Portal 2 Discussion: The Rebirth : Othor Games

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:52 pm

This game is phenomenal. Now I have to sleep, unfortunately. Don't think I'll be able to.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:43 pm

Wah? Yesterday my Portal 2 pre-load was at 75%, today after the Decryption thing ran through its at 40%. <_< Damn it Steam dont come between me and Portal 2! :verymad:

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:37 am

Played for almost 4 hours straight. Amazing game. Voice acting, level design. I mean, when the only flaw I can come up with is "there is loading in between each level"...I think we're doing alright.

But, despite my best efforts to stay up all night, I'm starting to not be able to concentrate on the puzzles, so, good night for now, new friend.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:46 pm

So have you heard the Portal 2 song yet? :lol:

It's quite good

Still Alive is better though

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:47 am

portal 2 4sure fun game mind breaker

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:22 am

Who has two thumbs and lost his 2nd match in the Mortal Kombat tournament at the GameStop during the midnight release for Mortal Kombat and Portal 2? This guy. Who has two thumbs and won a copy of Mortal Kombat in a raffle at same GameStop? Also, this guy. Oh, sweet irony.

Also, I got my Portal 2. She be installing right now

awesome, same situation here, i felt a little bad cause i was the only one at the store who came for Portal instead of Mortal Kombat.

there were 2 drawings here, one for a copy of the game, and one for a MK headband signed by Ed Boon. so yeah, i ended up taking home Portal and a free copy of MK :celebration:

Also, we didnt have a tournament but the anyone could play a 1 on 1 match against each other if they pleased. i was 4/0.

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:37 am

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1848032

Why Valve?

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:27 am

Played both single player and co-op for a couple of hours now, absolutely love the game. Stephen Merchant was an amazing voice actor choice. Source also seems to have been updated well with all the dynamic props and stuff.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:46 pm

Dammit, I don't get home until 4 today, and I won't be able to go to GameStop until about 5 or 6. Last time I pre-order a Valve game from anywhere else than Steam.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:05 pm

Source also seems to have been updated well with all the dynamic props and stuff.

It has come a long way form the version used in HL2. I heard a rumor that once Episode 3 is released they'll update HL2 and the episodes to the latest Source. I hope that's true

Edit: oh wait, i forgot to mock Episode 3's release schedule. Um, how about "Episode 3 is released, oxymoron of the week :rofl:"?

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:00 pm

Unlocked an hour early for gold potato folks. We also suddenly got every single valve game, so that was pretty cool of Valve.

Liking portal 2 so far. Was over halfway through the 22 chambers when I had to sleep.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:05 pm

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1848032

Why Valve?

Ya know, I could really care less. I have it maxed out, it's running beautifully, and I'm having a blast with the game, so they can put in "Please do not turn off your console" at every loading screen and it wouldn't bother me one bit.

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:35 am

It's truly hard to overstate my satisfaction with Portal 2. It's awesome.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:01 pm

I gotta wait another half hour or so before gamestop opens. then i've only got a short while to play before i have to work. Sad Day.

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:17 am

My Amazon order shipped today**. So it'll probably be a few days before I can play. It's not like it matters; I'm so busy with end-of-term stuff that playing games is pretty much non-existent for the time being.

**I ordered the PS3 version. I figured I might as well. That way I can play the PS3 or my complimentary PC version.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:19 pm

Speaking of, has Steam for PS3 been launched yet? I saw a "PS3 first time signup" (or something like that) option one day when restarting Steam.

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:13 pm

I seem to remember something about being able to sync the accounts once you used some code from Portal 2 or something. I don't know; I haven't been on my PS3 in a long while.

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:55 am

Obviously i should've looked in the Steam forums first :blush:

....The game will ship on the PS3 with a suite of services such as Steam Cloud, auto-updating, DLC support, and Steam community features like community profiles and cross-platform chat.

So it isn't the full Steam, just some of the community and cloud features included in the PS3 version of Portal 2, and propably some other games in the future.

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:38 am

A lot of people seem to be unhappy with Portal 2, at least on the Steam forums and metacritic. I was torn if I wanted to spend $50 on it at the moment, i think I am just going to wait till it goes on sale. I was worried that it wasn't going to have that much actual content, and from what I've been reading it seems like it doesn't. I'm also disappointed in Valve that they included the "botconomy" in this game.

"You buy the product, you get the content ... We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers."

- Robin Walker, Valve Software. 2007

Oh well.

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:47 am

downloading now. steam id amdavis502

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:23 pm

A lot of people seem to be unhappy with Portal 2, at least on the Steam forums and metacritic. I was torn if I wanted to spend $50 on it at the moment, i think I am just going to wait till it goes on sale. I was worried that it wasn't going to have that much actual content, and from what I've been reading it seems like it doesn't. I'm also disappointed in Valve that they included the "botconomy" in this game.

"You buy the product, you get the content ... We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers."

- Robin Walker, Valve Software. 2007

Oh well.

What is the "botconomy"? I saw you can customize your robots. Do you have to spend actual cash on that stuff?

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:01 pm

What is the "botconomy"? I saw you can customize your robots. Do you have to spend actual cash on that stuff?

I don't have the game, so this is just me reading about it and may not be entirely accurate:

The botconomy is like the TF2 Manco store. You buy (with real money) gestures and other customizations:

All of the DLC is cosmetic and will visually alter the robots you can control in co-op. None grants a player a gameplay advantage or shortcut. The items cost a total of $85.64 though can be purchased in a bundle for $34.99. The items range from 16 $2 co-op gestures (the Atlas Faceplam, for example) to $5 skins for your robot .

http://kotaku.com/#!5793543/the-people-are-panning-portal-2

» Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:52 pm

86 freaking dollars for purely cosmetic DLCs? And here I was thinking the TF hat craze was crazy :wacko:

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:31 am

"The one who sells is not the crazy one, but the one who buys" (to poorly translate a finnish saying :hehe:)

» Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:59 am

In other news, Valve has started counter trolling:

All of us here on the TF2 team have been asking to play Portal 2 for months now.

"Go away," the Portal guys told us. "You'll just try to put hats in it."

"Whaaattttt?" we said. "That's—psshhhh. If anything, we'll probably tell you to take some hats out of the game."

"There are no hats in the game."

After this, there was an awkward ten-minute silence while all of on the TF2 team stared at the Portal guys, waiting for them to start laughing. Instead, they just told us to go away again. That's when we realized: with so little time left before release, we couldn't afford to waste any time playing the game. We had to fix it. Now. So late last night we snuck into the Portal 2 source code and copy/pasted some hats into it.

You're welcome, Portal 2 team.

Today, we pass the fruits of our clandestine game-saving labor onto you, the hat-loving public (or as you're more commonly known, the public). If you own any of the following hats in Team Fortress 2, you'll be able to equip them on your Cooperative Testing Initiative robots in Portal 2:

Mann Co. Cap

Prince Tavish's Crown

Pyro's Beanie

Fancy Fedora

Master's Yellow Belt

Tyrant's Helm

If you've been on the fence up until now—and who could blame you—you've finally got a reason to buy Portal 2. Courtesy of Team Fortress 2. The best game that Valve makes with a "2" on the end.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/TF2/announcements/detail/1082198054005426996