Am I alone in assuming that this was merely the work of some dedicated soul (With perhaps a touch more time on his/her hands than is healthy) as it sounded like a laugh?

People seem to be taking as a rather insulting commentary on Mirror’s Edge, which to my mind is perhaps seeing more than what is there. It’s just a video of somebody fiddling around in a faithfully recreated version of the Mirror’s Edge trailer area, using the Portal gun and Source engine, at least to my easily outwitted eyes.

Is the sensible response to this video not merely to grunt, “Cool” in a masculine way, then wander off to whatever rugby match, door work in the East end or drug fueled orgy that the standard RPS reader gets up to in the time he is not posting?

Myself, I think I shall find breakfast. One man’s casual morning snack is another’s adrenaline fueled last minute life or death decision. Toast or cereal? Will I know the answer? If I return, you will know that I fought through the barborous savagery for one more day.

:p

Whilst you may be able to complete Mirror’s Edge without weapon / gun usage, I somewhat doubt you could replicate that feat in Portal. :D

Again, I’m afraid I only see this as being another case of people judging a game before its released. And as Bobsy rightly points out, I understand they are taking measures to limit the usefulness of guns so that the game doesn’t become all about that. Besides, it doesn’t make sense at all to me that your character can’t pick up a gun just because.

That Diablo III art thing amused me, the way many of the commenters accused it of being WoW like art despite the fact that they don’t actually look that cartoony to me, the cartoony-ness of D3 is nothing compared to WoW. Again, its people over-reacting and treating a game like they own it just because they bought a copy once and are still playing it on and off even now, and treat a change of art direction like a personal insult.

One thing I’m certain about, is that the way D3 is headed at the moment the environments are one hell of a lot more interesting to look at than more gray and thats going to make it far more appealing to a wider audience. The fan mock ups are frankly dull, dull, dull to look at.

And as for Fallout 3, you could have the bestest everest developers working on it and I still doubt the fans would be even remotely satisfied.

Well, I thought that was cool. Someone managed to recreate part of an unreleased game based soley on a trailer video? That’s good work. Making a boxey square map like that from scratch, fine. Making it from a 2D image, pretty damn impressive.

As for Mirror’s Edge backlash… you know you don’t get to keep the gun, right? You have to drop it to anything else than shoot. Like, hold on to stuff. Plus, you can’t reload. Once the clip’s empty, it’s done.

I also liked how the player tried oh-so-very-hard to make it look interesting despite the fact that he could create a portal at the end and right under his feet sparing himself all the trouble.
I almost expected that they will put a cake at the end, that’s how bad this was.

That made portal look really boring.

*From my perspective. Your perspective may vary.