CS Source so why would they announce CS2?

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[Raban]

I used to love Valve, man, it used to be beautiful. But I can't put up with this shit anymore. Like Biz said earlier, their last full-length game was Half Life 2. What the fuck!?

Took Valve 6 years to make Half Life 2. It is how it is. They make game slow but they make games goood.

It hurts so good :'(

[Bloodwake]

I didn't say I love Valve in that post. I'm merely being realistic.

Honestly 4 hours is all I need for a good game so long as the pacing is tight.

Also, Half Life 2 was too long. Half Life episode 1/2 length please.

You mean, not six hours long? Because if I pay fifty or sixty bucks for a game, it better be fucking longer than that.

I loved HL2, and I loved the length, and I thought it was paced well. HL2 Episodes I and II were good too, but that's because it was under 50 bucks. Same with Portal.

If you are going to make a game, make it worth my time to pay full price for it. Other than that, I'll be waiting until its cheap or rent it.

[cool breeze]

Portal was a puzzle game (or action puzzle game, w/e).  They could still have a relatively short main game and have a another mode with a bunch of Portal 1 style puzzle rooms to complete.  There is that co-op mode too.  I don't think it will be a problem.

[chronovore]

So, the E3 event is NOT Portal 2, it's NOT Half Life 3 and it's NOT Ice Frog's DOTA game. What is it? If it's Counter Strike 2, I'll actually cry*.

*No not really.

Gabe will reveal his THIRD chin.

[Stoney Mason]

I thought Portal was a really fun and neat concept and a good game. But honestly unless this game is radically expanded there is no way I could see them charging $60 dollars for it on a console.

I thought it was great as part of a package like in the orange box or as an XBLA title but its hard for me to see it as a full priced game.

[cool breeze]

[youtube=560,345]qQLpU0T-Sow[/youtube]

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

So, the E3 event is NOT Portal 2, it's NOT Half Life 3 and it's NOT Ice Frog's DOTA game. What is it? If it's Counter Strike 2, I'll actually cry*.

*No not really.

Steam goes to 360.

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[Vizzys]

wow that paint idea stuff is cooler than it sounded on paper

[fistfulofmetal]

this looks really good ya know. but... my title still stands.

Portal 2!!!! but not Episode 3 

[cool breeze]

wow that paint idea stuff is cooler than it sounded on paper

have you ever played tag the power of paint? they took in the guys who made that.  the mechanics are very similar.  In that game, one color let you speed up, one made you jump, one made you stick to it.  You could combo them like speed and jump to do long jump.

[Eel O'Brian]

i should probably finish the first one sometime

[Raban]

I'm probably going to play the co-op portion of this game with every human being alive. Also I'm glad to see some real difficulty in this game, seeing as how Portal was a cakewalk.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

i should probably finish the first one sometime

It takes like an hour.

[Eel O'Brian]

i got stuck on a puzzle and started feeling like a dumbass and went into FUCK THIS GAME rage and sort of forgot all about it afterwards

[Raban]

i got stuck on a puzzle and started feeling like a dumbass and went into FUCK THIS GAME rage and sort of forgot all about it afterwards

Wha-how? Portal is like sleep-easy.

[Joe Molotov]

i got stuck on a puzzle and started feeling like a dumbass and went into FUCK THIS GAME rage and sort of forgot all about it afterwards

Wha-how? Portal is like sleep-easy.

Old man Eel couldn't figure out how to turn on Easy mode.

[Eel O'Brian]

I'm in good company, on an old GFW episode Jeff Green said he got stuck on a particular puzzle for over an hour and felt the same way I did. 

[Vizzys]

its time to think with portals eel

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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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[cool breeze]

http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/064/064329/vids_1.html

three good videos about the game in general

it seems like they're saying the single player is roughly double the first game.  Multiplayer (co-op) is the same length as single player and a totally different game.

[Raban]

http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/064/064329/vids_1.html

three good videos about the game in general

it seems like they're saying the single player is roughly double the first game.  Multiplayer (co-op) is the same length as single player and a totally different game.

Cool, that means I can beat the game with four people a day. I'll be finished with my mission in a mere 4,587,160 years. Just in time before Earth is consumed by the sun.

[ManaByte]

Gabe got so fat his spine disappeared. He's spent the last few years bad mouthing the PS3, then SCEA backs a truck full of money up to him.

[maxy]

Gabe got so fat his spine disappeared. He's spent the last few years bad mouthing the PS3, then SCEA backs a truck full of money up to him.

He has to maintain his weight somehow,Sony money should be enough for about a year.

And then he can show L4D3

Half-Life 3 RIP

[maxy]

What's with the bagging on Gabe?

Sony opened up their platform and it is apparent that SteamWorks running on PS3 will mean I can play Portal 2 on PS3, Windows and Mac using exactly the same save, cooping with players on any platform, whereas the 360 version will be isolated from the rest, like a ginger-haired school kid in the playground.

You should be bagging on MS, not Gabe.

Because...next year,L4D3...year after Portal 3...then L4D4

Half-life games take long time to make...so it's much easier to go with this yearly cheap stuff
Half-Life 2 was released in 2004

I just want to play Half-Life 3 ...selfish thing,i know...

Of course,their franchise,their business,but that doesn't mean that I can't be disappointed. 

[Raban]

Valve makes fuck-tons of money, and not only that, they could go hogwild on the budget of Episode 3 and not even reach the average budget of current blockbuster titles. This isn't 3DRealms, this is Valve. They know what they're doing, it's just annoying that they delay/postpone/cancel/revive/buy out/cancel again/revive again/delay every fucking game they make.

[naff]

So, the E3 event is NOT Portal 2, it's NOT Half Life 3 and it's NOT Ice Frog's DOTA game. What is it? If it's Counter Strike 2, I'll actually cry*.

*No not really.

 
If it is CS2 I would ashamedly be happy
I used to nick money as a young teen to play CS at a dodgy asian net cafe down the road from my highschool at lunch. Seriously pathetic but was soooo good. Never been into other online FPS games since (bar natural selection).

[Raban]

Is? Isn't E3 like...over?

[maxy]

Somebody needs coffee.

[dark1x]

So, the E3 event is NOT Portal 2, it's NOT Half Life 3 and it's NOT Ice Frog's DOTA game. What is it? If it's Counter Strike 2, I'll actually cry*.

*No not really.

Steam goes to 360.

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The most amazing stuff about P2 is how GLaDOS is constantly rebuilding the rooms around. It looks f-g scary like from Silent Hill.

No shit.  That looks absolutely wicked.  I can't believe how far they've pushed the Source engine.  Looks substantially better than any of their previous games.  Can't wait to see what else they build with this new engine.

[Great Rumbler]

What's with the bagging on Gabe?

Sony opened up their platform and it is apparent that SteamWorks running on PS3 will mean I can play Portal 2 on PS3, Windows and Mac using exactly the same save, cooping with players on any platform, whereas the 360 version will be isolated from the rest, like a ginger-haired school kid in the playground.

You should be bagging on MS, not Gabe.

Yeah, if anything it seems like Gabe got exactly what he wanted. He bagged on the PS3, then Sony's like "Hey man, we need those games, so we're going to open the PS3 to Steam and give you a pile of monies" and Gabe's like .

[Eel O'Brian]

I'm in good company, on an old GFW episode Jeff Green said he got stuck on a particular puzzle for over an hour and felt the same way I did. 

Please tell us which puzzle it is so we can all feel smug.

I don't even remember.  Mine was towards the middle of the game, I think.

[Eel O'Brian]

it was something where i had to jump from one portal  down into to another and the momentum was supposed to fling me somewhere i needed to be, but i could never get it right so i said  "fuck this game, fuck this game's mother, fuck this game's slutty granny" and went to play something else, never to return

[Eel O'Brian]

no wait, that was the first time i quit, i think

i also quit on the one where you had to time the portals and get a ball somewhere from one room to another and it would always just bounce away and fuck this game i don't even remember but am still getting mad over

[archie4208]

it was something where i had to jump from one portal  down into to another and the momentum was supposed to fling me somewhere i needed to be, but i could never get it right so i said  "fuck this game, fuck this game's mother, fuck this game's slutty granny" and went to play something else, never to return

Sounds like Chamber 18.

[maxy]

it was something where i had to jump from one portal  down into to another and the momentum was supposed to fling me somewhere i needed to be, but i could never get it right so i said  "fuck this game, fuck this game's mother, fuck this game's slutty granny" and went to play something else, never to return

Funny i did the same thing ,got stuck somewhere and then,fuck this shitty game,fuck everything...and i never returned

And i never plan to...never

[Eel O'Brian]

grandpas like me

i will lynch you in red dead redemption, sonny boy

[Eel O'Brian]

i probably quit the game ten different times before i finally gave up for good

i'll get back to it someday, i never fully give up on games (unless i just think they're awful) and i hold game grudges forever

i chewed the end off an atari 2600 controller in a rage over defender, but i picked that gnawed motherfucker back up off the floor and played past the part where i died later on

[chronovore]

Eel, let's you and I posse up, and ride down these "portal was easy" bitches. It's not "an hour" and it's not easy. It's smart, it's one of the few puzzle games I've ever finished without resorting to a FAQ, and that came from tuning it for 3 years of development or whatever it was. It's not "easy," it's well-designed. But there are things you can do to fuck that balance right in its ear, like taking off the auto-align in the Options.

I had cleared one level dirt-simple, the one with the acid-floored room where you have to use platforming-like progress to jump up them like stairs. First time, easy-peasy, but on the second play-through I could not clear it. Just took me right past the edge of sanity. Turns out that auto-align was off, so it kept my sideways velocity instead of aligning perpendicular to the exit.

So everyone here has Vanilla Crazy Cake; is that what I'm hearing? And you all got it without The YouTube you youngsters are all so fond of?

[Raban]

Sorry grandpa, Portal is easy. No auto-align here, no FAQs, beat that shit like a rented mule. Not saying it's easy for everyone, but as a puzzle platforming master, Portal is easy. I played it the minute it was unlocked at midnight and beat it in that one sitting in just over 3 hours.

This isn't a knock against Portal, I love it, but it's easy.

[Great Rumbler]

There were a few areas and spots that gave me some trouble, but, yeah, it's a fairly easy game. Not really a knock against it, but this isn't Ninja Gaiden Black or anything.

[Bildi]

I can see people getting stuck somewhere in Portal just because something doesn't click.

Like that time in Wind Waker I was stuck for two days because I didn't realise I had to barrel-roll into the deku tree.

[chronovore]

Sorry grandpa, Portal is easy. No auto-align here, no FAQs, beat that shit like a rented mule. Not saying it's easy for everyone, but as a puzzle platforming master, Portal is easy. I played it the minute it was unlocked at midnight and beat it in that one sitting in just over 3 hours.

This isn't a knock against Portal, I love it, but it's easy.

At least I'm comfortable with my penis, Ma'am.

Auto-align is on by default; unless you messed with the options, you were benefiting from it all along. Beating it in three hours is impressive, but you didn't answer whether or not you'd also solved all the challenge modes and qualified for Vanilla Crazy Cake.

[Raban]

Sorry grandpa, Portal is easy. No auto-align here, no FAQs, beat that shit like a rented mule. Not saying it's easy for everyone, but as a puzzle platforming master, Portal is easy. I played it the minute it was unlocked at midnight and beat it in that one sitting in just over 3 hours.

This isn't a knock against Portal, I love it, but it's easy.

At least I'm comfortable with my penis, Ma'am.

Auto-align is on by default; unless you messed with the options, you were benefiting from it all along. Beating it in three hours is impressive, but you didn't answer whether or not you'd also solved all the challenge modes and qualified for Vanilla Crazy Cake.

No I didn't do the challenges, talking about the main game. Challenges are still pretty easy, albeit tougher.

And I did mess with the settings, I'm a PC gamer. I click Options when I start a game, not New Game.

[cool breeze]

so, the Portal 2 PS3 steam stuff was talked about and there is a thread on it: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419049

it seems like if you buy Portal 2 on PS3, you can link your steam account to PSN and unlock Portal 2 for PC/Steam as well.  There is also cross platform play and your steam friends list on the ps3, cross chat, and cloud saving on the ps3.

[demi]

LOL perfect for the recently hacked out the ass PS3...

I imagine there will be some sort of code attached, else anyone who pirates Portal 2 can get a free PC/MAC copy

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Oh look Team Xbot taking a good thing and spinning it into something bad. 

[pilonv1]

Why not save $10 and just get the superior PC version?

[cool breeze]

Why not save $10 and just get the superior PC version?

depending on how it works, I was get the PS3 version and lend it to a friend so we could do co-op; me on PC, him on PS3.

[Smooth Groove]

How does Portal play on a pad?  I think rumble would probably add immersion to a game like this but I wouldn't trade mouse precision for it. 

[demi]

Plays fine. Finished all the Gold Challenges just fine.

[archie4208]

Game has user created levels available on all platforms, even the peasant 360 version. 

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Looks gorgeous.