I want Portal 2 SO bad but MK comes with pre-order goodies this doesn't plus I only have enough spare Chinyen for one of them . . . MK Wins Skint-ality . . .
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EDIT: Finished the game. First thing to address:
Originally posted by biohazard_star View PostI spoiled the story for myself by reading the plot summaries and the topics on Valve forums and I think the biggest plot twist is that...
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Glados is possibly Chell's mom.
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Ummmm NOT. GLaDOS is not Chell's mom, she's Caroline, former Cave Johnson's assistant.
About the game, as I've said, is hillarious. Valve puts their sense of humor and delivers. The game's story is fantastic, length of the game (single player) it's pretty large, you're going to have a blast inside Aperture again. Spoiler:
.As I've said the game has some slight connections with Half-Life 2: Episode 3, since you can see the dock where the Borealis was stationed, need to find more stuff yet...
But perhaps the best thing of all!
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Companion cube is alive!!! Cake's on me! LOL.Last edited by Beanovsky Durst; 04-23-2011, 01:53 AM.
"I miss the days when we just cared how cool an enemy was rather than critiquing and analyzing everything to death." - Shield Key
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Finished it, have to admit to being a little disappointed
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First, the switch from small fun game to big time serious game just took part of the charm out of it. Second, bitch GLADoS just wasn't featured enough and even when she was her little insults just weren't as funny, i mean really, fat jokes? Wheatley is just no substitute. Third, it took me about 5/6 hours to finish. 3 years development and that's it? It's no secret i despise the co-op mode being in this game and this is exactly why, too much time spent creating, tuning and pushing that and not enough time building a long lasting single player experience. Finally, the single player just didn't feel as polished. Some concepts weren't introduced very well and the emphasis on things being big kinda took precedent over things being fun.
Still, for what we got it's still an alright game i guess, just hoped it had been a little more. Now Valve are saying they might be done with "isolated single-player experience" games all together. So what, next Half-Life is gonna be pure multiplayer? I hate co-op so damn hard
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Why're you using two spoiler tags?! One is enough. Anyway...
Originally posted by Beanovsky Durst View Post"Ummmm NOT. GLaDOS is not Chell's mom, she's Caroline, former Cave Johnson's assistant."
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This was my main gripe with portal 2.
Although the puzzles had alot more elements (ie. the gels and faith plates), I didn't think the puzzles were more complex because of it. Simply because I think the scope for experimenting with the elements was alot narrower.
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, but also generally I found stretches of the game 'find the white tile to place a portal on', rather than any mentally challenging puzzle. And these parts were just boring.you're exploring the old Aperture science ruinsLast edited by TheSelfishGene; 04-30-2011, 12:19 AM.sigpic
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Cave Johnson here.
Okay, you listening? The lab boys have told me that all that moon rock dust can be processed into something called conversion gel, which apparently makes a great surface material for generating portals. Before I forget, any disgruntled Australians who want to complain about how I run this company are instructed to follow the red line, the one that leads right to the damn exit! You're fired, pack your stuff, grab your things and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You're no good to science and science is no good for you.
This is Cave Johnson, we're done here.See you in hell.
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Originally posted by Mr. Spencer View PostCave Johnson here.
Okay, you listening? The lab boys have told me that all that moon rock dust can be processed into something called conversion gel, which apparently makes a great surface material for generating portals. Before I forget, any disgruntled Australians who want to complain about how I run this company are instructed to follow the red line, the one that leads right to the damn exit! You're fired, pack your stuff, grab your things and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You're no good to science and science is no good for you.
This is Cave Johnson, we're done here.
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Funny, but Selfish has a point, the white gel was underused, actually a lot of the elements were. Remember the first videos we saw of the blue and orange gels? They looked fun and challenging, they got cut.
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Why? The commentary (which was disappointing, not really in depth and nothing with the voice actors) say its because people bitched they looked too hard. Piss poor excuse if you ask me, the one and only thing they listen on and it leads to cut material, nice I really really hope the DLC coming soon (which is apparently free on all platforms) includes more SINGLE PLAYER content like these cut maps, i couldn't give a crap about some shitty co-op side story which in itself is a massive ass plot hole. I'd also like more commentary nodes throughout the game with relevant stuff to say and an option to play from specific parts of the game with the auto-save feature enabled. I know you can do it through the commentary menu but there's no auto-save with commentary on.
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Originally posted by rewak View PostFunny, but Selfish has a point, the white gel was underused, actually a lot of the elements were. Remember the first videos we saw of the blue and orange gels? They looked fun and challenging, they got cut.
Do you like portals? I sure do! That's why I've decided that every door in the building will be replaced by portals! Want to get to the bathroom? Just pick up that handheld aperture device sitting nearby and make your own route there! No seriously, make your own route there before if you have no idea where the hell the bathrooms are in this place you're gonna be stuck for a good hour or so. Hope you got strong kidneys, because I sure as hell don't!
And I almost neglected to mention. If your name happens to be rewak, you're not part of the control group. That copy of Portal 2 you were given isn't even the finished product, the lab boys tell me it's something called a beta copy designed to encourage criticism of the product, you know, so the Metacritic score isn't a full 100 outta 100. Gotta have that realistic criticism, otherwise folks get suspicious.
One last thing if you're part of the control group and you have a defective copy of the game, then do let us know immediately because that's not supposed to happen. For everyone else, keep thinking with portals!
This is Cave Johnson, we're done here.Last edited by Mr. Spencer; 04-30-2011, 10:35 AM.See you in hell.
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Originally posted by rewak View PostFunny, but Selfish has a point, the white gel was underused, actually a lot of the elements were. Remember the first videos we saw of the blue and orange gels? They looked fun and challenging, they got cut.
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Why? The commentary (which was disappointing, not really in depth and nothing with the voice actors) say its because people bitched they looked too hard. Piss poor excuse if you ask me, the one and only thing they listen on and it leads to cut material, nice I really really hope the DLC coming soon (which is apparently free on all platforms) includes more SINGLE PLAYER content like these cut maps, i couldn't give a crap about some shitty co-op side story which in itself is a massive ass plot hole. I'd also like more commentary nodes throughout the game with relevant stuff to say and an option to play from specific parts of the game with the auto-save feature enabled. I know you can do it through the commentary menu but there's no auto-save with commentary on.
As for the pneumatic vent, I imagine they realised it was much the same as the Excursion Funnels and cut them down. Valve have been pretty up front about cutting the fat wherever possible since Half-Life 2, which had some pretty blatant pacing issues which they always acknowledge.
Also, how does the co-op campaign create a plot hole?
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GLaDOS states in the game the co-operative testing initiative is something she made AFTER you killed her. How? She was dead! For the short time she's back in charge are we supposed to believe she built the robots and ran them through a series of tests when she was just rebuilding the facility? Don't think so.
You're right about the first repulsion gel video, i saw white instead of beige and just added it, the second is totally Frankenstein'ed over a few chambers though and looks a lot more fun as it was. Like i said, couldn't care less about the co-op mode, so i didn't know the propulsion one was included there.
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Originally posted by Mr. Spencer View PostCave Johnson here.
Do you like portals? I sure do! That's why I've decided that every door in the building will be replaced by portals! Want to get to the bathroom? Just pick up that handheld aperture device sitting nearby and make your own route there! No seriously, make your own route there before if you have no idea where the hell the bathrooms are in this place you're gonna be stuck for a good hour or so. Hope you got strong kidneys, because I sure as hell don't!
And I almost neglected to mention. If your name happens to be rewak, you're not part of the control group. That copy of Portal 2 you were given isn't even the finished product, the lab boys tell me it's something called a beta copy designed to encourage criticism of the product, you know, so the Metacritic score isn't a full 100 outta 100. Gotta have that realistic criticism, otherwise folks get suspicious.
One last thing if you're part of the control group and you have a defective copy of the game, then do let us know immediately because that's not supposed to happen. For everyone else, keep thinking with portals!
This is Cave Johnson, we're done here.
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