Portal 2 Nearly Had Sports-Inspired Multiplayer Mode

[V8 Ninja]

Now that they mentioned that they cut it, I want to see Valve put the mode back into the game. While it would be almost unplayable, I'd love to see what "Chaos with Portals" would look like.

 

[oranger]

Reading the subtext translates for me as "we cut it ("pong" portal) because it would have brought a nasty pvp edge to portal, and that's not what our game is about."

 

[Disembodied_Dave]

Oh man, for some reason this makes me imagine the TF2 dodge ball mod with the addition of portal guns. That would be so awesome.

 

[nYuknYuknYuk]

Damn... This sounds awesome.. hopefully it will be in Portal 3 or maybe they will include it in a patch or DLC. They might as well. Chaos sounds fun.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Sounds terrible, Anyone know if the co-op is splitscreen?

It better be splitscreen.

 

[Giantcain]

I almost hope they bring it back later. Pure chaos sounds fun to me!

Maybe they're like lazy devs and just leave cut and unfinished things in the games for modders to discover.

Valve always does that mostly because they know half the fan-base do mod their games for unfinished things. Some of its rather interesting like the cut combine assassin with all the frames animation required to be used but was still unused.

 

[Egitor]

I love how confidently the release date is stated at the end of the news post =D

 

[LTK_70]

I would have liked to play it. It can't be more chaotic than HL2: Deathmatch with portals.

 

[Digikid]

I almost hope they bring it back later. Pure chaos sounds fun to me!

I agree!!! BRING IT BACK!!!!

 

[WolfLordAndy]

I'd love a Portal Deathmatch mod.

Only way to kill peope is to drop things on them/throw things at them/bounce energy onto them/open a portal to a turret/etc.

 

[Radelaide]

I almost hope they bring it back later. Pure chaos sounds fun to me!

Exactly. Sometimes, a clusterfuck may not be such a bad idea! I love it when you can have silly, insane fun in a game

 

[atomictoast]

I trust Valve to spot what doesn't work in a game, but because they told press about this, some modder is going to get it into the final game eventually.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

That would have been totally insane. I think 4 portals is enough!

 

[ChainSOV]

I wonder if it really was a ball or a companion cube ^_^