They are named as Half-Life 2: Episode # in Steam library. Though i think i heard that the three episodes together make Half-Life 3 :shrug:

which is really weird, since Valve employees often refer to the episodes as "hl3: episode x" in interviews. One of them (I think it was Chet Faliszek) even said that the real title was HL3: Episode 1 & 2 & 3 and that's what they've been calling the games in the office.

I bought it yesterday and beat it this morning and I gotta say it was blast! I only got completely stuck in one room I'm dubbing the infamous "White Gel Room" plus I hated the whole Fallout-isk testing labs area...those puzzle where a {Beep} . I love Wheatney though some of his and Glados shtick where just funny as heck :laugh: . Well now I'll just sit back and wait for the Dukester to come out----Groovy B).

I know most of you are tired of all the crazy Half-Life + Portal conspiracy theories, but I just stumbled across this and I thought it was pretty interesting:

Mythology has deep roots in any story, many can be broken down to those base roots. Or even simpler terms. Same stories for all times. I did some very limited study on the matter. My book on the subject should be around here somewhere.

Is this game as awesome as x-play seems to think it is?

That seems to be the commonly agreed opinion. Not had a chance to play it yet myslef.

Still haven't my gotten copy! If i don't get it by tomorrow i may consider ranting! :hehe:

Just got to the propulsion jell part, how far am i from the ending.

oh if i am really loving the game, but my favorite part has to be the atmosphere.
Especially after

it gets all retro and i like it.

You're...4n chapter away from the big bad baddy fight.

ok, im considering the game deeply. but ive never played the halflife games and i REALY want to play them.

so idk whether to get portal 2 or get half life 2 from steam since all i want from orange box is half life and episodes 1-2

All the games in the Orange Box are amazing, Team Fortress 2 is really great.

I wouldn't be worried about seeing the end of the rainbow just yet---there's still quite a ways to go.

Wait until you get to the lost souls room---oh wait that's not it---I ment the white gel room---that's the only room in the game that got me stumped for awhile :homestar: .

Portal 2 is the best game so far this year, one of the funniest games ever made, and one of the best puzzle games ever made.

Half Life 2 is one of the best games ever made, no further clarifications. You should grab the orange box, because it also has Portal 1 in it, which is also excellent.

I didn't actually do the math on it and never counted how many 9's were said, I read that estimate somewhere, I'll see if i can find it.

At any rate, it's been a very long time, and I've been hearing rumours from Valve that Chell will play an important part in that universe in the future. We know it takes place in the same world Half Life takes place in already. So depending on what time Half Life 2 takes place in, I'd say that the game ended at about the same time HL2 ended, or began. At least somewhere close to that timeframe. If we got an game like Half Life with a little more open environments rather than test chambers using the Portal gun, I would crap my pants in excitment. Imagine encountering some combine soldier and trapping him in an infinite portal loop, you can't tell me that doesn't sound like fun


Yeah i spent longer than I'm proud of in that room I spent a long time in rooms that were painfully obvious in hindsight, but that one wasn't really so bad, I had fun just playing around with that stuff.

This.
I think that Portal 2 is the first game to actually reach the same level of narrative BioShock had. Which makes it one of the two best game narratives of all time. Also, Portal 2 is a much more thoroughly wrought game. So yeah, it's really, really great. Unless you have a heart of stone and no humour. That might remove lots of the appeal.

Well, finally got it played it trough. Had me in tears laughing many times, and had few puzzles that had me scratching my head. Overall pretty easy though, might be because this the second game, and i honestly thought there was going to be one section more when it ended. Anyway, damn fun game :goodjob:

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/712268/free-portal-2-dlc-announced-will-include-new-test-chambers-leader-boards-and-more/
:D

And this is why we love Valve The new mechanics have potential for some quite nasty challenge maps...

New thread:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1184157-portal-2-discussion/