portal WHAAA
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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT
look mad. I WANT MY PORTAL NOW ! GET IT!
http://files.filefront.com/Half+Life+2+Episode+Two+Portal+Trailer/;5272144;;/fileinfo.html
look mad. I WANT MY PORTAL NOW ! GET IT!
http://files.filefront.com/Half+Life+2+Episode+Two+Portal+Trailer/;5272144;;/fileinfo.html
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Still looks like fun though.
seriously the HL portal vid was fun and stylish - even though I doubt the gameplay will actually be as actiony, since it seems like more of a puzzle-solving mechanic.
If rhino doesn't like it, then everyone probably will.
anyone noticed the really nice sublte blur and depth of field effects ? every episodic content adds more enhancements to the source engine :P
i also said the game looked like it may be kinda fun,
i also prefer hl2 graphics over preys,, but portal did not have hl2 quality gfx,
i'm sorry i'm not wow'd as much as some people by someone taking the same old thing but much uglier, and adding a new twist to it,,
i may try it if it ships with TF2 and i may really enjoy it,
GX you claim valve is making fps fun again.. without ever ever playing the game? way to fanboy up.. perhaps you meant to say "atempting to make fps games fun again" because untill anyone trys the game its just a neat idea with mediocre art
Rhino, they're maintaining FPS fun on a different playing field. (Note: I did not say 'attempt'
Anyone else thinking that gordon freemen will be sporting a portal gun eventually?
The Killer Quake Pack from about 1997 had the original portal gun... they just took that idea and added physics
Still looks like fun though.
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Amazingly Howard Roy is still around, but he moved his interest to mountain bikes instead.
For the Prey fans, there's the Portal Wrench
You guys do know that Valve had hired some guys from a mod team that already had this exact gameplay mechanic to develop this game for them, right?
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Brome's right--the rather clunkily titled Narbacular Drop
(page here http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/ ) was independently made, and then Valve picked them up. Portal is basically Narbacular Drop, but with Steam behind it and some decent art direction, instead of quaintly bad as in the original.
I don't really get people bagging on the quality of the graphics, by the way. I want to see those post-processing blur etc. effects get applied to ALL Source games (hopefully we'll see a patch at some point for HL2), and I think it's quite clear that Portal posits the player into a hostile puzzle environment like the movie Cube. Maybe they could have been a little more flashy about it, but I think it looks like fun. Getting to the exit past an obstacle style gameplay is really sort of a comforting throwback to me.
looks cool!
As for the art style, really depends on what it's for. If it's for HL2 Ep2, I don't like it, since it's all way too clean to come across realistically. For a standalone though, it'd be an awesome style of art.
Though, the character looked as if he belonged to TF2.
You guys do know that Valve had hired some guys from a mod team
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they were actually from a school. Digipen to be exact. it was a senior project that won a fair amount of recognition. They were then picked up just as contracts to get this done unfortunately. I hope it does well enough to warrant them getting jobs there.
if your idea of fun is heavily influenced by high standards of art, your choice. the rest of the world isn't as desensitized by visual standards,
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if you would read past what it takes for you to be anoying, you would see i clearly stated my idea of fun is based on PLAYING THE GAME AND HAVING FUN. i have said repeated times that the game looks like it COULD BE FUN, and that i would most likely GIVE IT A TRY, and then i would DECIDE IF IT WAS FUN OR NOT .
I don't know what it is... I know it's a game, and this point is pretty much ridiculous since it's a VIRTUAL WORLD, but the idea of portals like that is completely mind boggling.
I think it looks like a blast, and I'm excited to play it. That motion blur/depth of field effect is so awesome.
i would prefer if the games graphics looked more like the little instruction segments with the stick man,, at least that had style
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I was thinking the same thing. I would play that game.
I mean...
That was really cool. ><
pretty cool
Slum: Why is the idea of portals mindboggleing? its just a teleporter that has a texture of the destination being rendered rather than a pretty blue effect.
Even shadow warrior (remember that game?) had teleporters like these. I've been supprised they haven't shown up more.
On the plus side now I can build that hypercube map ive always wanted to.