Portal 2 Announced

[KaOTiK]

From Steam:

"Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com "

 

[F1N3ST]

Epic fucking win.

 

[vshah]

sweet...can't wait!

 

[McWatt]

This is a triumph.

 

[Ika]

Seeing as how Portal 1 was more like an epic tech demo of the portal gun, I wonder what this one will be about...

 

[zagood]

Cover reveal:
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/05/april-cover-revealed.aspx

ARG (still ongoing) leading up to it:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2055086

Updates through GameInformer, starting the 8th, updated every two days:
http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

 

[Highmodulus]

I just assumed the party position!

 

[Maximilian]

Sweeeeeeeet!

 

[Kalmah]

I never understood the hype for this game. I only played it for about 30 minutes though. Does a story actually evolve out of it or is it puzzle after puzzle?

 

[tviceman]

I never understood the hype for this game. I only played it for about 30 minutes though. Does a story actually evolve out of it or is it puzzle after puzzle?

Yes and it's both subtle and head on. My first entire play through portal was probably the best 3-4 hours of gaming I've ever experienced.

I'm curious to see head to head screen shots and game play videos to see what improvements have been made to the source engine for this game.

 

[thraashman]

This is a triumph.

I'm making a note here. Huge success.

 

[Jjoshua2]

Its hard to overstate my saaaatisfaction! I thought that might happen w/ the recent portal 1 update and epic story about that.

 

[ussfletcher]

No HL2: Ep. 3?

 

[Danube]

I never understood the hype for this game. I only played it for about 30 minutes though. Does a story actually evolve out of it or is it puzzle after puzzle?

I never got portal either and I'm partial to Valve games. That gals voice was like a sleeping pill. I want more HL.

 

[Demo24]

Ok, so I wonder if there is any significance to the underlined letters in the news release here:http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/ ?

"draetmanni0inee" is what I copied down, but can't make any sense from it.

 

[simonizor]

Fucking lame. Sure, portal was a great game, but we all want to see some progression in the HL story! With all of these other Valve releases and no talk at all about HL, HL is starting to seem like Valve put it on the back burner until they get their quick cash games out of the way.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

No HL2: Ep. 3?

considering all the teasing Easter eggs between HL2:ep2 (mentions an Aperture Science research ship) and Portal (mentions Black Mesa as a rival government contractor), we very well may see the two tied together

 

[zagood]

Ok, so I wonder if there is any significance to the underlined letters in the news release here:http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/ ?

"draetmanni0inee" is what I copied down, but can't make any sense from it.

ARG information resource:
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=904084

 

[Dumac]

Portal 2 is awesome and all, but where is Episode 3??

 

[bunnyfubbles]

They're going to wait and surprise us with announcements of TF3, Ep3, and the Orange Box 2.

 

[thraashman]

I want an Opposing Force 2. Or some game where you get to play the character from Opposing Force.

 

[Qbah]

YES!!! And it looks like it's not a prequel !! I hate prequels... What's the point of them, if you already know how the story will end?

Now, all they have to do is announce that P2 will come bundled together with HL2:EP3 and some other goodies aka Orange Box II and it will be beyond epic! It will be legendary!

The way Portal 2 was announced, with the audio files leading to ASCII messages and a progress bar read through a modem can very well be the most epic way of announcing your game, ever

 

[Demo24]

ARG information resource:
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=904084

ah, cool! Should be an interesting next few days!

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

I really hope this is a PC exclusive that is running on a new engine.

 

[thraashman]

I really hope this is a PC exclusive that is running on a new engine.

They'd never make it a PC exclusive. Console games sell significantly better than PC games nowadays. Making it PC exclusive would be intentionally losing money.