TheFull9 Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Had a very quick blast, feels good to finally be playing a Valve game again at any rate. First impressions are certainly excellent, most hilarious intro to a game probably ever, I can't remember the name of the comedian but his voice acting is just superb. Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Stephen Merchant plays Wheatley, if thats who you mean? Link to post Share on other sites
danielsilva Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 But GLaDos is just as malevolent and funny as ever . Just got to Chapter 4 ... i believe she's more bitchy than before though Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Just got to Chapter 4 ... i believe she's more bitchy than before though OOOOhhhh but it gets worse She has some fantastic lines. Link to post Share on other sites
TheFull9 Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Stephen Merchant plays Wheatley, if thats who you mean? If that's the same bloke who did the voice-over for the ISA advert with the woman on the bouncy castle then yes. His timing is just immaculate, the lines near the beginning all bemoaning the corporate structure, managers etc, brilliant. I did like the idea of the posh victorian-era butler type accent they had going on for the robotic eye in some of the trailers, but that definitely would've begun to grate after a while, so I'd say they made the right move getting in merchant. Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 I had worried that wheetly would be a totally annoying charicter, but he has shown some... interesting development... I am totaly properly and utterly stuck where i am, somewhere in chap7. there is no clue of what to do, and no way of doing so . I've been back 3 times with the whole fresh mind theory. hasn't worked. Link to post Share on other sites
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ED-SKaR Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 The poh tay toes do feature quite prominently by I managed to get unstuck . after 3 hours (1 hour ingame) staring at the problem i eventually solved it. I'm gona leave a little for tomorrow, don't want to end the fun so soon. Link to post Share on other sites
Shriven Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Given up for a little while, got stuck a while after the po tay toes incident. Was doing my nut in, so will try again tomorrow with a fresh head and all that. Wheatley is excellent and after po tay toes incident, I'd say Glados goes from strength to strength. Cave Johnson is EXCELLENT as well. Link to post Share on other sites
danielsilva Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Don't know why but I seem to always get stuck when the answer is actually pretty simple ... Like right at the beginning of chapter 6 and around chapter 7 with that cornstarch stuff ... Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Don't know why but I seem to always get stuck when the answer is actually pretty simple ... Like right at the beginning of chapter 6 and around chapter 7 with that cornstarch moon juice stuff ... Finished it, and a second time with the cometary. I really hate consoles even more than ever, because this game had to work with consoles and their rubbish controllers they neutered all the difficult bits . Result is a game with no challenge. The atmosphere is fantastic and the character development and so on are spot on. Just the simplification of some puzzles (as mentioned in the cometary) took some of the fun, and a lot of gametime out of it. Link to post Share on other sites
danielsilva Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Finished it, and a second time with the cometary. I really hate consoles even more than ever, because this game had to work with consoles and their rubbish controllers they neutered all the difficult bits . Result is a game with no challenge. The atmosphere is fantastic and the character development and so on are spot on. Just the simplification of some puzzles (as mentioned in the cometary) took some of the fun, and a lot of gametime out of it. I talked about that with a co-worker of mine, although enjoyable the tests all felt a bit too simplified compared to the original Portal. There wasn't those kind of puzzles where you had to have some dextery with the mouse to solve them. All in all, it was a very satisfying game and compared to the Homefront that i played a few days earlier, WAY better .... This game still is one of the VERY few that made me laugh hard. Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 I talked about that with a co-worker of mine, although enjoyable the tests all felt a bit too simplified compared to the original Portal. There wasn't those kind of puzzles where you had to have some dextery with the mouse to solve them. All in all, it was a very satisfying game and compared to the Homefront that i played a few days earlier, WAY better .... This game still is one of the VERY few that made me laugh hard. Aggreed. There is a lot of arguing and ranting going on on various forums (inc the steam forum) that sujests portal 2 is (at best) dumbed down for the console'tards, and (at worst) designed for consoles and ported to PC (rather than the other way round) Its a real shame. There is a note in the comentary about peoples responses to the trailers such as the propulsion gel*. Aparently lots of people got scared that it would be really difficult, but the puzzle in that video isn't all so hard anyway! You could manage that on a console. But because of these fears the game got made easier. There isn't any "advanced" maps, like the origonal, the only other content to the single player story is the multiplayer. I've only done a little of that, but its quite good. The story is, as you'd expect from valve, perfect. I just want more challenge. Its a puzzle game, it should be puzzling *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-vMAnbqC1A Link to post Share on other sites
C.J.Fox Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 I had initially dismissed this, even though I really enjoyed the original game, as I was concerned it would just be more of the same. However, after watching the videos posted above and reading a few of the comments, it seems to bring a little more to the table. May just have to pick it up after all, assuming I can remember my Steam account details, it's been a while. Link to post Share on other sites
danielsilva Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Aggreed. There is a lot of arguing and ranting going on on various forums (inc the steam forum) that sujests portal 2 is (at best) dumbed down for the console'tards, and (at worst) designed for consoles and ported to PC (rather than the other way round) I've seen a couple of those comments and the "console port" is utterly ridiculous ( and you don't need to be a expert programmer too know that ) but indeed the game as been designed with how consoles work in mind. Still they could have made the challenges more, well, challenging and still be perfectly playable on the console. They should make Portal Maps repository where people could upload their maps and be easily accessible from the game UI. Link to post Share on other sites
aznriptide859 Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Have any of you guys played Portal: Prelude? It's a fan-made "prequel" to the original Portal game by some guy in France - his game is absolutely amazing, and TBH a lot harder than the original Portal. If you guys get bored of P2 you should give P:P a try. Ha, pee pee. XD EDIT: Trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7vNd5woNNc Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 ... assuming I can remember my Steam account details, it's been a while.looooooong time Fox, portal 2 ads a LOT to the story of portal 1, enhances the character of GLaDos beyond what I can possibly say without totally spoiling it. Plus it adds in 3 more charicters with more depth than the trailers give them credit (Wheetly for one) A "repository" is all well and good, single player maps would be distributed as they are curretnly, multiplayer maps will deffinatly start appearing and hopefully valve will "support" some of them within updates and so on. I played portal prelude a long time ago, and it was really good, if unpolished, I'd second the recommendation for that. As we are mentioning mods, there are two for half life "precursor" an d "research and development", both are very good and worth a play. Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLite Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Portal 2 is the best game I've played in 2 years, hands down. I thought Wheatley was brilliantly done as a character and GLaDOS was also developed very well. Only thing that annoyed me a bit was that with all the puzzles they went with "bigger is better" and to be honest I actually found myself getting a little bored at one point whilst playing through the Gel bits as it was feeling a little samey. Link to post Share on other sites
aznriptide859 Posted April 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jplTRwmdo&feature=player_embedded Mad Men opening in Portal. xD Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 I'd be downloading the Valve bumper pack right now due to the generosity of a friend who offered me a load of PC upgrade parts if it wasn't for the fact that STEAM WON'T TAKE MY *fruitcage* MONEY! I WANT TO PLAY! Link to post Share on other sites
aznriptide859 Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Try this - give someone your money, then have them buy two copies, then they can just gift you the game. Unless you want those other games pretty badly too. Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Or give someone the money to gift you the valve pack. On a vaguely related note, Anyone wants to add my steam you can do, Its the same as my username but with no hyphen (because steam is to backwards to understand simple symbols that appear on every keyboard!) Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 WOOOOOHOOOOOO Take that money, bitches. Also, I added you buddy. Link to post Share on other sites
ED-SKaR Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 This video is for those who have finished the single player story. SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I pushed through to chamber 19 on 8 bit graphics but fatigue has got the better of me. Brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites
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