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Portal 2 |OT| Sleep. Spuds. Science.
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Sgt.Pepper
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I really like Co-op. I played with a friend for like 2-3 hours, pretty fun.
FlawlessCowboy
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There's no way for my achievements on the PC to show up on my 360, right? (Obvious question but I had to ask.)
balladofwindfishes
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Smision said:
When I thought Glados killed him, my mouth opened and couldn't believe he was just tossed like that
I was so relieved when I heard his voice and found him alive
Stallion Free
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No.FlawlessCowboy said:
José Mourinho
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Can somebody be really amazing and point me in the direction of Portal and Portal 2 tie ins with Half-Life please? I've played Half-life 2, Ep1 and 2 and whilst I love the games, I'm not so knowledgeable on the lore. Some of the stuff I've read seems interesting and I'd like to find out more.
FlipJonesy
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Any one else having any trouble activating the ps3 pc copy? I've linked my steam account to my ps3 account, and i can access steam from my ps3, but when I try to redeem the code on pc steam it tells me that i need to first link my two accounts.
Mr. Spinnington
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i real-life laughedLostconfused said:
BlazingDarkness
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NECKBEARD
el oh el
el oh el
I loled at all the
but thought GLaDOS was a kind of chatty overall,
fat jokes
mostly once you pick her up. She seems to do an awful lot of thinking out loud and chatting with Wheatly considering how much she she hates everybody.
I guess maybe vocalizing helped her cope with the limitations of her potato-based enclosure.
I guess maybe vocalizing helped her cope with the limitations of her potato-based enclosure.
OmegaDragon
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duffyside said:
You can't be logged into the same Steam account on multiple devices. Way around it: person on the PS3 signs into a different account (one that is not linked to your Steam account)
Lostconfused
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Plasmid said:
You cant miss em.
Edit: Unless you are talking about easter egg type stuff than I have no idea.
UnlovedJew
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Does anyone know if when you earn achievements in the PC Steam version they carry over as for the trophies in the Ps3 version? My TV has been taken over by the family and I'd like to progress in the story while still earning trophies. Thanks. 
man they really made a lot of things make sense
like giving a reason why Aperture always trusted Gladdos. Because she's the AI construct of the old nice boss's secretary. Who seems to have been rather dumb. Why wouldn't they trust her? It feels like she was corrupted by her body more than anything.
also cave HAS to be an AI on the borealis. if they made an AI construct of his damned secretary, you'd think they would make one of him. If the Borealis is so important I think he's either there in cryo storage or languishing around in an AI running the show. Either way, he's too good of a character to say goodbye to
also cave HAS to be an AI on the borealis. if they made an AI construct of his damned secretary, you'd think they would make one of him. If the Borealis is so important I think he's either there in cryo storage or languishing around in an AI running the show. Either way, he's too good of a character to say goodbye to
UnlovedJew said:Does anyone know if when you earn achievements in the PC Steam version they carry over as for the trophies in the Ps3 version? My TV has been taken over by the family and I'd like to progress in the story while still earning trophies. Thanks.
I don't think they do. They only sync together when you are playing the game on PS3.
UnlovedJew
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Aw, oh well. I guess I'll just play through some levels twice. Hardly an issue anyway considering how great this game is.Mrbob said:
Kylehimself said:
Portal 1 takes place sometime after Half-Life 1, when the portal storms hit and the Combine used them to invade Earth. You are in an isolated secret laboratory of Aperture Science, the competing lab to Black Mesa (Half-Life 1 lab where Gordon Freeman works) for the military contract for teleportation technology.
At the end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, you intercept a message from the Combine that details the co-ordinates of the Borealis, an Aperture Science research freighter with some form of portal technology on it that's more advanced than what Black Mesa created. Presumably Half-Life 2: Episode 3 will be about beating the combine to the Borealis to claim the portal technology, possibly the portal gun. Figuring out how to make the portal gun work in a first person shooter with enemy AI that moves is probably why Valve has delayed making Episode 3 for so long. They need to not only figure out how to make it work, but wait until the average gaming PC can handle the physics of it.
The whole Half-Life/Portal timeline is laid out here:
http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm
The events of Portal 2 have not been added to it yet.
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Co-op is 100 million times better than the challenge (aka remix) rooms from 1.samoset said:
That would be lame to have a portal gun in Episode 3. Let Portal keep its unique mechanic and come up with something new.Zzoram said:
wayward archer
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I just read the comic and I don't like how it portrays things that happen between the two games.
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I guess in my own head this is how the story went:
Oh well. Good story overall though.
A lone survivor running around behind the scenes goes to the surface with relative ease and drags her back down to put her in the cryo-storage cheap hotel room, then wires her pod to survive when the power goes out, then the same Chell wakes up again, having accomplished pretty much nothing in the first game
I guess in my own head this is how the story went:
Chell was a clone, one of thousands, all the messages and notes and clues left behind were from past clones of her slowly working their way through the trials... when you die in Portal 1 you actually die, and another clone is awakened and gets as far as you do. To me the idea of Glados torturing Chell over and over until one eventually defeats her and escapes to the surface (where she's dragged away to an unknown fate) is much more epic. Then in Portal 2 you are essentially the last clone of Chell, woken up for one last run through the Aperture Science test gauntlet.
Oh well. Good story overall though.
JakOfTheShadows
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Ending Spoilers:
I love that when the bots were singing at the end you could see the "Animal King" giant leopard skinned turret in the background. That had me laughing because the "Animal King Takeover" was my favorite video clip thing that was displayed around the elevators in the early testing chambers.
Co-op is great but I just didn't expect them to drop a feature in a full release. The challenge rooms ended up being most of my play time in the first portal and it really is a bummer to see them go.Stallion Free said:
Another quick question is how is co-op progress saved? Is it with the specific play or on a individual basis. I ended up playing for about an hour with a random and we ended up making pretty good progress. I would hate to have to restart every time.
MickeyKnox
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Sometimes I really miss the laughing smiley.Zzoram said:
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wayward archer said:
Chell was abducted by Aperture during a bring your daughter to work day. That is so much better than clone nonsense it's not even funny.
wayward archer
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Stallion Free said:
Well in my version:
That's exactly what happened, the original Chell was captured and cloned, and maybe used as an experiment. Or maybe the Chell in the Portal 2 could have been the original Chell, finally released. I just don't like the idea of someone dragging the same Chell back into the basement of Aperture Science and her having to relive the entire thing all over again. Might as well be clones at that point.
Lostconfused
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You can pretend its that way if it makes you feel better. But it doesn't add anything to the plot or the story.wayward archer said:
Edit: Although the one thing that did bother me about the ending
is the new song. It feels so much more shallow than "Still Alive" for some reason. Maybe its just lacking the SCIENCE! theme that made the first one so great