Portal - Introduction

cool.

Different

That actually looks really quite entertaining! I hope they go for more of a puzzley aspect than a straight combat game.

Shame the Depth of field and motion blur effects don't work in real time.

that has to be the coolest thing you can do in a game ever!

That looks amazing! Whether it holds up as an actual game is another matter, but it's a fantastic idea :)

Shame the Depth of field and motion blur effects don't work in real time.

Any reason why they couldn't? This is being developed for next generation consoles after all.

On the Steam forums, they are talking about that jack, and it seems that the post processing takes about 2 seconds per frame at the current hardware level. So they made this demo then added the post processing routines, saved each outputted image and created this video!

So until graphic cards get a little more advanced (or they optimise the code), we won't be getting these effects in real-real-time anytime soon ;)

I liked the way I got the prey advert before watching this.

Way to pwn an advert.

"under the most in-tense-pain"

lol!

Looks very cool, I wonder if it has anything to do with Valve snapping up the team who made Narbacular Drop? The gameplay shown in the video looks essentially identical to that game.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Valve snapping up the team who made Narbacular Drop?

Almost certainly.

guess how long they will delay it now because of this

Genius presentation. :)

That looks fantastic. The possibilities are mind boggling.

Valve Corporation is releasing a professionally-developed semi-sequel to Narbacular Drop entitled Portal. It is expected to be released Fall 2006, bundled with Half-Life 2: Episode Two, for PC. Some or all of the original Drop team are now employed at Valve.

It has been confirmed that Portal is to be set within the Half-Life universe, though how it will tie in with Half-Life history is at this point entirely unclear.

Taken from Wikipedia "Narbacular Drop"

I feel a little dizzy...

But very excited.

Other games may have tried physics first, Half Life 2 was the first to actually let the user play with the physics in a very direct way.
Prey has the portals, but the source engine gives them to the user to control and play with.
Source beats Doom 3 engine because it lets you play, I guess?

You know, this would make for an excellent puzzle shooter. Or maybe even a pure puzzler?

Hurry the fuck up valve.

just brilliant

Will obviously be great, but I'm just hoping it doesn't get too repetitive.

At least it's not a full-price game. It's being bundled with HL2 ep 2, isn't it?

My mind hurts. THis looks cool.

Heh, paused the vid to read some of the text:

"Jumping from high ledges without anticipation of fatal impact is commonly known to be an unwise activity and is not recommended by the legal team Arperture, Inc.

looks good

Cant wait to get a go on this ! Crazy!

I love this video, every time I see it it brings a big cheesy smile to my face :)