Portal 2 ... YAY YAY

[Lantyssa]

I didn't want to dig through all that to find what was going on.  Can someone summarize or link to the relevant parts, please?

[Surlyboi]

I didn't want to dig through all that to find what was going on.  Can someone summarize or link to the relevant parts, please?

[dalien]

Looks like the first real DLC (i.e. not robot hats) is going to be free.  YAY YAY indeed 

Official word has just arrived in our inbox from Valve that the first full-on DLC for the lovely Portal 2 will be free (on all platforms), and promises “new test chambers for players, leaderboards, challenge mode for single and multiplayer modes, and more.”

[snip]

No exact release date yet, but it’s “this Summer”

[Strazos]

Totally stole that image for my wallpaper.

[Samwise]

I didn't want to dig through all that to find what was going on.  Can someone summarize or link to the relevant parts, please?

[Sjofn]

[Ingmar]

[Samwise]

[Pringles]

Amazing game.

[Sjofn]

[Simond]

I'll be honest with you. We're kinda throwing DLC at the wall and seeing what sticks: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/29/portal-2-dlc/

Well, this perhaps goes some way towards making up for the whole over-priced robot hats thingy. Official word has just arrived in our inbox from Valve that the first full-on DLC for the lovely Portal 2 will be free (on all platforms), and promises “new test chambers for players, leaderboards, challenge mode for single and multiplayer modes, and more.” That news again: free. The list of planned content also suggests there’ll be something a little more challenging than in the main game (the arguable ease and signposting of which we had a slight but affectionate moan about in our verdict yesterday), and a chance to really push Portal 2′s crazy physics as far as they’ll go.

A smart move in terms of goodwill generation, I suspect, and hopefully it’ll be top-notch content too. No exact release date yet, but it’s “this Summer”. Doesn’t Summer start on Monday? Maybe it will be Monday! (It won’t be Monday).

Free? I punch those numbers into my calculator and it makes a happy face. I'm Cave Johnson. We're done here.

[Lantyssa]

[Samwise]

[K9]

I'm all about some challenge modes.

[pxib]

At the very beginning of Portal (the VERY beginning, I'm not going to spoiler it) GLaDOS talks about a "brief detention in the relaxation vault". There's no reason to doubt that Chell has been testing more or less continuously since childhood. Her defining trait is tenacity. She's the one who never gave up.

[Sjofn]

The containers have CHILD and ADULT checkboxes, too, so they were apparently cool with child subjects, yeah.

[Mattemeo]

Been avoiding this thread up till now. Finished the single player story about an hour ago. Once I hit the start screen after all the credits and final cinematic, I went to find a translation of the GLaDOS/Turret Opera.

That's when my heart broke.

 

[Malakili]

[kildorn]

Cave Johnson has the best lines ever.

[pxib]

Portal 1 is almost entirely about Chell, but she's only the protagonist of the sequel. It belongs to Wheatley, GLaDOS, Cave, and even Caroline more than her. As such, in Portal 1 you guide a protagonist through her own story... whereas in Portal 2 you guide a protagonist through everybody else's story. In Portal 1, Chell is consistently fighting for her own life, but by the end of Portal 2 she's fighting for all of Aperature Science. It's more epic, but it's a lot less personal.

[Jeff Kelly]

[Ingmar]

[Valmorian]

[TripleDES]

FYI, the newspaper boss guy from the Spiderman movies voices Cave Johnson.

[Rasix]

[Ironwood]

Heh.

[Hutch]

FYI, the newspaper boss guy from the Spiderman movies voices Cave Johnson.

"When life gives you lemons, it's Spider-Man's fault! I knew it! Robbie, er, Caroline, get one of that Parker kid's pictures ready, I want the full front page for this!"

"I'll get you some pain pills, Mr Johnson"

[K9]

Some of this music is really good

[Sjofn]

Finally finished saving science in the co-op with my sister. It was a good time!

[Venkman]

I had to stop because I was getting a motion sickness headache.

Finished two nights ago (so finally willing to catch up with the thread  ), but this one caused me a lot of vertigo. Think I'm just getting old or something, but the sprawling hugeness of the facilities kept making me want to jump over the railing in spots...

Took me a  bit over 8 hours and I haven't started co-op yet. Well worth the money for sheer enjoyment alone. I've paid more for video games I've played a lot less of

Loved everything about this game except the elevators. They seemed a lot more frequent than the first one. I understand consoles don't have the same amount of memory to cache as much, but it's not like consoles have upgraded since. Am I imagining it, or were the individual puzzles smaller (even if the chapters were longer)?

Other thoughts/questions:

[Strazos]

It's Cave Johnson...

[Samwise]

[Wasted]

Via Reddit - Chell in the Rain.

Was driving to work today and they played that song (Exile Vilify by The National) on the radio.  I got a little teary in the car, I could hear the rain in the background. 

[Mattemeo]

Was driving to work today and they played that song (Exile Vilify by The National) on the radio.  I got a little teary in the car, I could hear the rain in the background. 

And yet Ebert won't believe games can be 'Art'. It's a lovely song by a band I love, but it's the context of the game that makes it so emotionally resonant, the very fundamental aspect of Art.

[Venkman]

Thanks, yea, I saw those posts and looking back I agree.