Portal!

[Azazel]

I'm at some point where I have to make stupidly huge real-time jumps which are freaking my eyes right the fuck out. I've stopped enjoying it. A shame.

[Yegolev]

One of the places where you have to eject yourself from a portal at high speed and must shoot yourself another exit whilst trying to figure out which way is up?  I can think of two of those places.

[Der Helm]

Hint: If you are in one of the rooms where you can bounce through 2 portals indefinatly, move only on one side , you will keep your bearing while bouncing back.


Hm. Not sure I that makes sense to you, but is is really difficult to describe...

[Azazel]

One of the places where you have to eject yourself from a portal at high speed and must shoot yourself another exit whilst trying to figure out which way is up?  I can think of two of those places.

Yeah. I actually figured it out last night but slightly screwed up at the end. I'd have done it again but I'd pressed F5 for quicksave when I was almost done. And that's screenshot in portal... 
At that point, needing to start that section again, my eyes and brain told me "no more tonight". Which is unusual. I never get any kind of motion sickness from games. Well, until now.

[Yegolev]

I agree, it's the worst disorientation I have ever felt in a game, even more than Descent.  Also, you can remap the keys.  But you knew that.

[Samwise]

Every Source/Half-Life title uses F5 for screenshot, F6 for quicksave, and F9 for quickload.  I avoid messing with them because if I get used to having them any other way I'm guaranteed to bone myself by forgetting to set them on the next new game that comes out.

[Rasix]

Odd that I didn't get motion sickness with this one. I nearly threw up several times while trying to get through the boat part of HL2.

And yah, this game was a triumph. I'm making a note here: huge success.

[Slayerik]

I agree, it's the worst disorientation I have ever felt in a game, even more than Descent.  Also, you can remap the keys.  But you knew that.

Same.... I've never had a game really bug me... A couple times in Portal though I was hurting.

[schild]

Only thing that ever, ever, ever got to me was Shogo. Lithtech engine was a really wavy piece of shit.

[rattran]

Bioshock gave me vague bits of motion sickness, before the magic fov hack.

And it made me feel bad for ripping apart small children. DAMN YOU BIOSHOCK!

[Prospero]

If you felt bad, why did you do it? :)

[Megrim]

 

[Azazel]

I agree, it's the worst disorientation I have ever felt in a game, even more than Descent.  Also, you can remap the keys.  But you knew that.

Yep, I usually do, I'm so used to the F5/F9 combo in most games that I just defaulted to it without thinking.

Anyway, finished it a couple of nights ago. Fun game, interesting concept, but it's not robot jebus to me. One thing I did like about it was that even the hardest of the puzzles had me thinking "hey, that wasn't so hard" after completing them. Admittedly, I hven't played through the h4rdc0r3 extra levels and achievements and all of that yet.

[Yegolev]

I had that a bit on the advanced maps.  Those were the first maps where I would stand there and mutter "what the fuck" for a bit, but when I figured out what I had to do it seemed obvious.

[Sky]

before the magic fov hack.

Share please?

[rattran]

There was a fan-produced hack to make the Bioshock widescreen real widescreen, rather than cropped.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/BioShock

Made it much nicer. Dunno if an official one ever got released, I finished it and uninstalled before any official patches.

[Sky]

Thanks, I'll have to give that a whirl, still working through Bioshock. Should've thought to look there, since I'm a long-time member.

Bah. One thing I hate about that site, they favor making little executables without showing you how they created the hack so you can do it yourself. I remember early on (in early 2004, iirc) there was one game we figured out a cool hex hack to directly change the dll. That's the kind of shit I enjoy, not to mention it being a whole lot safer than downloading some random guy's exe.

[kaid]

I enjoyed portal a lot but there were a couple areas where you had to do those weird ping poinging between portals that really bothered my eyes. I had to stop for a while because it was giving me a screaming headach. Most of it is fine but the reorienting going from one portal to another was done in a way that my brain was not liking to much.

Eh still fun just need to take breaks after one of the nastier puzzles.

[DraconianOne]

Taking a break does not get you cake.

[Azazel]

The cake is not real, though.

You need to either make your own cake or go to the shops if you want real cake.

[Zetleft]

Finally started Portal and could not stop until I finished it.  Amazing game from start to finish.  Didn't even mind the small motion sickness I got for a bit. 

[Yegolev]

Best of all, now you will get all the jokes we've been cracking for the past couple of weeks.

[Prospero]

Just found this awesome interview with the writer for Portal.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=518

I hadn't realized he'd been one of the writers on Psychonauts. No wonder I the writing in that game so much.

[schild]

The writing in this is vastly superior to Psychonauts. So vastly superior in fact, that I would think Psychonauts were ghost written.

[Surlyboi]

I loved Portal. The gameplay, the commentary, the setting. All of it.

I didn't get as motion sick as I did playing Prey though. That one fucked with your head on a lot of levels with the portals and the selective gravity.

[Prospero]

The writing in this is vastly superior to Psychonauts. So vastly superior in fact, that I would think Psychonauts were ghost written.

Surely you jest.

[taolurker]

Thread necro, just because Steam is now advertising the plush companion cubes also in fuzzy dice version.

[schild]

Plush is a horrible crap choice.

Upsetting. Very Upsetting. I wanted a hard one that sat on my desk and played still alive when I clicked the heart.

Edit: More like companion sphere, amirite?

[Nerf]

I'm aboslutely shocked that noone is selling a CnC'd aluminum one yet, I was expecting thinkgeek to have it up within ~36hours of portal dropping.

It doesn't even _have_ to play still alive, but dear god, that would be awesome.   

[Azazel]

Plush is a horrible crap choice.

Upsetting. Very Upsetting. I wanted a hard one that sat on my desk and played still alive when I clicked the heart.

Edit: More like companion sphere, amirite?

You should contact Valve and let them know that this is what you require.

[LK]

Plush is more huggable, especially if it's fairly large.

[geldonyetich2]

The porn industry is already working on the hermaphrodite companion cube.   

Sorry about that.  Anyway, what I'd actually like is one of those turrets, complete with phrases when you pick it up, knock it over, or it detects motion.

[Yegolev]

Do you mind if I send you one with live rounds in it?

[geldonyetich2]

By all means.  So long as it's suitably apologetic, I'd adore it anyway.

[Prospero]

Plush is awesome. I'm so getting my son a companion cube instead of a teddy bear when he's born.