Valve Announces Portal 2 189
eldavojohn writes "Enough rumors, Portal 2 is due out for 2010. Valve also let users know through an announcement on Steam. Game Informer seems to be the de facto provider of Portal 2 information so far. Prepare yourselves for more aperture science! Notice anything funny about the underlined letters in Steam's announcement?"
Re:Underlined letters? (Score:2, Insightful)
It's a new user/pass for the BBS of the ARG.
Re:Never understood this game (Score:5, Insightful)
Did you play with sound enabled?
Re:Mac support? (Score:3, Insightful)
If Valve were to port the Orange Box or Portal 2 to Mac, they would have the installed base of practically every Mac sold since (let's see ... ) October 2008 capable of playing the game, with the Geforce 9400M being poor by modern standards but good enough for Source. That's a lot of computers that are otherwise starved for decent games. I can think of worse business decisions.
Re:Still no HL2: Episode 3? (Score:5, Insightful)
(....)
Re:The Flash Version Mappack (Score:3, Insightful)
Prelude is nowhere near as fun/polished as TFV. There are bits of dialog that make me wonder if the creators were paying attention AT ALL when they played Portal themselves (so many things in Prelude don't make sense). I'm trying very hard not to come out and say that Prelude was intelligence-insultingly dumb, but there it is.
However, it was quite challenging, and if THAT is what you're looking for, Prelude has it in abundance.
But of the two, I highly HIGHLY recommend TFV, and I will outright DISrecommend Prelude. Prelude was way hyped when it came out and was a terrible disappointment. And, not that it has a bearing on quality, but TFV has a comparatively tiny download (as it mostly reuses the resources in Portal and HL2). 40 megs, vs the 20-times-larger 800+ meg Prelude.
(I may perhaps be a little bitter regarding Prelude, as I was really looking forward to its release. And I will say that it is maybe a bit better than a lot of the stand-alone fan maps. But Portal and TFV were so, SO much better.)
TL;DR
Prelude = a challenge; TFV = a fun game