Portal 2

omerin

I know its a rhetorical question but what shower of idiots are running PSN? Can't download P2 until the idiots sort out their funking network. Christ I hate the PS3

Potential-Monke

omerin wrote: »

I know its a rhetorical question but what shower of idiots are running PSN? Can't download P2 until the idiots sort out their funking network. Christ I hate the PS3

So buy an Xbox... :rolleyes:

It was a security attack on PSN, so they took it down and are rebuilding it from scratch with better protection. Bigger companies have fallen to hackers, and i'm jsut glad that they are doing something about it rather than just putting it back online and hoping for the best.

Anyway, whats the rush? Everyone else has to wait too (on PSN) so you're not missing anything.

omerin

I wouldn't take a PS3 or Xbox if it was free, hate consoles.

Its the free version of the PC version I need to tie in with Steam.

Genghiz Cohen

omerin wrote: »

I wouldn't take a PS3 or Xbox if it was free, hate consoles.

Its the free version of the PC version I need to tie in with Steam.

As a PC games, portal works really really well on the PS3, there was only one time I missed the keyboard & mouse, and that's because I was doing it wrong.

iangobl

Sorry if its been asked already (im not looking through 44 pages). Just wondering if its worth a buy or would renting it for the week be enough?

Basq

iangobl wrote: »

Sorry if its been asked already (im not looking through 44 pages). Just wondering if its worth a buy or would renting it for the week be enough?

Renting for the week should be more than adequate time to complete it.

ríomhaire

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

if I remember your post correctly you got bored about 1/10th of the way through shadow of chernobyl..

Couldn't really blame him for that. The first part of the game is the worst.

Ridley

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just finished the SP and have not a bad thing to say about it. Ending was the best I've seen in a game for a long time - funny, exciting, funny, epic and funny. Wouldn't say it was too short at all - much longer than the first, doesn't outstay its welcome, plenty of variety & new tricks. All the new gimmicks work much better than I imagined they would, and the last couple of 'tests' where you have to put them all together are ingenious level design. A few head scratchers for a while (when you know what you have to utilise, but how being the question) but nothing beats that grin when you figure it out.

Honestly, this game is close to perfect, Valve again proving themselves masters. Would have liked more

Half-Life links bar the token Borealis cameo and a brief mention of Black Mesa

and

the ending song isn't quite as hilarious as Still Alive (but still hilarious)

but serious nitpicking. Portal 2 is the kind of imaginative, perfectly paced, gameplay driven and well-written game we don't get nearly enough of. It's more than a worthy sequel, and I have co-op left to go (thanks Sony for the involuntary delay).

It's been a long time since I had such a satisfying gaming experience.

"Still Alive" is a classic moment but I think I enjoy "Want You Gone" more. Cave Johnson and the history of Aperture

alone more than makes it worth the relatively short game length. They had me at

Mantis Men

.

If there is a third installment, it'll have a lot to live up to without being a rehash.

#That's what I'm counting on

. Portal 2 could easilly have done that and been mostly well received but didn't. Valve can't go back to

test chambers

I don't think.

lee_baby_simms

Portal 2 seems to be sold out everywhere. Doesn't happen very often these days.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

ríomhaire wrote: »

Couldn't really blame him for that. The first part of the game is the worst.

yeah, a few of us tried to sing it's praises and explain how even though he'd played for six hours or so he wasn't even a quarter of the way through. I think he even promised to give it another run through in the future.

ríomhaire

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Portal 2 seems to be sold out everywhere. Doesn't happen very often these days.

Not on Steam (games actually have managed to sell out on Steam before believe it or not. I think Prey was the first to do it).

Zero-Cool

1st off, game is just a pure joy to play!!!

2nd - i'm on chapter 5

The escape where I got rid of the turrets and the toxin and about to face glados.

please tell me it doesn't end here???

3rd - Chapter 4 spoilers - When you are

escaping with wheatley at the end, what happens if you follow Galdos' instructions?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

sheehy83 wrote: »

1st off, game is just a pure joy to play!!!

2nd - i'm on chapter 5

The escape where I got rid of the turrets and the toxin and about to face glados.

please tell me it doesn't end here???

it does not

3rd - Chapter 4 spoilers - When you are

escaping with wheatley at the end, what happens if you follow Galdos' instructions?

you die

Blowfish

sheehy83 wrote: »

1st off, game is just a pure joy to play!!!

2nd - i'm on chapter 5

The escape where I got rid of the turrets and the toxin and about to face glados.

please tell me it doesn't end here???

There are 10 chapters.

sheehy83 wrote:

3rd - Chapter 4 spoilers - When you are

escaping with wheatley at the end, what happens if you follow Galdos' instructions?

You die. You actually get an achievement for it too.

Zero-Cool

10 chapters, thank fook! cheers lads! this game just has to win so many awards this year!

ríomhaire

sheehy83 wrote: »

3rd - Chapter 4 spoilers - When you are

escaping with wheatley at the end, what happens if you follow Galdos' instructions?

Wheatley shouts out "Yeah like we're going to fall for th- WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" then GLaDOS releases the neurotoxin and you die and get an achievement.

Very very very minor spoiler:

There's another similar achievement later in the game.

GothPunk

Someone on NeoGAF linked to these videos, from someone who has been having a go at making some custom maps in Portal 2. They've come up with some really interesting stuff already, where they've had a go at making some 'world portals'. If you've listened to the Dev Commentary in Portal 2 you will have heard the developers talking about this technique for linking parts of the map.

(There is something here for any Doctor Who fans ^^.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSngeGFT1c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKU28WErq2U

calex71

Nearly done with co-op , have to say it is one of the most rewarding and enjoyable multiplayer experiences I've had on xbox.

I have played almost exclusively with strangers, and only had one quitter and shockingly no trash takers. So rewarding when both of you figure something out and fascinating watching how some people go about trying things and working things out as opposed to how you would do it yourself. One part involving running between

two close together portals and orange goo

I would never in a million years have seen but after 10 minutes doing everything esle in the room the guy says ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I see it

killerhitman

sheehy83 wrote: »

3rd - Chapter 4 spoilers - When you are

escaping with wheatley at the end, what happens if you follow Galdos' instructions?

If you go into the room you see an exit Glados say look a deer. you probabaly cant see it why don't you take a closer look at which point the walls close behind you and to tubes come out of the walls realing nurotoxin

Finished the singleplayer a while ago. Absolutely loved it. Dying to try co op, damn you PSN hackers :mad:

VonLuck

Deleted User wrote: »

Finished the singleplayer a while ago. Absolutely loved it. Dying to try co op, damn you PSN hackers :mad:

I thought all PS3 users got a free copy of it on PC? You could play it online on steam if you wanted.

colm21

downloaded portol 1 from xbox marketplace couple of days ago was on offer so decided what the heck, very good puzzle game i will definitely be getting portol 2.

kearneybobs

VonLuck wrote: »

I thought all PS3 users got a free copy of it on PC? You could play it online on steam if you wanted.

He would still need access to the PSN to link his Steam account with his PSN account. Which, obviously, he cant do because it's down.

Mr E

DLC coming this summer.....

Completed Portal 2 already? Not to worry. New additions to the title are being assembled for launch this summer.

Valve's Doug Lombardi let slip the good news in an interview with Fast Company, but left the details vague.

"We will be announcing some DLC for it, so folks can keep a look out for more content coming this summer. We'll be putting more details out about that in a week or so.

"We'll support that with more videos or more comics," Lombardi said.

There's already one free comic available online, Portal 2: Lab Rat. The story bridges Portal and Portal 2 and follows the mysterious Rat Man. In-game, his graffitied dens are hidden throughout Aperture Science's test chambers.

What could the new DLC contain? It probably won't be more hats, a day one DLC option that infuriated PC gamers.

More likely is the addition of new levels for Portal 2's superb co-op mode, though we hope for something new for the single-player campaign as well.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-28-portal-2-dlc-out-this-summer

VonLuck

kearneybobs wrote: »

He would still need access to the PSN to link his Steam account with his PSN account. Which, obviously, he cant do because it's down.

Ah. Did not realise the steam account relied on PSN. That has got to suck.

VonLuck

VonLuck wrote: »

I thought all PS3 users got a free copy of it on PC? You could play it online on steam if you wanted.

Bought a used copy last monday, so no joy there!

kearneybobs

Deleted User wrote: »

Bought a used copy last monday, so no joy there!

How much was your used copy, if you dont mind me asking?

VonLuck wrote: »

Ah. Did not realise the steam account relied on PSN. That has got to suck.

It's killing me. I think I'm just gonna forget about the PC version for now and playthrough the PS3 version.

Genghiz Cohen

kearneybobs wrote: »

It's killing me. I think I'm just gonna forget about the PC version for now and playthrough the PS3 version.

It works really well, the levels are designed with controllers in mind (not a bad thing).

D4RK ONION

Courtesy of Reddit

Genghiz Cohen

D4RK ONION wrote: »

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Courtesy of Reddit

Noobs, everybody knows that moving surfaces don't hold portals!

kearneybobs

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Courtesy of Reddit

Although I have yet to start Portal 2 (not too sure if this is the case for Portal 2), there is a reason why you cant place a portal on a moving object. This explains why.

5uspect

Can't someone think of the Thermodynamics?!

ProjectColossus

But in Portal 2 you can (sometimes) place a portal on a moving object.

Destroying the neurotoxin tubes, laser cutting through the tubes via portals on moving platforms

Seems to be the only time though, there are plenty of other surfaces in P2 that the portals disappear from when the surface moves.

If the rule was that a portal cannot pass through another portal (regardless of what it's placed on), then everything would be fine.

Nerdkiller1991

5uspect wrote: »

Can't someone think of the Thermodynamics?!

In our house, we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!

Aldebaran

Just finished this today. Amazing game. I didn't think it was too short at all, in fact having heard so many people complain about how short it was it actually ended up being much longer than I expected!

Stephen Merchant was just amazing though, one of my favourite bits was

when you free him from his railing and he starts going on about how great it is to be free and that he go anywhere, then he forgets how to get where he's going and says something like, 'well, just follow the railing actually'.

One of many genuine laugh-out-loud moments.

Also, the end,

when I first saw the moon I thought 'oh that's a nice touch... surely I can't actually shoot a portal at it though... holy crap!!

D4RK ONION

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Noobs, everybody knows that moving surfaces don't hold portals!

kearneybobs wrote: »

Although I have yet to start Portal 2 (not too sure if this is the case for Portal 2), there is a reason why you cant place a portal on a moving object. This explains why.

Times you can place portals on a moving surface:

a) when wheatley is taking too long to come up with a plan
b) when the designers have written themselves into a dead end

:P

ríomhaire

Perhaps you can't place a portals on surfaces whose rate of acceleration is changing over time. The moon is constantly accelerating but it's always accelerating the same way (towards the Earth).

TheDoc

All this portal 2 take made me take the wrapper off Orange Box on Xbox I got last week and fire up Portal.

2 hours and finished and what a blast, will more then definitely pick up the sequel but if its as short as this I'll hold off till its a more reasonable price

kearneybobs

kearneybobs wrote: »

How much was your used copy, if you dont mind me asking?

€46.99 in gamestop last monday. The previous owner used the steam download code thingy and traded it in right away. Traded in crysis and castlevania and made €17 profit. I want to give co op a go and will probably trade it in for mortal kombat.

Potential-Monke

TheDoc wrote: »

2 hours and finished and what a blast, will more then definitely pick up the sequel but if its as short as this I'll hold off till its a more reasonable price

It's 9 hours, give or take, and worth every single cent!

roast

Finished it a couple days ago. Very impressed with it!! Story was perfect, and the dialogue was hilarious! Especially Wheatley.

Haven't played the multiplayer yet, but gonna get started on that tomorrow.

AllYourBass

Must...play...co-op. Anyone?

witnessmenow

witnessmenow wrote: »

I cleared the single player there last night. Steam counter says 4 hours, but i dont think thats right.. 6-7 would be closer i think.

I have to say, i'd be edging more to the dreamers75 side of thinking.

I enjoyed the game, it looked nice, it was funny but I just dont think it had the wow factor that portal had. If I was to rate it would probably get a 8/10 from me.

Now I haven't played the co-op im waiting till a buddy of mine gets the game from amazon, but unless co-op is the most magical gaming experience I have ever encountered, there is no way the game is worth the €50 they are looking for it on steam imo. Maybe with the addition of user content it will become worth that, but not yet anyways.

Co-op was the probably one of the most magical gaming experiences I ever encountered, its just so good. I played with a buddy of mine and we had the voice chat going. Cleared it in one sitting, apparently took about 4 hours.
My only minor gripe would be that you lose voice chat during loading screens

Some really great parts in it
The chamber where you need to

collide in mid air

basically any part where you needed to work as a team with good timing.

I thought the co-op was much more challenging than the single player.

Voice chat really really helped, but I would really like in a DLC if there was a couple of chambers where glasdos disabled it so you had to rely on pings etc i think it would be interesting.

me-skywalker

SO is the consensus to get it for PC and not XB?

F1ngers

me-skywalker wrote: »

SO is the consensus to get it for PC and not XB?

Get the PS3 version and you get a code for the game on steam.

Antar Bolaeisk

F1ngers wrote: »

Get the PS3 version and you get a code for the game on steam.

Is that working at the moment with the PSN down?

kearneybobs

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Is that working at the moment with the PSN down?

Nope. Wont be redeemable until the PSN is back up and running.
If he doesn't need it now then he could trade it in one the code is used and save himself a heap of money. How much are people getting for trade ins for this game? Just curious really.

ShooterSF

Just finished this (rented it on the 360) and loved it, as much for Stephen Merchant as for the class gameplay. I only googled the solution to one puzzle as the eureka moments are brilliant.
Is it worth picking up the original or is the second much better?

roast

ShooterSF wrote: »

Just finished this (rented it on the 360) and loved it, as much for Stephen Merchant as for the class gameplay. I only googled the solution to one puzzle as the eureka moments are brilliant.
Is it worth picking up the original or is the second much better?

The original is just as good.

ríomhaire

ShooterSF wrote: »

Just finished this (rented it on the 360) and loved it, as much for Stephen Merchant as for the class gameplay. I only googled the solution to one puzzle as the eureka moments are brilliant.
Is it worth picking up the original or is the second much better?

It's a bit different. There are no lasers, bridges, bouncy plates or funnels. There are only the Portals, buttons, boxes and puzzles based around redirecting energy balls into sockets to power things. There's less humour (though it's still one of the funniest games around) and the only character is GLaDOS. There are also more fast-paced flinging puzzles and the facility and chambers are a lot less developed. This probably sounds bad but it's actually great! SP only though.



Also, updates announced for free for all four platforms.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?177241-Portal-2-DLC-Details-Announced-Free-On-All-Platforms

Will include "new test chambers for players, leaderboards, challenge mode for single and multiplayer modes, and more."