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[SpazCat]

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Portal 2.

is it any good?
like comparable, better or worse than the first?
because I personally found the first to be (way) too easy.

It's AMAZING! There are new elements to the puzzles and I love it. It's definitely better than the first. The first was awesome too, don't get me wrong. They really out-did themselves.

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Portal 2.
It's 3:50 a.m. I woke up early just for this.

what the hell time do you normally get up? it's 10 am here, and i'm still on my first pot of coffee

He gets up closer to 8 or 9 depending on when he works. Both of us stayed up until 1am last night to finish it. Tony finished before me around 11.
We both feel like crap today.

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Portal 2.
It's 3:50 a.m. I woke up early just for this.

is it any good?
like comparable, better or worse than the first?
because I personally found the first to be (way) too easy.

I don't think it was really meant to be all that hard. At least the campaign. Some of the challenge maps on Still Alive are ridiculous though.
I like it better.

Agree that the first one was rather easy. I was seriously surprised by how fast I got through it.
Portal 2 had me stumped a few times.

So if you haven't guessed yet I've been playing Portal 2. Finished it yesterday, and plan on re-playing it FOREVER!

[kspr]

for the next few minutes i'm playing 'provoke the redneck' on the Obama Facebook Townhall page.

[kspr]

A fun game called Eat Them. It's like king of the monsters meets cyborg justice. you win a cookie if you remember either of those games.

[Stars]

Finally started playing Okamiden. I'm not very far into it yet, but it looks good so far.

[SpazCat]

I was just playing Hide-and-Seek with Rose!

[Septerra]

dividing my time over several games.

- PC: Crysis 2
- PC: Portal 2
- Phone: random android games

[Hyperlisk]

STARCRAFT II! WEEE~ I don't know how I've waited so long to play this game. I've done my placement matches and unfortunately... I'm only Bronze level... High Bronze, as if that means anything. My goal is to go for Grandmaster League Also: YAY STARCRAFT II!

[SpazCat]

Just finished Portal 2 Co-Op.

[Vicious Parker]

/>Just finished Portal 2 Co-Op.

[toysintheattic]

Dead Rising 2. Pretty full of sandboxy-zombie fun. Incredibly disappointed that there's no local co-op, though. I hate this generation of video games. ;_;

[kspr]

Siren: Blood Curse. it's like a combination of the the two ps2 Siren games, but they re-arranged the chronology so it makes sense, and the characters aren't all japanese people with british accents. however, they are still using live action capture onto the character models. it's a really neat way to do faces and movements. the only problem i have with it is that 'survival horror' seems to mean 'barely visible character wandering around in a pitch black room' are dead space/left 4 dead like that at all?

[Donkeymog]

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Just finished Portal 2 Co-Op.

How is it?

I'm considering purchasing Portal 2 on steam just so I can have some co-op fun.

[Donkeymog]

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It's AMAZING! There are new elements to the puzzles and I love it. It's definitely better than the first.

Really? I thought it was alright. I don't think the new mechanics added much to the game and I thought the puzzle design was fairly sloppy and uninteresting compared to the first. I also thought the overall narrative was poorly paced and ultimately unrewarding.

Spoiler

Although the moon portal trick at the end did make me chuckle.

I was really upset by the cutscenes. Stephen Merchant really annoyed me, I thought his humour didn't really work with the atmosphere and that his voice-acting didn't suit the environment or the character. It was alright when I could just ignore him and focus on the puzzles but I didn't appreciate it when they interrupted puzzles to make me listen to him. Glados is still awesome.

It used to feel special when you managed to sneak out of a test chamber into a creepy backroom, but in Portal 2 they really overused it and by making such a spectacle out of the environment shattered a lot of the mystique and character of the original by turning it into a bad episode of Lost.

Still it's better than beating your head against your keyboard for amusement.

[Vicious Parker]

I might be crazy, but I find that one of the reasons that I enjoy the environments comes from thinking of Aperture Science as a character of its own.

[SpazCat]

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Just finished Portal 2 Co-Op.

How is it?

I'm considering purchasing Portal 2 on steam just so I can have some co-op fun.

I think is well worth playing. I wouldn't mind playing with you! Honest, I won't give anything away!

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It's AMAZING! There are new elements to the puzzles and I love it. It's definitely better than the first.

Really? I thought it was alright. I don't think the new mechanics added much to the game and I thought the puzzle design was fairly sloppy and uninteresting compared to the first. I also thought the overall narrative was poorly paced and ultimately unrewarding.

I tend to not look too deep into Portal 2. Mainly because I found the first one so awesome I just took this one at face value. Once I play through again I'll most likely start getting picky.

/>I was really upset by the cutscenes. Stephen Merchant really annoyed me, I thought his humour didn't really work with the atmosphere and that his voice-acting didn't suit the environment or the character. It was alright when I could just ignore him and focus on the puzzles but I didn't appreciate it when they interrupted puzzles to make me listen to him. Glados is still awesome.

It used to feel special when you managed to sneak out of a test chamber into a creepy backroom, but in Portal 2 they really overused it and by making such a spectacle out of the environment shattered a lot of the mystique and character of the original by turning it into a bad episode of Lost.

Still it's better than beating your head against your keyboard for amusement.

/>I might be crazy, but I find that one of the reasons that I enjoy the environments comes from thinking of Aperture Science as a character of its own.

This would be my response to the last chunk of your post, Bean.

[kspr]

it's official: the government says it, so it has to be true.

[Vicious Parker]

Based on his picture, I want to punch that article's writer in the face.

[SpazCat]

The thought of games as art never crossed my mind. Not that I wouldn't consider it, it just never occurred to me.

Currently playing: PvZ Game of the Year Addition.

[kspr]

/>Based on his picture, I want to punch that article's writer in the face.

you would probably like his main site. hopefully people won't argue about whether or not games are art as much anymore. Roger Ebert has no idea what he's talking about. i bet if you have him a gameboy with tetris, he wouldn't know what to make of it.