Portal 2 – Some plot details revealed! UPDATE - More spoilers!

Is it just me or were the enviroments all so pale and stale white and there wasn’t much combat at all.

Not to mention the game was very repeative, do puzzle, go through lift… ringse and repeat.

Unfortunately, I think he might be…

Portal was the best game of 2007 hands down, hopefully bite-size gaming will one day become the future.

This does sound amazing though, I’m guessing we’ll be seeing the conception of GLaDoS, or at least the cause of the machine’s madness…

Yes, this game along with Call of Duty 4 had to be the most overrated games of 2007.

With all respect to the industry what happened? all of a sudden perfect 10’s dropped from the sky.

Usually you go a year or 2 without a perfect critically aclaimed game, Halo 3 was one of the few games that warrented one but only just. Bioshock had promise but didn’t delilver, Mario Galaxy was decent enough (8/10 at best)

But I don’t get the obsession people had with these 2, Portal it was intresting for 5 minutes, didn’t last much longer anyway.

And COD4, well it was a nice game but was it really game of the year? I don’t think so!

come on Portal was amazing, tho I agree on Cod4 nothing amazingly special from a ‘pushing the bar’ perspective.

Halo3 was horrible, totally shoddy production with a passable multiplayer.

2007 tho was one of the best years for games ever, thats why there was so many high reviews (ignoring Halo3)

Exactly. Portal is amazing, I can’t even be bothered taking the time out to go into why as I’d be here all day…

You’ve not a leg to stand on Lloytron, you’re clearly tasteless!

Valve games always get so much undeserved praise, I think its because they keep people waiting absolutely ages. I don’t think making portal is as hard as people think it is. They ripped off a couple of ideas from other games like Zelda then cut the ones that wern’t so good. They were left with about 3 hours of game, what does that tell you!

Valve games only have good pacing because they remove the bad ideas, most games don’t they arn’t geniuses their just smart.

Evenso Portal isn’t my kinda game, im more a classy kind of gamer. I want good graphics not crappy whiteness. And some action like Sants Row, the new one looks to be good too.

What is your insistance on judging game quality on reviews alone? It doesn’t make sense to me?

Please form your own opinion, your coming across as a little more than one of those hardcore gamers that follows the pack.

But this is what I have come to expect from pricks like you.

“Valve games always get so much undeserved praise, I think its because they keep people waiting absolutely ages. I don’t think making portal is as hard as people think it is. They ripped off a couple of ideas from other games like Zelda then cut the ones that wern’t so good. They were left with about 3 hours of game, what does that tell you!”

Steve, you are the biggest fucking idiot i’ve ever fucking seen in my whole fucking life. Pardon my french.

So… not sure why someone else is posting as me, but the earlier comments (which are now deleted by the looks of it) were not posted by yours truly!

BTW, considering I’ve no idea what the spammer posting as me actually said - Portal is one of my favourite games of recent years. So good I bought it twice (PC and 360). Saints Row was shite.

I found the gameplay mechanics and design of Portal to be outstanding - although I have some issue with the replay challenge mechanic.

Having said that, the solo game itself was astounding, and the satire was gloriously sharp - and the song was outstanding. It could have been longer but a short exciting ride is better than a long laborious one.

I hope this sets things straight

Oh my, having read this guys posts I feel bad that he was posting as me. I’m happy that some of you realised it wasn’t me!

I don’t understand why, when critiquing Portal, anyone would ever compare it to something as mediocre as Saints Row, as if it were the Citizen Kane of gaming.

Saints Row is an uninspred derivative of GTA. Portal is a unique game experience. BTW what the fuck version of Zelda did you play, that had portals?

Portal makes you think in multi-dimensional space. Zelda never did that, it never even suggested such a thing. I’m not surprised that anyone stupid enough to spam as me would not understand that.

“seen as he acted like most noobs on the internet.”

LOL, what the…?

I just did what anyone would do when they realised how easy it was to exploit the comment system, used a false idenity and had some fun.

Im sure you all know I had no bad intensions, id imagine one or 2 of you even found my alter ego amusing, seen as he acted like most noobs on the internet.

Back to the Topic, I dont care for spoilers, bring on Portal 2, its gonna rock. And if they are already doing the voice acting (starting July) then the game cannot really be that far off.

Steve you are a twat

Portal was beyond amazing. And if that was just testing out the brilliant idea of portals, (according to valve) then they’ve got a lot to live up to. I have a feeling that this game is going to be really really good.

Steve the the fuck are you on drugs?
“your coming across as a little more than one of those hardcore gamers that follows the pack.”
so your one of these retarded players who have no taste in games and just sit on their own
having friends is better than having no one and insulting a game that is perfectly fine and intentionally being different just so you feel “cool”
and it isnt cool its not even funny

I’m really looking forward to Portal 2 but I wonder if it’s going to be a part of an Orange Box 2? Along with Half-Life 2 Episode 3, and Left 4 Dead per chance.

excellent! i love portal!

The graphics are amazing, it completely absorbs you from whatever else you are doing [even when you arent playing it!]

10/10

makes you wonder, could they be testing portals, for use in HL2 episodes

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I am in agreement with Steve, although the ways in which he got across where dick-like in the least.

So many of you just seem to spew gaming ratings while not actually putting forward your own opinions. The game was great, but then got so repetitive it wasn’t funny.

“Halo3 was horrible, totally shoddy production with a passable multiplayer. ” Seriously WTF!

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The only real achievement that valve achieved was getting people to do the exact same thing for 2 hours. How they can continue this again for portal 2, will be interesting.

hmm, random lines ^^

I do have dyslexia, but the misspell is intended. Portal was a game that showed me that there were things out there that could creep me out in a game. Fighty-killy games never really did that as there was just you, a gun, and things to kill. The occasional surprise was the only thing that would slightly knock me; but in portal, you were completely alone, with a quirky computer talking to you andtrying to kill you. It was funny how it talked saying “you’re going the wrongway you know” and “oh look someones eaten all the cake”. Also itwasn’t as freaky as bio-shock, which made me jump at the slightest thing because humans injecting themselves made me freak. Mutant fine, mad deranged injecting people just creep me out; don’t really know why…
Portal gooood. Make my mathematical brain twinge with concentrated delight.

On thinking about this game ive just realised, as fun as im sure this sequel will be, with the new information update, and with how quick this game seems to be spewing through development (although voice acting being done doesnt neccessarily mean its near by, especially when theyre probably employing a nobody on a contract).

But anyway, prequel + new computer nemesis seems abit like portal 2 is going to be portal 1.5. I.e. no new developments, no new tech and with it ending with no surprises where portal 1 starts.

Dunno about any of you, but i wanted to crank my portal gun outside in open environments, with hostile enemies. Guess i should have known that kindof game is a long way off being practical, let alone possible.

xxx

Ahh, portal, completed it 3 times, done all the advanced test chambers but one, anyway, to me anyone who undervalues Valve games is, well, blind. You say that its making people do the same thing for 2 hours. Maybe. However, it obviously works, look at CS:S, thats the same thing for, God, YEARS now - And are people bitching about repetiveness in that? No matter what you do, games are repetative, almost every FPS follows generic rules, to me it seems silly that your bitching about a game for no other reason that you don’t get a BFG or noob-tube and get to make pretty explosions. Anywhoo, back to portal, t’was just epic beyond preportions, yes, it could have been longer and yes, it could have been more challenging, however it would have set the game back a loooong time, getting a working lag-free portal gun ain’t no walk in the park. What I hope to get from portal 2 and hopefully - Dear God hopefully - Eps 3 ( Gordan Freeman sending headcrabs through a portal off a cliff would be epic ) Is a greater sense of danger. Whilst Portal had mild aspects of danger. They could really never move, as they were generally giant pits off death and turrets, I want moving threats, not to be able to hide behind a wall and line up a perfectly placed portal to break the turret, this will add the aspect of “Fight or Flight” Weither to send 1 enemy to his death through a portal into a spike, pit, cliff etc. , or save yourself for a few minutes, perhaps make a portal into an armory and burst out, all new-guns blazing and open a can of whoop-ass. Portals could add so many new levels of combat and tactics to the Source engine + I have an image stuck in my head of 2 CP’s talking, a portal popping up and a nade flying through it, it’d be just… Win.

“Not to mention the game was very repeative, do puzzle, go through lift… ringse and repeat.”

That comment makes no sense. According to your slightly retarded logic, EVERY game is repetitive.
Super Smash Bros. is repetitive - select character, fight… rinse and repeat.
Grand Theft Auto is repetitive - do missions, kill people… rinse and repeat.
Halo is repetitive - select mission, kill aliens… rinse and repeat.
Bioshock is repetitve - find plasmids, kill people… rinse and repeat.
Splinter Cell is repetitive - creep around, knock people out… rinse and repeat.
Note that I DON’T ACTUALLY THINK ALL THIS, I’m proving a point.
You can make ANY game sound repetitive when you simply state the general objective of the game. The objective of Portal is solve puzzles. It WOULD be repetitive if every puzzle was similar or the same, but that’s far from true.

“They ripped off a couple of ideas from other games like Zelda”

I never realised that Zelda was set in the future, and that Link walks around with the Portal gun with a fairy named GLaDOS.

“Portal isn’t my kinda game, im more a classy kind of gamer. I want good graphics not crappy whiteness. And some action like Sants Row”

Okay, first you call yourself a “classy gamer”, whatever the hell that means. You then say you like Saint’s Row. Saint’s Row is the opposite of classy. Saint’s Row is a copy+paste of GTA: San Andreas, only San Andreas was done a lot better. If you’re considering Saint’s Row a “classy” game, then I think all intelligent discussion has ceased.

“im more a classy kind of gamer. I want good graphics”
You just contradicted yourself… any gamer with a decent taste in games would favour gameplay, with graphics as an added bonus.

“I want good graphics not crappy whiteness”
What the hell does “crappy whiteness” even mean? Besides, the “crappy whiteness” is there because it’s set in a laboratory. And what does the setting even have to DO with graphics? Saying that Portal’s graphics are bad because the tiles are light-coloured is like saying hamburgers taste bad because you don’t like the colour. Graphics and setting have no relation.

I know how you read this thread and jumped on the opportunity to prove yourself and look smart to everyone here by trashing Steve’s posts.

What you fail to realise is that (as shown in all the comments you were too intelligent to read) this was all a joke. And the real fools are people like Suse!