Portal

Originally posted by DigiMark007
I just beat all of Portal yesterday. Then did all the advanced stuff today (but not the "least steps/portals" crap).

Fun. Interesting and mind-opening as all hell. But short.

Good thing it comes with the rest of Orange Box. If it was a stand-alone, I'd be upset. As it is, I'm pleasantly sated with gaming for the day, and will likely fire it up randomly in the coming weeks.

...the cake is a lie!

I still need to do the advance maps.

Yeah, it's just one part of an all around outstanding package -- Team Fortress 2 is one of the best MP games in existence, Half Life 2 Ep 2 was arguably the best game of the year all by itself and a stunning example of how episodic gaming should be done, and Half Life 2 is positively classic.

Originally posted by BackFire
Yeah, it's just one part of an all around outstanding package -- Team Fortress 2 is one of the best MP games in existence, Half Life 2 Ep 2 was arguably the best game of the year all by itself and a stunning example of how episodic gaming should be done, and Half Life 2 is positively classic.

Wait, there were other games in The Orange Box? 😐

Yes, and they were arguably better than Portal.

Blasphemy!

Then again, I don't like online multiplayer, especially shooters, and Half-Life has always managed to avoid my adulation.

Well-written, black humored puzzle games are far more my cup of tea.

Yeah, I'll get into HL2 and the episodes soon enough. But Portal was an easy play, and I'm in the middle of Spider-Man 3 right now, so I didn't want to devote myself to 2 full-length games at once.

And more Portal? I dunno. It's a cool novelty, but I might not shell out money for more.

I think Portal was great when it was short.

Hopefully, they continued this trend by releasing small Portal games with their Half Life games.

I could see it being, say, a cool $10-20 download on Xbox Live. Because they can pump out Portal stuff faster than they could make new HL games or episodes.

I'd rather have a full-length Portal than anything Half Life...ermm

I'm with GK on this one.

And now my young Lana.. you will die.

Portal couldn't afford to be any longer, its story, while cute and somewhat engaging, couldn't sustain much more than a simple 3 hour time-frame without getting incredibly tedious and repetitive. Same goes for the gameplay progression.

That said, I think there's a very very good chance that we'll see the Portal gun in Episode 3, that way you'd have the best of both worlds -- The unique "make your own way" level design of Portal, with Half Life 2's exceptionally engaging world and character development that shames most other game's.

I'll agree with you on that one also.

I also think you'll see some sort of connection that directly involves Half Life, but I dont think we'll get to use the portal gun. The level design would be a nightmare. Or, it could be used just for a few seconds.

I don't think it will be necessarily prevalent or anything, like the gravity gun, but I think there will be a few segments that would allow it.

Yeah, probably.

It would be neat but I just want the conclusion to the episode trilogy.

As do I. After Ep 2's ending I'm dying to see what's going to happen, they really pushed the envelope with storytelling, mostly in terms how the realistic and believable well developed characters peaked at the end of the game.

Originally posted by Lana
I'd rather have a full-length Portal than anything Half Life...ermm

I'm with GK on this one.

✅

I am rather sick of the countless shooters bombarding the XBOX, a good puzzle game like a full length portal would be refreshing.

Originally posted by BackFire
As do I. After Ep 2's ending I'm dying to see what's going to happen, they really pushed the envelope with storytelling, mostly in terms how the realistic and believable well developed characters peaked at the end of the game.

Yeah.

Hopefully, they do Half Life 3 and not more episodes. I would love to have full length Half Life again. Maybe, change up the gameplay just a bit so any Half Life veteren cant finish an Half Life game in thier sleep.

Knowing Valve though, they'll do something cool.

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Merry Something, b*tches.

Originally posted by Digi
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Merry Something, b*tches.

...😂

Wow.

I still need to play Portal. I crack everyone up by the fact that I have Still Alive as one of my ringtones on my phone though 😛

Originally posted by Peach
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Wow.

I still need to play Portal. I crack everyone up by the fact that I have Still Alive as one of my ringtones on my phone though 😛

I has it on my iPod. Also, I have that bit about "There was even going to be cake. We were going to invite your friend, the companion cube, but you MURDERED him. Also, it says here you were adopted, so that's funny too".

GLADoS = <3

I own Portal now, so I can play it! Finally 😄