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| 23 OCT 2007 at 6:08am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | I'm still waiting on my cake.
Portal is a superb little game. Nice little puzzles with a hilarious script.
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| 23 OCT 2007 at 2:51pm |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I plan on playing it through a second time to listen to the developer commentary, and then I'll try and work on the advanced challenges. Apparently some of them are much tougher than the ones in the main game.
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| 23 OCT 2007 at 6:18pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | There's dialog? This is the Orange Box Portal right?
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| 23 OCT 2007 at 6:23pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (23 OCT 2007 6:18pm)
There's dialog? This is the Orange Box Portal right?
Yes it's from "the Orange Box"
There is a womans voice that talks to you throughout the game leading you through the levels etc.
Even the gun turrets talk to you (actually they apologise for shooting you) and if you are incredibly lucky your weighted companion cube will talk to you. (I euphanised mine :'()
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 4:46pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Well, if it were anything other than Steam Powered I'd shell out the cash. They have a nasty habit of ignoring technical support requests once they've got your money
Great series, lousy support.
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 5:45pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (24 OCT 2007 4:46pm)
Well, if it were anything other than Steam Powered I'd shell out the cash. They have a nasty habit of ignoring technical support requests once they've got your money
Great series, lousy support.
I got the 360 version. No steam issues.
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 7:45pm |
MrLipidPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (24 OCT 2007 4:46pm)
Well, if it were anything other than Steam Powered I'd shell out the cash.
You wouldn't be shunning it just because of Steam, would you?
I'll take Steam over other forms of copy control any day of the week.
For what it's worth, I've had technical problems with a Steam game and, while they were a tad slow about it, they did eventually refund my purchase price. (The technical problem was inherent to the game's code and had nothing to do with Steam.)
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 9:47pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MrLipid (24 OCT 2007 7:44pm)
Originally Posted By InlandAZ (24 OCT 2007 4:46pm)
Well, if it were anything other than Steam Powered I'd shell out the cash.
You wouldn't be shunning it just because of Steam, would you?
I'll take Steam over other forms of copy control any day of the week.
For what it's worth, I've had technical problems with a Steam game and, while they were a tad slow about it, they did eventually refund my purchase price. (The technical problem was inherent to the game's code and had nothing to do with Steam.)
Guilty :
I do enjoy the series - it's just that I found their technical support a bit lacking (actually it's was non existent). I eventually resolved the issue myself, but you've raised my interest - how did you manage to get a response? Email doesn't seem to get their attention.
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 10:14pm |
MrLipidPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | I went through the tech support pages.
Steam bounced me to the publisher and the publisher bounced me to the developer and the developer bounced me to the game engine vendor. The game engine vendor couldn't be bothered. So I went back to the beginning and made a pest of myself. And got a refund.
The game engine, by the way, is Torque. Useless. Does not work on newer GeForce cards.
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 10:32pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | You did better than I did then - I couldn't get a response at all.
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| 24 OCT 2007 at 10:47pm |
MrLipidPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | When necessary, I can be more persistent than gravity.
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| 25 OCT 2007 at 4:10am |
Joe_MolotovSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | Portal was a great game. I loved it. Haven't had any problems with Steam either, I've even bought a few adventure games on it (Safecracker and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened).
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| 25 OCT 2007 at 5:51am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Joe_Molotov (25 OCT 2007 4:09am)
Portal was a great game. I loved it. Haven't had any problems with Steam either, I've even bought a few adventure games on it (Safecracker and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened).
I didn't have any issues with them either - until I bought Sin Emergence... and got zip, nada, no responses when the game failed to start. Having an issue is one thing - failing to respond to a request for help is another (especially if it's a brand new game).
I'm a fairly big Half-Life fan, I'm sure I'll bend to the pressure. :
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| 25 OCT 2007 at 1:02pm |
AkhillesPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | My only issue with Steam is the speed (sometimes it's slow starting a game).
My BIG issue with it... I purchased Half Life2 when it first came out, rushed home to play, installed it (into Steam? ok whatever).
I waited like 4 hours for it to authenticate to Steam so I could play the game I just purchased at the store.
What?
Not kidding. And every time I played it afterwards it had to call home and make sure I bought it? There was word going around on the forums if you connected to Steam then disconnected and stood on your head with a banana in your ear... you could force Steam to stop that non-sense (besides I had no intention of playing multiplayer anyway).
I haven't thought much about buying Episode 2. I thought since I bought a $79USD+ gold version when it came out I was entitled to Episode 2 et al. I guess not.
If I did get it, I think the 360 version looks far more attractive -- Steam-less.
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| 28 OCT 2007 at 8:33pm |
MelboIntergalactic Janitor
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Location: US
Status : Offline | As the first female to reply in this thread this should add to the game's credibili...just joking around. Hey come on just a lighthearted note there. I've played and replayed HL2 and watched videos of Portal. I came by to read this to help me decide if I'll buy the Orange Box.
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| 4 NOV 2007 at 4:05pm |
seek83Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 4
Joined: 12 AUG 2005
Status : Online | Played thru it a few times; amazing game. First ending sequence (and ending credits ;p ) that has blown me away in a long time. Currently toiling with the advance maps and challenges ><
Fun fact: Mike Patton is the voice of the 'angry ball thingy' in the end bit Its only him going awehhaeehaaaarraeawwww but still funny
P.S -
Steam seems a pretty contentious 'issue' for gamers. IMO it's the best way of getting games and has been completely reliable since release - speed and uptime wise; except for having to wait half a day for Bioshock to validate :/ I like my games just updating themselves, and if you have fast internet I don't see why you wouldn't want to be able to play your game midnight, the second it releases ;p
I agree with the lack of direct support - however, with a community forums as healthy as Steampowered have never long had a problem and haven't needed to await an answer from Valve.
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| 7 NOV 2007 at 6:45am |
MagoozelleIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 22
Joined: 7 NOV 2007
Status : Online | I played Portal and I loved it. Is it a contender to be in my "All Time Favorites"? Maybe. I need to give it some time to process in my brain and play through it again. Is it better than The Curse of Monkey Island? Psychonauts? Definitely not.
But as for Steam, I have a TON of games that are now available on Steam that I cannot register with Steam since I originally purchased the boxed copy and since Steam didn't get any of the profits then I cannot link them to Steam, which irks me. Safecracker, Titan Quest, Warhammer 40K, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Psychonauts, the list goes on and on.
I am the type of person who likes to see the box on my shelf, if possible. I love to read game manuals (the Guild Wars ones are superb) and look at the artwork. I also like the "hunt" of finding the box copy, so that's why I only have Steam for Valve games... because well, you have to, no choice.
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