The only DLCs are aesthetic ones for co-op, the game is $60 just like everything else for consoles, and its 10-12 hours if you add up single player and co-op (which are completely different from each other). Oh, and its Portal, so its not like you're going to find a similar game anywhere else.
I'm jealous of any of you currently playing this game. Still not back from vacation yet so I've not been able to try it.
Question about co-op. Do you suppose that co-op would only really be fun for two people never having tried the levels before? Cause what happens if you get online with someone posing to be first time co-op player but he really does know all the solutions to the puzzles. And yes I know even then it would still require coordination between players to pull off the levels, but you know what I mean?
Hum. Yeah. You don't play online. At least, I would not recommend it to anybody. Not with random people.
Play with people you know. One of the great thing about it apparently is figuring it all out with your friend.
I still haven't tried it. Lots of people screwing around with it a lot, too, or killing their friend. But really, I don't intend to waste my first try with anybody but a friend.
Just completed the single player and I gotta say this game is absolutely brilliant!
Also played a bit in co-op (first 3 chapters) with a close friend and it's a blast! As SFJake said you should really play this with a friend rather than online. Me and my pal use to play single player puzzle games together and it's a lot of fun just sitting next to each other and solving them, but this is just a whole other level of co-op fun :D!
As for playing with someone who already knows the puzzles, I dunno. Personally I like when we get stuck and we just sit in a corner and stare at the level trying to figure it out. Or just mindlessly try stuff until it works. The satisfaction after you finally solve it is what makes it so great. With someone to lead the way you'll lose that great feeling.
Hoping to continue coop soon and probably going to play through single player again as well. If D3 is not out by the end of 2011 Portal 2 is a high contender for my official Liquorice's Game of the Year award :thumbsup:.
Are you playing it on PC or Xbox? I'd play it with you! I'm a reliable team member.
I'm not expecting to play it again with random people, and yes, you count as random, sorry
I only plan to play it with my real life friends, one in particular I'm waiting until he gets his copy on PS3. I feel uncomfortable with people I don't know in real life when it comes to small games like this.
Are you playing it on PC or Xbox? I'd play it with you! I'm a reliable team member.
I'm not expecting to play it again with random people, and yes, you count as random, sorry
I only plan to play it with my real life friends, one in particular I'm waiting until he gets his copy on PS3. I feel uncomfortable with people I don't know in real life when it comes to small games like this.
I'm on PC, by the way.
Yeah RL friends is what I'd recommend as well, or of course good internet friends. Someone who you can talk to and have fun with via some kind of voice communication :). Makes for a lot better experience.
I've just finished both the single player and co-op and all I gotta say is it's a pretty amazing game. Co-op was rather short, played it with a friend over skype which def made it easier.
We screwed around a little, I would run him into spikes a few times or let him fall from extremely high heights but it took probs like 3-4 hours? maybe?
Portal 2 didn't take too long for me to beat, but it was really fun. Six, maybe seven hours. Co-op is really fun too - playing that with my girlfriend at the moment. But, yeah. I don't mind dropping $60 on it. Maybe Valve will use some of that money to get Half-Life 2: Episode 3 finished.
I must admit, however, that the re-playability of this game is kind of crippled, since once you go through the challenges, you tend to remember them and they become less difficult. They only have a finite amount of challenges.
Picked up the game last night and played quite a bit of it so far.
At first I was a little concerned about the tone of the game. I talked about this before when discussing Portal 2, but I was afraid the game would be just TOO silly and humorous without that sort of creepy undertone to everything. But as the game progressed, my fears seemed mostly unfounded. Luckily Wheatley hasn't been in the game too much (I really don't like him). I do find it kind of old though how Glados is constantly taunting and heckling me. Like I would just expect now at the end of each level that she'd say something mean about me in a clever over-intellectual sort of way. And I was like, yeah I get it, you have clever writers.
But the puzzles so far are really fun. I hope to get into more jumping puzzles that rely more on my skillful use of the portal gun. So far most things haven't relied that much on timing my portal shots but instead just going through more mundane steps of solving puzzles. But I think I may be getting to a point in the game where I will do more flying through the air now.
So anyway, so far the game is really fun and I love the music especially. I'm still a little confused how I began in that bedroom that came apart when I thought by the end of the first game I had completely escaped the research facility, but oh well.
I've seen that comment here and there and I'm shocked. If it wasn't for him, the story would bore me to death. The only thing I kept looking forward to story wise was to see Wheatley again.
Maybe it helps that I have no idea who the heck the guy is in real life.
I don't have a problem with how he fits into the story, cause you're right. He does make the story more interesting. I just don't like the characterization of him. All of his stammering and train of thought dialogue is just annoying to me.
I liked Wheatley... in the beginning. After a while though he just becomes really annoying...
I haven't been able to finish co-op yet.; too busy with university stuff :(. Hopefully some time next week. Single player was really cool, with a pretty deep storyline. The writers really knew what they were doing, and the programmers knew how to translate it to a game. Awesome interactive experience.
I don't really have a lot to say about Portal 2. It's clever, funny and extremely well-paced. The only thing I find slightly disappointing is this: you don't have as much freedom placing the portals as you did in the first game. This webcomic is what I mean.
I felt that too. There's way too little freedom in puzzles. Heck, that one area a bit later on in the game where there's literally one spot next to you, and one spot some 100 meter away where you place your portal, and these are the only 2 spots you can.
The only thing I find slightly disappointing is this: you don't have as much freedom placing the portals as you did in the first game.
You know I never consciously noticed that until you mentioned it, but yeah, that has been what's bothering me about it. I think part of the reason why though is because the game tried making more types of puzzles where you rely on more than just your portal gun. Obviously with all the repulsion gels, light bridges, etc, you're going to be using your Portal gun somewhat less.
Right now in the campaign I just reached the part where you're using repulsion gel. I like the whole idea that I'm in an older part of the facility where they have these older technologies and even the cubes and the depression plates look much older. It was just clever how you're experiencing new game mechanics in the older parts of the facility, yet the technologies behind them are way older than your sophisticated portal gun.
Also, I love the music in Portal 2. I can't wait to download the tracks. I'm a huge fan of The Orange Box soundtrack.
I just beat the single player and all i can say is OMFG, Portal 3? quite possibly. I loved this even though
GladOS actually helps you and wheatly is the real threat here.
Overall its what i expected and more from portal 2. Lots of fun puzzles, some parts were frustrating but for the most part it just takes a step back and the bigger picture.
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As long as it's without Chell I don't have a problem with it. Her chapter has been closed. I haven't finished the co-op mode yet, so perhaps they can continue the story from there.
Still, it's an incredibly amusing game. The music, settings and humour are excellent. Less freedom than its predecessor but the puzzles are of a different nature as well so you can't really compare them.
I actually find it funny how different yet similar both games are.
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Question about co-op. Do you suppose that co-op would only really be fun for two people never having tried the levels before? Cause what happens if you get online with someone posing to be first time co-op player but he really does know all the solutions to the puzzles. And yes I know even then it would still require coordination between players to pull off the levels, but you know what I mean?
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Play with people you know. One of the great thing about it apparently is figuring it all out with your friend.
I still haven't tried it. Lots of people screwing around with it a lot, too, or killing their friend. But really, I don't intend to waste my first try with anybody but a friend.
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Also played a bit in co-op (first 3 chapters) with a close friend and it's a blast! As SFJake said you should really play this with a friend rather than online. Me and my pal use to play single player puzzle games together and it's a lot of fun just sitting next to each other and solving them, but this is just a whole other level of co-op fun :D!
As for playing with someone who already knows the puzzles, I dunno. Personally I like when we get stuck and we just sit in a corner and stare at the level trying to figure it out. Or just mindlessly try stuff until it works. The satisfaction after you finally solve it is what makes it so great. With someone to lead the way you'll lose that great feeling.
Hoping to continue coop soon and probably going to play through single player again as well. If D3 is not out by the end of 2011 Portal 2 is a high contender for my official Liquorice's Game of the Year award :thumbsup:.
I only plan to play it with my real life friends, one in particular I'm waiting until he gets his copy on PS3. I feel uncomfortable with people I don't know in real life when it comes to small games like this.
I'm on PC, by the way.
Yeah RL friends is what I'd recommend as well, or of course good internet friends. Someone who you can talk to and have fun with via some kind of voice communication :). Makes for a lot better experience.
I'm interested mostly because time reports for co-op are EXTREMELY varying, from 1 hour and a half to 8 hours...
I must admit, however, that the re-playability of this game is kind of crippled, since once you go through the challenges, you tend to remember them and they become less difficult. They only have a finite amount of challenges.
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At first I was a little concerned about the tone of the game. I talked about this before when discussing Portal 2, but I was afraid the game would be just TOO silly and humorous without that sort of creepy undertone to everything. But as the game progressed, my fears seemed mostly unfounded. Luckily Wheatley hasn't been in the game too much (I really don't like him). I do find it kind of old though how Glados is constantly taunting and heckling me. Like I would just expect now at the end of each level that she'd say something mean about me in a clever over-intellectual sort of way. And I was like, yeah I get it, you have clever writers.
But the puzzles so far are really fun. I hope to get into more jumping puzzles that rely more on my skillful use of the portal gun. So far most things haven't relied that much on timing my portal shots but instead just going through more mundane steps of solving puzzles. But I think I may be getting to a point in the game where I will do more flying through the air now.
So anyway, so far the game is really fun and I love the music especially. I'm still a little confused how I began in that bedroom that came apart when I thought by the end of the first game I had completely escaped the research facility, but oh well.
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I've seen that comment here and there and I'm shocked. If it wasn't for him, the story would bore me to death. The only thing I kept looking forward to story wise was to see Wheatley again.
Maybe it helps that I have no idea who the heck the guy is in real life.
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I haven't been able to finish co-op yet.; too busy with university stuff :(. Hopefully some time next week. Single player was really cool, with a pretty deep storyline. The writers really knew what they were doing, and the programmers knew how to translate it to a game. Awesome interactive experience.
I don't really have a lot to say about Portal 2. It's clever, funny and extremely well-paced. The only thing I find slightly disappointing is this: you don't have as much freedom placing the portals as you did in the first game. This webcomic is what I mean.
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What the hell is this?
It definitively annoyed me.
Right now in the campaign I just reached the part where you're using repulsion gel. I like the whole idea that I'm in an older part of the facility where they have these older technologies and even the cubes and the depression plates look much older. It was just clever how you're experiencing new game mechanics in the older parts of the facility, yet the technologies behind them are way older than your sophisticated portal gun.
Also, I love the music in Portal 2. I can't wait to download the tracks. I'm a huge fan of The Orange Box soundtrack.
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Overall its what i expected and more from portal 2. Lots of fun puzzles, some parts were frustrating but for the most part it just takes a step back and the bigger picture.
Still, it's an incredibly amusing game. The music, settings and humour are excellent. Less freedom than its predecessor but the puzzles are of a different nature as well so you can't really compare them.
I actually find it funny how different yet similar both games are.
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