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