Portal 2 this year?
One of the most critically acclaimed - and most inventive - games of 2007, Portal, is getting a sequel, if information from developer Valve is anything to go by, and that's excellent news.
Featuring a psychotic computer called GLaDOS - and the promise of cake - Portal was one of the most refreshingly inventive and enjoyable games of 2007, packaged wonderfully with Valve's The Orange Box (PS3/Xbox 360), which brought us five games in one, making it even more value (Portal was also available on Steam for PC users). A highlight of the game was the end credits song, Still Alive.
The inspired part of Portal was the gun you, as the silent test subject Chell, had to use: the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD or portal gun) - which created portals that your character could travel between, and solve the puzzles that GLaDOS put in your way.
As the game progressed the puzzles that GLaDOS put before you got harder and harder and you often had to look out for falling Weighted Companion Cubes, wise-cracking gun turrets, and electrified pits. And after a series of cryptic information from Valve over Steam last week, information has surfaced that Portal 2 will be out this year. Perhaps the cake won't be a lie after all?
Gamewise, I played a five-hour stretch of online Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Friday night, forming up a squad with Kiwi FM's Wammo. It was an extremely enjoyable experience, but I had to call it quits at 1.30am. I also continued working my way through the single-player campaign last night.
How about you? What did you play this weekend?
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Plenty of Borderlands, I finished a first play-through with the Soldier actually. I really enjoyed the combination of shooter with RPG-style looting, and the artwork was a big highlight too (as you mentioned in a previous blog, Gerard). Will have to check out some of the DLC now, I think.
I'm still tossing up whether to get BC2... decisions, decisions.
Had the gf over, so didn't play anything. Just some Titan Quest (seriously, $14USD on Steam! Awesome!) and MW2 on Sunday night when I should have been doing the ironing.
Portal 2 goes in my Bioshock 2 pile labelled "why?". Bioshock was awesome, great gameplay, great story that closed very well. Did not need a sequel. Portal 2, the same, great game with fantastic quirks... what will a sequel add that will improve? Very little I would imagine.
Really need to get BC2... looks great. Come on payday...
I've never experienced Portal before, so should really keep an eye out for The Orange Box on special.
This weekend I had my Dad's 70th birthday bash to attend, so gaming was restricted to what I could muster on Sunday night before succumbing to my exhaustion. I used this time to play some more Brutal Legend. I'm loving the soundtrack, but the gameplay is not grabbing me as much as other recent titles I've played. Thankfully the music is enough to keep me at it. :-)
Portal 2 will be a sure fire winner, but no news of HL2:Ep3 is :(((
All the l33t-tard "the cake is a lie!" Valve fanboy spew all over the interwebs is not something I want a repeat of though. Sure the cake concept was good/amusing but repeating that crap ad-nauseum got real old real quick.
Had a totally sweet weekend for gaming:
almost finished Bayonetta on Normal, awesome game. Played tons of Saints Row 2 co-op on xbox live which was wicked cool. Hit 43k Gamerscore. Got the original Worms on XBLA becuase I had a friend over and needed something to play. All the memories of being 10 and playing the game on my 486 ALL DAY with my friends and eating BBQ Shapes and drinking Sprite came flooding back. Worms is so good. I'll get Worms 2 once I get 200/200!
Portal was (and still is) one of the best little games out there - and another of Valves community sucess's (much like CS). Portal 2 will no doubt do well - and I think there is plenty more story to tell in the half-life universe.
Rented Bioshock 2 on Friday, finished it Saturday afternoon - not bad for an overnight rental in all (though it really did just feel like Bioshock 1). Also picked up General Know for Borderlands - will get playing through that once a bit more free time is available (back to study for now).
seem to go against the norm here, but i played a wiiware game called swords and soldiers, which surprisingly was awesome.
The Fiance went into town friday night so a friend and I got our geek on and Played MW2 till 2.30 saturday morning then I got up at 0700 and went and played football all day crashed at 5.30 in the evening on the recliner and slept till 0700 on sunday. Then went to see the phoenix sunday so didnt do mutch gaming but still an awesome weekend
I continued in my quest to acheive a 100 hit combo on the Arkham Asylum 'Insane Night' DLC challenge...
I got the Orange Box free with a new motherboard, Portal is super fun but I got motion-sickness pretty quickly.
No gaming the weekend just been, I was in Taupo supporting my 54 year old Mum who was doing the Ironman for the second time. Might have to squeeze in a bit of Oblivion after study tonight!
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The cake is a lie!