Valve: Portal 2 is Our Best Game Ever

[TheGeekful]

I'd say Half life is the best project valve is done, the rest is ideas from the community. Nothing wrong with that tho.

 

[Zersy]

First

Yay ! Portal !

Second

F you Valve ! Your still a lazy developer !

 

[Super Toast]

Portal 1 was good, but overrated. I hope this is better. I know this is of-topic, but how do you make a forum? It's a dumb question, but I can't figure it out for the life of me...

 

[Rainboq]

Valve is allowed to do what they want, trying too say other wise will do nothing, now quit your whining

I'll whine if I want. I'm a paying customer, and so far I've paid for an INCOMPLETE game.
Quit defending them you fanboy.

*snerk*.... BWAHAHAHA... I assure you, my friend, I am no fanboy, I don't even own a Valve game, but I am doing however is defending the rights of every artist, writer, what have you that depends on creativity, too work on whatever they want.

 

[DeviousJ]

Portal 1 was good, but overrated. I hope this is better.

Overrated? That's like saying Monty Python makes silly jokes. I think Portal 2 is going to be overrated! Best game ever. Pfff... Looks like someone has a bit much confidence.

I know this is of-topic, but how do you make a forum? It's a dumb question, but I can't figure it out for the life of me...

You mean a new thread? Choose a section you want and click new topic. It should be above the created topics.

 

[Odjin]

Corrigendum... Valve is not good at making games... they are good at "buying in concepts". All the mentioned games are buy-ins.

 

[Brotherofwill]

So, what does it mean when Valve says that Portal 2 is going to be its best product ever?

Nothing, since hyperbole in video-game development is as common as 9/10 scores.

"We got the signals that we wanted -- this is what people liked; this is what people didn't like. And to us, it was like, 'OK now we know how to take this big,' so that's what we're going to do with Portal 2."

Wow, what a profound mistake in judgement. Portal 1 worked because a single developer (I think it was a woman, I'm not sure) or at most a small team had a brilliant idea and ran with it, development should try to refrain from making evrybody happy and intead focus on single ideas from talented developers that are taken to the max. No huge, democratic design teams, games are best when they are the brain child of a single person.

5 reasons why Portal 2 will be worse than the 1st:

1) We've been there.
2) The short length of the first part was brilliant.
3) Dangerous risk of Valve sucking up to the last part, with silly inside jokes, rather than boldly inovating
4) They'll probably turn it into an epic adventure, HL2 style.
5) Bigger and more is seldom better, especially in a game like Portal where you can only take the mechanics so far.

For all I know this could be the greatest game ever released but so far I'm unimpressed. I thought Valve would encourage small projects and new IPs after the brilliant Portal, now they are already sequelling it. Shit.

 

[Elemental]

Did Gabe just said that Portal 2 will be their best game ever?..

Wow... My expectations are stupid high right now.

 

[destroyer2k]

For all you people that says valve need to make new game engine

Call of duty uses even an older game engine. It doesn't matter how old is your engine for graphics.

Ow and one more thing gameplay matter not some stupid graphics

 

[ninjajoeman]

For all you people that says valve need to make new game engine

Call of duty uses even an older game engine. It doesn't matter how old is your engine for graphics.

Ow and one more thing gameplay matter not some stupid graphics

ow?

anyways think of it like this god creating the universe then saying oh dude im gonna make something EVEN BETTER! everyone else is like holy shit.... then god is like no EVEN BETTER!

 

[xDHxD148L0]

Hopefully they at least announce a tentative release date this year.

 

[Nomad]

Colour me sceptical. Portal was great, yeah. But I think part of the reason it was great was that it was new and short. This will be old and long. I think there's a good chance the novelty will wear off after half the game.

 

[Seven Bottles Of Gin On The Wall]

The second I found out about the existence of Portal 2... something happened in my my trousers, it was good. I want it.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

Valve: Portal 2 is Our Best Game Ever

If that was from anyone but Valve I'd say its bragadouscious, but they can brag their testiculars off and still be in their own creation range.

 

[Giest118]

HEY GREAT NOW HOW ABOUT WORKING ON HL2: EPISODE 3 NOW YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.

 

[demouse]

oh god

OH GOD!!!!

D O W A N T ! ! ! ! ! ! q q Q Q 11 11!1!1!!

WTB realeace date

 

[James Hueick]

As long as the multiplayer doesn't out rank the single player it's a good game in my book. I mean how can you fuck up portal its like fucking up a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it just doesn't happen.

 

[niko80]

Introduced to the backstory?
A guy says "haven't seen you since Black Mesa". That doesn't tell me the story, it tells me his relationship to me. The other guy, human ambassador, so he used to work with me, still doesn't tell me the story. Just tells me that I know him.

Combine are not humans? Prove it? The only intelligent aliens in HL2 are in the resistance. The zap guys. As far as I am can see, playing Gordon Freeman, everyone I fight looks human so where are the aliens? (again, aside from the Crabs).

Fact is I don't know the backstory. Yeah, there is some stuff around from black mesa, and some people are shooting at me for no apparent reason, but that's not cause enough for me to lead some crusade. If I as a character am going to go kill hundreds of guys I would like to at least know EXACTLY what the hell has happened. I never do.

Anyway I've had this argument before. And it was boring an unproductive so I'm going to have it again.

Half life 2 is all about taking notice.. You are not fed information here, you need to uncover it yourself. It puts you in the middle of a situation and you slowly figure out whats going on by observing your surroundings, human interaction, listening to radio transmissions and not to mention Dr. Breenes speeches on the various tv-screens. If you pay attention you will learn that there is alot going on (this universe is huge) and it should definately be enough to motivate you to fire your gun.

If you ever were interested though you would have read up on the backstory. But since you havent, your argumenting falls through and is based on something you know little about. I understand you are talking about half life 2 here, but I was in the same boat a you. Played 2 before 1 and I found sooo much delight in half life 2, both story and gameplay wise without ever knowing what happened in the first game. It helps to be a bit patient though, gotta admit that.

I recommend having a read here: http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm
Great overview of what half life is story wise.

 

[Tommy_Dizzle]

I hope this is coming out on PS3. Although Valve have stated that they hate the PS3, so that probably won't happen.

i dont own a ps3, but this'd still be cool. Games like this shouldnt be any sort of build specific.

 

[CanadianWolverine]

I originally only ended up buying Portal because it was a part of Orange Box. What I really wanted Orange Box for was Half-Life 2: Episode 2, which I had originally planned to only buy but I was enticed by the low sale prices on the other games included, which is a lot like their current practices of great sales on their Steam service.

Think about that for a second, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was the deciding factor for me in handing over a portion of what little currency I have for some entertainment, not the FPS puzzle that was Portal. Unless it turns out that Portal 2 has a direct tie in to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 or is just straight up another name for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, I have no interest in it or its hype.

Also, TF2 has proved to be a rather unique experience, the L4D1/2 have seemed to get no where near the official extra content or custom mod support that TF2 has. Because of people from Valve saying L4D/2 would see the level of effort into it that TF2 has received and appears to continue to receive, I have also re-evaluated my own level of hype in Valve products on top of the lack of a copy of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 being available for sale. Sure, take all the time you need but my patience and money are not infinite, even for one of the producers of entertainment that I consider to be the best of the best.

In conclusion, for those lazy, stupid incomprehensible SoBs who TL/DR:
WANTED: HALF-LIFE 2: EPISODE 3