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| consolitis wrote: | http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-portal2-face-off
PS3 version uses MLAA instead of a generic blur filter on the 360 which is why it looks so much better.
About the PC version:
| Quote: | While there have been some complaints about the PC version being a console port, it's worth pointing out that the basic concept of the game itself is universal - this isn't a game that requires a stupendous, state-of-the-art computer.
There are some refinements over the console builds over and above the higher performance level and the ability to switch up to resolutions well in excess of the locked 720p found on PS3 and 360. For example, some textures benefit from higher quality artwork, lighting is quite often more refined and there are some enhanced shader effects here and there. The only thing missing from the PC game that is found in the console releases is the split-screen co-op mode - multiplayer is online-only here.
Quite why a vocal minority of the PC audience has turned on the game is a bit mystifying. It is clearly better than most of the cross-platform releases out there, and it's not as if the audience had to wait three to six months for it to appear either. Mention of not turning off your console in the PC game has raised the ire of some, but this is most likely a simple string table bug that really should have been picked up by QA, but wasn't.
The various arguments about the "day one DLC" may seem equally ludicrous bearing in mind that we're talking about co-op costumes that have absolutely zero effect on the gameplay. However, perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here - the kind of marketing campaigns used in the console market perhaps hold little appeal to the PC audience.
In conclusion, Oli scored Portal 2 as a 10/10 PC game in the Eurogamer review, and I doubt he'd mark down the Xbox 360 version since it is unarguably the same core game. That said, it's tangibly the weakest of the three different releases we've looked at here.
With the other two SKUs, what we're seeing are levels of refinement added to what is already a simply stunning game. The PC version has some superior lighting and effects work, and improved textures, but being able to run the game at higher resolutions and frame-rates does add significantly to the experience - with the faster update, the physics in particular stand out as being more realistic, pleasing and believable, and this is a core element of the Portal 2 experience. PC also features 3D Vision support: it's a bit buggy at the moment (NVIDIA tells us an upcoming driver revision will fix these issues), but 3D actually works for this game with depth perception being valuable for precision placement of portals. |
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It's still a little bit disappointing that valve didn't make the PC version as good as it could have been. Basically 95% of all the objects in the game are just solid without any ability to pick them up or throw them down (cans, chairs and so on). And the textures have been optimized for 720p (can't read the text all the nice art and drawings).
At least the texture stuff can be fixed with a mod 
*don't get me wrong, this game is great!* |
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 17:27 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | It's still a little bit disappointing that valve didn't make the PC version as good as it could have been. Basically 95% of all the objects in the game are just solid without any ability to pick them up or throw them down (cans, chairs and so on). |
I noticed it as well, however I don't think the ability to lift/move props would be a burden for consoles (if that's what you implied).
| Quote: | | And the textures have been optimized for 720p (can't read the text all the nice art and drawings). |
That's how all Valve games have been.. Superb texture art, but at low resolution.
However judging by some screenshots I've seen I thought the drawings look crystal clear this time:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=27245212&postcount=3963
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=27246331&postcount=3966
But as I am forced to play it with everything set to low on my laptop I can't confirm if the rest of the drawings look as great.
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 17:40 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 17:52 Post subject: |
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Yes, these are the initial ones. Later on there are some very good too! But you have magazines and papers laying around that look just blurred and you can see that those textures have been downscaled  Well the game is already at 7GB so maybe that was a reason too 
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 18:19 Post subject: |
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Blurry magazine and papers is probably on purpose so we don't try and read them. I really, really doubt that consoles would somehow have a hard time displaying a slightly higher quality magazine on the ground.
Making them blurry is just an easy way of telling players "nothing interesting here, keep walking".
Probably the same reason they greatly reduced the number of objects we can move around. Previous multiplatform games did let us take most objects, like the first Portal game. But it doesn't contribute anything to the game (except when players abused a glitch to move around a level without using a single portal) and it's not like we lose anything from not interacting with them.
Consoles are weak, but they're not *that* weak. (or at least, I seriously hope so, otherwise that's just SAD)
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 18:26 Post subject: |
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this game is just great,
i thinks the ultima mod should be where you can f*ck yourself in your own ass
now thats a portal !
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 18:31 Post subject: |
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| pizz wrote: | this game is just great,
i thinks the ultima mod should be where you can f*ck yourself in your own ass
now thats a portal ! |
"Portal 2 Nexus
Mods of the month :
- Romance mod with yourself
- Bigger boobs on Turrets
- Romance mod with Glados
- Bigger boobs on Wheatley
- Naked Chell
- Naked potatoes
- New hairstyles for potatoes"
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 19:37 Post subject: |
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| Kanint wrote: |
"Portal 2 Nexus
Mods of the month :
- Romance mod with yourself
- Bigger boobs on Turrets
- Romance mod with Glados
- Bigger boobs on Wheatley
- Naked Chell
- Naked potatoes
- New hairstyles for potatoes" |
You forgot "ugly anime clothes for Wheatley and turrets".
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 20:04 Post subject: |
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| Sauronich wrote: | | Kanint wrote: |
"Portal 2 Nexus
Mods of the month :
- Romance mod with yourself
- Bigger boobs on Turrets
- Romance mod with Glados
- Bigger boobs on Wheatley
- Naked Chell
- Naked potatoes
- New hairstyles for potatoes" |
You forgot "ugly anime clothes for Wheatley and turrets". |
and "Dick Jonson Tricky Dicky actions or How Chell was born and i died from being allergic to moon dust" |
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 21:20 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 21:22 Post subject: |
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The bugs are a lie. 
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 21:26 Post subject: |
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Portal 2 is nice, but I somehow liked the first one better.
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The old labs levels were a bit too long imo, and they somehow made you feel lost. Maybe that was the purpose but it was a bit annoying, it just felt too big.
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Dunno, for some reason I just didn't enjoy the tests as much as I did in the first game.
Maybe it's me that's broken and changed since the last game 
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 21:38 Post subject: |
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i liked the later parts much more than the first few chapters. The beginning was just the same stuff that was in P1..
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 21:43 Post subject: |
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I enjoyed Portal 2 much more than the first one. It took me by surprise because I expected it to be exactly like Portal 1, just bigger and more polished, but the new monologues and the way the story unfolds added a whole new dimension in my opinion.
I think the last game that struck me this hard was GTA 3.
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 22:04 Post subject: |
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| consolitis wrote: | | Werelds wrote: | I've made it available for everyone, just send me a PM. Can't post the link since it technically is piracy, and we don't do that here 
Honestly though, I wish I had the actual app, and I really fucking hope they *at least* make it for Android as well. The text alone is a fantastic read and I think it outlines quite well how odd Valve works compared to a regular business |
The author says he is working on other versions right now. 
Since you uploaded it before me, please send it to stemot |
Update: He posted:
"Don't worry guys -- it's coming to other platforms WITH all the cool interactivity."
on neogaf.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 23:10 Post subject: |
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yeah they already announced Ios Portal port for Ipad
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 23:15 Post subject: |
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Gotta love that Final Hours of Portal 2 shit ..
page 162
.. . In one sequence eventually cut from the game, Wheatley tell the player "A man in a briefcase was just looking for you"-..
Man in a briefcase huh ? seriously ..
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Apr 2011 23:33 Post subject: |
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Finally!! So far I LOVE it ^^ GlaDOS is so bitchy xD <3 Portal
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Apr 2011 00:25 Post subject: |
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Well, I just finished it twice - the atmosphere is great, can't get enough of it. Now I know for sure, this is the best single player Valve game made thus far.
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Apr 2011 02:35 Post subject: |
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| Radicalus wrote: | | this is the best single player Valve game made thus far. |
HL1 is still ten times better.
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Apr 2011 04:45 Post subject: |
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| Dunge wrote: | | Radicalus wrote: | | this is the best single player Valve game made thus far. |
HL1 is still ten times better. |
True... replayed that about 7 times.
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Apr 2011 08:00 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Apr 2011 09:38 Post subject: |
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| Predator_Soul wrote: | | Dunge wrote: | | Radicalus wrote: | | this is the best single player Valve game made thus far. |
HL1 is still ten times better. |
True... replayed that about 7 times. |
Are you certain it's not nostalgia speaking right there?
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