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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
Those "challenges" sure felt like a tutorial.... Here have this gun now figure out how to open a portal... good... go to the next level, learn how to use momentum.  good.. repeat...  Only at near the end did it feel like I was actually playing a game and was enjoying it before it ended way too soon.  :blah:


Actually the gun would have worked a whole lot better in Prey where there already was a wacky environment.
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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
I own Prey but never finished it. :( It was a bit too boring. :p

 

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good stuff.  but i'm stuck at what i assume to be the very end, with the fan.
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good stuff.  but i'm stuck at what i assume to be the very end, with the fan.

Spoiler:
Look where you came from, and up.  I won't tell you how, but it's possible to get there.

Now the real game begins! ;)

 
Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
Hmmmm not sure if it's the same place I remember, the one with the fan on the bottom and a bright light at the top?

Spoiler:
You can shot through fans too just aim right  ;)
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i never even saw that >.< 

doh.  done now :)
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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
The 'figure out' stuff you described, that's the game.  It's a puzzle game.  If you don't like puzzle games, that's fine, but that's what it is, take it or leave it.  If you really like puzzles try the advanced chambers afterwards.
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i didn't even finish the first one before i ragequit :P
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 :wtf:
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I'll need to get this. I played the first few levels on my brother's machine a year ago, and liked what I saw.

If you liked Portal, The Ball and Prometheus are freeware games that are somewhat similar in concept (although The Ball is going commercial with its next version). They were originally UT3 mods but are now standalone games. I think a combination of all three of these would make the ultimate first-person puzzle game.

 

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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
I'm utterly astounded that so many of you are just playing the game for the first time now.  I'm a full five or six years behind the gaming curve, and even I managed to get the Orange Box a year or two ago. :p

 

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I would have gotten it when it came out if it was sold as a standalone title for $10-15, but I didn't care about the other orange box games and wasn't going to buy it just for Portal. The price has probably fallen since then, but I had mostly forgotten about the game until now.

 
Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
I don't care about the Orange Box since I'm not interested in TF2 or was interested in Portal before it was free, and I'm not buying the OB just for HL2 Ep. 2, which is why I bought the Episode Pack since I didn't have Ep. 1.
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I don't care about the Orange Box since I'm not interested in TF2

what

how

why

i don't

 

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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
What he said.

 
Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
I don't play online FPS games.  Is that simple enough for your blown minds to comprehend?
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17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

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I guesssss.

 

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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
Yes, as amazing as that seems, some people don't like online FPSing.

Still, the Orange Box is certainly one piece of software that is worth the money....
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Re: Portal on Steam for Free!!!
Nope, I stay away from online FPS as much as possible, in fact about the only online games i play are those simple facebook games.
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I wasn't interested in TF2 either. I got the orange box anyway for Portal and the HL2 games, and enjoyed them immensely.

Several months later, I decided to give TF2 a shot. Guess which one I've now sunk the most time into? :)