L.G.C. |Reviews| — Portal 2 (Beta) [beta]

This week your intrepid heroes feel up GLaDOS, play with portals, and search for the FK mothering cake.


 Scale:

– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies


Game: Portal 2

Webzone: www.thinkwithportals.com

Devel: Valve

Engine: Source

Price: $19.99/€14.99

Wazzat: Its fucking Portal… 2


Makes with the working

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  • Had a few spite crashes but nothing major.

  • Don’t like joining the beta for a beta ..beta
  • Spinning-top-inception.jpg

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  • Works pretty well for a beta

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  • Holy fuckballs, Batman! I remember how choppy and unplayable the first one is was…


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Shiny / Sounds

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  • Portal 1 still makes /w some herky jerk. Not this business.

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  • Can’t have anti-aliasing, but that’s because of Mesa 9.2.


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Control

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J-

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  • Mouse Accel is disabled by default and it remembered my keyboard bindings from 3 years ago.


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FUN?

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  • Is it fun? Yes! Is it as fun the first one was? Personally, I don’t think so.

  • Portal, the first one, is a puzzle game with a completely optional story. You could play through the entire game without paying the slightest of heed to whatever GladOS was spouting.

  • Portal 2 on the other hand is a narrative driven game with puzzle sections. It’s also pretty obvious the puzzle and story progression sections are separate things. Something which I feel breaks my immersion a little too often.

  • From a technical point of view, Portal 2 (even in its Beta state) works better in Linux than Portal 1. Which, effectively, makes Portal 2 more fun to play than the first. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to get the much coveted fourth chair.


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