Portal 2

Aastii

Aastii

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Does anybody else have it?

Bought it, got it installed today and was afraid if anything, because the first one was so perfect and it finished just in time, before it got tedious, monotonous and boring and wasn't sure if this would push it and in my opinion, it is more of the same perfection.

The dark, dry wit humour is the same, and if anything better, the gameplay is just as polished and perfect, and it is the subtle things. It is somehow just as fresh as Portal, even though it is a sequel. I don't know how ANYONE could have any problem with the game at all (except for how very brief loading screens have been put in :(). I'm going playing it again now I'm done posting this :P
 
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I want it, but atm if I buy a game I want it to have replay value. If I beat Portal 2's coop and SP is there anything that brings me back for more? I assume once you know how to solve the puzzle it loses its appeal. That's why I am waiting to see if Brink is any good or Fear 3. However, Portal 2 looks quite amazing.
 
Manakore said:
I want it, but atm if I buy a game I want it to have replay value. If I beat Portal 2's coop and SP is there anything that brings me back for more? I assume once you know how to solve the puzzle it loses its appeal. That's why I am waiting to see if Brink is any good or Fear 3. However, Portal 2 looks quite amazing.
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Portal 1 is 2 hours worth of game the first time, and down to sub 1 hour once you actually know it, but in the same way you watch a film more than once, even though you know the plots and twists, you replay it for the plot, the characters, and to try and best your previous best.

I must have done at least 6 or 7 runs of Portal, which is pretty insane for a sub 1 hour game, and to still be loving it and rate it as the best game ever after.

Portal 2 is much, much longer by the looks of things, but already with an hour played, I can only see it getting better
 
Aastii said:
Portal 1 is 2 hours worth of game the first time, and down to sub 1 hour once you actually know it, but in the same way you watch a film more than once, even though you know the plots and twists, you replay it for the plot, the characters, and to try and best your previous best.

I must have done at least 6 or 7 runs of Portal, which is pretty insane for a sub 1 hour game, and to still be loving it and rate it as the best game ever after.

Portal 2 is much, much longer by the looks of things, but already with an hour played, I can only see it getting better
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First time it took me 5 hours but played it in months of gaps.
Second time 2 hours and third was sub 1hour.

It is an amazing game.

I surely will buy a copy but after my exams.
 
Love Portal 2 so far. I'm stuck on the 8th test chamber(didn't want to deal with it so I took a break). The first was great, im just hoping the story portion of this is just as good.
 
I got the game and have completed both coop and single player. I must say they've really done an amazing job. I was worried at first that it wouldn't be as wonderful as portal 1 (with its great use of humor). But it really pulls it off in a fantastic way and is worth every penny (doesn't the steam copy come with portal 1 too?).

Dare I say its better than portal 1?

And the ending is to die for. Will kill you. To die for. Yeah, to die for.

:).

(The /only/ thing I took a second thought on and am a bit confused. If the game takes place several years in the future. Why are all of the servers in the backrooms really old beige things?)

EDIT: Oh, and the whole micro-transactions to buy hats and outfits for your robots thing. Really stupid.
 
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kobaj said:
(The /only/ thing I took a second thought on and am a bit confused. If the game takes place several years in the future. Why are all of the servers in the backrooms really old beige things?)
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If you look at the first one when they are were all white and flashy, there are the same models in the game, just at random places, like one of the hidden areas has a load in a pile over a metal grate. There are a few in some rooms as well. Why they would go backwards though, I dunno
 
Great game. I like the way there's more to it than just going from one test chamber to the next. There's a bit more structure to it this time round.

I've been playing it pretty solidly.
 
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