Author Topic: Portal 2 (Read 20756 times)

kraken613 · « **on:** March 05, 2010, 04:33:43 PM »

Portal 2 was just announced by Valve and will have a 2010 release! More Portal means all is good in the world!

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Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

Morari · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2010, 05:22:52 PM »

The sequel is a lie.

Shaymin · « **Reply #2 on:** March 05, 2010, 06:53:15 PM »

Hate to break it to you guys, but "Holiday" converted to Valve Time is roughly spring 2012.

kraken613 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2010, 07:28:32 PM »

I think it will come out December 21, 2012. I've been impressed lately, Valve has hit all recent release dates.

broodwars · « **Reply #4 on:** March 05, 2010, 07:51:08 PM »

The estimated release date cannot speak. If the estimated release date does speak, do not listen to it.

A new Portal! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee....

ThePerm · « **Reply #5 on:** March 05, 2010, 08:01:25 PM »

so the link sirects to steamgames which has no info on it

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 05, 2010, 08:06:33 PM »

The OP did it wrong

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Portal 2 Announced
March 5, 2010, 9:44 am - Valve - Press Release

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

There is a message hidden in the PR just like with the updates that happened to Portal 1 and HL2 the other day.

drattmannh0nee

I have no idea what it means, but riddles aren't really my thing....

edit: The GameInformer covers look good too.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2qdwjso.jpg | http://i48.tinypic.com/2qdwjso.jpg

and GI is doing a slow reveal for Portal 2
http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 05, 2010, 08:35:47 PM »

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=77276

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Coming this holiday. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Game of the Year and draws from the award-winning formula of innovative game play, story, and music that earned the original over 70 industry accolades. Features single and multiplayer co-op modes.Portal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following. The single-player portion of Portal 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements, and a much larger set of devious test chambers. Players will explore never-before-seen areas of the Aperture Science Labs and be reunited with GLaDOS, the occasionally murderous computer companion who guided them through the original game. The game’s two-player cooperative mode features its own entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters. This new mode forces players to reconsider everything they thought they knew about portals. Success will require them to not just act cooperatively, but to think cooperatively.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2010, 10:09:09 PM »

So...this will be epic.

stevey · « **Reply #9 on:** March 05, 2010, 10:17:18 PM »

I rather have portal/HL for the wii

I still need to get and play the original portal and HL since they're sadly never coming to the wii. Are store still selling it (orange box) and is there some sort of a monthly fee or some online service force sign up crap that's involved? I don't know much about the inferior PC gaming subclass...

Morari · « **Reply #10 on:** March 05, 2010, 10:36:03 PM »

You can purchase the Orange Box on Amazon for about $30. Sadly, you do have to activate it through Steam, but it's completely free. If ever there was a reason to put up with the crappiness of Steam, then the Orange Box was it. Of course, Left 4 Dead doesn't hurt either.

Even if those games had come to the Wii, you would have been doing yourself a great disservice by not playing them with a mouse and keyboard.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 05, 2010, 11:58:47 PM »

the wiimote shall be my mouse and the nunchuck shall be my keyboard.

together we can play anything that was on the PC from the comfort of my couch/bed.

ThePerm · « **Reply #12 on:** March 06, 2010, 12:10:38 AM »

yeah, i dont see how portal would play badly on the wii, but its likely not coming out on Wii so get it from steam yo. My mod levels are using portal cus it loads up the fastest of the source games for me.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #13 on:** March 06, 2010, 02:56:26 AM »

Oh, I missed the first D when reading the "secret" message. It made more sense like that (spelled out ratmannh0nee, Rat Man honey), rat man is AFAIK the name of the mysterious person who left all those messages behind in Portal and went behind the lab walls.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #14 on:** March 06, 2010, 03:46:19 AM »

I just finished watching a play through of Portal on youtube and I can see why it is well liked. There was a simple idea(The portal gun) and it was used well.

Stratos · « **Reply #15 on:** March 06, 2010, 05:25:04 PM »

My friend gifted me Orange Box on Steam and Portal was amazing.

I do wish that Valve wouldn't ignore the Wii.

kraken613 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 06, 2010, 06:04:13 PM »

Don't feel bad, they ignore the PS3 too.

There is a 10 page article on Portal 2 in the new Game Informer. Mine came today, from what I saw in the screenshots this game is going to be epic. I can't wait until GDC and we get to see it in motion.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #17 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:13:00 PM »

I hope this comes to the newly-announced Mac version of Steam.

kraken613 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:59:37 PM »

Yeah, thats supposed to come in May. Though I would never play a game on my Mac because my Mac isn't all that great. lol

Morari · « **Reply #19 on:** March 06, 2010, 10:31:10 PM »

Quote from: kraken613 on March 06, 2010, 09:59:37 PM

Yeah, thats supposed to come in May. Though I would never play a game on my Mac because my Mac isn't all that great. lol

Don't worry, it's not just yours.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #20 on:** March 06, 2010, 10:36:26 PM »

Quote from: Morari on March 06, 2010, 10:31:10 PM

Quote from: kraken613 on March 06, 2010, 09:59:37 PM
Yeah, thats supposed to come in May. Though I would never play a game on my Mac because my Mac isn't all that great. lol

Don't worry, it's not just yours.

I knew when he left that opening there that someone would make that kind of comment; I suppose it's appropriate that it was you.

As someone who owns a Mac that would be a damn fine game machine if I ever felt like taking the time to boot into Windows to play something, I can't wait for Mac Steam.

kraken613 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 06, 2010, 10:43:36 PM »

I am not saying Macs are bad in anyway. I love my Mac, but theres no way my Mac thats now 2 and 1/2 years old could run these games anywhere near as well as my PC.

Would be convenient if you got the Mac version or at a discount if you owned the PC versions. Having Counter Strike on my Mac easily accessible would be awesome.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #22 on:** March 06, 2010, 11:06:48 PM »

Ideally it would consider the Mac version to be the same game, and Steam lets you install a game on multiple machines as long as you sign in on the same account, so if you had, say, Half Life 2 on Steam already, you could just download the Mac version because you already have it on your account. I don't expect that to be the case, but it would be great.

Morari · « **Reply #23 on:** March 06, 2010, 11:55:46 PM »

That would be ideal. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. I certainly don't expect it to be however. As far as DRM goes, Valve is at least one of the more tolerant ones.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #24 on:** March 07, 2010, 12:10:58 AM »

I think it depends on how they're doing it. If they're using Cider or some other kind of virtualization to bring it over, then I think it's semi-likely that it'll work that way. If they legitimately ported the games, then I'd expect them to want to be compensated for the work.

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