Portal! Portal! Portal!

[A Dashing Blade]

Awesome game (for sure a bit easy tho) but looks like the start of a franchise that'll run and run.
Rarely have so many jaws hit the floor a Blade Mansions
Loved the end music

 

[jcsd]

Brilliant game, probably one of the best endings I've ever seen.

It is a bit easy/short (only took about 3 or 4 hrs to compelte from buying the game), not a major criticism though a sit was part of a 5 game bundle, plus the advanced levels and challenges provide an extra challenge (I've got all the advanced mode awards, now just started the challenges).

 

[jcsd]

Just read apparently a weighted companion cube toy is going to be released this year. Hopefully they'll put a few more test chambers on XBL too.

 

[jargs]

check out http://aperturescience.com/

type login then username: cjohnson then password: tier 3

Then you can type:
notes
thecakeisalie

 

[miscellanist]

You can also type "apply".

 

[Sunray]

Just read apparently a weighted companion cube toy is going to be released this year. Hopefully they'll put a few more test chambers on XBL too.

I await the portal gun to being released. That has to be a bit more fun than a cube.

 

[Structaural]

Flash fan version here (it's not too bad):

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

 

[dlx1]

there TF2 T-Shirt too

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm watching, not playing (am wankhands at computer games) but this is totally twisting my brain out Wonderful sound design and deadpan voiceovers.

 

[Psychonaut]

i really wish i hadnt watched that youtube walkthrough* - felt like id spoiled the whole game.
*getting the box on level 18

Now i *will* try and finish it on my own (however long it takes) to see this amazing endgame your all talking about!

 

[Structaural]

That Peggle Extreme demo has the female robot voice from Portal now and again. You know, if you were missing her or something..

(That Peggle is irritaitingly addictive too, like an evil tetris).

 

[MadDruminFerret]

I can't get the end song out of my head

I just downnloaded it on limewire

 

[fishfinger]

You could have just extracted it from the game files with GCFScape

 

[MadDruminFerret]

well LAR DEE DAR

awesome game anyway... everyone seems to agree its one of the funniest theyve ever played... not bad for a puzzle game. Those little shooty turret things had me grinning like an idiot xD

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Oh wow. I downloaded it at lunchtime, and I've only just stopped playing it. (Because I finished it, and now have cake.)

I totally forgot I had Steam - I only recently set up my PC again for the few occasions I need it. The consequence of this was that I have done no work at all today and now have a terrible urge to buy Bioshock.

Is there a list somewhere of all the things the computer says? I didn't actually want to finish the endgame too quickly, just so that I could listen to them all. You're not even a full-time employee!

 

[Crispy]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Portal
"There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the companion cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends because of how unlikable you are. Unlikable, it says so here in your personnel file: Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. SHALL. NOT. BE. MOURNED. That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you're adopted, so that's funny too."

The individual sound files are out there. gimme a sec

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I must have missed this one:

"Look - we're both stuck in this place. I'll use lasers to inscribe a line down the center of the facility, and one half will be where you live, and I'll live in the other half. We won't have to try to kill each other or even talk if we don't feel like it."

 

[Structaural]

the video:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/extras/stillalive.php

 

[Stigmata]

Flash fan version here (it's not too bad):

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

Hooray, finally finished it.

 

[The Groke]

Christmas wishes from Aperture Science

 

[Structaural]

Christmas wishes from Aperture Science

and Lego portal (from Digg):

 

[May Kasahara]

Aaargh, Mr K is stuck and it's driving me mad. Any handy hints? He's just gone past the eye on a stalk that says 'I'm going to kill you now' and sights along a line, then shoots; he got it to break the glass and get through to the air vent where there's another one of those 'THIS WAY' message on the wall (the message is smeared), and the vent leads into a vertical airshaft with a big fan pointing up. None of the walls or anything are portalable. What are you supposed to do here?

 

[The Groke]

IIRR, you need to set up portals so that the eyeball/rocket shoots the clear delivery tube above your head which breaks and deposits a companion cube you can stand on to get up.

 

[May Kasahara]

Wicked, cheers mate! Although true to form, after puzzling over it for several days, he worked this out for himself within minutes of me posting this request

 

[The Groke]

Wicked, cheers mate! Although true to form, after puzzling over it for several days, he worked this out for himself within minutes of me posting this request

I presume he has now romped his way to the awesome and immensely amusing finale then?


I *heart* the end song.

 

[dlx1]

Found from other website, Make your oun cube of love

 

[Firky]

I did all of the levels in less than an hour, I am usually really shit at puzzles but I found this one dead easy.

 

[Elvis Parsley]

IIRR, you need to set up portals so that the eyeball/rocket shoots the clear delivery tube above your head which breaks and deposits a companion cube you can stand on to get up.

i got stuck there for a bit. tried blowing a hole as you suggested, but must have got the exit portal a bit wrong as nothing happened. in the end i resorted to nipping back into the rocket machine room and nicking loads of computers/x-box things and stacking them up instead of using the cube.

it felt completely wrong all the way, but it worked

 

[Crispy]

i got stuck there for a bit. tried blowing a hole as you suggested, but must have got the exit portal a bit wrong as nothing happened. in the end i resorted to nipping back into the rocket machine room and nicking loads of computers/x-box things and stacking them up instead of using the cube.

it felt completely wrong all the way, but it worked

If you play through with the developer commentary on, I think they said that lots of playtesters didn't find the 'right' solution, but they left it as is, as either way of doing it is satisfying to the player.

 

[The Groke]

I want moar!.

I wish there were user created downloadable levels for the XBox