DG wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 20:45:
Only negative I have is thus far none of the puzzles are really taxing, and I'm not especially bright or anything. Sure there's a few where you forget a game mechanic for a few minutes (the two of us did get stuck once for a good 10 minutes before a "duh!" moment) but I've not come close to thinking about hitting gamefaqs yet. Partly that's due to very intuitive mechanics well introduced, and partly because, well if there's a white patch somewhere it's almost certainly part of the solution.

Jerykk wrote on Apr 19, 2011, 23:46:

As for the message... who the hell cares what it says when it autosaves? It could say, "Please hold while Valve eats some babies and saves your game." It's a text message that again CHANGES NOTHING IN THE GAME.

That's not really the point. When you're playing a PC game and you see text that refers to a console function, that generally suggests that the PC version is a port. Valve has largely been considered as one of the last stalwarts for PC gaming so for Portal 2 to not use PC as the lead platform could be construed as an act of betrayal for many people. That's what's making people angry. The same thing happened when Epic, Bethesda, id, Infinity Ward, Bungie, Lionhead and pretty much every former PC developer switched their focus to console development.

DangerDog wrote on Apr 19, 2011, 21:04:
Just think of all the development time wasted on creating this fluff DLC for the game, should have spent the effort on creating real content.

I have to laugh at people thinking Valve will offer up any free DLC content for the game, maybe they'll be generous and release a few free maps. I haven't followed the game that closely but have they said anything regarding mod tools?

Icewind wrote on Apr 19, 2011, 15:40:
....and Valve goes down too.

I also love how they were deleting threads about the "Don't turn off your console" message and only stopped deleting them when people started asking questions.

Then they conveniently posted a reply 5 minutes later "explaining" why it still said console instead of "PC". Apparently, they simply "forgot" to change it.

Combine this with the $85 DLC nonsense and you have to be stupid to support Valve now. I'm done with them.

nin wrote on Apr 19, 2011, 20:23:

How long did it take you to finish?

I've heard 6 hours, I've heard 9 hours...

I'm at 7/22 and 2 hours in, but I've stopped to admire things a bit...

Don't forget about coop, as that's additional time/levels (I've heard around 7 hours).

yuastnav wrote on Apr 18, 2011, 10:34:

Teddy wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 21:55:
[...]
If you were "critically thinking" as you claimed, you'd have forseen that they can't release the game before midnight the day of because of aformentioned legal issues.
[...]

Steam Front Page wrote:
HELP RELEASE PORTAL 2 EARLIER [...]

Teddy wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 22:11:
[...] People calling Valve liars are idiots at best, libellous at worst.

Nice contradiction you have there. Try logic next time. Might help.

Jerykk wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 22:03:
I find it remarkable that you are defending this part of the marketing campaign based solely on the fact that Valve hasn't explicitly lied to anyone.

Jerykk wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 21:49:

They still have boxed copies being sold, I imagine. They'll be bound by the same legal agreements as other companies regarding early digital releases.

Exactly. So why even pretend that players can make any meaningful difference? That's why people are irritated.

Dev wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 20:37:

Jerykk wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 19:03:
Given these facts, it seems pretty clear that Valve never intended to let players make a meaningful difference in the game's unlock date.

^This
Pretty sure valve has always meant "early release" being same day (tuesday) just a few hours earlier. People were thinking it could be monday or sunday and its not.

nin wrote on Apr 17, 2011, 21:17:

Everyone wins. X D

Except the people that wanted to play Portal 2 this weekend, after Valve announced Friday morning "Help release Portal 2 early".

They didn't get anything at all.

Beamer wrote on Apr 16, 2011, 10:56:

This marketing blitz is a waste of time and money.

I'd love to hear you even attempt to quantify that.

killer_roach wrote on Apr 5, 2011, 23:44:
Honestly, minor quirks aside, I prefer EA's downloader to Steam. I don't care where I get a game from - it all syncs to that account. (Well, unless I buy it from Steam, in which case it syncs to another account I have.) Makes it a lot better from the perspective of chasing sales.

necrosis wrote on Apr 5, 2011, 22:46:
If you bought DA2 on Steam do you get ME2 on steam or EA's POS downloader bullshit?

Beamer wrote on Apr 5, 2011, 18:12:
What happens when a budget goes up? Quality Upper management bonuses goes up.

Drezden wrote on Apr 4, 2011, 16:27:
Demo was actually... much more fun than I expected....
And sadly, it seems like a better port than Crysis 2 was... Looks better too, again sadly.

MattyC wrote on Apr 4, 2011, 15:59:
What are these games that people had horrible GFWL problems with?