[Sergio Tapia]

Yep, we have a winner. A massive winner. I've only played an hour of the game but already I feel this game outweighs any other game I bought this year.

The graphics engine does show its age a bit and you will notice some sore thumbs sticking out in the environment, but overall the technical aspects of the graphics are overshadowed by how fucking brilliant the art direction is. The environment is great and seeing the facility aged and overrun by plants really makes you want to know what happened and why.

Glados is fucking awesome as always, and I have laughed about 9 times during the hour I was playing. It's really funny! I'm kind of bummed that it'll end! Really.

Fantastic, in every sense.

Let's discuss the game and what you liked about it, and what you didn't like about it.

SPOILERS BELONG IN SPOILER TAGS.

This post has been edited by Sergio Tapia: 22 April 2011 - 05:43 PM

[supersloth]

we're talking about this in the steam thread (kinda) but whatevs. i have beat the first 20 chambers of single player so far, gonna beat the rest this weekend i imagine, and then try out the co-op.

[Sergio Tapia]

THIS JUST IN: Don't play this with your wife/husband/significant other. SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

This post has been edited by Sergio Tapia: 22 April 2011 - 08:31 PM

[v0rtex]

HAHAHA Sergio Tapia.
Yes,definitely one of the best games released this year. I can't wait for TES:Skyrim tho !

[Sergio Tapia]

Ok, still playing with my wife. She's getting a bit better at it, I don't know what I'd do without the ping tool though.

[5thWall]

I just beat the game last night, simply fantastic. I've started to go back through with the developer commentary. It's really neet to hear about all the work they put in with play-testing in order to make a great experience, and the technical discussions are pretty cool too (from a programmers perspective anyway).

Spoiler

Did anyone else notice that the new companion cubes are playing the same music as the turret chorus in the end sequence?

Speaking of turrets. It used to be I'd send as many of the little basterds through the material emancipation grid as I could manage, but now I kind of feel sorry for them. Not sorry enough to not put them on an arial faith plate any chance I get, but they sound so sad when they're being dissolved.

[MATTtheSEAHAWK]

I really want this game now. It really seems amazing. I had the first one in the orange box but I never really played it much. When I did play it though it was amazing and since I am out today I might go get it

[lordofduct]

At the ending...

who else here was like:

Spoiler

Oh cool, that looks pretty... hey, I wonder... can I shoot that?

::click::

-FOOMP-

OH MY GOD!

-SUUUUUCKKKKKK-

epic...

Maybe it was just my buddy and I suffering from sleep deprivation...

This post has been edited by lordofduct: 23 April 2011 - 04:04 PM

[Sergio Tapia]

OK, just beat the game literally 2 minutes ago, and I'm massively dissapointed. I want something, anything to relate to Half-Life 2. ANYTHING!

I waited till the absolute final second and didn't see squat!

Spoiler

At the end of the game when Chell gets out of the facility into the corn field, I was expecting to see some semblance of the Convent. NOOOOOOOOOOoooooo!

Pretty bummed out right now.

[5thWall]

Apparently there's an achievement for finding remnants or some information related to a lost Aperture Science research vessel... one that a certain Black Mesa scientist should be looking for in HL2 Ep3.

Spoiler

This game takes place a couple hundred years in the future since the last game, so lack of Combine presence should mean that we won right?

[5thWall]

So, was playing through with developer commentary (and trying to get a few achievements along the way), when I started to wonder about how Chell got wrapped up with Aperture. Did she volunteer to be a test subject? At what point in your life (besides grad school) do you sign up to be a test subject? Anyway, I followed a hunch and took a closer look at some in-game scenery and I think I found something:

Spoiler

It's just past the day-care center with all the science experiments. Wheatly mentioned that something tragic had happened on the bring your daughter to work day, and since the experiments are still here, GlaDOS probably took over on that day or soon after.

http://steamcommunit...9919?tab=public

So, Chell was there that day, and her (adoptive?) parents were probably scientists at Aperture. Do you think they were in the group of scientists that GlaDOS killed with the neurotoxin? Or maybe her birth parents were scientists, and Aperture adopted her after the incident? Either way it gives Chell motivation to kill GlaDOS outside of just trying to escape, which makes the ending with GlaDOS not actually dead kind of sad.

[lordofduct]

@5thWall

Spoiler

Bring your daughter to work day was the day that GlaDOS was turned on and became self aware. This is when Caroline is placed into Cave Johnson's computer upon his request before he died. Cave and Caroline are lovers...

[J-e-L-L-o]

massively off topic, but Dragon Age 2 was pretty good. Not epic by any standards...but better than all the COD clones that developers are spittin out.

[sas1ni69]

There's a great sense of accomplishment when you play a game like Portal

[J-e-L-L-o]

sas are you stalking my posts? lol.