Portal 2

Potential-Monke

Man, this game goes waaaaaaaaaay beyond what i expected from a game. I thought it was just good story writing, and i thought the ending was a bit out there, but reading that it all makes sense... Serious planning gone into this game!

AnCapaillMor

Finished it last night and absolutely love it can't wait for Sony to get the finger out and play coop.

tuxy

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I thought it was just good story writing, and i thought the ending was a bit out there, but reading that it all makes sense... Serious planning gone into this game!

Maybe that's why they seem to have given up on half life 2. The plot is not salvageable, it could never make sense of it.

ríomhaire

tuxy wrote: »

Maybe that's why they seem to have given up on half life 2. The plot is not salvageable, it could never make sense of it.

What's wrong with Half-Life 2's plot?

humanji

ríomhaire wrote: »

What's wrong with Half-Life 2's plot?

There wasn't one? You just go from point a to b to c and occaasionally someone will talk at you as if you already know what's going on.

Kiith

humanji wrote: »

There wasn't one? You just go from point a to b to c and occaasionally someone will talk at you as if you already know what's going on.

I actually thought Half Life did a great job with it's story. There's no cinematics, and it's all from a first person perspective, so it's not as easy to tell a story at times. But i found that i actually cared about the character more then in any other first person shooter i've played in a long time. And it actually has a pretty in depth backstory.

humanji

Kiith wrote: »

I actually thought Half Life did a great job with it's story. There's no cinematics, and it's all from a first person perspective, so it's not as easy to tell a story at times. But i found that i actually cared about the character more then in any other first person shooter i've played in a long time. And it actually has a pretty in depth backstory.

But you don't learn anything about the characters until the next couple of episodes. In HL2, you're just sent to various places, sometimes not even knowing why.

ríomhaire

humanji wrote: »

There wasn't one? You just go from point a to b to c and occaasionally someone will talk at you as if you already know what's going on.

I could explain the plot to you if you like. It's in the background so that players who care can investigate it and players who just want to run and shoot things can do that without having it shoved in their face.

humanji

Thanks for being condescending. Considering the plot of HL1, Episode 1 and Episode 2 and Portal 1 + 2, the plot of HL2 is fairly lacking. That's all I'm saying.

ríomhaire

humanji wrote: »

Thanks for being condescending.

You're welcome. Half-Life 2 also had much more of a plot than Half-Life 1 did. They usually didn't even come up with an excuse for funnelling you into the linear corridors in Half-Life 1 other than the occasional "Go to the satellite facility Gordon", "Go to the Lambda Complex Gordon".

jaykhunter

I thoroughly enjoyed Portal 2, more than the first one. Played the single player campaign in turns with a mate. The writing is superb, as is the delivery, as is the 'eureka' moment when you realise what you have to do to progress.

The ending part with

the moon

made me mark out so hard, when you see what you're supposed to do. Thoroughly satisfying. Another home run. Can't wait to do the multiplayer.

This game shows everything positive about video games today. All the ignorant nay-sayers/media moguls have obviously never seen/played or even heard of this work of art.

I wish somehow this could be shown to kids at school. It's unfeasible, but teaching logic puzzles like this would be amazing.

Harps

Up to Chapter 9 now, easily the most enjoyable game I've played in quite a while, I've got my thesis to finish for college next week yet I spend over 3 hours playing it earlier instead of going to college, its got a real 'just one more puzzle' feel to it.

I love the puzzles towards the end where you have to combine all the different gels & beams, a lot of time spent thinking but theres a real satisfactory feeling when you figure them out

Krieg

zero punctuation review

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3153-Portal-2

challengemaster

Just finished it - brilliant sequel to the original, definately lives up to expectations...

One thing I'm disappointed about though...

The ending song! nowhere near as good as "Still alive"

Laisurg

challengemaster wrote: »

Just finished it - brilliant sequel to the original, definately lives up to expectations...

One thing I'm disappointed about though...

The ending song! nowhere near as good as "Still alive"

I just finished it as well and though the EXACT same thing, then again how were they going to top it :L

tman

Thought the same as well... It didn't have that

reload the last checkpoint as soon as it finishes so you can experience it all over again

appeal

AllYourBass

Have to say though the

shooting the portal into the moon part

was a fantastic ending touch.

ríomhaire

challengemaster wrote: »

One thing I'm disappointed about though...

The ending song! nowhere near as good as "Still alive"

It's certainly not as funny, but I think it's a better song.

tuxy

They should have made it harder, don't think it took longer than 3 mins to figure out any of the rooms

Zero-Cool

tuxy wrote: »

They should have made it harder, don't think it took longer than 3 mins to figure out any of the rooms

Agreed, Portal 1 was way harder with puzzles that had me stumped for days. Still some very clever ones in this! Anyone get the hidden transmission and convert it to a picture?

Duggy747

tuxy wrote: »

They should have made it harder, don't think it took longer than 3 mins to figure out any of the rooms

Only 2-3 ones had me stop for a while and left me stumped for about 20 minutes.

Genghiz Cohen

Cube in glass box?

Nollog

challengemaster wrote: »

Just finished it - brilliant sequel to the original, definately lives up to expectations...

One thing I'm disappointed about though...

The ending song! nowhere near as good as "Still alive"

I thought it was better.

Much more catchy rhythm to it.
And the computery sounds were just under annoying.

AllYourBass

I vote this least intelligible thread for those who haven't cleared the game

Overheal

tman wrote: »

Thought the same as well... It didn't have that

reload the last checkpoint as soon as it finishes so you can experience it all over again

appeal

thats only because the ending had far more closure than the first.

hal9000

I like the co-op ending tune better myself

Harps

Just finished it, great game, thoroughly enjoyable and I loved the ending. Glad I only rented it though as it only took me three days to finish.

Anyone find the missing experiment? Took my time to explore every area I was in but never came across it

5uspect

Harps wrote: »

Anyone find the missing experiment? Took my time to explore every area I was in but never came across it

You can find it in the old Aperture area just after the third pumping station iirc. There is a waiting room and control room stacked on top of each other, it's where you find Glados in the bird's nest. In the control room there is a door half boxed up that you can squeeze into...

humanji

Just finished this a little earlier. It's brilliant. But nowhere near as good as the original, though I guess that's mainly because nobody really knew what to expect when they played the original.

One thing I didn't like was that the ending was pre-rendered. It's a silly thing to pick at, but I'd have preferred if it was still in-game play.

Vyse

Just finished this one last night. Possibly the best game I've ever played. I thought it was soooo much better than the first one in terms of overall story, atmosphere, settings and (most impotantly) the puzzles.

For me it just about beats the likes of Oblivion and Valkyria Chronicles to "Game of this Generation". Excellent stuff.