Finally: Portal you say?

[Lord Thodin]

portal has been so hyped it could not have possibly ended up well. Even if you set your expectaions a little lower. I would prefer putting chel into half life 2 episode 3 and just let portal be portal. Or else just realease more and more chalenge maps.

Thats what Im planning on doing. However, i havent played a Half Life game since the early 2k's. I have no idea what Gordon Freemans been up to, so is it a problem that I know NOTHING about the Half Life episodes?

Its not that important to know about the previous Half-Life game. Just make sure to play the episodes in chronological order!

Ahhh. Ok, so what should i know about the previous titles to understand the new game? Other than the main character, what else should i know. Is there an evil corporation? Is there an alien invasion, what?

Spoiler: HL1 spoilers

In Half-Life 1 Gorden was a scientist at a place called Black Mesa. (You are gonna hear BM referenced several times in HL2) At BM a major malfunction happened during a experiment and aliens started to teleport into BM.
BM was soon overrun and Gorden was teleported to the alien's overlord and then Gorden proceeded to kill the overlord. Gorden was then employed by a person only known as the "G-man" and put into stasis. Half-Life 2 begins when Gorden is awakened from Stasis by the G-man.During the years Gorden was in stasis the earth was taken over by the alien race at BM, they are knowm as the combine.

Thank you. That explains ALOT! I saw all the Black Mesa references in Portal. Now that i think on it. They are kinda comical as well. Again thanks for the info

Hey no problem. Just as a warning, you may need to play through Half-Life 2 and its episodes before you understand most of it. Valve's story telling method is a bit different then most other games which is nice in a sense..

By that, you mean RIDICULOUS! right? If i dont understand anything, ill come to here for guidance anyway.

 

[Enigmers]

Portal is a great game, but it's reputation has been overly tainted by the internet. Basically, it's hard to love the game that started millions of retards saying things like "The cake is a lie" and miscellaneous crap about the weighted companion cube.

We get it. It was a good game. Do it a favour and shut the fuck up. Please.

 

[Lord Thodin]

I played it before I even knew about Yahtzee, so I loved it. I always laugh at the dialouge in the Companion Cube, and I think the joke is that GlaDOS told you to not love it, or something. I havn't played in a while.

I knida disagree with you, but you have the point about the lenght relative to the challenge.

Thank you, im glad im not the only one who was upset about that. However the companion cube...Did it talk? If it did i couldnt actually hear it over the machines banging around or GLaDOS telling me to kill it or anything else.

I'm not usre if it talked. All I know that it is a cube, with hearts on it. And I loved it for that. Why? Why GLaDOS? Why must I kill it? *Weeps*

Hahaha. Well If you listen to her, she says that you killed it faster than any other participant. That must mean that they actually heard it talk. Also she says to disregard ANY advice given by the cube. So clearly crazy people came before you

I remember her/it saying that. I just never heard the Cube Talk.

Same. That game is confuzzing in some aspects

 

[Sporadic chaos]

portal has been so hyped it could not have possibly ended up well. Even if you set your expectaions a little lower. I would prefer putting chel into half life 2 episode 3 and just let portal be portal. Or else just realease more and more chalenge maps.

Thats what Im planning on doing. However, i havent played a Half Life game since the early 2k's. I have no idea what Gordon Freemans been up to, so is it a problem that I know NOTHING about the Half Life episodes?

Its not that important to know about the previous Half-Life game. Just make sure to play the episodes in chronological order!

Ahhh. Ok, so what should i know about the previous titles to understand the new game? Other than the main character, what else should i know. Is there an evil corporation? Is there an alien invasion, what?

Spoiler: HL1 spoilers

In Half-Life 1 Gorden was a scientist at a place called Black Mesa. (You are gonna hear BM referenced several times in HL2) At BM a major malfunction happened during a experiment and aliens started to teleport into BM.
BM was soon overrun and Gorden was teleported to the alien's overlord and then Gorden proceeded to kill the overlord. Gorden was then employed by a person only known as the "G-man" and put into stasis. Half-Life 2 begins when Gorden is awakened from Stasis by the G-man.During the years Gorden was in stasis the earth was taken over by the alien race at BM, they are knowm as the combine.

Thank you. That explains ALOT! I saw all the Black Mesa references in Portal. Now that i think on it. They are kinda comical as well. Again thanks for the info

Hey no problem. Just as a warning, you may need to play through Half-Life 2 and its episodes before you understand most of it. Valve's story telling method is a bit different then most other games which is nice in a sense..

By that, you mean RIDICULOUS! right? If i dont understand anything, ill come to here for guidance anyway.

lol, by that I mean that you don't have to sit and watch cut-scenes all day.

 

[Lord Thodin]

Portal is a great game, but it's reputation has been overly tainted by the internet. Basically, it's hard to love the game that started millions of retards saying things like "The cake is a lie" and miscellaneous crap about the weighted companion cube.

We get it. It was a good game. Do it a favour and shut the fuck up. Please.

I agree about the over taint-ation. However, its still hard for me to see why the game was OVER hyped you know? It was not THAT good.

 

[Deleric]

I think Portal was awesome for me because it lived on pure "OHMYGODIVENEVERSEENTHISBEFORELOLTHATSCOOLWHEEEEE" which kept me on it.

But if you didn't enjoy Portal very much, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, huh?

2 and 3? I dont understand

I meant if you didn't like Portal, you still have Half Life 2 and TF2.

 

[Lord Thodin]

HEY EVERYBODY! Appreciate everyones input, and their own input against mine own. I am actually going to go try to enjoy some of the other things the Orange Box has to offer. HOWEVER if you quote me, i will respond, so dont be afraid to leave questions.

Ill leave you with this thought. I understand an over hyped.....thing. But how can a game thats only mediocre at best be that over hyped? The game is unique and different but its not THAT good as to deserve as much hype as it got.

 

[Lord Thodin]

I played it before I even knew about Yahtzee, so I loved it. I always laugh at the dialouge in the Companion Cube, and I think the joke is that GlaDOS told you to not love it, or something. I havn't played in a while.

I knida disagree with you, but you have the point about the lenght relative to the challenge.

Thank you, im glad im not the only one who was upset about that. However the companion cube...Did it talk? If it did i couldnt actually hear it over the machines banging around or GLaDOS telling me to kill it or anything else.

I'm not usre if it talked. All I know that it is a cube, with hearts on it. And I loved it for that. Why? Why GLaDOS? Why must I kill it? *Weeps*

Hahaha. Well If you listen to her, she says that you killed it faster than any other participant. That must mean that they actually heard it talk. Also she says to disregard ANY advice given by the cube. So clearly crazy people came before you

I remember her/it saying that. I just never heard the Cube Talk.

Same. That game is confuzzing in some aspects

I've never hears the word "confuzzing" before. Is that just lingo because your avatar is a cat?

No, i do things like throw up clumps of hair because my avatars a cat. That word confuzzing is because i was listening to TV and typing at the same time. That resulted in the aforementioned english abomination.

 

[bobknowsall]

More of the same in what sense? Just another FPS, but with so much AWESOME CRAMMED INTO ITS VEINS that it stands out somehow?

I wouldn't go that far, hah. I'm no Valve fanboy; I just found some of the setpieces in the Episodes (Especially Episode Two) to be pretty fun, and I think they hold their own in the sea of current-gen FPS's. I'd prefer Crysis's invisible superdickery or Call of Duty 4's gunplay, but that's just me.

 

[Sporadic chaos]

HEY EVERYBODY! Appreciate everyones input, and their own input against mine own. I am actually going to go try to enjoy some of the other things the Orange Box has to offer. HOWEVER if you quote me, i will respond, so dont be afraid to leave questions.

Ill leave you with this thought. I understand an over hyped.....thing. But how can a game thats only mediocre at best be that over hyped? The game is unique and different but its not THAT good as to deserve as much hype as it got.

Everyone has their own opinion, right?

 

[Lord Thodin]

Try Portal: Prelude. it's a mod and it's damn good, and there are some pretty challenging puzzles in that one. Plus the story is even a bit better, in my oppinion.

AHHHHHH I wish i could. I dont own a computer to play games on yet. So, unless i knew how to Soft-mod a 360 as to accept computer mods, i think im SOL. I appreciate the idea though. Know any other good puzzle games?

 

[Lord Thodin]

More of the same in what sense? Just another FPS, but with so much AWESOME CRAMMED INTO ITS VEINS that it stands out somehow?

I wouldn't go that far, hah. I'm no Valve fanboy; I just found some of the setpieces in the Episodes (Especially Episode Two) to be pretty fun, and I think they hold their own in the sea of current-gen FPS's. I'd prefer Crysis's invisible superdickery or Call of Duty's gunplay, but that's just me.

Hahah, i appreciate your honesty.

 

[Avatar Roku]

portal has been so hyped it could not have possibly ended up well. Even if you set your expectaions a little lower. I would prefer putting chel into half life 2 episode 3 and just let portal be portal. Or else just realease more and more chalenge maps.

Thats what Im planning on doing. However, i havent played a Half Life game since the early 2k's. I have no idea what Gordon Freemans been up to, so is it a problem that I know NOTHING about the Half Life episodes?

Well, it's not really a problem, but the Episodes are definitely worth checking out. It's more of the same, but in a good way.

More of the same in what sense? Just another FPS, but with so much AWESOME CRAMMED INTO ITS VEINS that it stands out somehow?

It's probably my favorite FPS series. Most of the things that make it good are subtle though, you won't even realize it until you do the Commentary, but Valve went to extreme lengths to ensure you feel a certain way at certain parts, feel a certain way toward each character, etc. Above all, they increase immersion to amazing levels by never having cutscenes or having your character say anything, as him saying something you wouldn't is one way to get thrown out of a game. Hard to explain, really, and it's certainly not for everyone. You should try it, at the very least.

 

[Lord Thodin]

HEY EVERYBODY! Appreciate everyones input, and their own input against mine own. I am actually going to go try to enjoy some of the other things the Orange Box has to offer. HOWEVER if you quote me, i will respond, so dont be afraid to leave questions.

Ill leave you with this thought. I understand an over hyped.....thing. But how can a game thats only mediocre at best be that over hyped? The game is unique and different but its not THAT good as to deserve as much hype as it got.

Everyone has their own opinion, right?

What are you getting at thar?

 

[swytchblayd]

I like to call this the "Halo Effect". Thank my lunch buddies in high school for the title XD

Basically, when you hear people blab on and on about a game (and yes, I will admit that I have difficulty not speaking about something I really like that other people haven't seen/heard/played yet) to the point that, when you get around to playing it, you already know most of all that's coming, and thus have the experience buttfucked, therefore making it less fun that it might have been otherwise.

Now let me just clear up some confusion before it settles in. I'm not saying you shouldn't know a damned thing about a game before you play it. That's just idiocracy. Knowing something about anything before it comes out or before you experience it isn't a problem. It's important, for example, to know somewhat about what's going to happen to you when you're giving birth.

However, having someone detail exactly every experience they've had in a certain car or with a book or whatever is unnecessary, and may ruin potential twists that you might otherwise not have seen coming, or the mood that said medium is supposed to convey. It's for that very reason that people try to avoid spoilers as much as possible while writing walkthroughs or interviews or whatnot.

Anyhow, sorry if you had your fun ruined by cake-wanting fans, but then again, you did ask

 

[Lord Thodin]

portal has been so hyped it could not have possibly ended up well. Even if you set your expectaions a little lower. I would prefer putting chel into half life 2 episode 3 and just let portal be portal. Or else just realease more and more chalenge maps.

Thats what Im planning on doing. However, i havent played a Half Life game since the early 2k's. I have no idea what Gordon Freemans been up to, so is it a problem that I know NOTHING about the Half Life episodes?

Well, it's not really a problem, but the Episodes are definitely worth checking out. It's more of the same, but in a good way.

More of the same in what sense? Just another FPS, but with so much AWESOME CRAMMED INTO ITS VEINS that it stands out somehow?

It's probably my favorite FPS series. Most of the things that make it good are subtle though, you won't even realize it until you do the Commentary, but Valve went to extreme lengths to ensure you feel a certain way at certain parts, feel a certain way toward each character, etc. Above all, they increase immersion to amazing levels by never having cutscenes or having your character say anything, as him saying something you wouldn't is one way to get thrown out of a game. Hard to explain, really, and it's certainly not for everyone. You should try it, at the very least.

I intend to, i appreciate your input though. Ill listen to the commentary, cause im a loser and i like that kinda thing.

 

[j0z]

KILL HIM WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!

*cough* anyway, I really enjoyed the game, and I don't get you saying you got to level 9 and finished it 2 levels later, since the first half of the game had 20 levels, and then you had the backstage portion of it after that.
I really enjoyed GLaDOS's dialog, and some of the puzzles did stump me for a while. If you want replayability, go download some map packs made by the community, some of them are really top-notch.
As for the companion cube, you are a cold, heartless bastard for not caring about it, didn't you hear it talking, pleading with you to not kill it? It cried so desperately when I finally brought myself to throw it in the fire...

Well mostly because Last time i checked the level selector it had only about 11 levels sir. AND I got it for the 360 sir, so the extra levels are not there for me to play with. Also about the companion cube; I didnt hear it because its survival of the fittest and the damn cube couldn't carry its own weight. Hell it wouldnt even hold the portal gun...

Hmmm... I do believe there was 20 test chambers, but maybe only 11 chapters, not sure on how many chapters. But definitely 20 test chambers and the behind the scenes levels.
And as for the companion cube, no, it never talks, I was being sarcastic about that. You are right, the whole deal about the companion cube has been created solely by the community. And I must say that buying it for the 360 was not a good move, unless there was no way your computer could handle it.

Yeah my comp couldnt handle it due to its nonexistence factor. You might be right about chambers. Do you mean that in separate chapters, there are alot of different rooms with challenges? If so, then yes. Still, the last 3 total were the only challenging ones.

Good cause i didnt hear a damn thing come outta that cube. Also, what are the behind the scenes chapters? Are they on the 360 version too?

I mean the ones after you escaped GLaDOS's little "surprise". Which WASN'T cake. I mean that there were 20 separate chambers with puzzles, each time you took a ride in an elevator, you switched chambers. There were 20 if my memory serves.