Amazing footage of Valve's 'Portal'

LookingFor

They announced it last week (part of Episode 2, for PC/PS3/360), but this is the first footage:

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/halflife2episode2/media.html?mode=trailers

One word: awesome! You must see this, the potential for gameplay scenarios is incredible.

projectmayhem

was just about to post this in the half life forum...

fantastic alright. source has never looked so sleek either!

Nick_oliveri

Ok, thats fairly deadly. Im playing prey at the moment. Similar stuff. But this looks way cooler. Portal FTW!

madrab

reminds me of the prey demo video from years ago

Fenster

I beat you to the post on the HL2 forum. I noticed some other effects in the video, most obviously the focus (look at he gun) and the lighting. Looks very awesome.

Wertz

holy f*ckin' sh*t.

Crucifix

Wow. Some bits almost look too crazy....almost.

mr_angry

That was pretty f***ing deadly alright. I liked the general robotic theme of the video too. Very funny.

jesus_thats_gre

Looks deadly

Q_Ball

jesus thats gre..at.....

sorry. i'll get my coat

Call Me Jimmy

I too like the look of it but, if it's a full single player game I could see it getting repetitive pretty quick. I take it it's the only weapon in de game jah?

Zombrex

Call Me Jimmy wrote:

I too like the look of it but, if it's a full single player game I could see it getting repetitive pretty quick. I take it it's the only weapon in de game jah?

I would imagine it will be like the gravity gun in HL2, very important to the game play in certain parts, but not the only thing going on

L31mr0d

lol that bit where he's chasing himself through the portals, reminds me of when I shot myself in the head in Prey through one of those things.

Pretty cool though, I like that they are putting a lot of effort into the gameplay and not just showing snazzy gfx. I mean most of those rooms had really basic detailing but the puzzles and obstables was got me interested. Taking your time to work out your way through a stage is much more enjoyable to me then just running through corridor after corridor blowing up zombines IMO

the_syco

Man. That looks f*cking ccol. My type of game, tbh.

Imagine a game of "tag", in that :cool:

Anima

Looks amazing, can't wait

Creamy Goodness

brilliant, absolutely brilliant. can't wait and it's not too far away.

i can see my computer melting even thinking about doing this

tba

the way he was jumping trough portals repositioning them then flying through the one he just left was crazy, made me vomit a bit.

Can you imagine the multiplayer madness this could spawn? Hardcore players would never stop moving!

GrumPy

That's some serious pwnage right there, amazing I'd say the frame rate would crash and burn in an online multiplayer game You'd need some serious pc I'd say.

jaggeh

not really IG
you can skimp on graphics if the gameplay is worthwhile and this looks like a blinding game. i cant wait to give it a run-around, its only available with episode 2 tho and after my "4 hour on hard journey" through episode 1 im not sure i want to shell out another score for E2.

RE*AC*TOR

Looks good alright - however, Prey got there first.

gizmo

Valve's implmentation of the Portal stuff is far better imo. Also, the only reason they did it was BECUASE Prey did it.

tba

ah god dammit, it appears to be a single player game only

Giblet

Faceless Man wrote:

Valve's implmentation of the Portal stuff is far better imo. Also, the only reason they did it was BECUASE Prey did it.

Look at the prey portal footage from 1998

gizmo

Hrm, can't remember that far back to be honest but I don't recall the portal tech being used in a weaponised form?

madrab

yeah there was orginally a portal weapon in the early prey demo

skywalker

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Looks good alright - however, Prey got there first.

Yep exactly what I thought.

tba

unfortunatly my PC is too crap to run Prey

projectmayhem

tf2 trailer

sort of still related to this topic

tba

/wees pants

monument

Down with that sort of thing.

tba

http://www.vgpro.com/file/10873_narbacular_drop.exe.html

the_syco

tba wrote:

http://www.vgpro.com/file/10873_narbacular_drop.exe.html

That game rules! Some of the bits are completely mind bending, and when you die sometimes, you have to figure where you are, where the ball came from, and how it hit you if you were in a different room:eek:

Class game, tbh. Hopefully Valve's game will be able to be edited with the SDK thing, and also that its longer than the above game.

Also, it'd seem that the makers of the above game helped create Portal http://ve3dboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=24368183

tba

Indeed they did, I think its a similar case to the DOD mod crew, that is they were brought into the VALVe team to work on this title

Jimi-Spandex

Nabacular Drop was quality. Such an incredible potential for complete mindphuck puzzles with the portal system. That demo looks insanely good. Cannot wait.

Oh and TF2!! Yes!

DonkeyRhubarb

I saw that a while ago alright. Wasnt sure for about a min, then thought, whoa, this could be really cool. Didnt know it was valve. If so, it should be available on Steam whenever its released. BRING IT ON!!!!