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Awesome news or awesomest news?

Plants? Awesome.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

Now, how about EPISODE FUCKING THREE?

ThatNickGuy said:

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

Now, how about EPISODE FUCKING THREE?

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How do you know this isn't Episode 3?

Rumor, Co-op Portal:

Looks like Glados might be around still too... unless that thing is going to house the founder of the company like it is rumored.

figmentPez said:

Rumor, Co-op Portal:

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Not a rumor.

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=77276

Sweet can't wait. Can't believe I lost my orange box though

So where are you keeping your oranges?

Any news what it's gonna be about?!

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life)

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Creators of CS?!

@Li3n said:

Any news what it's gonna be about?!

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life)

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Creators of CS?!

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I think the Counter-Strike guys work for Valve now, so this would technically be true. Even if they weren't, it wouldn't exist without Half-Life.

Sorry, but as EA don't count as creators of C&C neither does Valve for CS...

And you don't see anyone saying that Epic Megagames is the creator of all the games that have been using the Unreal engines either.


And i guess there's no news on what P2 will be about then.

*does a Portal 2 happy dance*

@Li3n said:

And i guess there's no news on what P2 will be about then.

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Shot in the dark guess, but...portals. *ducks!*

Please end with a teaser for Episode 3.

Shit, I'm gonna have to buy Portal for XBOX now and re-play it there. Oh well, such is life, I guess. hwell:

@Li3n said:

Any news what it's gonna be about?!

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Kotaku has some major spoilers: An Insider's Guide to Portal 2


Also Kotaku says that the cooperative multiplayer mode will have an "entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters,"

1. Yay! Portal 2!

2. Where's Episode 3???

I'd like to wave this in the face of whoever said Valve was too busy with DLC for TF2 and L4D to make anything else this year.

... how crucified will I get if I told you guys I only played like 3 hours of the first Half-Life and haven't really played any more of it, yet completed Portal a few times and loved every microsecond of it?

Half Life and Portal are two very different games. I don't find it at all surprising that someone might love one while not caring for the other.

I'm not saying I didn't like Half-Life, I think the reason that I stopped playing was that my laptop kept crashing or something.... long time ago, don't really remember.... but it's been so long I'm weary of jumping back in and finishing all the.. "episodes".


THat's the other thing, I don't get the whole episode system.

Calleja said:

... how crucified will I get if I told you guys I only played like 3 hours of the first Half-Life and haven't really played any more of it, yet completed Portal a few times and loved every microsecond of it?

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Not much, really.

I'd still recommend playing Half-Life though, as it is an extremely solid FPS game.

First Half-Life is good, I also liked the Opposing Force XPAC, never got to play much of Blue Shift.

Honestly, Calleja, I'd say you could skip that outing and maybe come back around to it if your'e curious if/when Black Mesa Source drops.

Calleja said:

I'm not saying I didn't like Half-Life, I think the reason that I stopped playing was that my laptop kept crashing or something.... long time ago, don't really remember.... but it's been so long I'm weary of jumping back in and finishing all the.. "episodes".


THat's the other thing, I don't get the whole episode system.

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The Episodes are for Half-Life 2. They're just the next parts of that story, but they're shorter than either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.

escushion;350085][QUOTE=Calleja said:

THat's the other thing, I don't get the whole episode system.

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The Episodes are for Half-Life 2. They're just the next parts of that story, but they're shorter than either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.[/QUOTE]

And they're just stand alone mini expansions, not really complicated enough to have to "get".

@Li3n;350271][QUOTE=escushion;350085][QUOTE=Calleja said:

THat's the other thing, I don't get the whole episode system.

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The Episodes are for Half-Life 2. They're just the next parts of that story, but they're shorter than either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.[/QUOTE]

And they're just stand alone mini expansions, not really complicated enough to have to "get".[/QUOTE]

Unless you want the story, that is. You could probably skip episode 1 if you had too, but Episode 2 has some serious plot stuff in it that your not going to want to miss.

AshburnerX said:

Unless you want the story, that is. You could probably skip episode 1 if you had too, but Episode 2 has some serious plot stuff in it that your not going to want to miss.

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It also has some of the best gameplay in the entire Half Life series. The turret battle with Griggs and Sheckley, the first battle with hunters, ambushes by combine and oh so much more.

figmentPez;350360][QUOTE=AshburnerX said:

Unless you want the story, that is. You could probably skip episode 1 if you had too, but Episode 2 has some serious plot stuff in it that your not going to want to miss.

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It also has some of the best gameplay in the entire Half Life series. The turret battle with Griggs and Sheckley, the first battle with hunters, ambushes by combine and oh so much more.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but that last part where you need to defend the shacks with the Magnuson Devices is crap. Why the hell did they make such complicated explosives to fight off the Striders when they COULD have made a bunch of Stinger rockets during the same time and just shot them down like that? Though to be fair, it DOES sound like the kind of idiot move that the guys at Black Mesa would pull.

I loved the Magneson device defense. The rockets thing would have been simpler, but we shot down Striders in Half-Life 2 and one in Episode I. This was cool, and got the car involved. I loved bashing down the hunters with the car, shooting the Magneson up from point-blank at the Strider, and then bursting its head.

Calleja, the episodes are stand-alone, like sequels. No save files carry-overs or anything; it's really not complicated at all.

Because then they wouldn't be named Magnusson Rockets, and Magnusson probably wouldn't stand for that.

escushion said:

I loved the Magneson device defense.

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Yeah well I hated it... because I can't get the god damn shack defense achievement...

AshburnerX said:

Yeah well I hated it... [SIZE=\"1\"]because I can't get the god damn shack defense achievement...[/SIZE]

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The secret to the "Neighborhood Watch" achievement is that very specific striders are the ones that destroy buildings. Specifically striders #4, 7 & 8. Those three move fast, and usually crouch while moving, but each one will try and destroy a specific building (see the link for details). It's a lot less frantic when you realize not every strider is a threat to buildings.

I'm more interested in seeing how the Portal Gun will work in Ep. 3.

Portal was fun but became increasingly repetitive, if it wasn't for the tidbits of humor I'd have been bored to tears. I can't imagine Portal 2 being that innovative in terms of the gameplay.

The only thing I really wanted from Portal that I hope we see in P2 is some implementation of the Portal Gun in a more direct combat scenario.

Those Half-Life mods that allowed the use of the Portal gun were AMAZING!

Gusto said:

The only thing I really wanted from Portal that I hope we see in P2 is some implementation of the Portal Gun in a more direct combat scenario.

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I don't know... I think that would really ruin the mood of the game. Portal thrived on that sense of isolation you recieved, even though Glados was always watching you. Throwing enemies into the mix would seriously change the tone.

I know that it might have ruined the tone of the game but at the time I thought it would have been a cool implementation of everything you've learned about portal puzzles up to that point. Even using some manner of mobile droids would've sufficed.

Don't worry, you'll get plenty of chances to mess with someone with the gun in the Co-op mode. It's going to be completely different than the single player campaign....

Imagine shooting portals at your partner's feet... just because you can. Oh man, the anticipation of the frustrated screaming is making me SALIVATE.

I'm trying Half-Life 2 within Portal, and it's fun screwing around with the Portal gun, but for some reason there are no voices for anyone except the Combine soldiers. Is there a way to get the voices to play too so it's more like playing Half-Life 2 with the Portal gun rather than just mindlessly killing shit with the Portal gun? I'm aware I'm stuck as Chelle, but since you never see Gordon Freeman anyway, I don't care.

Guys, Guys GUYS... you NEED to read this:

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/portal-2-the-10-things-you-need-to-know/a-20100308121148674036

Hundreds of years later? Hmm... there goes seeing Gordon Freeman in Portal, or seeing Chell in Episode 3.

Unless we see Chell in whatever comes after Episode 3!

Yeah, I'm confused about the timeline there--but then, for all we know the Arpeture science lab was sent back in time first... or something. I don't know. The Borealis really left a lot of questions up in the air.

godDAMN it... you read that article on all the awesomeness that's gonna be Portal 2 and you whine about a Half Life related thing!?

STOP MAKING ME FEEL LEFT OUT DAMMIT

No, but seriously, how awesome are the announced features so far?

Well, they're going to make me feel stupid, that's for sure. I mean, the game mechanics in Portal 1 were enough to stump me sometimes. (Mainly for stuff like the Flash Map Pack and Portal: Prelude)