Trailers: Portal 2: Bot Trust

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Harry Mason said:
You are held captive by a malevolent A.I. attempts to murder you at every turn and forces you to burn alive the only friendly thing in your environment.

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Yeah, I'm with you on this one. Portal is wonderfully written and extremely funny, but it is not meant as family entertainment. To make it suitable for kids you'd have to expunge the meta-narrative that makes the game so good, and all you'd be left with is some reasonably fun puzzles with no reason to care about them.

Make a new meta-narrative about a competition for points, or a race, or something like that - then you've got some kid-friendly entertainment. But not with the story as it stands.
 
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Andy of Comix Inc said:
"Fire the guys who made those robots." But... but...!



UNILATERAL FORCE-INDUCED ISOKINETIC BREAKFAST TRIALS!! Also PANCAKES!!

...I wanna play a game with those robots! :D
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I would pay so much money to have ATLAS_ALPHA make me breakfast everyday.
 
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Little Big Planet is a Family game. Mario is a Family game. Portal is a black comedy.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. I don't see how anyone could play Portal and say it was a family game.[/quote]

Technically, the category is "Family/Puzzle." Portal is not a family game, but it is a puzzle game.
 
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Valve is awesome. I think they should win MM this year just for this ad campaign.
 
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I glad Valve decided to do their own commercials as opposed to a company, they actually make it interesting and funny.
 
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Damn, I think that was the best so far. Good work Valve, and I hope that you continue to do your own advertising :D
 
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Harry Mason said:
Here's a good example... Dr. Strangelove does not have anything in it that is inherently bad for children to see or hear, but it was written, conceived, filmed, and marketed to adults. It is not, by any FAR stretch of the imagination, a Family Movie.
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I think you are missing the point. It is not important who the game is marketed to or intended for, what matters for a family game is if it can be enjoyed by everyone.
Dr. Strangelove is therefore a bad example, since it has little slapstick or similar humour. If it did it would've been extremely family friendly. Darkness for adults and kids mean very different things, a kid will be absolutely not bothered by the films premise or even the ending.

All Portal has is a nice sounding evil robot who's parts you disassemble in the end.
 
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Harry Mason said:
While I'll agree that kids have always been and will always be exposed to dark material (Grimm Fairytails being the best and oldest example) and that being exposed to those things is not necessarily bad, Portal is not a Family game.

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Hmmm, I'm inclined to agree, though from what I've seen of Portal 2 it is aiming slightly down, the whole idea of the co-op mode is that younger audiences were already "backseat driving" through Portal, so might as well make co-op official. The single-player is another story, but I think Portal 2 is going to be more dry than black.

But yes, more I think about it, the more Portal wasn't "family" - but I think the formula of Portal (what they're using in the sequel, for example), sets a good blueprint for "family" entertainment, even if in execution, it's not.
 
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love it :D

PORTAL 2 PORTAL 2 POOORTAL 2 XD........i cant take it anymore I have to play it now!!!!!
 
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