Yegolev
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Portal + TF2 really fucking badly makes me want to learn how to use HAMMER. Maybe me and Yegolev are stupid enough to try since Ookii is a big pussy.
Yea, I'm still wasting about four or five hours a night sleeping. Sleep is invading my motherfucking. Still, HAMMER can't be any worse than TESCS...? |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Moaner
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Hammer isn't that bad actually, at least coming from BSP and QERadiant. It was always the Unreal editor that baffled me.
I'm going to actually take a look at some editing too, Portal inspired me.
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Prospero
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« Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 01:15:58 PM by Prospero »
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Yoru
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the y master, king of bourbon
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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Narrator? Oh fuck. Now I have to replay it.
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Alkiera
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The best part of SWG was the easy account cancellation process.
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The only thing I managed to get out of that was an amusing response to 'HELP'. I have too many games I'm not playing as it is, but now I need to pick up this HL2 Orange Box thing, just to put that in context. That song made me twitch several times. -- Alkiera |
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bhodi
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No lie.
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The only thing I managed to get out of that was an amusing response to 'HELP'.
try "Login", any username, password 'portal'. I hope you guys didn't miss the powerpoint presentation about black mesa near the end of the game. Any idea who/what gave the bloody directions? |
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« Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 02:26:19 PM by bhodi »
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Sairon
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Login with CJOHNSON/TIER3 instead for admin access and more stuff.
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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I hope you guys didn't miss the powerpoint presentation about black mesa near the end of the game. Any idea who/what gave the bloody directions?
There's 2 instances where the presentation can be seen. Once just after the "end" of 19 and later on before the very end of the game. |
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Glazius
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Oh dear god. That was BEAUTIFUL. Even in youtube resolution. Valve likes their polish. |
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lesion
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has anyone finished advanced 18? I got over the first slime pit and I'm sitting at the edge of the second crying. I even stacked the shit in the backroom and jumped on the camera to try and get a better view, but alls I got are problems.
edit: Vanilla Crazy Cake'd
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« Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 06:04:07 PM by we are lesion »
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rattran
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Unreasonable
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I've been trying the challenges, can't get 13 in 4 portals though. Did 5 first time through, can't wrap my head around 4.
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Edit: What happens if you die in the game? Is the ending different?
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« Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 05:38:12 PM by rattran »
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Obo
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has anyone finished advanced 18? I got over the first slime pit and I'm sitting at the edge of the second crying. I even stacked the shit in the backroom and jumped on the camera to try and get a better view, but alls I got are problems.
edit: Vanilla Crazy Cake'd
I got stuck there too. Will try it again tomorrow, but I'm thinking you have to try and land a portal onto the high platform while you are flying over from the first fling. I don't see how else it could be done. |
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lesion
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I got stuck there too. Will try it again tomorrow, but I'm thinking you have to try and land a portal onto the high platform while you are flying over from the first fling. I don't see how else it could be done.
a friend suggested that and I felt like a total dorkhat. took out my frustration by kung-fu toppling all the turrets. I am having way too much fun with low-portal challenges, they're almost like entirely new levels. footsteps and timers though...fuck that noise. |
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schild
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2.6 Hours.
A masterpiece.
Who says short games aren't worth the money. Knowing what I know, I'd pay $60 just to own a standalone metal box for it.
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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I got stuck there too. Will try it again tomorrow, but I'm thinking you have to try and land a portal onto the high platform while you are flying over from the first fling. I don't see how else it could be done.
That's exactly it. Wait till you get to the turret room. That fucker pissed me off. |
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Fabricated
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~Living the Dream~
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The turret voices are fucking creepy. "I. don't hate you..." "Put me down..." "Are you still there...?"
Also, the hidden area in about test 17 I think? "THE CAKE IS A LIE"
I'm not done yet. This game is art.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Quinton
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has anyone finished advanced 18? I got over the first slime pit and I'm sitting at the edge of the second crying. I even stacked the shit in the backroom and jumped on the camera to try and get a better view, but alls I got are problems.
I'm actually stuck on plain 18, having disposed of the turrets on the raised platforms I am facing something that looks like an impossible timing puzzle, having to setup portals, hit a button, then setup a second set of portals and direct a glowysphere in the 3 seconds available. EDIT: I am a dumbass. A friend pointed out that I could do things in a slightly different order and it all clicks now. The Weighted Companion Cube test is my current favorite as far as evoking emotional response (mostly laughing my ass off, but something else at the end). - Q |
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Falconeer
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Metal box for the win. I want a collector commemorative triumphant excessive package for this thing. Digital download doesn't do Portal any justice.
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Simond
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The turret voices are fucking creepy. "I. don't hate you..." "Put me down..." "Are you still there...?" The turrets are adorable. Any game which gives you twinges of guilt for knocking over an inanimate lump of metal which is shooting you is doing something right. (Edit: Valve - desktop USB-powered Portal turrets firing nerf darts, complete with voice samples. Do it). Although they're not as bad as *spoiler* throwing the naive/childlike GLaDOS sphere-core-thingy into the incinerator. It's part of an insane AI actively trying to kill you, and yet I still felt bad about killing that particular one*spoiler* :( |
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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cmlancas
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Why stop at Nerf darts Simond? Why not just airsoft rounds or paintballs? Hardcore to the max when you get headshotted. :)
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f13 Street Cred of the week:
I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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Yegolev
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Played straight through last night. Forced myself to go to bed rather than start on the bonus levels. Well, I did try the first one.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Simond
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Anyone got *spoiler* GLaDOS' rants & the spheres speech from the final fight *spoiler* transcribed yet, btw?
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Jamiko
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I started this last night, terrific game. I kept finishing one level, thinking I'd go to bed but... maybe... I'll just take a look at the next one before I quit. Next thing I know I'm placing portals.
Forced myself to stop at 16, wanting to savor it just a little bit longer. I really hope that more levels get released, it's a wonderful concept.
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Lounge
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bhodi
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No lie.
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LK
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This is, hands down, the best experience in gaming I've ever been a part of. The fact it is concentrated into such a small time frame made it that much more pure. They didn't really waste any opportunity.
How did you find out about the CJOHNSON login?
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Yegolev
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How did you find out about the CJOHNSON login?
I'll put that in the Spoiler thread. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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eldaec
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Wow, I really didn't think they'd be able to end it that well.
Awesome.
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AcidCat
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The turret voices are fucking creepy. "I. don't hate you..." "Put me down..." "Are you still there...?"
Oh my god I love the turret gun voices, they are genius. I got to level 18 and they had to get to bed, but the game is a blast. I only wish the difficulty ramped up a little sooner, those first 14 levels or so just flew by. |
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Absolute Brilliance. It's an awesome season for games - but I know this one will stand out in my mind as the best game I played all year. Hellgate, TF2, BioShock and all the others are going to last longer, but I love this game.
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Lucas
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I started playing it only 30 minutes ago but already loving it. The computerized voice is absolute brilliance: can't wait to hear what all this talk of turrets is about :).
It will probably take me like two or three days to complete it since I'm totally dumb at puzzle games, but hey, I'll do it sooner or later :P
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Yegolev
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The re-centering camera pissed me off so much on the 18th test, though. Every time I go through a portal and WHOOSH I'm looking in the worst possible direction.
I don't know if you have figured this out yet, but the portals do have a top and bottom that you need to consider, which is really only an issue if you put one on a horizontal surface. I actually had to place one on the floor in a certain orientation for my solution to work in one of the advanced levels. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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I actually had to place one on the floor in a certain orientation for my solution to work in one of the advanced levels. God I loved learning that. |
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pxib
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I got to level 18 and they had to get to bed, but the game is a blast. I only wish the difficulty ramped up a little sooner, those first 14 levels or so just flew by.
I think the designers were trying to bring people in who normally only play puzzle games and haven't had much experience with first-person gameplay. Also people who haven't seen the trailer and don't understand what a portal is. I had a friend of mine by to try it out and he was completely baffled by it... just conceptually. He thought the blue portals were holes in walls and the orange portal was a mirror... and he didn't realize he was supposed to pick up the gun. Then he got minor motion sickness during the early flinging chambers and stopped playing. I think part of Valve's goal here is to make, in Yahtzee's words, a "game for your mum" that will still impress and entertain the jaded gamer. |
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