Portal is the best game ever.

Since 7363 Days

I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

I just can't get over this game. It's hard to even put into words how good it made me feel. It's so fucking original, so fucking funny, and it is just so full of.. fucking charm. I can't wait to see custom maps, but, nothing could possibly match the content already available, outside of a proper sequel.

It's so, so short, and yet, so damn good. This game deserves every bit of praise it has received. It's hard to say how satisfied I am coming out of that experience without dropping tons of f-bombs.

Fucking fantastic. I love you Orange Box. You could have just come with Portal and I'd still love you.

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Graafke

Since 7121 Days

Just finished a couple of days ago, and I had a blast. Although it was a bit shortish, the advanced puzzles and the challenges (least portals, least steps, least time) really add extra value. Of course, the achievements help a lot too. I really, really hope that Valve will release some extra content on the Xbox Live Marketplace, because I can't get enough of this game.

On a sidenote, is it true that a character of Portal will make a debut in Episode 3? I thought I read something like that on gamespot.

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Sheps

Since 7304 Days

Certainly is a nice change from blowing people up thats for sure.

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UFC 2009, Its going to be the best game ever.

alimokrane

Since 7293 Days

Eurogamer named it Game of the Year By The Way!

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Bring on Lost Odyssey!

Archaos

Since 7344 Days

Short and sweet ring true here.

I also love the pants off this game, it's so clever and witty!

Also this game probably has the greatest end credits, EVAR!

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GriftGFX

Since 7363 Days

Yeah.. I consider that whole sequence part of the ending. It's hard to rant and rave about its greatness without mentioning it but I don't want to spoil anything. It's very awesome though.

Project lead Kim Swift stated that future Portal developments will depend on the community's reactions, saying, "We're still playing it by ear at this point, figuring out if we want to do multi-player next, or Portal 2, or release map packs.

All of the above, plz!

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NeoNemesis

Since 7075 Days

Potral was fricking brilliant, from the 'the cake is a lie' part, to the computer just literally saying:

I'm sorry, I didn't want to kill you, come back.

Haha.

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Wii60!

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TheBeagle

Since 6968 Days

It is indeed an excellent game.

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deftangel

Since 7231 Days

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

Absolutely one of my Games of the Year. Deserves all the plaudits it
gets.

Posted by Chief17

On a sidenote, is it true that a character of Portal will make a debut in Episode 3? I thought I read something like that on gamespot.

It's set in the Half-Life 2 universe and those who understand the story better than me consider it a possibility. I haven't quite finished Episode 2 yet. Either way, there is certainly more Portal to come regardless and that can only be a good thing.

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docLEXfisti

Since 7481 Days

still haven't tried it, cause I didn't finish HL2 on PC and began new on 360, but I only heard great things about Portal so far ... but because of you guys I really have to check it out tonight ;))

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the only tyrant I accept is my inner voice [and my two kids ;)]

NeoNemesis

Since 7075 Days

Finish Ep 2 deft. Its fucking amazing.

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Wii60!

"We've said that Gears of War was graphically the best game have ever been made, well it looks like Pong compared to Crysis and some of the DX10 titles."

-Gary Whitta (Venting on the NG podcast after Coming back from the Games for Windows)

GriftGFX

Since 7363 Days

Posted by docLEXfisti

still haven't tried it, cause I didn't finish HL2 on PC and began new on 360, but I only heard great things about Portal so far ... but because of you guys I really have to check it out tonight ;))

Do it! I don't want to risk over hyping it for those who haven't played it.. I just really love it.

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Graafke

Since 7121 Days

Posted by deftangel

It's set in the Half-Life 2 universe and those who understand the story better than me consider it a possibility. I haven't quite finished Episode 2 yet. Either way, there is certainly more Portal to come regardless and that can only be a good thing.

I wouldn't mind a comeback of Glados. Still need to finish both episode 1 and 2, so I got a lot to look forward too as of now.

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Jin187

Since 7107 Days

Posted by GriftGFX

I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

I just can't get over this game. It's hard to even put into words how good it made me feel. It's so fucking original, so fucking funny, and it is just so full of.. fucking charm. I can't wait to see custom maps, but, nothing could possibly match the content already available, outside of a proper sequel.

It's so, so short, and yet, so damn good. This game deserves every bit of praise it has received. It's hard to say how satisfied I am coming out of that experience without dropping tons of f-bombs.

Fucking fantastic. I love you Orange Box. You could have just come with Portal and I'd still love you.

I officially diagnose you with Tourette's Syndrome

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Isomac

Since 7130 Days

Portal is really fun, too bad it was so short. At least there was couple time attack modes. My favourite is that where you try to use as few portals as you can :D Fun stuff. I tried TF2 yesterday and it was awesome too :)

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kenshin2418

Since 7338 Days

Posted by Jin187

I officially diagnose you with Tourette's Syndrome

ah Bob Saget?

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deftangel

Since 7231 Days

Posted by NeoNemesis

Finish Ep 2 deft. Its fucking amazing.

I'm pretty much at the end I think. I've just gotten to White Mountain, which has been attacked so I'm fighting my way out of the Silo's.. Will try and do it tonight if I can ever get out of work, grrr.

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Phaethon360

Since 7209 Days

I believe in you Fitzurugi- I mean deftangel. Wait, no I don't. :P

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ManThatYouFear

Since 7306 Days

*bows before portal*

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gmulis

Since 7151 Days

whats good is that this game "portal" was made high school students who were competing in computer tournament and where picked up by valve

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You can dream all you want, kid, but it won't do any good 'cause when you wake up again you'll realize nothing has changed.

mt_sabao

Since 6794 Days

glad to see some Portal love. I was also very pleased to see eurogamer giving it the game of the year award, as for me it was the game of the year. For me it did much more for gaming then Bioshock, Mass Effect (still playing for the recod) and of course Halo, each of which did a lot as well, in their own sense. But for me Portal was really the winner, in its simplicity, in the way that it just looked a bunch of puzzles and then it was not.
Masterpiece material.

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LEBATO

Since 7485 Days

Uh, I don't think it's THAT good. No game of the year, no best game ever, no even a great game by itself. It is a great ADDITION to the orange box, but that's it.

The game is really short, the funny is.......not really, and once you are done with the puzzles, you are..........done.

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GriftGFX

Since 7363 Days

IS WRONG

It's okay.

Posted by gmulis

whats good is that this game "portal" was made high school students who were competing in computer tournament and where picked up by valve

It was actually made by DigiPen students, which is a sort of games and entertainment focused college program. The game they made was called Narbacular Drop though, and portal was redesigned/written by valve. They did hire the entire team to make portal.. and yes that is very cool.

Masterpiece material.

Yessir.

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gmulis

Since 7151 Days

Posted by GriftGFX

IS WRONG

It was actually made by DigiPen students, which is a sort of games and entertainment focused college program. The game they made was called Narbacular Drop though, and portal was redesigned/written by valve. They did hire the entire team to make portal.. and yes that is very cool.

Yessir.

thanks for the correction.. impressive nonetheless

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You can dream all you want, kid, but it won't do any good 'cause when you wake up again you'll realize nothing has changed.

GriftGFX

Since 7363 Days

Yeah, it's the coolest thing to come out of DigiPen, that's for sure. I'd like to try their original project, but one of the things that really makes portal so damn good is the fantastic writing. It's got such strong direction in general, creating impressive character development out of practically nothing at all.

Flawless victory.

"Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and i said 'Goodbye' and you were like 'NNOO WWAAYY", and then I was all "We pretended we were going to murder you", that was great."[/quote]

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