Portal 2: Yup, The Cake is STILL a Lie

[KingPK]

Just put in my Amazon pre-order for the game. There they have it for $54.99, you get a $20 credit and 99 cent release day shipping. I really loved figuring out different ways to solve the puzzles in the first game and am looking forward to the longer solo campaign and the co-op.

http://youtu.be/SD3EV2xzrYQ

 

[Thoth]

Getting this on PS3 for the cross-platform and the free PC copy.

 

[Sabre]

Epic Epicness is Epic.

 

[vivisectvi]

Also pre-ordered the PS3 version.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

I've got PS3 pre-ordered too. Just gonna wait to be extra sure about how the Steam linking works. If it's really as simple as "Buy PS3 version, link accounts, redeem code, get PC/Mac version free", with no strings attached to the PS3 disc after that, then I'm absolutely in. But if not... as cool as the whole thing is, I don't buy digital games for $60, whether I'm getting "two" copies of it or not.

That cursed word x 3

 

[Sabre]

Portal is the only thing (besides the scott pilgrim movie) i can remotely think off that warrants the use of Epic Epicness.

 

[vivisectvi]

Got mine! Anyone else?

 

[Sabre]

Mines ready to rumble. I need to complete DA:2 before i play it tho.

 

[Smues]

Pre-ordered from Amazon and got the free shipping so it'll be awhile for me, but I'm excited.

 

[KingPK]

What a fucking great opening sequence. None of the puzzles have been too challenging so far (I'm up to #11) and glaDOS is fucking hilarious being all passive-aggressive about the whole killing her thing (including making cracks about your weight). The writing is just top-notch.

 

[JingusSucks]

Fun game. Some of the liquid puzzles were annoying. The ending song doesn't hold a candle to "Still Alive" but still a decent ending song. About 7 hours uninterrupted game-play since I was beyond tired about halfway in. First time I've been sucked into a game since I was was much younger.

 

[vivisectvi]

Any steam usernamed i can add? Coop is really fun in this!

 

[bps21]

Stephen Merchent should get some kind of award for this.

 

[KingPK]

I think the thing I love most about the game is that it is CONSTANTLY giving you something new. It doesn't seem to rely on one mechanic for too long before introducing something else to work with. It's not all "find a way to get the cube to the button".

This actually makes me want to play the first one again.

 

[Thoth]

Any steam usernamed i can add? Coop is really fun in this!

Mine is thoth2020

 

[vivisectvi]

Yup - added you last night!

 

[Thoth]

Yup - added you last night!

What the hell, are you vivisecti?

 

[vivisectvi]

Yeah - I just realized that's my ID. I sign in with dubq, but it always shows vivisectvi, so I wasn't sure which to put in the ID list on the board. Guess I'll go edit that now that I know for sure!

 

[Sabre]

seems we dont need XBL gold to play co-op as im on silver now. ^_^

 

[KingPK]

Anyone else solve a puzzle due to just screwing around?

Spoiler

It was the #11 puzzle in Wheatley's area towards the end. I just started shooting portals at the cubes until one landed right where I needed it to in order to hit the switch on the ceiling

EDIT: Just finished it. It's early, but this is my favorite game of 2011 so far. Really liked the ending. I'll probably give co-op a shot tomorrow night if anyone wants to join me.

 

[KingPK]

Valve announced DLC coming in the summer. It'll have more test chambers, a challenge mode for single and co-op and leaderboards.

Oh, and it'll be free. Kudos Valve.

 

[Smues]

My copy showed up on Wednesday and I started playing last night. Love it, and don't have any problems with the price even though I'm sure it won't take too long to finish. Doubt I'll ever even bother with co-op mode.

 

[Adam]

Stephen Merchent should get some kind of award for this.

Absolutely. I never played the first Portal but decided to give this one a go, and the opening dialogue on the first few levels were top notch and kept me interested, until I really got into it and the levels got me interested.

Just how many levels are there? I dont know if i'm really way into the game or just starting out.

I'm at a point where

Spoiler: Not sure if I need to spoiler or not, but..

I've been blamed for murdering some kind of machine and she's put me through about 15 levels of tests so far

.

 

[bps21]

You've got a lot to go.

 

[Adam]

Excellent. What's so good about the 'short' levels is you can just pick up and play whenever.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

You can now pick up Portal 2 for both 360 and PS3 for $35 at KMart (in store only tho).

 

[Smues]

Water pouring out of the ceiling and window and onto my TV and X-box wasn't enough to keep me from finishing Portal 2! Just finished it, and I'd call it a masterpiece. The ending song doesn't hold a candle to Still Alive, but that wasn't likely anyway. Absolutely LOVED this game though, loved it.

 

[bps21]

Agreed. It was pretty much perfect. There were a couple times where I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do/doing wrong...but when I figured it out I always felt stupid.

 

[Smues]

The worst is when you (and maybe it's just happens to me) think you've figured out the puzzle, with some advanced portal platforming, and you waste a LOT of time trying to pull it off, finally give up, and then find the real solution which was about 1,000 times simpler than what you were trying. I must have done that half a dozen times in this game. Mostly in puzzles involving any of the gels.

 

[KingPK]

Yeah, the game loves to trap you into over thinking things. Usually if you take a second to look around the solution becomes pretty clear. They love to put portalable surfaces really far away so you should use the zoom feature a lot.