Portal 2 Coming in April

[Chimpyang]

Arrrgh, I want to ask about this, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Only bad thing about this game. :D

I got stuck 3 times, but the puzzles are all very solvable. And obviously once you've figured it out, it becomes blindingly obvious.

[Kekvit Irae]

Completed it after a few hours, but I must say that the ending was well worth it.
The ending and the characters are, sadly, the only things that save the game, however. The original Portal was a masterpiece, being just short enough to be satisfying without wearing thin. Portal 2, however, is three times as long. Run through a series of test chambers, run through a cavern, run through a series of test chambers, run through a cavern, repeat 100x until you're at the end. That's pretty much the pacing of the game.
I feel cheated.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

The pacing seems a bit off for SP (but I haven't gotten past 17 and haven't tried since I last posted about it). The coop is one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had full stop. And I've only done the first two sets.

[CountArach]

Just finished up to level 16 in my first session of the game. The PS3 version is much better to play than I thought - the lack of sensitivity isn't really a problem at all.

I'm a bit annoyed at not being able to play the PC version until the 'problems' with the Playstation Network are fixed that will allow me to join the two together.

[Scienter]

TC and I finished co op a few days ago, it was quite fun! I think it was easier for us because we were in the same room and could just talk to each other about what we needed to do to solve the puzzles. I loved the goo and the tunnels. I'm playing the single player right now, but don't want to post spoilery stuff. I don't think I'm very far in, but I'm having fun.

[CountArach]

TC and I finished co op a few days ago, it was quite fun! I think it was easier for us because we were in the same room and could just talk to each other about what we needed to do to solve the puzzles. I loved the goo and the tunnels. I'm playing the single player right now, but don't want to post spoilery stuff. I don't think I'm very far in, but I'm having fun.

Yeah my girlfriend and I noted the same thing, the multiplayer is much easier in the same room I think. At the same time though the feeling of accomplishment is heightened by knowing how much talking through it involved.

[naut]

I'm 5 levels from the end, and so far, I've only found 2 levels difficult. The pacing is okay, but it does wear thin in places. The humour is for the most part good, but sometimes it grates.

[CountArach]

Just finished it a few minutes ago. I agree with those who have said it wears thin at times, and I only had one thing I had to youtube, and then it turns out I was on the right track anyway. Either way it has perhaps the greatest ending of any game I have played recently.

[naut]

Finished. Way too easy. The final levels were a breeze, although doing it after a good nights sleep probably helped. The ending is very clever.

[thefluffyone93]

A portal 2 inspired video was here.

[Jolt]

Just finished it a few minutes ago. I agree with those who have said it wears thin at times, and I only had one thing I had to youtube, and then it turns out I was on the right track anyway. Either way it has perhaps the greatest ending of any game I have played recently.

Just finished too. I was close to youtubing on the first Repulsant Gel puzzle (Where you have to leap a giant broken bridge), but found it out close to giving up.

Portal 2 Puzzle video. Spoilered for people who haven't played/finished it yet

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

It's the puzzle starting in 1:00. God I stood there for like 20 minutes wandering what to do.

Other than that, it mostly had me thinking for a couple of minutes without being overly complicated, exactly as I like it for a single-player story mode.

The story was also pretty good. Never expected much stuff that happened, story-wise. Top-notch.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Big discounts on Portal 2 at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000208101

$30 for the PC version!

CR

[Crazed Rabbit]

Awesome poster found here:



View the full res version at the link!

CR

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

There's one somewhere with full movie credits (including "From the novel by CAVE JOHNSON").

[Scienter]

I finished it over the weekend. A few of the puzzles were pretty tough, but overall it wasn't too challenging. I liked the bouncy and speed gels. Co-op mode was awesome, it was fun to play w/ another person.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I thought the whole thing was magnificent. I think they could have removed a chapter's worth of puzzles and focused on making the others a bit more difficult, but that is seriously my only complaint.

However, I did read somewhere that they originally had much harder puzzles but the QA testers said they were too difficult for them and that they should be simplified a bit. In response to this though, the coop puzzles I hear are much harder and that they will have free DLC (for PC users) that includes more puzzles.

In terms of story, I felt it was well paced and was the opposite of what cheated is. GLADOS churned out much more sarcastic humor this time, which I appreciated and Wheatly was a fun counterpart to that.

Cave Johnson though has to be my favorite part of the whole thing, although despite the popularity surrounding the "lemon" speech I found that moment incredibly sad and had to pause for minute to take it all in.

Overall, it really was one of Valve's best games.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Some of the coop is more challenging (but still not that hard). I'm waiting for DLC and fan-made challenges.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I loved the writing and the humor, but the easyness of the puzzles detracted from the whole game.

Most of the game was spent not figuring stuff out, but just progressing through the puzzles. There were very few 'a-ha!' moments were I finally realized what I had to do after studying a puzzle. Mostly I just walked in, looked around, saw the path, and moved along it.

CR

[thefluffyone93]

So this pretty sums it all up....
*WARNING! CONTAINS HARSH LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL INNUENDOS ENTER AT OWN RISK!*


Clicky Click!

[Crazed Rabbit]

Mod tools!

Today we're opening up the beta of the Portal 2 Authoring Tools to everyone! It's available as a free download for all owners of the PC version of Portal 2 and can be found under the "Tools" tab in Steam.

The Portal 2 Authoring Tools include versions of the same tools we used to make Portal 2. They'll allow you to create your own singleplayer and co-op maps, new character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music.

Here's what's included:
- Updated version of Hammer, the Source level editor
- Updated Faceposer
- Example maps and instances to help build new maps
- Updated suite of command-line compiling utilities

CR

[Motep]

The puzzles are mind numbing and disgustingly completable at 3 in the morning. Still fun though, and it makes me giggle.

[xploring]

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/music.php

Portal 2 Soundtrack free
Volume 2 now out