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Offline Ace

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The final battle was a bit too arcadey for my tastes. Oddly enough Ep 1 seemed to me to have better design in general, though the plot and environments of Ep 2 were better.

TF2 has good art direction but not really my sort of thing. Portal though... very well done. It'd be fun to do a "mage" sort of game with the Source engine. Gravity gun and portal spells as the only two weapons. Use the cinematic physics to make buildings and such destructable. A multiplayer game sort of like Magic Carpet:
Claim areas for mana which is used to fuel the spells.

Anyway just imagine uprooting a tree and tossing it at someone through a portal ;)

Ideally fluid physics and speedtree would be nice features. (opening a portal in a river and seeing it pour through)
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Offline BloodEagle

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A multiplayer game sort of like Magic Carpet:

I miss Bullfrog.  :(

 

Offline achtung

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I love thinking with portals.

Oh, and  THE CAKE IS A LIE.
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Offline colecampbell666

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I love thinking with portals.

Oh, and  THE CAKE IS A LIE.
:wtf:

I still haven't received mine yet.
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.

 

Offline Ashrak

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THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE_______
I hate My signature!

 

Offline Cyker

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I take it I still need Steam to play this? :(

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Nope. Not if you buy it from a store.
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.

  

Offline Unknown Target

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Incorrect, you still do need Steam to play it, you just don't need Steam to buy it (you can buy it from a store, but if you install it on your computer Steam will be installed with it).

 

Offline Cyker

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Piracy then... :(

 

Offline Unknown Target

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Can't, Steam is required to run the game, it's heavily built into the game's architecture.

Also, HLP does note condone the discussion of piracy (obligatory anti-piracy remark). :p

 
too bad it's $50...  I don't particularly have that laying around these days :(
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky!

 

Offline redsniper

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Also, HLP does note condone the discussion of links to piracy
;)
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Offline Unknown Target

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Ah, my bad :p

 

Offline colecampbell666

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THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE
THE CAKE IS A LIE_______
I get it now!

It's true:

The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie               
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.

 

Offline phreak

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THE CAKE IS FOR REAL!!!1
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Any chance they'll break it apart after some time?  I've heard good things about portal, but HL2 bored me to the point where I couldn't finish it, so I'm unwilling to spend any money on it.

 

Offline Mefustae

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Why the **** does Australia get the ****ing Orange Box one ****ing week later than the rest of the ****ing world!? It's not ****ing fair! ****!!

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Any chance they'll break it apart after some time?  I've heard good things about portal, but HL2 bored me to the point where I couldn't finish it, so I'm unwilling to spend any money on it.
You can buy them separate from Steam.
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.

 
Speaking of Portal, Rooster Teeth just put out a HILARIOUS comic about it:


Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky!

 

Offline Stealth

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too bad it's $50...  I don't particularly have that laying around these days :(

do you have half life 2?
if not, give me your steam ID or email address... i have the game, along with counterstrike source, as 'gifts', and i'll send them to you :) :) :)