Portal 2 on steam

On February 26 2011 18:48 Meta wrote:
Wow that's pretty expensive considering the price of the original (plus the two other games it came with).

I'll probably wait a few months to get it cheaper

On February 26 2011 18:48 Meta wrote:
Wow that's pretty expensive considering the price of the original (plus the two other games it came with).

I'll probably wait a few months to get it cheaper

On February 26 2011 19:25 McKTenor13 wrote:
The game is probably a lot larger and more indepth than the first one too

On February 26 2011 20:32 35spike1 wrote:
Steam always makes stuff ridicululously cheap within a month, I'm waiting for it. Super Meat Boy went as far as 75% off.

On February 26 2011 20:32 35spike1 wrote:
Steam always makes stuff ridicululously cheap within a month, I'm waiting for it. Super Meat Boy went as far as 75% off.

On February 26 2011 23:10 SaYyId wrote:
can someone gift me their copy of portal if they already have it?

On February 26 2011 22:30 SmoKim wrote:
Portal 2 is gonna be GOTY worthy, mark my words

On February 27 2011 06:17 Zeroes wrote:
When does it come out?

On February 26 2011 19:29 Clafou wrote:



Probably, but it's still a HL2 mod...

IMO, 45€ is too much money... I'm going to wait for a new huge steam sale and pick the game for 20€ :D

On February 27 2011 07:47 djcube wrote:
Bleh I can't really justify buying single player games for more than $20 anymore, so I guess I'll see you at next year's steam sale, Portal 2.

On February 27 2011 07:38 NicolBolas wrote:


I'm actual protesting Portal 2, because it's taking valuable development time away from HL2:Ep3 (come on, Valve. It was 3+ years ago, and ended on a cliffhanger! Get on it!). But calling it a HL2 mod, as though that fact in and of itself was derogatory, is just ignorant.

Listen to the Portal commentary. Making Portals work is a lot harder than it looks. They had to actually break some of the fundamental design constraints that most game engines are built around to even make it work. That's also why you haven't seen other games have portal-guns just to steal from it; because it's hard to do it right.

Team Fortress 2 is more of a mod of HL2 than Portal. And I'd take that game over any FPS released since the day it shipped hands down.

On February 26 2011 19:29 Clafou wrote:
Probably, but it's still a HL2 mod...

Portal 2 takes nothing away from hl2EP3 development, you can already see that EP3 will be on the improved engine portal 2 is on, also seperate teams

On February 28 2011 06:00 NicolBolas wrote:


I bet you also think that Ep3 was being developed for the last 3 years too. Please. Valve made two L4D games while working on Portal 2 and constantly throwing content to TF2.

Valve is not a particularly large company. If they hadn't made Portal 2, the time, money, and people that would have gone into Portal 2's development could have gone into Ep3's development. We could have been getting Episode 3 right now, but we're not. We're getting Portal 2 instead, because Portal somehow out-ranks Half-Life for development resources. Even though HL is the only reason Valve exists.

On February 27 2011 06:29 QuothTheRaven wrote:

April 18th

Can't wait!!!

On February 26 2011 18:50 aike wrote:


Yes but you must also remember that this one has more than twice the single player content + a lot of co-op content so it's like 3x the game the original was, and I'm sure there's a lot more complex puzzles. And a lot more voice acting! This one has a story!

I want to buy it, I would split the 2 pack with you, but I'm not sure how we'd do that?

On February 28 2011 08:38 Hugoboss21 wrote:


April 18th....valve time

thats why on steam they only put "April, 2011"

On February 28 2011 08:34 Dankmids wrote:


You have to remember, the voice actor for Breen died, no one knows outside of valve IF they needed him for ep3, maybe he had a big part in it and had to change a lot of the story of ep3 to do without him.

EP3 was not in development the last three years, probably very little and has been worked on a lot more for at least a year now.

But im a major valve die hard, i grew up on half life, so i dont care if ep3 isnt out for another year or two because it will be the last half life for a long long time.

On April 15 2011 06:18 maartendq wrote:

Breen died in HL2, so they don't need his voice actor anymore.

Either way, if you listened to the commentary included in the first L4D you'd know that the L4D team is not the same team working on HL2: EP1/2/3 or TF2.

To be honest, I'm kind of disappointed that it's taking them so long to finish EP3, and I'm kind of expecting them to already be working on HL3 instead. It's been five (or was it six?) years since EP1 came out, four years since EP2 came out and we've still got zero information on EP3.

On Portal 2: I won't be buying it any time soon. The first game was fun, but it didn't really "waw" me. It was a good addition to the Orange Box, but I'd have never bought it outside of that package.

The Valve-owned domain aperturescience.com tossed up a countdown whose timer expires at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT tomorrow. Rumors, abetted by Easter eggs, have hinted that the game is arriving a week ahead of its announced April 19 date. Hey, it's either that or Half Life 2: Episode 3.

On February 28 2011 08:40 emperorchampion wrote:
Going to wait until the next big Steam sale (Summer or Christmas I guess), when it is however much off.

Forever a student budget

On February 26 2011 20:25 bITt.mAN wrote:
Oh man if I had steam I'd get like 4 versions and share with all my friends.

We're all so damm hyped about it, it's awesome. Argh, watching the previews on my friend's computer in Physics class leads to some pretty mind-fuck discussions about the physics of it all though

On April 15 2011 13:16 Froadac wrote:
I just got gifted original portal by a great buddy of mine on TF2 Brother Cygnus. (Such a baller) I won't be getting Portal 2 until it's on sale (well, until I finish portal, which will probably be around the next big sale)

On April 15 2011 13:57 paper wrote:


lol wtf do you play on the Reddit TF2 servers? I (used to) play with Cygnus all the time ;o

On April 15 2011 14:06 Froadac wrote:

Hell yeah. I'm Hungry there :DD

Are you that paper? THE PAPER THAT RAGES ME

(Was HungryFroadac, just shortened it )

On April 15 2011 14:21 paper wrote:


Yeah, I'm paper + ლ(╹◡╹ლ) ... haha

Your name does sound familiar, but it might be just from seeing it in the forums... did I regularly commuicate with (read: rage at) you?

On February 28 2011 06:00 NicolBolas wrote:


I bet you also think that Ep3 was being developed for the last 3 years too. Please. Valve made two L4D games while working on Portal 2 and constantly throwing content to TF2.

Valve is not a particularly large company. If they hadn't made Portal 2, the time, money, and people that would have gone into Portal 2's development could have gone into Ep3's development. We could have been getting Episode 3 right now, but we're not. We're getting Portal 2 instead, because Portal somehow out-ranks Half-Life for development resources. Even though HL is the only reason Valve exists.

On April 15 2011 11:44 Fyodor wrote:

I guess you're not that into revolutionary gaming experiences? Portal was by far the best game in the Orange Box. Team Fortress 2 was pretty fun but Portal was pure genius and deserves more respect.

Don't get the me wrong. Portal 2 will be nice, good and all. But after Valve added those goddamned hats in TF2 it just destroyed the game experience. People doesn't even play the game anymore. They just keep trading and collecting that shit and the game is totally weird and colorful stuff you don't know nor care about.

On April 15 2011 17:30 Kishuu wrote:
Don't get the me wrong. Portal 2 will be nice, good and all. But after Valve added those goddamned hats in TF2 it just destroyed the game experience. People doesn't even play the game anymore. They just keep trading and collecting that shit and the game is totally weird and colorful stuff you don't know nor care about.

On April 15 2011 17:43 SlipperySnake wrote:


Wow, this is just so ridiculously wrong. Tf2 was so great exactly because they kept updating it for freaking free after it came out (for YEARS!). Anyone who ever played that game from competitive level all the way down to 32-man dustbowl only should know that it still is and was badass.

On April 15 2011 19:43 krbz wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
The Half Life series that you are so fanatical about, is highly connected to Portal. It is amazing to me that you love the game so much and yet know very little about the greater story line.
You should maybe look around a little bit and stop being so closed minded. There is plenty of information on the links between the two.

1. "Borealis": The Borealis is an Aperture Science research vessel introduced in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. According to Isaac Kleiner, Aperture was working on a promising project, but in their rush to beat Black Mesa for funding, they neglected ordinary safety rules and it appears that the ship simply disappeared with parts of her dry dock, which earned her an almost legendary stature. It is assumed that the Borealis contained an immensely powerful and dangerous secret.

2. Aperture Science(Portal) and Black Mesa(Half Life) continually fought for government contracts.

3. ....I wont list them all. Go look for your self as they are not hard to find.

They are not wasting time on this useless "stuff", and I'd suggest you don't blabber on about things you know little-to-nothing about.

On April 15 2011 19:43 krbz wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
The Half Life series that you are so fanatical about, is highly connected to Portal. It is amazing to me that you love the game so much and yet know very little about the greater story line.
You should maybe look around a little bit and stop being so closed minded. There is plenty of information on the links between the two.

1. "Borealis": The Borealis is an Aperture Science research vessel introduced in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. According to Isaac Kleiner, Aperture was working on a promising project, but in their rush to beat Black Mesa for funding, they neglected ordinary safety rules and it appears that the ship simply disappeared with parts of her dry dock, which earned her an almost legendary stature. It is assumed that the Borealis contained an immensely powerful and dangerous secret.

2. Aperture Science(Portal) and Black Mesa(Half Life) continually fought for government contracts.

3. ....I wont list them all. Go look for your self as they are not hard to find.

They are not wasting time on this useless "stuff", and I'd suggest you don't blabber on about things you know little-to-nothing about.

On April 15 2011 20:10 maartendq wrote:

I am fully aware of all these connections, having finished the original game and its episodes easily over 30 times. I prefer shooting bullets over shooting portals. It's kind of that simple.

On April 15 2011 20:37 how2TL wrote:


And some people really like Portal. And they're in this particular thread for some reason. And you're shitting on the game for a really bad reason. So go.

On April 15 2011 21:05 maartendq wrote:

How am I shitting on the game when the only two things I've said are that I don't find portal 1 a milestone of a game and that I'd rather have valve finish EP3 instead of working on their sideprojects?

On April 15 2011 20:30 Thereisnosaurus wrote:
for the people complaining about cost, if you preorder it it's 33% cheaper than any other triple a pc title around. More so for console. It's a full featured single player + seperate coop game, plus knowing valve they'll have factored in some surprises gameplay wise so you get way more than your money is worth.

For the people waiting till it gets cheaper, c'mon. Pirate all the overpriced EA bullshit you like, but when a developer tries to give you value for money, SUPPORT THEM, or you'll never see it catch on.

On April 15 2011 21:27 eviltomahawk wrote:

In addition, the PS3 version comes with a free copy of the PC version so that you can share the cross-platform co-op with your friends. Or enemies.

On April 15 2011 21:35 ArYeS wrote:
Arent both versions linked to same Steam account?

On April 15 2011 21:52 GreEny K wrote:
I still didn't finish the first game lol...

On April 15 2011 22:19 Seiniyta wrote:
2 hours and 42 minutes here, anyone from the US that goes there it's the same time remaining?

On April 15 2011 22:17 gray-fox wrote:
what's this guys

http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/

rumors say that the game is released in steam when the timer hits zero. We shall see in a moment.

On April 15 2011 22:17 gray-fox wrote:
what's this guys

http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/

rumors say that the game is released in steam when the timer hits zero. We shall see in a moment.

On April 15 2011 22:55 POiNTx wrote:


I searched around the internet and there are 3 speculations that could be true:

-The first is that indeed the game is released for PC when the timer stops.

-The second is that a demo is released (which would be awesome since I ordered the ps3 version, but personaly I think chances are low since the text mentions a final test)

-The third option is that a puzzle is released for the community to solve. Once solved, the game is either fully released on PC, or a demo is given.

On April 15 2011 23:17 Seiniyta wrote:
I'm more thinking the timer unlocks some kind of challenge a massive amount of people have to complete in order to unlock portal 2 earlier then it's initial launch date. That's what I get from seeing the text with the timer at least.

On April 15 2011 21:05 maartendq wrote:

How am I shitting on the game when the only two things I've said are that I don't find portal 1 a milestone of a game and that I'd rather have valve finish EP3 instead of working on their sideprojects?

On April 15 2011 23:47 Rakanishu2 wrote:


Portal was a market shattering success at the cost of $20.

I see tips of the hat everywhere to this game. I know you're allowed your opinion, but what you've provided is not an opinion, it's actually a claim, because I can disprove it.

You can't just label baseless drivel as "an opinion" when it's not an "opinion". The people who do this are never sure of themselves, and are leaving the counter argument "it's just my opinion" as a fall-back open to themselves. The smarter dudes see right through it. Bummer.

You could I say, "I didn't like portal"... that's an opinion. But to say "Portal is not a milestone and did not help shape a market", is a claim, and a wrong claim at that.

On April 16 2011 00:10 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
half life is just another fps single player adventure, much like playing halo or call of duty storys

On April 16 2011 00:10 Cyber_Cheese wrote:


I'd take portal over half life anyday, half life is just another fps single player adventure, much like playing halo or call of duty storys, but portal was an original and groundbreaking game (original since narbacular drop was a) free and b) made by the same team)
in this multiplayer day and age, half-life three cant live up to expectations, while portal 2 can

On April 16 2011 00:20 epik640x wrote:
Well, since we're on the subject, I've always thought half life was extremely overrated.

Never loved it myself, really.

More for those single player lovers.

On April 15 2011 23:47 Rakanishu2 wrote:


Portal was a market shattering success at the cost of $20.

I see tips of the hat everywhere to this game. I know you're allowed your opinion, but what you've provided is not an opinion, it's actually a claim, because I can disprove it.

You can't just label baseless drivel as "an opinion" when it's not an "opinion". The people who do this are never sure of themselves, and are leaving the counter argument "it's just my opinion" as a fall-back open to themselves. The smarter dudes see right through it. Bummer.

You could I say, "I didn't like portal"... that's an opinion. But to say "Portal is not a milestone and did not help shape a market", is a claim, and a wrong claim at that.

On April 16 2011 00:24 maartendq wrote:
Let me put it clearly: which mechanics did portal introduce to the world of gaming that other developers embraced and started using themselves? That's right: none. Hence why Portal is not a revolutionary game. Revolutions change things in the bigger picture. If there suddenly was a surge in the market of first person puzzle games I'd say yes, portal did something revolutionary and created a market, but it didn't. The only thing portal created was the path to Portal 2. A franchise does not equal a market. A market consists of multiple players competing for the hard-earned cash of the consumer. At the moment, however, only Valve creates first person puzzle games. There is literally no competition.

On April 16 2011 00:24 maartendq wrote:

Let me put it clearly: which mechanics did portal introduce to the world of gaming that other developers embraced and started using themselves? That's right: none. Hence why Portal is not a revolutionary game. Revolutions change things in the bigger picture. If there suddenly was a surge in the market of first person puzzle games I'd say yes, portal did something revolutionary and created a market, but it didn't. The only thing portal created was the path to Portal 2. A franchise does not equal a market. A market consists of multiple players competing for the hard-earned cash of the consumer. At the moment, however, only Valve creates first person puzzle games. There is literally no competition.

Portal is a fun game relying on fun portal mechanics, but it didn't break any sale records. It sold enough for Valve to give the green light for a successor, but I hardly call that market-shattering. If you want market-shattering, look at the Call of Duty series or World of Warcraft, franchises that literally sell millions upon millions of copies at launch.

Are you kidding me. Half-life was absolutely groundbreaking. Half-life is one of the milestones of FPS.

Terrible discussions in this thread; people throwing around baseless opinions. Let's keep it about Portal 2, yeah?

On April 16 2011 00:42 Seiniyta wrote:
Personally, I rate Metroid Prime 1 higher then Half-life 2 as my issue with Half-life 2 (which is still a good game) where the really annoying loading times, the rather shallow puzzles (simplistic physics based puzzles). I did like the game's storytelling.

On April 16 2011 00:22 Body_Shield wrote:

This opinion is acceptable, as it's not comparing Half-life to the single player campaigns in Halo of Call of Duty.

On April 16 2011 00:51 Cyber_Cheese wrote:


Half-life 1 and 2, primarily single player, remain played mostly in peoples minds over the years as flaws increasing get overlooked and slowly fade into memory, and continue to rack up competition like crysis
Portal accidentally got popular off the orange box, through mechanics previously unexplored in the large scale commercial market, and continues to have no large scale competition
Portal 2 now fulfills what continues to be a (significant) portion of the market, and would require much less polish to significant outshine all the other market games than the creation of a third half-life.
Realistically, valve should take as long as it possibly can to release the next half-life, because its going to need the extra development time

On April 16 2011 00:52 rootmvp wrote:
bought the game yesterday, amazing so far

On April 16 2011 00:58 tyr wrote:
2 minutes left in the countdown.
Is it going to be Portal 2 or another thing to solve for some obscure reason ? :D

On April 16 2011 01:05 zizou21 wrote:
"Buy more random shit and we'll release the game a few days earlier"

really valve? go fuck yourself

On April 16 2011 01:04 Torte de Lini wrote:
Do we have to buy all these games or play those games.

On April 16 2011 01:09 Wuffey wrote:
Blatant Ripoff in my opinion.

On April 16 2011 01:10 Torte de Lini wrote:
I just wonder how many people need to play a certain game before it is sufficient. I see 2,000 for KF and it's barely 3%.

Jesus.

On April 16 2011 01:12 starcraft911 wrote:
Steam is awful and I don't think i'll be buying anything on it.

On April 16 2011 01:05 zizou21 wrote:
"Buy more random shit and we'll release the game a few days earlier"

really valve? go fuck yourself

On April 16 2011 01:19 DisneylandSC wrote:
How sure are we that all we have to do is play the games? I noticed since a few days in killingfloor you can buy a potato for 70k pounds. Doesn't this have something to do with it? Although I would be surprised if so many potatos were sold, as getting together 70k is a hard effort even if the entire team is chipping in. Are there any details anywhere that explain a bit further?

edit: this is pretty awesome, I like valve : )

On April 16 2011 01:08 Durak wrote:


Here's what I think the deal is:

There needs to be a certain number of people simultaneously playing a game to complete an achievement. It looks like different games require different numbers of simultaneous players because "The wonderful end world" is more full than "audiosurf" with less players. Once we complete them all, Portal 2 will be unlocked!

On April 16 2011 02:23 Excalibur_Z wrote:


I don't think it's simultaneous, I think it's just a certain amount of time invested in man-hours that's based upon how many people bought the game. So, say TWEOTW needs maybe 500 total hours of playtime (whether you're actively playing the game or not) whereas Killing Floor needs maybe 5000 total hours of playtime.

On April 16 2011 02:27 Firebolt145 wrote:
So does this mean that when people complete this 'task' Portal 2 will release early worldwide, or will it release individually for those people?

On February 26 2011 18:48 Meta wrote:
Wow that's pretty expensive considering the price of the original (plus the two other games it came with).

I'll probably wait a few months to get it cheaper

On April 16 2011 02:30 Torte de Lini wrote:
It's playtime or people playing?

On April 16 2011 02:32 JackDino wrote:

Pretty expensive? 40 usd is about 27 euros, portal2 costs 45euros on steam if preordering it. 40usd is pretty damn cheap.

On April 16 2011 02:43 ballasdontcry wrote:
the marketing strategy is quite brilliant... valve loses nothing on this while bringing awareness to its other games.

On April 16 2011 02:43 ballasdontcry wrote:
the marketing strategy is quite brilliant... valve loses nothing on this while bringing awareness to its other games.

On April 16 2011 02:40 bmml wrote:


http://www.steamprices.com/eu/app/620/portal-2

EU got shafted again .

On April 16 2011 05:20 NukeTheBunnys wrote:
at the current rate portal 2 will unlock in 2.75 days, so we would be getting it a whole 6 hours early.

Hopefully the progress rate increases. I got the thing for super meat boy, but its the only game i own, so it will be staying on for the few days.