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Author Topic: Portal's free, go get it.  (Read 3379 times)

dudemauler

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Portal's free, go get it.
« on: May 13, 2010, 11:31:07 pm »

Get your copy before May 24th.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
Do it.
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2010, 01:09:22 am »

Im proud to have paid for this game.

ID PAY AGAIN DAMNIT
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2010, 01:14:24 am »

portholez is poo becuz it has no moral choicez or characters that you can has divergant conversashuns with.

AND NOT ENUFF GUNZ
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2010, 01:29:39 am »

portholez is poo becuz it has no moral choicez or characters that you can has divergant conversashuns with.

AND NOT ENUFF GUNZ

You better be trolling motherfucker.
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2010, 02:07:14 am »

HOW DID I NOT HEAR OF THIS BEFORE NOW!?

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They shall all soon commit obsideppuku.

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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2010, 04:56:18 am »

portholez is poo becuz it has no moral choicez or characters that you can has divergant conversashuns with.

AND NOT ENUFF GUNZ

You better be trolling motherfucker.

This is obvious.
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2010, 07:58:46 am »

But really though, anyone who doesn't have orange box by now is pretty much living under a rock and/or truely cannot call themselves gamers. $30, and comes with portal, TF2, and HL2 (all 3 released parts).
« Last Edit: May 14, 2010, 08:01:41 am by alway »
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2010, 08:47:30 am »

<comes out from under his rock>

Hey, free Portal!

I downloaded it yesterday and spent about four very enjoyable hours beating it. GLaDOS is now in my top 10 list of Best Game Villains. She's like SHODAN's somewhat ditzier sister.

The one thing I quibble with:
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2010, 08:58:04 am »

The one thing I quibble with:
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Most of the meme comes from the wall drawings and extrapolating from there XD
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2010, 09:00:46 am »

Yeah I think the joke was that GladOS expected you to develop an attachment, and its kinda silly, then you see the 'hidden' room and realize someone did in fact love the cube.

Still, best line ever. "If the companion cube does talk, we urge you to disregard its advice."
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2010, 09:07:08 am »

You shouldn't trust silly internet memes. :)

The whole "companion cube" nonsense was only started because playtesters ignored the box if the game did not constantly talk about it. Like, didn't think to deflect the energy pellets with it. So, they put a little heart on its side, had GLaDOS speak of it as if it were a character. And to make GLaDOS seem more like a dick, had her order you to kill it, as if it were a character. It wasn't as if they could just let you keep the box. Many puzzles hinge on not having a box. There are emancipation fields around for that very purpose. Anyway, since the box was one of the three characters in the game, not counting the rat man, it developed a sizable fanclub.

I felt a bit anxious about "euthanizing" the companion cube, because GLaDOS kept harping about how it's perfectly fine for me to do that. "An independent panel of ethicists has absolved you of all responsibility" and all that.  :)
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2010, 08:45:25 pm »

Thanks for this tidbit of information.  I am happily playing now.
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2010, 08:57:34 pm »

I was more sad about killing GlaDOS than the cube.  After it was over I wanted to caress her plastic outer casing, and tell her I was sorry and that I loved her.
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2010, 10:39:50 pm »

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« Last Edit: May 14, 2010, 11:18:18 pm by DarthCloakedDwarf »
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Re: Portal's free, go get it.
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2010, 10:55:16 pm »

God fucking damnit!

Use spoilers!
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