Thread: Portal 2

Originally Posted by Artelis

And play a piss boring game.. for 100 hours. weeee. Length of game does not equal quality of game.

It does when you actually enjoy the game you're playn.

Portal should have at least had time limits. It should have also had more than a few levels of turrets tryn to stop me.

Come on man, come oooooooon!

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

It does when you actually enjoy the game you're playn.

Portal should have at least had time limits. It should have also had more than a few levels of turrets tryn to stop me.

Come on man, come oooooooon!

Time limits? No game has time limits anymore because people fucking HATE it.
OH you failed by half a second, do it all over again.
That's why all the good games now, even when the characters are like HURRY UP WE GOTTA GO! or whatever, you can sit there forever and it doesn't matter.

Originally Posted by tommo

Time limits? No game has time limits anymore because people fucking HATE it.
OH you failed by half a second, do it all over again.
That's why all the good games now, even when the characters are like HURRY UP WE GOTTA GO! or whatever, you can sit there forever and it doesn't matter.

Last level of Halo D:
One time me and a friend were finally about to beat it on legendary, AND THEN HE RAN OVER ME AT THE END AND BLEW HIMSELF UP WITH A GRENADE!

I liked this part.

YouTube - Portal 2 Soundtrack - The National Exile Vilify

Promotional video on Valve's channel. Also, free DLC is coming out on all platforms this summer.

Free Portal 2 Content Brings New Test Chambers and Challenge Modes This Summer

Yahtzee fucking nails it once again:

The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Portal 2

Find me any other professional review where they made any of the totally bang-on-the-mark criticisms that he does, rather than pandering or simply explaining what the game is and what the graphics are like blah blah blah with no kind of critical input whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Xei

Yahtzee fucking nails it once again:

The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Portal 2

Find me any other professional review where they made any of the totally bang-on-the-mark criticisms that he does, rather than pandering or simply explaining what the game is and what the graphics are like blah blah blah with no kind of critical input whatsoever.

That guy is the most annoying piece of shit ever. Can't understand half of what he says, talks way too fast in certain parts. Anyway, he clearly just can't comprehend how the cake is a lie.

Don't find him annoying at all... a lot of the time his videos are hilarious, and the fast speech thing is his schtick. He enunciates perfectly clearly, it's just that you need to actually invest some concentration in what he's saying; it takes some time to get used to, that's all. Most comedy is designed to just gradually wash over you.

Asides from his speech, he's the only reviewer I've ever seen who actually reviews in a professional way. It's bizarre really but there doesn't seem to be any other VG reviewer out there capable of giving any kind of critical input on a game other than "the character's name is Mr. X and you have to do Y and the graphics are really good I give it 9.5 hur dur"; there's a bizarre culture of utter ineptness.

I agree about reviews in general. It's pissing me off lately. I don't watch reviews a lot, almost never read them, but when I do, I see what you are saying. I read a little bit of one a few months ago, had to stop because I realised how shit it was, she was basically giving a step by step account of the whole movie! I mean, seriously wtf!? Same goes for trailers. They either tell you nothing, just *BOOM* *YELLING* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *YELLING* *KISSING* *BOOM* etc.
or you get the entire storyline of the movie. I really think people aren't investing enough money in either of these things anymore.

The Portal 2 soundtrack is out.

And it's free.
Official Portal 2 Website - Music
Fuck yeah Valve

Awwww yeah!

Nice. I'll download all that mess. There was this one song from the first Portal that always haunted me to the core. It was called "Esteem Fund".

I like all the glitchy stuff, a lot of it's real catchy.

'Exile, Vilify' is the best, though. Valve criminally underused that, and the game could have used a lot more of that kind of atmosphere in general, I think.

Originally Posted by Xei

I like all the glitchy stuff, a lot of it's real catchy.

'Exile, Vilify' is the best, though. Valve criminally underused that, and the game could have used a lot more of that kind of atmosphere in general, I think.

I don't see that in the OST from their site?

You can download it through torrent. Yes I know it is illegal but who cares.

Originally Posted by Xei

Yahtzee fucking nails it once again:

The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Portal 2

Find me any other professional review where they made any of the totally bang-on-the-mark criticisms that he does, rather than pandering or simply explaining what the game is and what the graphics are like blah blah blah with no kind of critical input whatsoever.

...but why the inverted ukranian flag at 2:17? hmmmmmm?

Originally Posted by IndieAnthias

...but why the inverted ukranian flag at 2:17? hmmmmmm?

I don't see a flag at 2:17?

That wasn't gibberish, it was an actual coded message. =/