Portal

[razorrozar7]

I figured there would already be a thread about this most awesome of games... but I guess it went necro or never existed. So, LET'S DISCUSS PORTAL!!!

You can talk about Half-Life too if you want, same continuity.

[Goldenboko]

Portal 2. Can't wait. :bounce:

[razorrozar7]

Absolutely. Especially for COOP MODE!

Btw, sorry if I over-annoyed you in teh feud.

[Mo-Nercy]

Portal 2 looks like it's going to a billion times harder, which is by no means a bad thing. I think the biggest let down of Portal is the end boss fight. It's way too easy and not didn't even feel like a 'battle' really. Nevertheless, it's still one of my favourite games.

[Jessweeee♪]

I love Portal. If Portal 2 is going to be harder, I just hope it's not hard as in that level with all of the androids on the platforms above the acid. That was just....ugh. I noclip that part of level whenever I replay the game. Knocking them off their platforms is good fun, but it took me like an hour to finally get the portal into that little space >:I

[razorrozar7]

Portal 2 looks like it's going to a billion times harder, which is by no means a bad thing. I think the biggest let down of Portal is the end boss fight. It's way too easy and not didn't even feel like a 'battle' really. Nevertheless, it's still one of my favourite games.

Well, GLaDOS is 'Still Alive'. :exdee:

[Skyblade]

Portal 2 looks like it's going to a billion times harder, which is by no means a bad thing. I think the biggest let down of Portal is the end boss fight. It's way too easy and not didn't even feel like a 'battle' really. Nevertheless, it's still one of my favourite games.

The difficulty of the final boss fight lies in trying to hear as much of her dialogue as you can before you kill her. If you spend too long listening to her awesome lines, you'll run out of time and die. If you kill her too quickly, you miss some golden dialogue. How close can you come to hearing all of her lines while still winning?

[razorrozar7]

Yeah. Like the best quote ever, which you can easily miss if you aren't paying attention:

"That was the fluid catalytic cracker. It made shoes for orphans. Nice job breaking it, hero."

[Shlup]

This is the fourth thread for Portal in this forum.

Which is good! Portal should be brought up on a regular basis for it is awesome. I <3 Portal super hard.

Just reading this thread makes me want to play it five more times.

[razorrozar7]

Wow, Shlup. That proves that you are a good manager of time.

It's nighttime where I am now, which means no Portal for me. My cursedly vivid imagination squicks me out if I play Portal at night. Hell, sometimes if I'm playing it in the daytime.

[Mo-Nercy]

Portal 2 looks like it's going to a billion times harder, which is by no means a bad thing. I think the biggest let down of Portal is the end boss fight. It's way too easy and not didn't even feel like a 'battle' really. Nevertheless, it's still one of my favourite games.

The difficulty of the final boss fight lies in trying to hear as much of her dialogue as you can before you kill her. If you spend too long listening to her awesome lines, you'll run out of time and die. If you kill her too quickly, you miss some golden dialogue. How close can you come to hearing all of her lines while still winning?
Rhubarb. :p

[razorrozar7]

The entirety of the previousy mentioned sequence:


"Deploying surprise in 5, 4—time out for a second. That wasn't supposed to happen. Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise; I've never seen it before. Never mind, it's a mystery I'll solve later...by myself. Because you'll be dead."
"Maybe you should marry that thing since you love it so much. Do you want to marry it? WELL I WON'T LET YOU! How does that feel?"
"Come on, leave it alone. LEAVE. IT. ALONE."
"It's probably some sort of raw sewage container. Go ahead and rub your face all over it."
"I'll tell you what that thing isn't: it isn't yours. So leave it alone."
"You are kidding me. Did you just stuff that Aperture Science Thing-We-Don't-Know-What-It-Does into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator? That has got to be the dumbest thing I—whoa, whoa, whoaaa, WHOAAAAA..."
"That thing you burned up isn't important to me, it's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It made shoes for orphans. Nice Job Breaking It Hero."

[G13]

Love the game, love getting the Achievements. They don't make Achievements like they used to. Beating levels without moving your feet however many times? Brilliant!

[razorrozar7]

Knocking 33 cameras off the wall.

I gave up on this one for a while when, after GLaDOS made her mandatory 'vital equipment destroyed' remark, the damn defunct camera whispered to me in a mini-GLaDOS voice, "You're not a good person, you know that, right?" Scared the hell out of me.

[Skyblade]

The entirety of the previousy mentioned sequence:


"Deploying surprise in 5, 4—time out for a second. That wasn't supposed to happen. Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise; I've never seen it before. Never mind, it's a mystery I'll solve later...by myself. Because you'll be dead."
"Maybe you should marry that thing since you love it so much. Do you want to marry it? WELL I WON'T LET YOU! How does that feel?"
"Come on, leave it alone. LEAVE. IT. ALONE."
"It's probably some sort of raw sewage container. Go ahead and rub your face all over it."
"I'll tell you what that thing isn't: it isn't yours. So leave it alone."
"You are kidding me. Did you just stuff that Aperture Science Thing-We-Don't-Know-What-It-Does into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator? That has got to be the dumbest thing I—whoa, whoa, whoaaa, WHOAAAAA..."
"That thing you burned up isn't important to me, it's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It made shoes for orphans. Nice Job Breaking It Hero."

Actually, you got that wrong. After "You are kidding me. Did you just stuff that Aperture Science Thing-We-Don't-Know-What-It-Does into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator? That has got to be the dumbest thing I—whoa, whoa, whoaaa, WHOAAAAA...", the next line is:

"Good news. I found out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed into me after I flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, to make me stop flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. Now get comfortable, while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters."

The line about the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit comes later.

[razorrozar7]

Ah, my bad. I copied the script straight off... somewhere... I forgot where now.

[Shlup]

I hear the voice when I read the lines. And it gives me a happy.

[razorrozar7]

Hilarious Portal video here (http://www.machinima.com/film/view&id=24257).

[Crop]

My console broke a couple of months ago, and I though "who cares, I can live without one, I'm not paying £200+ for a new one.

Then I hear Portal 2 is announced. I bought a new console yesterday.

[Depression Moon]

Game doesn't have the same impact on a second playthrough and it feels a lot shorter too. When I beat GlaDos the second time, I was like "already? I knew it took me longer the first time."

[qwertysaur]

I still have nightmares about incinerating my poor companion cube. S/he never threatened to stab me, yet I was forced to immolate Him/Her. :kaocry2:

[Bunny]

I played Portal. It was okay.

[Shlup]

BJ watched me play a lot of it, mostly because he was interested to see if I did better or worse than him. When I dropped the companion cube in he was all shocked and said "Damn! No hesitation. You're cold."

But I had tears in my eyes. ;___;

P.S. Further proof that Bunny is not human[e].

[Baloki]

Good news everybody, I've invented a device that let's you read this line in my voice!

[Shlup]

Goddammit, Baloki.

[Baloki]

Goddammit, Baloki.

:angel:

[Skyblade]

Good news everybody, I've invented a device that let's you read this line in my voice!

And it actually works.:D

[NorthernChaosGod]

D: Fuck you, Baloki.

[razorrozar7]

I'm confuzzled.

[Mo-Nercy]

http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2009/02/2009-02-27-professor_farnsworth.jpg

[razorrozar7]

This topic is off topic now.

[qwertysaur]

This topic is off topic now.
Baloki tends to do that :p

Also... "Remember that android hell is a real place and you will be sent their at the first sign of defiance." :bigsmile:

[razorrozar7]

:lol:

[qwertysaur]

Also Portal 2 looks to be a lot of fun. More experiments for SCIENCE :bigsmile:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm163/qwertyxsora/7NlSb.jpg

[razorrozar7]

That picture's broke.

[qwertysaur]

oops. :shobon:

[razorrozar7]

I see it now. That's cool. Have you heard about the gel?

Also, how do you remember to put the color tags in every time?

[qwertysaur]

Aperture Science repulsion gel is so much fun! :bigsmile:

Also the post formatting is a habit for me now, I don't have to think about it, I just do it. :p

[razorrozar7]

Awww, I was hoping there was a shortcut. Cause I'm lazy.

I hope they release a Portal 2 demo soon.

[Crop]

Apparently they got someone else to do the voice of GLaDOS. This makes me very sad.

[Jiro]

I love the names of the things in qwert's pic. Aerial Faith Plate. Excursion Tunnel. Thermal Discouragement Beam. Pneumatic Diversity Vent. They are so domestic sounding, yet (probably) so very deadly.

[Mo-Nercy]

Apparently they got someone else to do the voice of GLaDOS. This makes me very sad.
Really? She sounded pretty much the same in the trailer I'd seen.

This game needs a song just as good as Still Alive to be considered as great as Portal.

[razorrozar7]

i think if the release it as a full game, instead of a orange box type thing like they did with portal, it is guaranteed to be better

[VeloZer0]

As awesome as portal was, I don't see that many people forking out $60 for it. I don't think of it as underdeveloped, I think of it as a ridiculously awesome free add on. (Not to mention for that month or so Valve was just giving portal away for free on PC)

[Masamunemaster]

one of our favorite things to say at work acctually has to do with portal...


"Assume the party escort position":D

[Meat Puppet]

Portal was a pretty good game, but I wouldn’t hop around saying that it’s one of the best, or even moderately challenging, puzzle games ever.

[VeloZer0]

one of our favorite things to say at work acctually has to do with portal...


"Assume the party escort position":D
Whenever someone is trying to figure out how to do something a little bit tricky (construction) they usually get a "now you're thinking with portals" when they figure out how to get the problem solved.:p

[Mo-Nercy]

Although the E3 trailer showed bits and pieces of all the new bits of Portal 2, there's some different gameplay footage that's recently made it's way onto the interwebz.

Repulsion Gel in action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxtfwjmrfgY)
Aerial Faith Plate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5qhiAJx3pU)
Co-op Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IJHzUosgB0)

[nik0tine]

Portal is not the greatest game ever made, but it is certainly the most perfect.

[Depression Moon]

Not sure if this has already been stated but Valve were going to put in a competitive multiplayer, but it was just a hot mess so they dropped it. Good thing IMO.

[Dreddz]

Portal is overrated. I was bored of the game about half way through and the game is only around 2 hours long.

[beema]

Why does every game have to have co-op now? I don't know anyone to play these games with, so the the SP experience is always underwhelming because the game is designed for co op.

[Depression Moon]

co-op will be separate for this game.

[beema]

co-op will be separate for this game.

still means I'm missing out on half the game

[razorrozar7]

Why does every game have to have co-op now? I don't know anyone to play these games with, so the the SP experience is always underwhelming because the game is designed for co op.

In resistance 2 co-op was underwhelming. which is another way to say totally lame.

Quote from portal 2:
GLaDOS: I've been busy being dead... you know, since you KILLED me.
Wheatley: ... you did what!?!

[VeloZer0]

In resistance 2 co-op was underwhelming. which is another way to say totally lame.
:p

Thats the only mode of the game I liked!

[razorrozar7]

It would have been a lot better if they'd just done it the way they did in Resistance 1.