By Alec Meer on June 15th, 2010 at 10:46 pm.
“It’s on PS3!” says the world. “So bloody what?” says I. It’s also on PC. And here’s what Valve’s puzzl-o-shooter sequel looks – and, perhaps more importantly, sounds – like.
Techno! If that stuff is all in-game, kinda-wow, huh? Entire moving rooms, crazy robo-panelling, vegetation. Frame-by-frame analysis please, lovelies.
Due 2011. The PS3 thing seems to be the sum total of the ‘surprise’, I’m afraid – hope you weren’t still holding out for HL2 Ep3.
15/06/2010 at 22:49 Lavitz says:
I think i might be the only 1 guy out that doesn’t care for portal. Also I guess valve can develop for ps3. More money, sooner or later valve will abondon pc .
15/06/2010 at 23:01 Steven Hutton says:
I don’t consider that likely. The ports of thier games to 360 have all been pretty mediocre ( Valve games play all wierd without a mouse ) and they’re, to a certain extent the gatekeepers of PC gaming in general, what with Steam and all.
15/06/2010 at 23:18 Gwyn says:
You care so little you just had to make sure we knew. Cheers.
15/06/2010 at 23:39 Coded One says:
Actually, Gabe Newell in the past has said that developing for the PS3 is a waste. Valve seems to be PC at heart, especially considering their success with Steam, so I doubt they’ll abandon the PC.
15/06/2010 at 23:58 bob_d says:
Given the economics of developing AAA games right now, developers can’t afford to ignore any platform. And as far as PC development goes, it’s essentially a freebee if you do Xbox development. PS3 development is another ball of wax entirely because the architecture is so different; the architectural differences between Xbox 360 and Wintel machines can be pretty much ignored thanks to the great Xbox development tools. If you’re doing an Xbox game there’s no reason not to also have a PC version.
16/06/2010 at 00:52 Peter Radiator Full Pig says:
@bob_d
No reason at all, unless you count having to make sure it works with a huge variety of different hardware set ups, optimising them and such.
New bugs to squash or get complained about if you dont.
And, it seems, much lower sales than other platforms.
No reason at all.
16/06/2010 at 01:35 Urthman says:
Valve almost certainly afford to ignore the PS3 or otherwise do just about anything they want.
16/06/2010 at 01:36 subedii says:
I fully agree, there is no benefit to Valve staying on the PC platform, they need to ditch it immediately.
The fact that they have an effective stranglehold on the digital distribution market across the entire platform is utterly meaningless to mention. As is the fact that Valve titles released on the system make approximately 3x-4x times their boxed retail counterparts on the other platforms. Or the fact that owning their own store and community allows them pricing flexibility that no publisher is really capable of enforcing at the street level, and that they are allowed to update their titles at will, free of charge. Or even that multiplatform development really is a necessity with rising development costs.
Really, I mean it, ignore all the financial reasons, Valve have to abandon the platform if there’s to be any hope of PC Gaming finally being announced dead for reals this time and to ensure the survival of precious trolls such as the poster above.
16/06/2010 at 04:10 qrter says:
I’d be surprised if any Valve game that is available on both the 360 and PC, hasn’t sold a boatload more on the PC.
16/06/2010 at 08:05 Kadayi says:
Of course they’ll abandon the PC because let’s face it Steam is such a HUGE failure of an enterprise.
/facepalm
17/06/2010 at 14:09 torchedEARTH says:
Hooray, it’s coming to a platform which many extremely intelligent adults play on.
…and we play it on 40″+ HD televsions. How big is your PC monitor again? Sorry, is that even a size??
17/06/2010 at 18:08 thinsoldier says:
Speaking of the demise of pc gaming and ditching the platform…
If there was a way to play fps’ on consoles with a proper mouse and keyboard AND if the developers of console fps took measures to ensure a pleasant experience for gamers using kb/mouse on consoles then I’d have bought all the current gen consoles by now.
On the flip side, a lot of pc gamers now-a-days have an x-box 360 or similar gamepad. PC Game devs need to make sure their games work with gamepads too.
30/11/2010 at 23:06 Party Man says:
Why would Valve want to abandon PC games? There’s more people with PCs ( and Macs) in the World than people with Xbox 360s. And not every country in the world has a store that sells Xbox or PS3 games, let alone the console.
15/06/2010 at 22:49 Wes says:
Terrible, terrible surprise.
15/06/2010 at 22:57 Pattom says:
This.
15/06/2010 at 23:06 Pattom says:
Well, I’ll admit that trailer is worth it just for the final quote. But still a tremendously disappointing surprise.
16/06/2010 at 00:53 RagingLion says:
I have to admit this was perhaps my favourite moment of E3 so far and I LOLed as Gabe Newell walked out on stage. I only own a PC but the political significance of this and knowing the background to it all made it very cool. It’s all relatively spurious ultimately but I was watching the E3 conferences for entertainment and this certainly was (in related news check out the Kevin Butler appearance).
16/06/2010 at 01:47 Davie says:
Agreed. Portal 1 was on the PS3 too–is it really big enough to constitute a surprise? NEWELL I AM DISAPPOINT.
16/06/2010 at 08:14 Kadayi says:
Agreed. If that’s the extent of the Valve news this year (and by the sounds of it, it is) then that’s pretty dismal. Quite frankly for the vast majority of people who care for Valve as a developer this is may be a surprise, but it sure as hell isn’t ‘news’ any of us give a shit about.
Major letdown……..
16/06/2010 at 09:57 Conlaen says:
+1
15/06/2010 at 22:49 battles_atlas says:
Gabe looked like a little bit of him died inside as he talked up the awesomenessity of the fact that the PS3 has online capabilities.
16/06/2010 at 00:15 Rinox says:
Yup. But luckily, Gabe has plenty of ‘him’ to spare.
15/06/2010 at 22:51 westyfield says:
Here’s Gabe talking words about PS3s and consoleboxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1YHKwMaXPg
“The best version on any console”
So, still not as good as the PC one then?
15/06/2010 at 22:53 battles_atlas says:
Thanks, my comment makes sense now
16/06/2010 at 00:08 Hidden_7 says:
Yikes, people cheered that the surprise is it’s on PS3? I mean, no slagging on the PS3, I’ve got (a broken) one, but that’s just a dull surprise. It’s neither particularly surprising (the first one was on PS3, most games are multi-platform these days) nor is it interesting. After any amount of “surprise buildup” I’d be more inclined to boo.
15/06/2010 at 22:51 Tweakd says:
Wowowowowowow. It moves!
15/06/2010 at 22:52 rocketman71 says:
So bloody FUCKING what?. If this is the surprise.. wow. Then, from now on Valve just STFU until you release your games. Way to hype the shit out of nothing for most of us.
15/06/2010 at 23:11 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
It’s hardly fair to complain that Valve has not lived up to the hype that everyone else created.
Valve didn’t hype this presentation or the “surprise”. They released a (humorously worded) press release (which they sent to journalists as all games publishers do with press releases as a matter of course), announcing that their previously scheduled event had been cancelled, and instead they would do something—surprising—at E3. (And Portal 2 on PS3 is surprising, especially if Valve is doing it, given their opinion of PS3 at the time of the Orange Box and that they farmed out the PS3 conversion to EA).
Then, gaming blogs all over the world hyped this up, and we started all kinds of rumours. Valve did go so far as to try and correct the worst rumours (“Portal 2 themed for God’s sake!”).
The trailer is a bit too brief. Valve was also showing a short gameplay video backstage; I expect that’ll make it onto the web soon.
15/06/2010 at 23:41 Heliosicle says:
I think the problem is that Valve has got to the point where ANYTHING it does is hyped up because people want ep 3 so badly.
16/06/2010 at 00:13 Michael says:
If their buried Portal 2 screenshots, released earlier this year in such a form as to require the combined forces of Internet obsessives everywhere to uncover, did not convince you that Valve are very well aware of exactly how much hype any information release by them will generate then … well, I don’t know what will.
16/06/2010 at 00:47 Web Cole says:
I get the impression that Valve bungled this somewhat, which is uncharacteristic of them, normally they’re very savvy about this sort of thing. But they seem to have gone and created a great deal of hype over something that did not want or deserve hyping.
15/06/2010 at 22:53 Brian says:
Most disappointing surprise ever :(
15/06/2010 at 22:57 Navagon says:
Most sucky surprise since Sink Plunger Simulator. I don’t expect much from Valve anymore, but that was crap.
15/06/2010 at 22:58 leo says:
companion cube 22 seconds in!
15/06/2010 at 22:58 Xercies says:
I thought during the L4D 2 preview phase Gabe said he would never ever release any Valve game on the PS3 because it was fecking difficult to program. Well looks like he changed his mind in a hurry…I wonder why.
I think Valve have been trolling HL2:Ep3 a bit to much for my book…they better release something soon before they have a revolution on there hands lol.
15/06/2010 at 23:05 geldonyetich says:
It’s called “having sufficient dosh to easily hire PS3 talent.”
In any case, I’m not overcritical of the trailer. Looks like it’ll be more of the same, with a richer plot and better technology. That’s pretty much living up to the name of the title: Portal, plus one.
16/06/2010 at 00:14 bob_d says:
I know a lot of game programmers who just shake their heads dismissively when talking about PS3 development. Converting an Xbox game to the PC (and vice versa) is trivial, the PS3 requires some serious reworking of the code to get it working well. Programmers know the tricks to get the most performance out of Xboxes and PCs, but not with the PS3 so much.
I think primarily what’s changed from Valve’s perspective is simply that the PS3 now has a big enough user base such that any games published for it will make substantially more than the extra development cost required to convert games for it.
16/06/2010 at 00:35 Thants says:
Wait, what? The Orange Box is already out for PS3.
16/06/2010 at 13:43 Kadayi says:
To be fair to Gabe, he made those comments way back before either the PS3 or even the 360 had come out (this was during an interview with 1UP, and even Vista wasn’t out then), and he was making them with a view to the complexities of coding for differing platforms from a virgin standpoint. Right then there were no maps for those territories. 5 years later and there’s a lot more expertise available to buy in to navigate those complexities.
15/06/2010 at 22:58 Vandelay says:
That was the surprise?! Really?!
Well, lucky PS3 people, but I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say I am extremely disappointed. So, all those nods to Source 2, Duke Nukem, etc. were just nods away from the PS3 release of Portal 2? Maybe something more interesting will come out from Valve at some point.
Onto the trailer, looks very much like Portal made bigger, so no complaints there. I thought Glados’s voice sounded a bit… underplayed. I’m not really sure, but it didn’t sound quite so sadistic (although the “you monster” at the end was nice.)
Graphics looked like they might have been improved a fair bit from the previous version of source we had seen. Although this has obviously been touched up a bit for added pretties in the trailer, it certainly looked like we might be seeing some great visuals in game. I found the improvements made in L4D2 to be a little underwhelming and was wondering how much longer Valve could keep going with Source, but this looks like it may be making it a bit more impressive again.
15/06/2010 at 23:34 alway says:
Not underplayed, I would say a more accurate term would be ‘sedate.’ Seems we may be cooperating with GLaDOS this time, if the tone and quote at the end are indicative of anything.
16/06/2010 at 21:25 Theory says:
What nods? You mean the asinine rumours people had been idly making up?
15/06/2010 at 22:59 Xurathar says:
They can’t abandon PC. You seem to forget that they are the PC, and they control Steam. That’s too much revenue for leaving PC behind. It’s only expanding their market, as every other company wants to do. Valve eats with this.
Moreover, they’ve already released games for the Xbox 360, so the only problem is.. What a fucking shit of surprise. At least they said that we should lose our hope for Half Life Ep3 :P.
15/06/2010 at 22:59 MajorManiac says:
I found that oddly underwhelming. The graphics look great, but I was kinda hoping for a musical number.
Having said that, I can’t wait for this to come out.
15/06/2010 at 23:00 Gurthang says:
Way to completely disappoint everyone Valve.
But I want to believe there’s something more to this. I don’t think they would have an entire E3 presentation and then cancel just for this tiny thing. Here’s hoping they have more awesome games to show (while not keeping my hopes TOO high).
15/06/2010 at 23:01 Peter Radiator Full Pig says:
Maybe the suprise is how shit the suprise was?
Cause i was suprised they called that a suprise.
And that they sent out letters to PC gaming journalists about the suprise.
15/06/2010 at 23:19 benjamin says:
I have to say I did almost hit something at the sheer rubbishness of the surprise. I wanted Halfe life 3 dammit!
Valve – a surprise is meant to be exciting, yours was a huge ‘meh’
15/06/2010 at 23:05 Blacktick says:
I also couldn’t give a toss about portal. I was however expecting something other than Gabe kissing Sony’s ass. :D
He did sound frightful or like he was almost crying…must have been a tough decision for him.
15/06/2010 at 23:06 DrGonzo says:
Was it me or was that trailer ‘meh’? It suggested the new game will just be Portal again but with shinier graphics, which doesn’t seem very Valve to me.
15/06/2010 at 23:07 Hobbes says:
Why would Valve abandon the PC? That makes no sense whatsoever. And yeah Valve, shut the FUCK UP and stop letting us eat too much sugar and get all excited and run around and fall over and then cry like the children we are. I”m going to go hyperventilate into a bag now. [/rant]
I liked the ‘you monster’ bit, added interest to a rather straightforward trailer. Source is looking nice, music was well chosen, and looks like they’re going to be hitting the physics engine a bit harder, if only for atmosphere/prettiness.
15/06/2010 at 23:09 xxstyxx says:
Wow, so many Haters here?
16/06/2010 at 00:42 Thants says:
Haters be hating, yo.
16/06/2010 at 00:47 xxstyxx says:
I dont care. ^^
A nice Game is anounced, im happy.
So many Guys make a good to a bad News.
I look so many comparsions the last Months, every Multiplatform Title looks better on the PC, so whats the Problem? ^^
16/06/2010 at 05:26 Dave says:
Entire team is babies!
15/06/2010 at 23:10 Dominic White says:
Really guys, you’re not doing too good of a job at looking like the videogaming master race you claim to be. Some of you seem to be genuinely angry that the big announcement was, in fact, good news for people other than you. Throwing a tantrum when the other kid gets given that same toy as you isn’t very nice.
Yes, it’s mildly dissapointing that the big announcement wasn’t directed at us. But it was fairly big for PS3 owners. They’re not just getting Portal 2 – they’re getting Steam, which is a pretty major thing.
15/06/2010 at 23:16 Jaytiz says:
Our favourite pc dev’s surprise is console related, how is this reaction not completely obvious
15/06/2010 at 23:16 Bozzley says:
Steamworks, not Steam. Steamworks is Valve’s behind-the-scenes gubbins for multiplayer, achievements, auto-updates and the like. Steam is their digital store. One doesn’t necessarily mean the other.
15/06/2010 at 23:17 Dominic White says:
Mild dissapointment is an acceptable response. Thrashing and flailing and gnashing of teeth is what babies do.
15/06/2010 at 23:20 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
No, no, babies do thrashing and flailing and gnashing of gums.
15/06/2010 at 23:25 Dominic White says:
Yeah, well, they’d be gnashing their teeth if they had them!
Anyway, this E3 in general has been a bit of a damp squib for most of the companies involved. Except for Nintendo, who have, once again, utterly conquered the handheld market and reinforced their position with the Wii. Sony kinda held their own with their Move controller (it’s the Wii controller, but black), and Microsoft… well, the less said about them, the better.
15/06/2010 at 23:27 Vandelay says:
Perhaps me saying “extremely disappointed” was a bit of an overstatement. Personally, I’m just disappointed that it wasn’t HL2:ep3 news, as I have been disappointed for the last couple of E3s.
I’m also not too sure what Gabe meant when he said that the PS3 would be getting Steam. The way he said it, it sounded as if they would just be getting achievements and the like, rather than a full on content delivery system. Something like that would probably have been worthy of its own announcement, instead of tacked onto Portal 2.
15/06/2010 at 23:27 Dr. Wily says:
Agreed, Dominic.
Lately it seems that the anti-console sentiment around here is approaching the same level of crazy vitriol that you might find in an Xbox vs Playstation debate on Joystiq. Its a bit unseemly for people who consider themselves smarter and more sophisticated than other gamers…
15/06/2010 at 23:32 Meat Circus says:
Having sat through all three keynotes, I think my anti-console vitriol is quite justified, thank you.
Except for Nintendo, whose heady mixture of palpating my nostalgia and handheld gimmicry exempts them for this year.
15/06/2010 at 23:37 Dominic White says:
Vitriol? Deserved? Bah. Sony have earned my general apathy this E3, and Microsoft have my pity. I don’t think they realised just how ridiculous any of them looked up on stage demoing that mess of technology.
But the 3DS? Yeah, Nintendo have earned my open, gaping wallet this christmas. I want one of those.
15/06/2010 at 23:49 Coded One says:
I couldn’t agree with you more, Dominic.
I think everyone thought that the “surprise” was going to be HL2EP3, despite Valve announcing that “IT’S PORTAL THEMED FOR GODS SAKE!”
But really people, chill out.
15/06/2010 at 23:57 Meat Circus says:
Here’s a photograph that may make you love consoles again. It’s Playstation Move!
http://i45.tinypic.com/2jebno4.png
Um.
16/06/2010 at 00:02 Will Tomas says:
I’ve been too busy recently to follow the E3 coverage – why was Microsoft’s so dire? I saw they renamed Natal, but other than that was was awful about it?
16/06/2010 at 00:23 Jad says:
Some of you seem to be genuinely angry that the big announcement was, in fact, good news for people other than you.
Thank you. I remember some console players cheering the lack of dedicated servers in MW2 with “why should the PC get anything more than consoles” and I thought they were being selfish assholes. To be angry that a console is merely getting a game that we will have as well — and in, as we all know, for Valve games, is an inferior format — is insane.
In the larger gaming industry, this is very big news — a full-length game that is the sequel to one of the highest-rated games ever released on a platform that no one expected. For the average gamer this is in fact significantly bigger news than HL2: EP3, which, as wonderful as that would be, is in the end merely an expansion pack.
Think about that. For console gamers, we PC gamers are crying and wailing over a shorter-than-full-length “episode” to an-already-released game. You know what they call that in consoleland? DLC!
I’m sure I’ll get ripped apart for saying all that, but Portal 2 is significantly bigger news than Ep3 would be. (although a true Half-Life 3 would be enormous and earth-shattering)
16/06/2010 at 00:24 Michael says:
I’m a PS3 owner. It wasn’t that exciting. I thought the release of Portal 2 for the PS3 had already been announced? As for Steam on the PS3, I don’t really know what that will amount to but it’s not exactly got me wetting my pants. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that Valve are taking my console seriously – it bodes well for the mythical Episode 3 – but it’s not a big announcement.
The real surprise was Gabe sucking up to Sony. And that just goes to show how self-absorbed the games industry is. All that hype for this moment – the boss of one important company cow-towing to the boss of a more important company. There was basically no news there that was of interest to the punters. It was all just corporate dick waving.
16/06/2010 at 00:51 Thants says:
Have I gone crazy, or is everyone on this thread missing the fact that Portal and HL2 are already on PS3? Making Portal 2 on PS3 not surprising at all.
16/06/2010 at 10:23 Muzman says:
Oh Heavy Rain 2 is going to be quite the thing to watch people play.
15/06/2010 at 23:11 James G says:
The PCG Steam group said that the ‘surprise’ wasn’t “particularly good news for us PC gamers,” which initially I took to mean it was bad news, so the actual surprise was a relief.
To people criticising Valve for ‘hyping up’ the surprise, I have to say I think that blame goes to the fans. Unfortunately, given Valve’s tendency to use crazy-awesome marketing, people got a touch over excited. Valve to their credit tried to play down the surprise as soon as they realised that folk were expecting them to announce that every copy of Portal 2 would come with an elixir of life, and a bullet proof roadmap to peace in the middle east.
16/06/2010 at 08:47 The Unbelievable Guy says:
This guy is correct.
I’m just happy because Portal 2 means more of Chet Faliszek and Ellen McLain’s soothing/terrifying voice.
15/06/2010 at 23:12 Jaytiz says:
Gabe singing ps3 praise. That indeed is a bug fucking surprise
15/06/2010 at 23:13 Karthik says:
Is that a new source engine I spy? It looks positively fantastic.
15/06/2010 at 23:17 Karthik says:
And I thought The Orange Box was always available on both consoles.
Meh.
15/06/2010 at 23:50 CMaster says:
@Karthik – the PS3 version of The Orange Box was done by a 3rd party, and is widely considered a poor port, with performance issues making it difficult for many reviewers to recommend.
16/06/2010 at 00:14 DarkNoghri says:
As I recall (or am reminded by reading comments), there was a PS3 version of the Orange Box, but Valve didn’t do the port. It was handed off to EA.
16/06/2010 at 00:15 DarkNoghri says:
Doh. That’s what I get for leaving the page open for a while.
16/06/2010 at 13:06 Kadayi says:
Albeit that they designed the Source engine to evolve. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ship Portal 2 using a fully updated engine (Source 2.0?) rather than continue to build on the existing architecture. One area that Valve under estimated with Source was the map extents, with many other competing engines able to handle far larger areas. They’ve employed good sleight of hand in their titles to cover up this aspect (pretty much all their game levels zig zag, esp the driving levels), but naturally it’s stifled what can be done with the engine by third parties. A new ground up engine would explain the delay in EP3 as well (though I expect EP3 will be rolled into HL3).
16/06/2010 at 18:43 phuzz says:
New source engine does indeed look lovely, is that some better destructo physics I spy? (probably not, but it’s nice to dream).
And it sounds like a lot of the mapping for this has been done by Adam Foster of Minerva fame, which is only a good thing.
15/06/2010 at 23:13 Steven Hutton says:
I was actually surprised by this surprise. Given the previous history of Valve and the PS3.
15/06/2010 at 23:14 dragon_hunter21 says:
I’m thinking I’m going to like GLaDOS even more this time around. The last line slayed me.
But yeah, I’m very disappointed bordering on flat pissed that the big surprise was PS3 support. I’m sure the game is going to be awesome, but really, Valve? You had to know that the only people watching for your announcement were games journalists and PC gamers. You wasted E3 on an announcement like that? You could have just tossed that out there anytime. And then declaring that the PS3 version is going to be the best? Better than the PC (which Valve is accustomed to developing for), even after you said that the PS3 was a mess to develop for? The hell are you thinking, Gabe?
15/06/2010 at 23:19 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
He didn’t say better than PC—he said the best on consoles.
15/06/2010 at 23:43 dragon_hunter21 says:
“Portal 2 will be better on consoles.”
“The PS3 version of Portal will be better than the PC version.”
Aren’t they pretty much the same statement (Though the first is more general)?
Also, the “Hivemind Thrombometer reading” must be off. It’s only registering at eight tenths of a percent, and cursory glance over this thread shows otherwise..
15/06/2010 at 23:50 Pesforozo says:
Quote: ”Portal 2 on playstation 3 will be the best version on any console.”
Subtext: (But not better than on PC)
15/06/2010 at 23:52 Coded One says:
“Aren’t they pretty much the same statement (Though the first is more general)?”
Uh… no.
The PC is not a console. Valve has enough sense to realize that the PC is inherently better then consoles. Don’t misconstrue Gabe’s words just to give you a bigger reason to throw a fit.
16/06/2010 at 00:57 dragon_hunter21 says:
Oh. Crap.
Serves me right for forgetting to check the exact wording before posting.
Also, in the same vein, it appears that the Hivemind Thrombometer is in fact the Hivemind Throbometer.
I feel quite silly now.
15/06/2010 at 23:17 EthZee says:
Isn’t there still a PC conference of some sort left to go? There’s still time for new things.
I’m quite shocked at all the rage on here.
*pushes PS3 underneath bed with toe*
15/06/2010 at 23:20 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
The record scratch surprise was better.
15/06/2010 at 23:23 Wulf says:
Rather liking the look of this, and a little optimistic. It might not live up to the original, but it does look a bit good.
The world-weary sounding GLaDOS was interesting.
15/06/2010 at 23:34 James G says:
It does sound like she’s gone through a bit of maturing in the 200 (?) odd years she’s been repairing herself. In the original game, her jibes had a childish character about them, like a child pretending to be a parent, it will be interesting if we have someone a bit older. I can’t quite decide if a teenage GLaDOS would be fantastic, or terrible.
I’m also wondering if GLaDOS will be antagonist again, or whether things will be played slightly differently.
16/06/2010 at 00:16 Wulf says:
It’s interesting, the more i listen, the more it sounds like they’ve actually tried to humanise GLaDOS’s voice, because it’s actually quite pleasant compared to the much more mechanical version we’re used to.
If that is the case, and GLaDOS has been anthropomorphised to a degree, the question then is: Why?
16/06/2010 at 00:30 DrGonzo says:
I think because in the first game she was kinda just a joke, this time she will be a proper character.
15/06/2010 at 23:24 Zetetic says:
Urgh, a waste of everybody’s time and a disaster on many levels.
I’d say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over.
15/06/2010 at 23:32 passingtramp says:
You got that from this one short trailer?
15/06/2010 at 23:36 Zetetic says:
To be honest, I was probably trolling. They’re just Gabe’s comments on the PS3 from close to its launch. In fairness he admitted that today was a retraction and that Sony ‘has worked extremely hard’ to make the platform the most desirable’. The trailer’s good, the surprise is rubbish. I’m impressed at what Source can do, and I’m also hoping that if the PS3 port brings us anything, it’s better multicore support.
15/06/2010 at 23:27 DollarOfReactivity says:
Surprise, indeed. I wonder if the “Steamworks and automatic updates” thing is a direct dig at Microsoft and the (apparent) restrictions Valve has faced updating their Orange Box games on the XBox.
Surely the PS3 and XBox can already do the things Steamworks provides, and Valve has had a better release experience on Xbox up to this point, but maybe they’re getting fed up with MS?
Would have liked some PC news, but the preview is nice. :)
15/06/2010 at 23:35 Dominic White says:
A lot of indie studios are reporting that Sony have been absolutely golden, with regards to publishing their stuff on PSN. Microsoft, on the other hand, require you (no joke) to have a contract with a major publisher willing to negogiate on your behalf. Microsoft will not communicate with studios directly. At all.
It’s control freakery on a massive level. Quite weird to see, and ultimately self-destructive. I’ve been rather impressed with how Sony have turned things around after getting caught completely on the wrong foot at the start of this console generation.
15/06/2010 at 23:40 DollarOfReactivity says:
Yes. The more I think about it the more sense it makes. Valve (as Gabe just reiterated) is all about service now. XBox has just been the plain game up to this point, but maybe they see Sony letting them bring the service to the living room through the PS3.
16/06/2010 at 00:14 frymaster says:
@dominic: well, introversion have (on balance) good things to say about microsoft, but the general point I would agree with: MS seem to want discrete packages of (paid-for) DLC, not incremental improvements. MS also wouldn’t let people use their own achievements systems (which is, in one respect, a Good Thing (TM) as it stops the proliferation of accounts you get on the PC – rockstar, gamespy, steam, GFWL etc. though in this case it’s OK ‘coz I have a steam account)
I also know that valve had to go through some strenuous begging to be allowed to run L4D servers for xbox, instead of just have P2P (compare and contrast with modern warfare 2 ;) )
one thought that comes to mind is that this is, in part, due to whatever work they’ve done to get the mac version running. Once you have simultaneous compiling for 2 platforms, adding a third isn’t as hard – though at least the mac and PC shared a common processor architecture.
16/06/2010 at 00:36 Dominic White says:
Introversion got in before Microsofts policy changed. It was a relatively recent move, but a lot of smaller XBLA developers would never have gotten the chance to release a game under the current business model.
15/06/2010 at 23:31 Internet Friend says:
I fear Portal 2. Can they resurrect Glados without souring her perfect character arc?
15/06/2010 at 23:32 Atalanta says:
Ooooh, the plant-infested test chambers look really nice. I liked the aesthetic of the first, but by the last test chamber it was getting visually kind of stale, so this is a really nice change.
Also, wow, there’s rather more gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in the comments thread than I was expecting. Chill out, guys, Valve isn’t going to
cancel Christmasabandon PCs.15/06/2010 at 23:35 DollarOfReactivity says:
Whoa, thought you wrote “removing of garments”. That would be disturbing and the end of RPS as we know it. Maybe RPS needs a vent board that all these posts can get moved to.
15/06/2010 at 23:33 Poltergeist says:
More talking about the trailer, please! Acid techno in my Portal 2 yes please!
15/06/2010 at 23:36 Zyrxil says:
Meh surprise, but really nice trailer. The re-construction of rooms is quite cool. I wonder how many rooms will simply stayed ruined, with a numbered sign to remind us of what it looked like from the first game.
15/06/2010 at 23:39 dartt says:
Man, everyone is pouting like the child who didn’t get the parcel when the music stopped.
What a shame, the surprise wasn’t for we PC Gamers! Are we not at least consoled (hah!) by how wonderful Portal 2 looks in the trailer?
15/06/2010 at 23:40 Rabidzombie says:
Gabe is ALWAYS nervous. I suspect he was genuine about the enthusiasm of the openness of the PS3. I know I would be, especially since they’ve had to deal with… Microsoft… these past few years.
15/06/2010 at 23:40 colinmarc says:
lol, get over it, guys. The trailer looks awesome – I’m pumped.
I’m really enjoying some of the commenters on youtube that seem to think it’s going to be PS3 exclusive…
15/06/2010 at 23:43 James G says:
Haha, Portal 2 being a PS3 exclusive would probably have me joining the AIMs, closely followed by purchasing a PS3. (Something I’m vaguely tempted by anyway.)
15/06/2010 at 23:42 Schmung says:
How lovely. Portal was (for me) the bestest thing Valve ever did. I hope for an extended and richer experience of said game. Looks like that is exactly what they’re giving us. I am happy.
15/06/2010 at 23:43 Frosty says:
Yay Portal 2! Still secretly hoping that tomorrow they’ll announce HL2:Ep3.
15/06/2010 at 23:49 CMaster says:
If that footage was all genuinely in game, then Valve appear to have improved the shadow effects quite a lot in source. Of course, an action trailer like that doesn’t really get Portal across so well. I always thought the first Portal trailer did a very good job of getting why Portal was interesting across, while still leaving lots to be discovered in game.
Still, I like the atmosphere.
15/06/2010 at 23:53 Zwebbie says:
Call me a hopeless cynical bastard, but I think a lot of Portal’s charm came from it being unexpected; witnessing the dizzying effect of Portals, GLaDOS’ subtle changes in speech as you progress throughout the game and the absurdity of the situation with the Companion Cube… I don’t think it’ll work nearly as well with a sequel.
I loved the original, but a second one leaves me cold. Portal wasn’t really a game that could be improved.
16/06/2010 at 00:16 bleeters says:
Co-op!
15/06/2010 at 23:57 Logo says:
You really SHOULD be excited that this is on PS3. Not so much for Portal 2 being on PS3, but the fact that steamworks is gonna work with PS3. For Valve this means nothing, they provide great support, but they are starting the ball on patching on consoles.
“So what?” you say smugly behind your mouse and keyboard, well the big deal is that there will now be more pressure for developers to support and patch games across the board, specifically cross platform games. Way too many cross platform games suffer from poor post-release support (other than DLC) because developers don’t want to make a patch for PC and not release it on PS3/360. At the same time releasing on PS3/360 is (was) impossible. So they just didn’t do it and the PC fans would go sulk in the shadows. Now it can be done! If console users start demanding better post-release support we’ll see that post-release support across the board. This is a benefit for ALL gamers, not just console gamers.
16/06/2010 at 00:06 Tim says:
This comment thread is so depressingly pathetic, I think in future I’ll skip reading the comments and just post about the article before I get demoralized..
I feel like I lost 20 IQ points reading them. This is all I have left:
That was an awesome trailer. I’m sooo looking forward to Portal 2.
16/06/2010 at 12:51 Kadayi says:
Earth to Tim
We already knew Portal 2 was coming out some time back.
16/06/2010 at 00:07 Miles of the Machination says:
Forget the surprise. You guys, THAT WAS JUST A TRAILER FOR PORTAL 2. I must say that I was cynical, and I might still be a little bit cynical. I mean, it’s portal, it’s just not PORTAL.. I think half the reason why everyone liked the first one so much, was because it was small and reeked of indie. Now it’s just a game, albiet a very good looking one, and by Valve’s standards, a very well playing one. I guess I’m just nostaligic/pretentious.
16/06/2010 at 01:05 Thants says:
You monster.
16/06/2010 at 00:08 snv says:
This might be bad news, because if they design that from the start for consoles, it might be worse for that reason even on the pc.
The flaws of consoles are contagious
16/06/2010 at 00:29 Hidden_7 says:
The Orange Box released at the same time across all three systems. I’m pretty sure this will be no different; designed on and for the PC, with the knowledge that it will be on Xbox and PS3.
16/06/2010 at 01:32 Nobody Important says:
The flaws of your logic are contagiouser.
16/06/2010 at 00:17 Bhazor says:
This really is a terrible surprise when every other Half Life related game has already gone multi-platform.
But still, more Portal! Now hopefully without the hour long tutorial leading you by the nose through the first half of the game.
16/06/2010 at 00:18 Polysynchronicity says:
Companion cube in the trailer at 0:21, on the right side.
Just sayin’.
16/06/2010 at 00:21 Choca says:
Just saw the game at E3.
Levels seem more open than before, vegetation is everywhere (apparently the lab was invaded by vines and stuff after GalDOS was put down)
The main character is still the same but we get a sidekick, some sort of tiny robot-eye (looks like the modules we ripped out during the fight against GlaDOS) with an british accent and funny dialogue.
There are also new mechanics, like some kind of tractor beam that can travel through portals, two kinds of kinetic gels (looks like paint, one makes you jump higher when you step on it the other makes you run faster when you step on it, can travel through portals too).
The turrets have new dialogue ; they scream “It burns” when you.. well, burn them and “Weeee” when you put them through the Pneumatic Diversity Vent (think vacuum cleaner, only bigger).
Apparently the co-op mode will make you play two robots and there will be no demo.
16/06/2010 at 01:11 Meat Circus says:
“Pneumatic Diversity Vent” — That’s so Valve.
16/06/2010 at 01:49 Choca says:
Also featured were the Aerial Faith Plate (a trampoline) and the Thermal Discouragement Beam (basically a big burning laser beam)
16/06/2010 at 00:29 Paul Moloney says:
I’m guessing your schtick is to go onto related blogs and say “I hate “.
P.
16/06/2010 at 00:29 Inigo says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQLpU0T-Sow
Gameplay footage.
With bonus Orange Gloop™
16/06/2010 at 00:37 Bhazor says:
That looked tough, confusing, bewildering and atmospheric. Thats the kind of Portal trailer I’ve been waiting for.
16/06/2010 at 00:43 DrGonzo says:
That looks amazing. They should have just shown the game rather than a trailer!
16/06/2010 at 00:58 Grawl says:
Today on RPS: Nerds rage over a game that hasn’t been released yet.
16/06/2010 at 01:33 Nobody Important says:
That’s all that has happened around here since X-com was shown. It really has degenerated a lot, hasn’t it?
16/06/2010 at 01:11 Clovis says:
This is the most disappointing thing I’ve seen in a long time. Never jump into the comments section after feeling a little joy at seeing something you love …
Cool video though.
16/06/2010 at 01:13 CTDahl says:
I’ve yet to hear Valve ever complain about poor sales performances. In fact, Valve is often pitching and selling the idea that PCs are a lucrative market platform to sell to if you get capture correctly. Which Steam, if you trust Valve’s own numbers, does apparently.
As for testing PC hardware, not withstanding how cheap it is to make a machine and developers aiming for a bigger casual market, Valve has enough funds within their own firm to test anything. All they would need to do is chip off a cubic cm of Gabe Newell’s diamond throne to get the money.
16/06/2010 at 09:25 innokenti says:
More importantly, the vast reams of information provided by the Steam Hardware Survey make things an awful lot easier by giving them the most common configurations and hardware to aim for. If they can cover compatibility and stability on what the majority of Steam users have… well, that’s easier than guessing or stabbing in the dark.
16/06/2010 at 01:26 LionsPhil says:
@Inigo: Ooh, that gloop actually looked half-decent for real-time high-granularity 3D liquid physics. Wonder if they’re rending it with some kind of metaballs-like approach.
Also, ability to squirt low/high friction gloop all over the place is making for happy happy fun puzzle time.
16/06/2010 at 01:28 Christian O. says:
I know this is somewhat off the target, but that music is great.
16/06/2010 at 01:29 The Unshaven says:
Hell yes! That looks delightful.
I was captivated by Portal’s story and the unanswered questions, so anything which goes towards more of that will be outstanding for me. Both the trailer and the gameplay vid did this.
Salivating, I am.
16/06/2010 at 01:30 Thants says:
“Sequel to PS3 game is also on PS3″ might not be quite the surprise Valve though it was. Regardless though, the game’s looking fantastic.
16/06/2010 at 01:35 Nobody Important says:
It’s not really playable on the PS3 though, where here Valve offered a promise of quality.
16/06/2010 at 01:50 Thants says:
Ah, fair enough.
16/06/2010 at 08:32 Dan Milburn says:
That may be the case, but it’s still not a surprise. Essentially they’re saying ‘sequel will be better than the original – on the PS3′.
Anyway, I’m sure Portal 2 will be good, not that you can tell from that trailer.
16/06/2010 at 01:30 Kroms says:
I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say I am extremely disappointed.
You don’t. Sorry. The press release hardly hyped it up; it was blogs and unfounded rumors that did. Your fault. I’m happy for PS3 owners.
16/06/2010 at 05:57 jonfitt says:
We hyped it up, but it does fail the definition of surprise. Portal 1 was on PS3, why is Portal 2 on PS3 a surprise?
16/06/2010 at 02:09 Kevbo says:
I know everyone was looking for some other surprise and I will admit that it was a let down. However after seeing the game footage that Inigo posted, I am fully confident that this will be a great sequel to Portal especially with some good multiplayer :)
I don’t think Valve will let down the PC community, well at least with games they are releasing. I can’t say anything about Ep3 :) But I mean with games they work on, they will have a strong PC focus and then port them to other consoles. The gameplay video makes me wonder how they expect gamers to do some of the faster puzzles with analog sticks?
16/06/2010 at 02:25 Fuzzdad says:
To be competitive in the FPS market you now need to develop on all platforms. Valve will never abandon the PC, they will not abandon xBox and now they’ve picked up enough MAC and PS3 developers to work in those environment as well. Given the PS3 is starting to sell really well (I have all the platforms) it’s a no brainer.
And I’m hard-pressed to understand why anyone is disappointed in Valve or believes they’ve done someone wrong. Of all the developers they consistently put out a solid product, their distribution platform is brilliant, and they’re funny. Just look up Valve Time…they embrace the philosophy that no game is done before it’s time…even if it’s delayed.
16/06/2010 at 03:24 jonfitt says:
But what if it’s delayed so they can finish a PS3 version? Doesn’t that boil your beets?
16/06/2010 at 06:13 Atalanta says:
Considering how excitingly variable Valve Time can be? Eh, not really.
16/06/2010 at 02:48 Ninja says:
Here’s what I was hoping as soon as the Portal 2 trailer finished (Not really a fan of the game. I love valve but Portal wasn’t all that fun to me).
I was hoping at first that the engie would make a guest appearence. Maybe “fixing” the playstation to allow Steam cloud support, or as a sort of easter egg. After Gabe left, I was hoping a guy dressed as an engie would walk across the stage or something.
Or better yet, announce that TF2 for the ps3 was getting updated, AND was cross-compatible with the PC. Then as they showed a picture of the PS3 connecting to the PC (as they normally do when presenting stuff like that) that the engie would appear in the picture holding another weapon.
but alas nothing. No episode 3, no Hl3, No counter Strike source 2, no engie update, NOT EVEN A LEFT 4 DEAD 3. OR LEFT 12 DEAD.
16/06/2010 at 03:08 jonfitt says:
Wait, I’m thoroughly confused. Wasn’t Orange Box on PS3? Didn’t they already get Portal 1, and therefore would probably get Portal 2?
I don’t see how this is a surprise. The surprise was taken away and replaced with no surprise except the game we knew was coming anyway and already knew was going to be great.
16/06/2010 at 03:27 Omnipotent says:
I refuse to buy any Valve game until Episode 3 comes out.
I actually mean this, Portal was fun. But I don’t see how Portal 2 can cap its magnificence. Especially if it is going to be a full fledged game. How much variety can they pour into “Thinking with Portals?”
It’s on PS3? Great. Wonderful. Where the hell is Episode 3?!
16/06/2010 at 03:29 jonfitt says:
I’m making a note here, huge depressed.
Well, really just a sense of “who cares about another platform”, but that doesn’t fit.
16/06/2010 at 03:57 HYPERPOWERi says:
Yay! Portal 2! Looks frantic and friggin’ awesome. GLaDOS sounds worn down and possibly more insane than ever.
16/06/2010 at 04:32 FRIENDLYUNIT says:
Yay! Valve jumps on the lets make games for consoles and fuck the PC bandwagon.
My heart, it brims full of joy.
16/06/2010 at 05:05 Firndeloth says:
I was rather happy with the trailer. I never put much stock in hype to begin with, and have always thought of E3 as an underwhelming event even before it shrunk. I was genuinely excited by the look of the game the trailer gives us, and by GLaDOS’s black-as-ever temper. I’m looking forward to it. No need to rain on the parade because you didn’t get your surprise. Especially from a company like valve that is known for jokes, pranks, playfulness, and the apparently deadly sin of over-hyping.
16/06/2010 at 05:28 Firndeloth says:
I’m also rather befuddled as to why so many people are outright angry. I’d say it’s just a game, but it’s not even that. It’s a game announcement or alternatively a missing one. Valve does a good job keeping games they’ve already made updated and running smoothly, which I assume keeps them rather busy, and while I admit it’s rather odd to use an episodic content system when your episodes are as spread out as those for half life, I think valve making odd and perhaps bad development decisions is a cause worth getting angry over. PC gamers have a strange sense of entitlement. They are entitled to games that have not been developed yet, entitled to exciting press releases on arbitrary dates like that of E3 and entitled to a wide variety of other things that might not necessarily be in the best business interests if the companies they think owe them their games and whatnot. You, PC Gaming community, are owed nothing. I love my PC and have never owned a console. But I don’t feel betrayed when a company that has a history of developing sporadically for the console develops … sporadically on the console. And I certainly don’t whine when things get over-hyped, let alone in an industry as firmly embedded in internet tradition as the gaming industry. An over-hyped E3 presentation shouldn’t surprise anyone. And then of course there’s the PC issue of pirating, which also comes down to feelings of entitlement. I would assume that the gaming community enjoys playing video games, and I don’t see why the platform our games were developed for should make such a huge difference to us. Or why playing on the PC makes some gamers think they are owed everything they want.
16/06/2010 at 05:41 Demon Beaver says:
It’s Valve… there could be a chanca that this was not the surprise, yet…
Also, the trailer is brilliant! Grudging GlaDOS, and a rebuilt facility… well, especially grudging GlaDOS! And as someone mentioned here before, the music was really nice. Starts with a “Still Alive” vibe, too.
16/06/2010 at 05:45 Gabriel says:
Has anyone else noticed that THERE’S A F***ING TEASER TRAILER AT THE END????
Just THAT made my day, NAY! the week!
The trailer is beautiful and made me more exhilariated than any anouncement of a game or movie since the last Portal/Orange box (Yeah, I’m a valve guy, sue me).
And as for the PS3 release of the Portal, Great going Valve! You’ve aknowledged the potential of the console, I might be a PC guy (sue me again) but what’s more important is seing more fraternity instead of more hatered.
Also: is it me or did Gabe looked like he was about to cry when he made that anouncement.
Does anyone else suspects Sony has his familly and forced him to do this? (jk)
16/06/2010 at 06:19 apa says:
I have PS3 and an underpowered PC so this is great!
16/06/2010 at 06:23 Nate says:
Thants: Valve didn’t make the Orange Box for PS3. The Orange Box was ported by EA. Valve has repeatedly said that they weren’t satisfied with the quality of the port and wouldn’t be doing PS3 development (or letting anyone port their games) until they felt they could do as good a job as they do on PC and 360. Every time it was brought up, they were pretty quick to dismiss the notion of developing for the PS3, especially Gabe, citing development work for the architecture not being worth it since it may not be applicable to any future architectures.
So yes, knowing all of that, it really is quite surprising.
16/06/2010 at 06:42 Grunt says:
THIS is EXACTLY why sensible people bristle at the Valve love repeatedly demonstrated in thread after thread on RPS. Because it’s clearly completely FAKE. Here Valve have done NOTHING untoward to any PC Gamer but this thread is overwhelming stuffed with Valve fanboys all hurt and angry OVER NOTHING.
I’ve been feeling it for a long time but this cements it – if this is what the gaming community is like then I no longer count myself as one of them. I’ve got better things to do than hang around listening to constant whining from spoiled brats.
Personally, I’m really excited to play a sequel to one of the best gaming experiences ever made: but thanks for ruining the thread, whiners.
16/06/2010 at 06:46 Nameykins says:
In news today!
Valve does not announce the second coming of Jesus, Angry Internet Men are angry! More at 11!
16/06/2010 at 07:52 JB says:
What IS this PS3 thing people keep talking about?
On a more serious note, Portal 2 looks spankingly gorgeous, can’t wait.
16/06/2010 at 07:59 Narvi says:
Hmm, it’s probably only news because Valve used a third-party to port their games to PS3 before this.
They seem to have worked out their own PS3 development tools now.
16/06/2010 at 08:10 Tarn says:
Can we introduce some sort of optional whine-filter onto the comments section?
Portal 2 teaser is slickly produced…although I’m assuming it’s pre-rendered stuff rather than in-game? The gameplay video that’s floating around looks pretty nifty – although I worry a little bit that it might be over-complicating the format.
16/06/2010 at 08:17 Mr Gray says:
Please turn off the comments.
16/06/2010 at 08:46 sigma83 says:
Corollary: If you don’t have a legitimate opinion to back up your view, you’re whining, and shouldn’t be posting.
16/06/2010 at 09:10 RogB says:
Portal 2 WOOOO YEAH!
Triumph!
i’ll play mine with a mouse please! (never could understand how the acrobatics in portal could be done with a gamepad, but thats only because I suck with one myself.)
*this post sponsored with excitement and optimism
16/06/2010 at 09:15 Inigo says:
Now for the full length gameplay footage, with bonus Blue Gloop™.
http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/64330/portal-2/videos/e310_portal2_demo_01_061510.html
http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/64330/portal-2/videos/e310_portal2_demo_02_061510.html
http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/64330/portal-2/videos/e310_portal2_demo_03_061510.html
Yes, I know – Xbox. Shut up.
16/06/2010 at 12:26 Richard Clayton says:
Thanks Inigo.
Not sure about the rest of you but I’m very happy about what I’ve see so far (and not bothered about the PR: one way or another).
This looks like it’s going to be superb.
But there better be more cake…
16/06/2010 at 10:01 MultiVaC says:
Is it just me, or are there only like two or three people who have made really over-the-top rage comments with dozens of people responding to them reasonably, and like 20 different comments complaining about how many people are totally insane with anger? Are there tons of comments being deleted, or are we some kind of bizarre, self hating community who are fixated on our negative side which is actually very small relative to the amount of idiots on the internet?
16/06/2010 at 13:10 Grunt says:
I think it”s just you. I’ve counted a dozen negative comments scrolling to about half way down on the first page – mostly along the lines of “Sucky surprise, Valve!” Why do you think xxstyxx says: (June 15, 2010 at 11:09 pm)
“Wow, so many Haters here?”. When I’d reached the point he commented, I was pretty hacked off, too, hoping for some genuine excitement and chat about the upcoming game based on the cool trailer but predominantly people wanted to whine.
If, as sigma says lower down the page, comment standards on RPS are supposed to be quite high for the Internet then this must be a relative judgment: we’re better by comparison with places like YouTube (as an example). There’s still room for a great deal of improvement. Please let’s not start a backlash against people recognising a genuine phenomenon.
16/06/2010 at 20:45 jonfitt says:
Taking the self righteous moral high ground is the new black.
We could have probably done with two posts, one saying “Surprise is No Surprise”, and another with the trailer. The trailer looks awesome, but it’s combined with what for some people will be a huge disappointment. It is a matter of individual perception as to which they feel the need to react to.
16/06/2010 at 10:42 Pmeie says:
The trailer looked fucking amazing.
I’m not watching any other gameplay so as not to spoil it.
You’re all fucking insane.
I just had about ten orgasms.
16/06/2010 at 11:02 sigma83 says:
‘or are we some kind of bizarre, self hating community who are fixated on our negative side which is actually very small relative to the amount of idiots on the internet?’
I think it’s more that the standard of person on this site is quite high compared to the rest of the internet. Which is why it sticks out more.
16/06/2010 at 11:53 MultiVaC says:
Yeah, I think so too. That’s why it sort of annoys me that people’s responses to a few others’ irrationality here are “Oh my god, the PC gamer community is so horrible!” when compared to most other sites I visit, comments on RPS are remarkably civil. I don’t think there have even been any personal insults in this entire comment thread, which is amazing if you consider it.
16/06/2010 at 11:36 deadsexy says:
http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=14151
10 minutes of gameplay in good quality, from a german pc gaming site
16/06/2010 at 13:21 sigma83 says:
MultiVaC: Well I think you’re a dunderhead and a bad figure-skater. Take THAT Mr. I Will Introduce Some Civility Into My Internet Space.
16/06/2010 at 20:47 jonfitt says:
Well… your Starcraft 2 build order is sub-optimal. Take THAT!
16/06/2010 at 13:27 David says:
I did like how Gabe made sure to say it’d be “the best console version of Portal 2″, clearly implying that the PC one will still be the best.
16/06/2010 at 13:48 jalf says:
Why are people so upset about the surprise being “just ps3 support”? Does it matter?
Did you think it was a free $100 gift card for all Steam users or something? Really, is it a problem that the surprise didn’t apply to us?
We still know we’re going to get Portal 2, just like we’re going to get all their other games. Do we need a surprise? What could a surprise possibly give us that we wouldn’t get otherwise, in an unsurprising fashion?
PS3 support from Valve is surprising. That’s why they made it a surprise.
Valve releasing their games on PC is not surprising. So why would they try to make a surprise out of that?
The sense of entitlement here is just overwhelming. It doesn’t matter what the surprise was, just that it was for someone else.
Sheesh…
16/06/2010 at 13:53 sigma83 says:
Obviously.
16/06/2010 at 14:01 sigma83 says:
^ @David
16/06/2010 at 17:18 Azazel says:
Oh noes! Not Portal 2!
16/06/2010 at 17:25 Alexander Norris says:
“I think we can put our differences behind us.”
SHODAN to guest star in Portal 2, to even further hammer home the whole “now you work against the crazy AI, now you work with her against some other enemy” thing.
(If only. That would have been a much better surprise.)
16/06/2010 at 17:26 Dominic White says:
Oh wow, the AI-core buddy character you get (shown in some of the videos floating around) is brilliant. He reminds me so much of Holly from Red Dwarf.
“Okay, I can hack this…
A A A A A A *Beep*
Okay, A A A A A B *beep*
I really should write these things down…”
16/06/2010 at 17:26 Dominic White says:
That is, the original Holly. Not Holly 2.
16/06/2010 at 17:31 jeremypeel says:
Too right. It’s especially funny in light of the sheer amount of super-competant hacking companions we seem to get in pc games in general.
16/06/2010 at 18:06 Dominic White says:
Okay – an interesting rumour related to the topic. Word is that the voice we hear in these video was intended as a placeholder. It’s just some guy from Valves offices, but the feedback has been so positive, they may use him for the final version.
I’d totally be in favour of that. Just add a slight mechanical edge to the sound in post-production, and you’ve got gold.
16/06/2010 at 17:53 Ush says:
Skipping aalll the way down to the end of these comments, everything I can think of has already been contributed except this: here are some pictures of portal-and-companion-cube street art in Toronto. Guerilla marketting perhaps? I’m too lazy to check.
16/06/2010 at 17:54 Ush says:
Crap crappitty crapcrap, the link: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/08/03/24/
16/06/2010 at 19:23 Skippy says:
“sooner or later valve will abondon pc .”
Oh my, i guffawed.
16/06/2010 at 22:54 Urthman says:
I think Tycho at Penny Arcade has the real scoop on the “surprise.”
If Valve is able to integrate their update-anytime Steamworks into the PS3 network, so that they can, for instance, issue free updates to TF2 or Portal anytime they wish, that could be the thin edge of a wedge that ultimately destroys the current Microsoft DLC model.
Which would end up being fantastic for PC gamers as well as console gamers.
16/06/2010 at 23:01 Tei says:
Slavery is bad for the slaves, but also for the owner. Chains have two sides, chains slave owners with owners and owners with slaves.
The owners of the consoles (Sony, Microsoft an the like) are forced to continue checking and re-checking everything that enters his consoles (from savegames, patchs, images, and of course, code) or will sooner or later able holes to let people free the consoles. And the bussines model of a console work, because the console players don’t have freedom. So the patchs on steam or outside of steam, will continue to be examined by the owners to garantee don’t open exploits.
21/06/2010 at 00:24 Scandalon says:
Yay more portal! (With new mechanics and prettier pictures.)
Also, all you haters should be excited for this as well, as cross-platform development by the same company generally means higher-quality code all around. Learning how to do things on the consoles also gives them a leg-up in the coming changes on PC. (Breaking things down into parallel threads, splitting things off the main proc to specialized sub-processors, running in constrained memory…)