Portal

[Corkum]

Portal is freakin awesome. I played it until 2 last night when I should have been studying for my mid term today. I literally lost track of time, I was only going to play for 15 mins, two hours later i realized how late it was.

[kr1kit]

for those of you who have TF2 or are getting TF2, you can add me up on steam or xfire and we'll play somewhere.
For anyone whos in the north-west, i know acouple really great servers with amazing speeds.

[FPS[SONIC]]

I agree with Kr1Kit: Portal is a real blast and TF2 is my favorite new game (sucking up at least 2 hours a day).

The Orange Box is a real steal for anyone interested in great gaming. TF2 is $30 and Portal is $20. Or, you can get the Orange Box for $50 and get the Half-Life titles for free!

I'd love to play TF2 with you dudes. My Steam name is SonicPixel... and I'm a Pyro > Scout > Engineer.

[kr1kit]

Sonic you ever play on the [-Q-] servers? They're located in seattle and are some of the best around.

[nemes1s3000]

P and TF2 are addictive.

[kr1kit]

i can't get past level 15 in portal, its driving me insane!

Where you have to get through the 2 force fields while putting the energy ball into its cradle.

[looqas]

I got my net back on track and launched Portal. For some weirdest reason the Portal just stopped working after I had to allow a lot of HL2.exe traffic to go through. First time I could get into menus and started tweaking the options settings right and then came the firewall requests. The game crashed and after that it just crashed everytime I tried to lauch it. I'm not too worried though yet. Ep2 kept me company.

Now I'm happy that I have invested in some hw since the game is beautiful with max settings. The texture art is simply outstanding and shows how long way you can go if you just have them right. It's a first FPS game where I'm simply standing in one place and enjoying the scenery. Those vistas throughout the game (haven't fiinished it yet and looking forward for more) are absolute eye candy. Also I love the game's sense of self-irony

[looqas]

I got my first taste of portal and it's quite refreshing change of pace from normal FPS's. Especially in level 15 (or is it 16 where there are live sentry turrets) you can see some humorous writings in the wall

[looqas]

Yes, you can get it seperately.

Portal is a lot like candy, short and sweet.

I wouldn't call it too short. I haven't finished it but it really opens up when you "finish" the actual game Get's more challenging and interesting when you go rogue android. I honestly think Portal is very innovative and it's a relief to see that someone is still willing to invent things in game industry.








I especially love the cake gag with "recipe" embedded to code.

[kr1kit]

Those people at valve are getting smarter and smarter

[looqas]

Just beat it. The finishing credits are one of the "best" I've seen.

kr1kit: Still trouble with lvl 15? You can walk through those force fields. Shooting a portal through one is not possible. Just place one portal to energy ball route and enter the force field chamber and place the other one and voila.

You can also deflect (in a matter of fact you need to do so later on) and block (use as a shield) energy balls with a cube.

And later on you need to think on your feet too which brings more challenge.

[mafia_boy]

I havnt played TF or Portal yet but have been getting stuck into Half Life 2 @ the moment Absolutly wicked game so far! Took some screenies for you all;

and

finally

As you can see the game is up to its usual high standards!

[kr1kit]

pfff you're only that far? cmon now get playing!

[StoneCold313]

I looked from steam and Portal costs 19€... Im really thinking about buying it, but i really don't like the "virtual money" thingy... And do i need hl2 and all the other games installed?

[kr1kit]

you need HL2 installed to play TF2 or portal i believe. And virtual money is safe, i've bought quite afew games with steam and it's entirely secure, if you use paypal, it's even more secure.