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- this is an easter egg for those who've finished it.
- this is an easter egg for those who've finished it.
Portal! Portal! Portal!
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Portal is a brilliant game
I've just played this through (on PC), pretty much in one sitting as it was so good. It's also available on XBox360 and PS3.
For anyone who doesn't know, the game involves getting the player's character (and other objects) from the start to the end of each 'obstacle course' level using a "Portal Gun" which can shoot at surfaces to create two ends of a 'portal' which teleports you and other objects objects.
(<< they work like this)
The game is really funny - you are instructed by a demented computer called GLaDOS, and that plus lots of little details had me laughing all the way through.
Anyway - not a new game, but I just wanted to share the goodness with anyone who hasn't played it yet.
I've just played this through (on PC), pretty much in one sitting as it was so good. It's also available on XBox360 and PS3.
For anyone who doesn't know, the game involves getting the player's character (and other objects) from the start to the end of each 'obstacle course' level using a "Portal Gun" which can shoot at surfaces to create two ends of a 'portal' which teleports you and other objects objects.
The game is really funny - you are instructed by a demented computer called GLaDOS, and that plus lots of little details had me laughing all the way through.
Anyway - not a new game, but I just wanted to share the goodness with anyone who hasn't played it yet.
It's in the The Orange Box with Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2.
Keep meaning to pick up a copy. Looks great.
Keep meaning to pick up a copy. Looks great.
You can buy it by itself for £13.99 on STEAM (maybe £10 elsewhere if you are lucky?) but since The Orange Box (Portal + TF2 + HL2 + HL2:Ep1 + HL2:Ep2) is only £16.99 on STEAM (£14.99 elsewhere?) you might as well buy that. If you already have some of these games you are allowed to "gift" them to another STEAM user. (ps you can sign up to STEAM for free)
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I was in that position for ages but kept playing other stuff...
...my advice: go and purchase + play Portal immediately!
It is a short game, but so very, very good on a number of levels.
I found it really refreshing.
Just to say that over the last two months I have played Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2 (not finished), Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, a bit of STALKER, HL2:Ep1 and half of NWN2...
...and I can honestly say that Portal was the most fun, funniest, most refreshing ... "best" of the lot. Some people might argue the toss about it being "the best" due to it being short, and maybe it could do with more and harder 'levels', but as a gaming experience it was just great. It doesn't take itself too seriously, it doesn't suffer from being "overdesigned".
There are a lot of little touches - just to name one: the way it manages to save the game and restart in exactly the right place makes the play-through very smooth - I didn't have that 'here we go again' feeling at any point.
Kid_Eternity
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At the risk of being out of step with popular opinion...Portal bored me. Played a few levels and was jut like 'meh' and haven't gone back to it...
Crispy
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Dude, you have to finish it. It's really quite important that you play to the end, unless you've had the end spoiled for you in which case it's still worth doing, it just won't be as fun
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Your opinion cannot be trusted, first Resi 4 now this.
I am a man against many, much like those characters in Resi I fight the Zombie horde of gamers with no discernible voice of their own.
It's true that it isn't an "adrenaline" game. Also the first X number of levels (depending on fast you pick stuff up) are just there to introduce various puzzle-solving concepts. I'd imagine most people get through the first 10 to 12 levels very quickly. Also there is a lot more than the 19 levels, as at that point the game goes off in another direction. Luckily for anyone who does like blowing stuff up The Orange Box contains plenty of that as well.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It wasn't that just found it too easy....puzzles in video games are rarely that taxing in my experience...
Downloaded this from Xbox live ages ago but never really bothered getting much further than the demo levels. Completed it the other day in (more or less) one sitting. Fucking loved it!
Think it was about the right level of difficulty for me. Loved the humour, too. And the end, obv.
Think it was about the right level of difficulty for me. Loved the humour, too. And the end, obv.
Crispy
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Unless you put a portal under them, then no - objects should not be "sinking" through the floor.
FridgeMagnet
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I think that level has acid on the floor. Or something.
FridgeMagnet
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FridgeMagnet
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The end of Portal is almost better than the whole of the rest of the game.
You're pretty near the end, I think. Well worth sticking with.
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