Portal 2

Started by Punk^
20/09/2010 10:26
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Fruggline19/04/2011 22:46

I just played through co-op with my buddy it's freakin awesome!

opa20/04/2011 21:41

Just finished the story mode... IN-FUCKING-SANE!!!! Definitely the best game of 2011 so far!!

One of the levels took me 2 hours to figure out though :X

moonulica21/04/2011 01:43

seriously guys, it's just a game...calm down

opa21/04/2011 03:00

?????

Pieshels mapper25/04/2011 23:19(edited 25/04/2011 23:20)

Valve has done a great job on this one. But I think they don't have professional portal player testers. At least judging by the commentary nodes and how fast many glitches/shortcuts were found. I was suprised when I managed to get out of one level (jumped behind the border onto the skybox) by not even trying too hard.
The level design was good, but not great. Some of our kz mappers could do better.
No, I am not talking about graphics, because graphics in this game are top-class. Tons of effects with low system requirements. The problem is the gameplay.
The gameplay became boring at the end, just because of those many test chambers, most of which were not very well made. Of course, the last ones were a bit harder and therefore more interesting to brainstorm, but there were no test chambers too hard to think out. Maybe it's just me.
The story seemed too stretched out. Some parts were not even needed and I got the feeling that they were there just to fill the space.
The last boss wasn't too hard either. I won't spoil this one too much, but I hoped that I will die on the last boss fight. At least once.

The coop mode was, is and will be fun as long as you have a good partner to play with. The test chambers in coop are a bit better than in single player (you need to think more, not only shoot some random portals).

The only thing I am still expecting from this game is SDK. Therefore there will be user created content which in many cases are better than original (example - portal: prelude or portal pro).

And look out for crazy speedruns. DemonStrate is still alive and ready to cruch this game to bits accompanied by akkord and many more portal fans.

See ya in co-op.

DeX`26/04/2011 13:09

The Complete Portal 2 CO-OP:

Chapter 1:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWOkAs_OkA
MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SNJFRAAI

Chapter 2:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkPVrNq-Bw
MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TASS9O6Y

Chapter 3:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFBFxMZsoo8
MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IR4HWST0

Chapter 4:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2-MSGCdoK0
MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6RG1LY0

Chapter 5:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jV0eKL3vc
MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B69SY5B7

Punk^26/04/2011 13:49

I finished it a few days ago, both co-op and singleplayer (completed the singleplayer first).
If we leave out glitches, and focuses on how the game is meant to be played... WOW.

This is one of the best games, of all times. At least, story and voice-acting wise.
I couldn't help myself from laughing from time to time and every single voice, in the game, was just perfect in every way.

I really loved every single bit of this game and I'm about to start over already!


Finished it 6 days ago and this must be one of the best written games ever.

The story was awesome, the voice acting was incredible! I will say I was kinda bummed that the harder test chambers that were shown in the trailers were left out of the game. But they will probably come in a DLC or something. This does in no way make this game bad though, since I really had a blast just listening to the dialog and exploring the facility.

I might try to make a map myself when the SDK comes out, never did that for the first game. Will play with developer commentary next.

Punk^26/04/2011 16:36

You should Chrizzy! I'd LOVE to play a Chrizzy portal 2 map!! :D

Z0ck3rOO727/04/2011 20:50

just finished sp and coop, great game, can't wait to play custom coop maps :)

spr1n mapper27/04/2011 21:00

waiting for SDK as well Chrizzy =)

Punk^28/04/2011 00:21

There's a DLC coming out as well!

Started making a map today using the Alien Swarm SDK. Some things seems a bit buggy, but when i decompile the official maps it's the same there it seems. Displacements causes leaks, so you need to have a brush under it. Creating a portal close to a displacement makes it illusionary.. I also get alot of error messages while playing the map..

Other then that it's really nice, the custom .fgd file work great so far.

Pieshels mapper29/04/2011 00:13

I will better wait for the official SDK.
I have only played around a little with portal1 maps, nothing too fancy, just some ideas, so I will count p2 map making as the beginning of my source engine based mapping. ^_^

Till then I must (and I suggest you too) gather some information about source mapping. There are a LOT more entities. And I am just dying to figure out how to bring AI to life, make scripted stuff and make my own mod (or at least mappack)...

Chrizzy mapper Tournament #302/05/2011 21:39(edited 02/05/2011 21:42)

Here's my map. The first puzzle is pretty much completed, textures will most likely be changed(At least one of the wall textures). The cube wont respawn if it gets destroyed so try not to destroy it :) Will work more on details etc..

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qd8d7g

Punk^02/05/2011 22:52(edited 02/05/2011 23:03)

Found out!

Nice map so far chrizzy :-P took me a while to figure out what to do in the beginning :-)

There's a weird bug when you stand under a portal though.. probably related to the Alien Swarm SDK.

Keep going!

CamelCloudrecord holder10/05/2011 16:35

Feels good that the DLCs are going to be free, unlike a lot other DLCs.

I finished this game maybe the day after release, and I got to say - it's the best puzzle game I've ever played, and definitely the best game I've played so far in 2011. Really good voiceacting, and the campaign was actually pretty long. I don't think the puzzles were hard enough, though. One of the Valve employees said they wanted to keep it on the same difficulty as Portal: Still Alive, so I guess they did as Still Alive was a piece of cake to complete.

My personal rating will be 9/10.

Feels good that the DLCs are going to be free, unlike a lot other DLCs. And Chrizzy, let me see you make some challenging puzzles!

Z0ck3rOO711/05/2011 12:05

Authoring Tools Released!!
Link

Can't wait to see and play new co-op maps :ooooooooooooo

CamelCloudrecord holder11/05/2011 19:18

Finally. Chrizzy, get to work!

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