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[Axil]

I'd be up for some co-op, but i don't have a mic.

[Cecilff2]

Oh dear god, say it isn't so. 

No, please no.......

"You buy the product, you get the content ... We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers."

- Robin Walker, Valve Software. 2007

 

[NUKE9.13]

Most ridiculous boss fight.

[Jreengus]

What's with the Borealis's dock? It's massively far underground and nowhere near the coast!

[Thendash]

I beat it in one sitting but missed most of the secret stuff, so I'm going to go through again. If I turn commentary on can I still get achievements? I am up for some coop too, if you want add me on steam, I'm Thendash there as well.

[Metalax]

Just managed to finish the singleplayer. Overall very good with a lot of detail throughout.

Don't read spoilers before you have finished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

End movie is a mix of excellent and wtf?! GLaDOS deleting Caroline was fully expected and I'd have been disappointed if she hadn't done so.

As soon as she said she was letting you go and the elevator started I figured on three possible endings when the doors opened, first that you would find another long term relaxation chamber as you started in. Space! Second that you would actually reach the surface to find a desolate wasteland in the aftermath of the combine occupation as valve have said that it is set in the same universe. Third was doors open to an army of turrets and a fade to black with gunshots. The turret song was a big wtf?! moment though  .

I knew I'd seen a fat turret taking a lift before me early in the game, and spent most of the game wondering when I'd have to fight it, so it's appearance was nice. So much space! The king turret from one of the early aperture video walls was a nice touch as well.

The conclusion of the ending does kind of rule out Chell making a reasonable return in a portal 3 but we have the bots now, and yay! our original companion cube survived and is reunited with us!

Wheatley going mad with power as soon as he took over was obvious as soon as the potential came up but still done very well. His progress from stupidly simple tests to more and more imaginative ways to kill you was done really well. Culminating in him actually following some of the evil overlord guidelines for dealing with heroes in a fight. (starting the neurotoxin before going into his plan, using shields, booby trapping the self destruct button).

The original aperture labs section was excellent, particularly the narration by cave johnson and his slow descent from an optimistic and arrogant start at the setting up of the original labs to tired and sarcastic as the money starts to dry up and prestige fades to the bitter and angry dying old man. The levels had the most challenging sections of the game as there were so many areas outside of testing chambers that you had to navigate without much in the way of guides. I'm in space! Also a lot of backstory can be figured out in this section by reading all the posters and notices along with caves descriptions of the closed off tests.

Potatoed GLaDOS was fun with her commentary between tests and as her memories as Caroline started to return. Still never moved from being an enemy in my mind as she is simply too dangerous to drop your guard like that.

Still need to give co-op a go, but I think I'll wait a couple of days until I have a working microphone for that.

I beat it in one sitting but missed most of the secret stuff, so I'm going to go through again. If I turn commentary on can I still get achievements? I am up for some coop too, if you want add me on steam, I'm Thendash there as well.

Uncertain but previous source games have usually disabled or had problems awarding achievements when commentary was enabled, so most likely no.

edit: Just realised but I didn't see the usable suction tubes once in the singleplayer game. Did I manage to bypass the one area they are in or something?

[Tilla]

I actually don't mind the store. Idiots will pay for gestures/skins and give Valve money to make more games for me.

This.

I really don't give a fuck that there's a store and skins, I never bought anything for TF2 and I won't here. What I care about: a game with better gameplay, more content, and somehow even better writing than the first Portal.

[Frajic]

I'm seeing a bunch of rage about the robot enrichment around the net.

Valve is troll of the month

[dragonshardz]

Just realised but I didn't see the usable suction tubes once in the singleplayer game. Did I manage to bypass the one area they are in or something?

I think Pneumatic Diversity Vents are co-op only. Also, did anyone notice that during the single-player campaign, you don't encounter any of the levels that Valve used to demonstrate the gels and such?

[Magentawolf]

I've always been of the opinion that the TF2 gear is simply too expensive for what it is. I wouldn't be against it quite so much if they really were microtransactions.

Buying the complete set of Portal items costs twice as much as the game itself did. (Okay, so it's ~$35ish for the discounted bundle, but still, that's another full game!)

[Sowelu]

A used car that will get me from place to place, to the store, to work, even on roadtrips is not /that/ expensive.  So why does a Porsche cost so much?!  It's just a car!  It's clearly too expensive for what it is.   

[Thendash]

I also noticed a lack of missile turrets, and the power orb things(I guess those are replaced with "lasers"). Me and nuke played a bit of coop and it was pretty fun, Glados's commentary is quite comical at times especially when you let your partner die.

[Sowelu]

The lasers really are a nice improvement.  No more standing around waiting for an orb to slowly get where it's going, no more instant death.

[Metalax]

You get to see one of the orb emitters when you first run across lasers, look above where the laser gets installed, but yes, no active emitters.

[umiman]

Press space to say apple