The cake is a lie! → [ Portal fanclub. ]

RASENCERO said:
What is your favorite area/chapter?
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I don't know exactly which chapters it is, but from when you start testing for GLaDOS until the part where
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I love GLaDOS' wit, and she is definitely my favorite test proctor.

My favorite test chamber overall is Chamber 6 (advanced aerial faith plates).
 
What do you think of the co-op?
Did you like it? What could have been better? What worked nicely? How did you feel about the levels?

I myself haven't played it, but I have seen it. I quite liked it. But it works best when both players can talk to each other. And have some skill.
 
What is your favorite area/chapter?
Honestly, it's right at the very beginning. Wandering through test chambers I could recognize from the first game and seeing them all overgrown with plants and whatnot was so exciting. I love timeskip "apocalyptic" things in games and media... you know, seeing something and then seeing it again years and years later when it's broken and rundown and barely recognizable. :D It was creepy and awesome all at once.

What do you think of the co-op?
It's really fun to play with friends. I've only played it with someone in the same room, though. (My brother and I played it splitscreen and then a friend came over and played it on my computer while I linked up with the PS3.) I adore it but I also thought the plot was pretty blah. :( I'd have preferred it to be either separate from the game with no plot or as heavily involved as the main single player game but it just seemed like "here, have some pointless testing" and then suddenly "oh, here's a tiny bit of plot near the end". idk, it just kinda bugged me.
 
What do you think of the co-op?

I thought it was really fun, and mostly difficult because my little brother was helpless when trying to assist me in completing levels. I eventually got some of my buddies who had actually played Portal before to help me finish the co-op though. It was great. :] Very creative and exciting.

And Lightning, ATLAS and P-body were created for testing. So it wasn't really pointless I guess. xD I'm not too sure what they could add to the plot aside from the part at the very end. The only thing I can see coming from that anyway is a third game. ;D I'm excited for that.
 
What do you think of the co-op?

I haven't played it yet, but I watched the Yogscast play through it and it looked fun in most places, but frustrating in others.


Anybody play any custom maps?
People have uploaded some on thinkingwithportals.com.
I just tried a few tonight and from the ones I tried, all were pretty fun. Challenging, too. A few took me a good 40 minutes each.

The ones I tried were:
"CG-Oversized Test Chamber Storage Area Version2"
"Stairway to Turret Heaven 1.1"
"The Curious Conundrum"
"[SP] sp_destroyed"

If anyone else has the PC version, I recommend checking them out.
 
I actually started off with the co-op, as I had a friend coming over the day I bought Portal 2, and thought we could play it together and whatnot. It's really fun to play these things together, now that we all know that two brains are better than one. But you do have to agree with Erica, the multiplayer does seem bland, to the extent that it does seem like pointless testing. If there was some added element to it, like some sort of surprise half-way through it would be much better. :)
 
I haven't checked out any custom maps. I'll check out those ones you recommended, though. :D I was mostly just waiting for recs instead of going out and finding them myself. XD;
.Aero said:
And Lightning, ATLAS and P-body were created for testing. So it wasn't really pointless I guess. xD I'm not too sure what they could add to the plot aside from the part at the very end. The only thing I can see coming from that anyway is a third game. ;D I'm excited for that.
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I know they were created for the testing, but I guess...
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That's a good point Erica. Some of the plot in the multiplayer were just boring and lifeless. But yet again, I don't exactly think it's meant to be plot based, but just on testing these aperture science chambers and GLaDOS' jokes. :]

One thing I really do like about the games though is it's unpredictibility which comes with it.
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Well, I just figure if it was supposed to be mindless testing, why bother adding plot at all? D: They would have gotten by just fine with a teasing GLaDOS and numerous rooms. Then they could've taken advantage of DLC and whatnot to add more without worrying about breaking the plot. u_u; It just didn't fit as well. I'm fine with one or the other but mixing them weakly just disappointed me a bit.
 
I almost think it wouldn't work. It would be hard to give Chell another chance to see a lot use out of her ASHPD, especially entering into Half-Life's world proper. I almost wonder if she won't just end up as a character in the actual Half-Life series. One of the things I like about Portal is that holds up the suspension of disbelief very well, and dumping her into another labyrinthine series of portal-friendly test chambers at this point would feel very forced to me.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but there's that.
 
Alternative said:
That's very cool! I wish I had some gels to play with. What I really want is like, a big companion cube to play with and stuff. :) But anyway, I think we should have a new topic. :]
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Apparently the blue gel bounces, the orange gel is slippy and the white gel can conduct portals and is made out of moon rocks.

How do you think a third game in the Portal Series could play out in terms of plot?

To be honest? I'd like to see Aperture in it's 1940's days. Or mabye from Rattman's perspective before he went insane..
 
I request joinage of this FC for one of the best puzzle games!

I just love portal games because it takes a new view to puzzle games.....Using portals
 
Took me long enough, but ditto^

There is just something wonderfully magical, sad, and funny about this game which makes me want to play it over and over again. Haven't finished co-op just yet, but I will soon enough.
 
I want to SU because IM A POTATO.
Why do you love the Portal series? Because of the challenging puzzles and humor.
What is your favourite Portal obstacle? The turrets.HELLO.FRIEND.
How do you feel about the different gels? The gels?Make me go weeeeeee as i crush Lemons.I like em.
 
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