Comments on: Bullet Points: Portal 2, Part 2 (Spoiler-Free)

By: pauloman9000

pauloman9000 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:18:38 +0000

In reply to pauloman9000. BTW, if that Slayer fan happens to read this blog... take some anger management classes, dude. Seriously. It's a game.

By: pauloman9000

pauloman9000 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:14:54 +0000

Tell you what, there’s definitely something to starting out in co-op with a friend who’s never done it, but especially with a *friend*. I game at very different times from most other gamers, so finding an available buddy can be tough. I decided to try the “Find a Partner Online” option (social gaming networking tool or escort service ad??), and ended up with someone whose avatar image was a picture of some guy’s back with the band name Slayer carved in it by a knife. That should have been my first clue. I’ll leave the experience at that. After being booted by his logging out of the server in frustration at the slowness of my attempts at identifying where the heck we were and what I was supposed to do as a part of this *TEAM*, I finally got into a game with a long-time gaming buddy who was also a co-op first-timer. Hilarity ensued. Can’t wait to go back for more, as long as it’s with a friend.

By: verendus

verendus — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:13:31 +0000

Anyone care to guess at what this game’s most quoted meme will be? My money’s on something from the Lemon Rant.

By: Drake

Drake — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:10:41 +0000

I was really worried going in that this one wouldn’t be as funny as the first one. I was giggling right off the bat, and I thought “Surely, it can’t get any funnier” and then it did. Incredible writing on Valves part.

I had a brief bug where the game wouldn’t run off of my portable hard drive. This has apparently affected a lot of people and it made me very upset. Reinstalling steam to my actual C: drive fixed it, and was well worth the wait.

As for Co-op, the universal opinion (which I agree with) is for your first time, play with someone else who is new to it. It means each new puzzle leaves both of you going “how the hell…uhh…why don’t I try…THIS! No that didn’t work. Dammit”. I honestly don’t know if co-op would have been half as much fun if we knew what we were doing. Oh, and the writing in multiplayer is as good, almost better then the writing in single player, so that’s a rather huge plus.

By: Joe H

Joe H — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:58:37 +0000

The writing in this is amazing, right from the start. I love the bit where you meet Steven Merchant’s character for the first time and he tries to teach you the movement controls. I laughed out loud after it told you to press space :D

By: Pulviriza

Pulviriza — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:23:57 +0000

I already got my refund for the stuttering, never buying a valve product again.

By: Skippy

Skippy — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:45:10 +0000

Commentary is extremely disappointing, they start out with three nodes in a room, but then the rest of the levels either have one or none. Nowhere near as much content as the original, which is a shame because they’re always really interesting.

By: Mythos

Mythos — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:31:37 +0000

Completely unrelated to Portal 2, but related to your thoughts about your cat:

Cats seem to have an unnatural, eerie instinct to ruin our plans and good moments. I swear, sometimes I think we should be mortal enemies, not companions.
But, then again, I think the same of GLaDOS.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:23:01 +0000

In reply to Gemmy. Definitely looking forward to co-op later this week. And I want to go through again for the dev commentary.

By: Gemmy

Gemmy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:41:16 +0000

You HAVE to try the co-op. It was awesome and fun and just the right level of difficulty. Bonus: you get to have GlaDOS insult you over and over for being fat and stupid! :)