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[pen]

How come everyone is playing it ? I thought release day was April the 21st ?

I still havent received my copy anyway =(

April 21st is the European release date.

I live in Europe. I've already finished the game. Buying via steam -> playyyy!

Oh, and that was a seriously awesome game.

[_Madk]

Chapter 6 is crazy difficult, not to puzzles, but because I can never tell where I'm supposed to be going 

[boxedlunch]

i haven't tried the multiplayer yet, but is the store one that needs real money? i mean it seems like it would make a lot more sense to just reward players with points to spend based on skill or how well they do in puzzles.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

The game just got extremely meta about designing puzzle games. Hahahaha.
god damn it portal stop reminding me that I should be working on closure

[Glaiel-Gamer]

Just beat single player mode. Epic ending.


Spoiler:
I always knew I shouldn't have trusted the british.

[speeder]

I can't buy Portal 2

It is because I pre-ordered The Witcher 2 :D

In fact, it is the first game EVER that I pay more than 30 USD (and the first game EVER that I pre-order, or rather, that I buy on launch... The game that I bought closes to launch before, was portal 1, and I bought it 1 year and 8 months after launch...)

[_Madk]

I'm on chapter 7 and there's the part where you fling onto two splotches of blue to end up on the platform that (appears to hold) the next exit. However, if I drop onto the floor below for the fling, I'm just short of the platform so that I bump the edge and fall. If I jump down I go too fast and land ahead of the second blue splotch. If I bounce-jump down, I land between the first and second. I've also tried bouncing out onto the previous area (avoiding the portal-destroyer-thingie) and trying some of the drops there but none of them fit.

 

Anyone know what I'm talking about and have some advice?

edit: I finally got it. Silly orange goop being all inconspicuous-like

edit: the box+turret thing is so CUTE 

[Gimym TILBERT]

It's time someone take all the gimmick shooter idea and make one game that use them all as toy and strategic tool rather than puzzle!

Portal (better limit them with a resource)
Time manipulation (local, global, rewind, renew, accelerate)
Gravity
telekinesis (gravity gun)
Psychokinesis (controlling people)
Surface property (tag /portal 2)
Destruction/construction ou mining (fracture and minecraft style)
size shifting
Grappling hook
etc...

First Fps to do that instead of usual shootgun/pistol/Gatling/bazooka... is a winner

No kidding that's feature creep lol (just cause 2?)

[Glaiel-Gamer]

edit: the box+turret thing is so CUTE 

I loved how the villain changed from pure evil to pure stupid.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

The ending of the game was so brilliant when you think about it

SUPER OMG SPOILERS:

Why was the moon a portable surface? Well they mentioned earlier that the white goo was made out of ground up moon rocks...

[PleasingFungus]

This game is pretty great. Well, it starts off well, and the middle is good. Same for the ending. Not totally sure about the rest.

Anyway. I just came in here to post this comment from eva, on Derek banning her:

[21:38]   <eva>   he ended my 25post streak
[21:38]   <eva>   dang it almost got a nuke

It's most amusing if you have access to the excised two-page thread consisting entirely of eva posts.

[Peter]

As someone who pre-ordered, I feel betrayed.

Why

It's all fluff content. It's silly and intangible, but if you're not interested in it then it doesn't matter at all.

It is fluff content, but I don't condone that shit in general and I feel that it wasn't fair to me and whoever else that pre-ordered to withhold that information.

[Mipe]

Awesome game, but...

8 hours? That is it? Somehow I feel unfulfilled 

[Dragonmaw]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. The writing has definitely improved since the first game, and it feels very reverential of Portal without repeating the beaten-to-death jokes. The puzzles are also a bit more challenging, and the various mechanical additions are great. The lack of a challenge mode is a bit disheartening, though.

Glados and Wheatley are also extremely well-written and voiced. Glados feels a lot more sinister and conniving than she did in the first game (probably because she has no morality core any more) and Wheatley is so retarded it's hilarious.

Overall, top-notch job. Excellent writing, fantastic puzzles, visually very stunning (shit yeah increased environmental variety), quite satisfying. The store is a bit puzzling (also stupid) but eh, whatever.

[Tanner]

Man, that was one of the best game experiences I've had in a while.

SPAAAAAAAAACE