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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05/04/2011 at 18:41 KauhuK says:
About those meet the pyro & medic videos, valve…
05/04/2011 at 18:53 Icarus says:
Er. Yes. Seconded.
05/04/2011 at 19:05 JohnnyMaverik says:
Thirded.
05/04/2011 at 20:11 LionsPhil says:
These are as entertaining, though. At least they’re not wasting effort on Left4Dead any more.
05/04/2011 at 20:59 Stevostin says:
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”.
05/04/2011 at 23:05 Wulf says:
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.
05/04/2011 at 23:45 Davie says:
You know they’d just be three and a half minutes of hats in suggestive poses.
05/04/2011 at 23:50 LionsPhil says:
Being Valve, we’d still laugh through those three-and-a-half minutes.
05/04/2011 at 18:43 Marshall Stele says:
Someone’s read VG Cats.
05/04/2011 at 18:45 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Jeep certainly has.
06/04/2011 at 08:09 QuantaCat says:
that was funny except for the last two panels. those made it pretty bad.
05/04/2011 at 18:48 Mr_Initials says:
Do you think it may be illegal to put it on the hood of your car?
05/04/2011 at 23:05 reticulate says:
“Hood”?
Hood?
I didn’t know we were letting the yanks in here.
When did this happen? Why wasn’t I informed?
05/04/2011 at 23:49 Davie says:
How do you Brits say it then? Enlighten a poor uncivilized Yank.
05/04/2011 at 23:55 pagad says:
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
06/04/2011 at 00:01 Zakski says:
no “sidewalk” either, its the gorram pavement
06/04/2011 at 00:35 reticulate says:
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.
06/04/2011 at 00:44 DJ Phantoon says:
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?
06/04/2011 at 03:50 FalseMyrmidon says:
Merriam-Webster simplified a lot of words for the american english dictionary. American english:British english::metric system:imperial system.
06/04/2011 at 04:31 Arglebargle says:
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….
05/04/2011 at 18:49 aronbarco says:
That a lot of nuts… ahm… bullets!
05/04/2011 at 18:55 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Aperture-brand Resolution Pellets, I think you’ll find.
05/04/2011 at 18:52 SuperNashwanPower says:
In about an hour I may have stopped smiling the soppy smile that all Valve things put on my face
05/04/2011 at 18:58 ezekiel2517 says:
Sentry Turrets: Because men are boring.
05/04/2011 at 19:33 LionsPhil says:
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.)
05/04/2011 at 19:04 choie says:
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.
05/04/2011 at 19:08 Schmung says:
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.
05/04/2011 at 23:00 Wulf says:
I tend to keep noticing and noting that, too. Mostly because it’s completely true!
05/04/2011 at 23:06 Schmung says:
I’m sure if you were sufficiently motivated you could blame BLOPS, Homefront et al on some horrible mis interpretation of Hlaf Life.
05/04/2011 at 19:09 HeavyHarris says:
Brilliant.
05/04/2011 at 19:34 OptionalJoystick says:
Oh Valve you scamps.
37 seconds in, more ARG material.
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Portal_ARG#April_5.2C_2011
05/04/2011 at 19:38 Hoaxfish says:
Reminds me of the film Toys and/or Small Soldiers
05/04/2011 at 19:52 Valvarexart says:
Good night. Holy crap, wouldn’t let that sentry gun near anything that matters.
06/04/2011 at 08:59 Mr_Day says:
No, the sentry gun wouldn’t let you near anything that matters.
That is kind of the point.
05/04/2011 at 20:15 djr255 says:
JK Simmons FTW
05/04/2011 at 20:28 Nighthood says:
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!
05/04/2011 at 20:55 Electric Dragon says:
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.
06/04/2011 at 04:59 Urthman says:
Yeah, it’s funny how it looks like they’re using a physics engine even for stuff that looks like traditional 2D animation.
05/04/2011 at 21:42 satsui says:
Hellofriend
05/04/2011 at 22:05 Rii says:
I want one.
05/04/2011 at 22:52 gwathdring says:
That was awesome.
05/04/2011 at 22:58 Wulf says:
“I’m different.”
Haahahahahaha. Did anyone else catch that?
(Hint: The improv turret says it.)
06/04/2011 at 00:30 sexyresults says:
Bleedingly obvious once you pointed it out but completely missed it 1st and 2nd watch
05/04/2011 at 23:32 reticulate says:
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.
06/04/2011 at 02:30 ericchole says:
very nice.
06/04/2011 at 16:45 Jambe says:
Just ooc, why the Viddler link instead of the official Valve YT vid?