Also is there a level editor coming? Custom maps?

It was a neat idea and they only revealed it the weekend before release, so the cost of not participating wasn't particularly high.

Beamer wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 13:21:
I still don't get how buying a ton of games at a supercheap discount is a "scam," but some people here are morons, in that they either don't understand what a scam is or they're so stupid they'll spend $40 in hopes of getting a game a little early.


Again, I keep hearing that Valve didn't make any cash off of this, that all the proceeds went to the indies themselves, but whatever, Valve screwed you over and took your unborn children by forcing you to support the indie games by tricking you into thinking you'd never play Portal 2 unless you did.

Doombringer wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 10:36:
I suppose Portal has become less a puzzle game and more an adventure game with puzzle elements. It's a happy medium, I think. This world is simply too fun to play in to not make it available to almost anyone

Wraith wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 02:58:

Sepharo wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 23:24:

entr0py wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 22:55:
Oh, it was a "thank you note" from the potato sack developers to Valve. If you have a steam ID you can thank Valve for their marketing gimmick below. If you want to encourage this sort of thing.

http://valvearg.com/thankyou/whiteboard/

It was from the players thanking the Valve and the potato sack developers.

I swear, these people have fucking Stockholm Syndrome.

They're thanking Valve for wasting their fucking time chasing rainbows so Valve can then hit them up for more money on the off chance they could get the game released a couple of hours early.

Companies love these kinds of people. They're known as "suckers" and P.T. Barnum made a shitload out of them. You and I know them as idiots who are so mindbogglingly stupid they'll pay $15 for DLC because they "love" the company. As a consequence, this kind of insulting marketing gimmick proliferates.

Next time Valve, try ponying up something worth the time investment. Getting kiddies living in basements to invest dozens of hours of their meaningless lives into your ludicrous ARG isn't an accomplishment, it's just a cynical abuse of the chronically stupid.

Plus there's insight into how the writers - inadvertently at times - crafted the storyline, my personal favorite.

Wraith wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 02:58:
I swear, these people have fucking Stockholm Syndrome.

They're thanking Valve for wasting their fucking time chasing rainbows so Valve can then hit them up for more money on the off chance they could get the game released a couple of hours early.

Teddy wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 08:00:
Loved the game, but I do have to agree with him that limiting where the portals can be so drastically made the puzzles much easier for me.

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.

Sho wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 00:20:

briktal wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 23:23:
I started to go through the game again with commentary, but there's just so little commentary. There's something like 50 more nodes total in Portal 1, and in Portal 2 they are also spread between sp and coop modes. I think I went through one or two test chambers without a node and gave up.

Aw, shame :(. I was really looking forward to commentary mode.

I love commentary modes ... the best one by far I've seen was in "Tomb Raider: Anniversary". The implementation is similar to Valve's (which is good), but what makes it stand out is that with TR:A being a remake of TR1, they had both Toby Guard (Lara inventor and lead designer on TR1) and the lead designer of the remake do the commentary together. So it's a big bag of anecdotes about the development of the original game, as well as interesting stuff about how they approached modernizing it for the remake and what issues they fixed over the original in the process.

Wraith wrote on Apr 23, 2011, 02:58:
Next time Valve, try ponying up something worth the time investment. Getting kiddies living in basements to invest dozens of hours of their meaningless lives into your ludicrous ARG isn't an accomplishment, it's just a cynical abuse of the chronically stupid.

Sepharo wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 23:24:

entr0py wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 22:55:
Oh, it was a "thank you note" from the potato sack developers to Valve. If you have a steam ID you can thank Valve for their marketing gimmick below. If you want to encourage this sort of thing.

http://valvearg.com/thankyou/whiteboard/

It was from the players thanking the Valve and the potato sack developers.

briktal wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 23:23:
I started to go through the game again with commentary, but there's just so little commentary. There's something like 50 more nodes total in Portal 1, and in Portal 2 they are also spread between sp and coop modes.

Hater always gonna hate.

briktal wrote on Apr 22, 2011, 23:23:
I started to go through the game again with commentary, but there's just so little commentary. There's something like 50 more nodes total in Portal 1, and in Portal 2 they are also spread between sp and coop modes. I think I went through one or two test chambers without a node and gave up.