Use your Portal gun in HL2 Comments by Robert Purchese
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The portal gun opens up level design potential to a whole new level.
While Portal was great, I think the idea of portal is greater - a lot of still untapped potential. However, the portal gun does make the traditional idea of route-finding puzzle solving (found in abundance in HL2) somewhat moot; unless, of course, you resrict the surfaces that the portal can be fired upon by a significant amount; something which I found rather disappointing in the portal game for real. I still have yet to go back to portal and play the harder modes - maybe they will yeild interesting results, but the implementation of the portal gun in "Portal" I think has only just scrached the surface of the actual concept of portals. |
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GamesConnoisseur
22/10/07 @ 09:50
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Portal is a bloody brilliant game in where there are basically no usual shootings!
Very creative and at a time where one would expect there can be no real new things with FPS aside from new weapons, better AI, level design, gfx and USP feature (select: temporal control, deformation, two weapons limitation, recharging shield etc etc). Though I believe that the simple console hacking to get portal weapon into HL2 would only be possible on PC and not the consoles version. |
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the_dudefather
22/10/07 @ 10:06
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would love to see a multiplayer game of CS:S with the portal gun, shortcuts back to base with hostages, sniping around corners or setting a portal under an enemy that dumps them on thew other side of the map
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"So is Gordon going to get the gun in episode 3? "
The idea of having Portal a separate storyline was that they felt that the portal gun would be too powerful a weapon in the hands of Freeman. I think Valve felt it would break the game - having tried it in HL2, I'd be inclined to agree. However, given how popular the portal gun's turned out to be, I wouldn't be surprised if it made an appearance in Ep3. |
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barnard666
22/10/07 @ 12:57
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"Portal........Best.........Game..........Ever........ "
I agree...also I dont think a 3 hour game feels that bad, I'd be happy to have many more such products if they were this good. |
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I have to say this but..
this portal patent was first used in Prey... for those who cant remember. Ofc not witha "gun" like in Portal and sourcecode but it was the same thing if you come to think about it. You know.. shooting through it.. seeingyour back since first lvl already passing through them etc... Just wanted to remind it. Portal is briliant though.Agree. |
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