By Jim Rossignol on April 5th, 2011 at 6:37 pm.
Valve Software sure do make videos good. They’ve done just that for Portal 2, several times now. And now there is more of it! I don’t know where they get their ideas from. A book, probably.
The “Turrets” video is below.
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About those meet the pyro & medic videos, valve…
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Er. Yes. Seconded.
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Thirded.
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These are as entertaining, though. At least they’re not wasting effort on Left4Dead any more.
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Hey, “The Sacrifice” video was really fucking good. Gave me the creeps each time.
Count me in for Pyro and Medic too, thus. PT2 video are great but not as memorable as, say, “meet the spy”.
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I’d actually be happy if they forgot all about their other franchises completely and just continued making these for a while. I could have 50 of these and be only just about sated.
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You know they’d just be three and a half minutes of hats in suggestive poses.
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Being Valve, we’d still laugh through those three-and-a-half minutes.
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Someone’s read VG Cats.
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Jeep certainly has.
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that was funny except for the last two panels. those made it pretty bad.
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Do you think it may be illegal to put it on the hood of your car?
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“Hood”?
Hood?
I didn’t know we were letting the yanks in here.
When did this happen? Why wasn’t I informed?
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How do you Brits say it then? Enlighten a poor uncivilized Yank.
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Well, it’s a bonnet, innit. And the thing at the back that you put objects in is a boot. None of this “hood” and “trunk” nonsense
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no “sidewalk” either, its the gorram pavement
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And it’s petrol, not gas.
Also you blokes keep missing your ‘u’ out of words and replacing ‘s’ with ‘z’ for some reason. Sort it out, we can’t have such egregious modification to the Queen’s English, what.
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Actually, you all used to speak like us, until they decided it was too… country? I don’t know the particular word.
Or did you think Merriam-Webster both had nothing better to do?
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Merriam-Webster simplified a lot of words for the american english dictionary. American english:British english::metric system:imperial system.
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Webster changed spellings so that the American verson would be different from the English one. No high mindedness involved really.
On the other hand, bonnets went out of style over a century ago, and boots should really be touching the ground….
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That a lot of nuts… ahm… bullets!
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Aperture-brand Resolution Pellets, I think you’ll find.
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In about an hour I may have stopped smiling the soppy smile that all Valve things put on my face
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Sentry Turrets: Because men are boring.
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I like how they have both an Empathy Generator and an Empathy Suppressor.
(The Level 1 Sentry Turret from TF2 is still cuter, though. Bi-di-beep.)
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Terrific video — these just keep getting better. Don’t miss the updated Portal 2 website, which has a page from the 30K-page Home Safety Turret booklet. Also, the video includes frames that are clues for the new potato ARG, referencing a few Steam/Facepunch users in, shall we say, less than mature fashion. (References to one’s mum, for example.) Valve are love.
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It’s been said before, but it’s incredible how the ickle robots (turrets included) in these videos have more personality than the central character in most games. Unfortunately, I think most companies are going to grasp the wrong end of the stick here (like they did with HL) and we’re going to be playing games full of ‘funny’ talking robots for the next decade.
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I tend to keep noticing and noting that, too. Mostly because it’s completely true!
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I’m sure if you were sufficiently motivated you could blame BLOPS, Homefront et al on some horrible mis interpretation of Hlaf Life.
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Brilliant.
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Oh Valve you scamps.
37 seconds in, more ARG material.
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Portal_ARG#April_5.2C_2011
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Reminds me of the film Toys and/or Small Soldiers
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Good night. Holy crap, wouldn’t let that sentry gun near anything that matters.
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No, the sentry gun wouldn’t let you near anything that matters.
That is kind of the point.
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JK Simmons FTW
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The ARG is now incredibly complex: http://valvearg.info/wiki/Valve_ARG_Wiki
Something’s going to happen in the near future, I just know it. This is by far the best ARG I’ve seen, and definitely the most well planned.
Absolutely lovely for a conspiracy nut like myself too!
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I love the way when they show the exploded view diagram of the turret, the rest of it collapses and all the bullets fall out as if it really has been cut apart.
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Yeah, it’s funny how it looks like they’re using a physics engine even for stuff that looks like traditional 2D animation.
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Hellofriend
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I want one.
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That was awesome.
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“I’m different.”
Haahahahahaha. Did anyone else catch that?
(Hint: The improv turret says it.)
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Bleedingly obvious once you pointed it out but completely missed it 1st and 2nd watch
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The fact that Erik Wolpaw is so talented makes me both sad and happy.
Sad, because I know I’ll never be as good a writer as he is.
Happy, because he exists to write stuff like this.
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very nice.
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Just ooc, why the Viddler link instead of the official Valve YT vid?
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