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Portal 2 |OT| Sleep. Spuds. Science.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAw3V8ScLeIDaigoro said:
One of the cores you incinerate during the GLaDOS battle reads off a cake recipe.
The SDK isn't even out yet, and people are already slapping together challenge maps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RMgEKLeLvc&feature=feedu
This looks hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RMgEKLeLvc&feature=feedu
This looks hard.
Jintor said:
"Oh, its you. It's been a long time. How have you been? I've been really busy being dead. You know... after you murdered me? *sighs* Okay look, we both said a lot of things that you are going to regret. But I think we should put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
Kinda on topic, sorta. I just found out about the Minecraft Portal Gun mod. I know that parts of the first Portal have been remade in Minecraft. Can't wait for the same to happen to Portal 2
butter_stick
Banned
Co op Portal is one of the most fun gameplay experiences I've had in years. Playing through by yourself must suck by comparison. Damn you, PSN.linsivvi said:
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
Picked up the game on the 360 today. It was practically sold out everywhere in the shopping centre. Good to see the game selling well.
LordPhoque
Banned
Sn4ke_911 said:
I like how this speech is pretty much the opposite to the one she's having
at the end of the game just after Caroline is deleted
I feel like it will fix itself. When PSN was working, the game would update the Steam cloud when you were finished with your session. I assume that, once PSN is up again, the cloud should synchronize itself and Steam achievements will appear.BeeDog said:
Just finished the single-player campaign on PS3. Some short thoughs:
Pros:
+ Artistically amazing. The Source engine has received a huge facelift; the new (object?) motion blur looks great, and the lighting upgrades are beautiful. The many areas in the games also look excellent, and some places have a proper sense of scale. The IQ of the PS3 version is also splendid.
+ GLaDOS was the highlight of the game, script-wise. Good stuff.
+ Perfectly balanced difficulty. Some areas took a short while to figure out, but I never had to resort to a guide online to solve stuff.
+ Good length to the single-player campaign. The first one disappointed me with its length, but this time around I didn't feel cheated. It also didn't overstay its welcome.
+ Polished all-around. Aside from some odd audio glitches, the package feels very tight. Valve are good at making the package appear tight, and coupled with the Steam integration, I have no real objections.
+ Great ending. One of the few single-player games lately that have proper conclusions! The last boss fight was fun.
+ The scripted destruction sequences are fucking amazing, and they need to use this feature as much as possible in their upcoming games. Very impressive.
Cons:
- Too many areas relied on the "find a white surface" gimmick. A bit of a shame, really.
- The amount of loading screens, ugh. The Source engine really needs some streaming features, promptly.
- Surprisingly, I didn't like Wheatley that much in this game. The script felt overly forced, and many of his jokes fell flat for me. I much preferred GLaDOS, and
was solid as well. Not the funniest games I've played, that's for sure. The voice acting was fine overall, though.
- Valve needs to update its soundbanks; recognized quite a few samples from Half-Life 2. Thank God they didn't stick with the typical Windows-esque Source menus at least.
- The only graphical oddity that stood out was the portal gun; why didn't the environment cast any shadows on it?
Anyway, the game's really good. I found Portal 1 to be a great disappointment, but this one's so much better in every way. Can't wait to play through the co-op when PSN goes back up.
Pros:
+ Artistically amazing. The Source engine has received a huge facelift; the new (object?) motion blur looks great, and the lighting upgrades are beautiful. The many areas in the games also look excellent, and some places have a proper sense of scale. The IQ of the PS3 version is also splendid.
+ GLaDOS was the highlight of the game, script-wise. Good stuff.
+ Perfectly balanced difficulty. Some areas took a short while to figure out, but I never had to resort to a guide online to solve stuff.
+ Good length to the single-player campaign. The first one disappointed me with its length, but this time around I didn't feel cheated. It also didn't overstay its welcome.
+ Polished all-around. Aside from some odd audio glitches, the package feels very tight. Valve are good at making the package appear tight, and coupled with the Steam integration, I have no real objections.
+ Great ending. One of the few single-player games lately that have proper conclusions! The last boss fight was fun.
+ The scripted destruction sequences are fucking amazing, and they need to use this feature as much as possible in their upcoming games. Very impressive.
Cons:
- Too many areas relied on the "find a white surface" gimmick. A bit of a shame, really.
- The amount of loading screens, ugh. The Source engine really needs some streaming features, promptly.
- Surprisingly, I didn't like Wheatley that much in this game. The script felt overly forced, and many of his jokes fell flat for me. I much preferred GLaDOS, and
Cave Johnson
- Valve needs to update its soundbanks; recognized quite a few samples from Half-Life 2. Thank God they didn't stick with the typical Windows-esque Source menus at least.
- The only graphical oddity that stood out was the portal gun; why didn't the environment cast any shadows on it?
Anyway, the game's really good. I found Portal 1 to be a great disappointment, but this one's so much better in every way. Can't wait to play through the co-op when PSN goes back up.
derFeef said:
Only if you got to it early. Most of us went into the game at or around the time of its release knowing nothing more than it's a short puzzle game featuring portals set in Aperture Science. Those who got around to it later than that had the piles upon piles of positive opinions influencing their expectations of the game.
Edit: Beatededen.
StuBurns said:
Well, I noticed that if you bring up the overlay, there's two tabs: one begs you to sync your accounts and log into steam, the other is your steam achievements, which is a full list of all your trophies you've got. This is without logging in to PSN, but it still registers them in the local "client" as steam achievements.
Whether these sync up to the swerver at the time I couldn't say.
Yeah I noticed that, I think they will all sync up fine. It's quite frustrating PSN is dead, so far I haven't really been put out by anything, I would have bought Outland but it can wait, but I really want to claim my Portal 2 (although I won't be actually installing it till I get my next computer probably) and just have the Steam stuff up and working.webrunner said:
I only finished Portal 1 over the weekend and it lived up to the hype for me. I can't explain why the game stuck with me so much. The puzzles weren't particularly hard, and playing on my PC, the game, while still very good looking, didn't blow me away, graphically. It's just this feeling of how the ...story, if you want to call it that, played out. Felt very personal.
Valve games have always been kinda clunky, control wise for me. The portals are fun, but it just must have been the events and how they played out that made it so memorable. I'm ready for the broadening of scope that this one delivers. If my PS3 copy would ever get here. I just wish I could play it on Steam instead, but who knows. Maybe I'll dig the controller more for this game.
Valve games have always been kinda clunky, control wise for me. The portals are fun, but it just must have been the events and how they played out that made it so memorable. I'm ready for the broadening of scope that this one delivers. If my PS3 copy would ever get here. I just wish I could play it on Steam instead, but who knows. Maybe I'll dig the controller more for this game.
BeeDog said:
That's because the Source engine doesn't support dynamic shadows. The dynamic shadows cast in the game are actually faked in some way.
edit: I have no evidence on this one...I remember reading about it after the release of Episode Two but am unable to relocate it.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Not a huge console FPS gamer but since PSN is down I can't DL the PC steam version. Been playing slowly, it's fun a very crafty but I couldn't help but laugh after going back to the release time (after midnight on the 19th) and reading some impressions. People 20 minutes in "OMG GOTG VALVE DOES IT AGAIN!!" The game is slick but cmon lol.
Can't wait to get home and get a little more time in. I'm well into the light bridge levels. The GLaDOS lines have been pretty funny, not hilarious as has been said. Definitely playing it through on PS3 then again on PC.
Can't wait to get home and get a little more time in. I'm well into the light bridge levels. The GLaDOS lines have been pretty funny, not hilarious as has been said. Definitely playing it through on PS3 then again on PC.
TheExodu5 said:
That sounds strange, I don't think it's true. I mean, what about the areas in the game with full dynamic lighting (with bouncing shadows)? You can see shadows being projected on movable objects outside of the environment (e.g. GLaDOS, the boxes, and even Chell in 3rd person mode). I simply think they overlooked the 1st person weapon view.
The Lamonster
Member
Mind = blown. I had no idea those shadows were faked.
mclaren777
Member
Do any of you guys know a good place to download HD playthroughs of this game?
IGN has some great videos but you can only download them if you're a paying member. I'm currently planning to watch this 1080p series of videos but I was hoping to find either a PC or PS3 playthrough for the added visual quality.
Thanks in advance.
IGN has some great videos but you can only download them if you're a paying member. I'm currently planning to watch this 1080p series of videos but I was hoping to find either a PC or PS3 playthrough for the added visual quality.
Thanks in advance.
Chaplain
Member
Is Portal 2's DLC coming out for PS3 and 360?
The Lamonster
Member
How do you get more items? All I have is that silly hat you get for beating the campaign.MrPliskin said:
OmegaDragon
Member
Game Analyst said:
Can't think why it won't come to PS3, as the PC, Mac and PS3 should have the same ingame content due to Steamworks. It will probably also come to the 360, but it might have a price.
lol
BeeDog said:
Something about it was poorly implemented and/or faked though...I remember just turning on your flashlight would halve the framerate.
I'll have to play Portal 2 again...but were there really any dynamic shadows outside of Wheatley's flashlight? I can't really recall.
The Lamonster
Member
Through Steam or the game's interface?Mkliner said:
Also, I couldn't get the dev console to come up. I just want to check my FPS during gameplay. How can I do this?
The Albatross
Member
Mayhaps I'm the only one who is completely disollusioned by the idea of Portal 2 DLC, coming "this summer." I've spent about 80% of my adult life waiting for DLC for Valve games that 'right around the corner.' But maybe Portal will be different...
The Lamonster
Member
"This summer" in Valve time does not actually mean June-August 2011.The Albatross said:
The Albatross
Member
The Lamonster said:
Aye. "This summer," which all normal people define as June 20 to September 21, will become "Quarter 2 2011," which is much more nebulous because you don't know if they mean fiscal quarter 2, or seasonal quarter 2, or what. Naturally, "Quarter 2" will become "Q2 2011," which will be one step away from merely, "Second Half 2011." Now we're looking anywhere from June 15 - December 31. Second half 2011 will probably become simply, "2011," which is one typo or one stealth wikipedia edit away from becoming "2012." And, well, we all know the world is ending in 2012, so who can stick to definite 2012 release dates am I right?
The Albatross said:
The Valve Internal QA Testing Centre would like to assure that testing and development may continue in case of catastrophic planetary destruction.
Minamu said:
Nobody's sure but evidence points to yes (bring up the steam overlay and go to your achievements tab, it's still there even though you're not logged into steam)
Nappuccino
Member
TheExodu5 said:
The Source engine is constantly updated. Even if they faked the lighting in ep2 that is no reason to think this lighting was entirely faked as well. I'm of the opinion that 70% (arbitrary number) of rooms had faked lighting and 30% had "real" lighting.
The Lamonster
Member
At this point I don't even think it matters. Portal 2 looks amazing and runs buttery smooth. I was playing co-op last night and couldn't believe how well it ran and also the lack of any lag whatsoever. I really love the water and the reflections on the water.Nappuccino said: