Portal Trailer

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  Can you name one videogame mechanic that is trademarked? NOT character, but game system or mechanic. : Porkasaurus
  • Sega has some patents on Crazy Taxi's gameplay. Someone owns a patent on minigames during loading screens... : GilesH
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    Were't carmack's shadows subject to trademark? : nutcrackr
    • I doubt that, since he opposes software patents of that sort. : GreatGooglyMoogly
    • I think it was the other way around. Could be wrong. But Carmack invented the Carmack's Reverse algorithm... : verbal
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  That would be mega suck if they did patent it. : freshyk
  • Trademark, whatever. : freshyk
• Luckily they aren't douchebags. : Athlon7
• Given the fact it's been in use since the original Descent, that'd be pretty questionable. : Zann

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• troll much? : TastyWheat

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  wtf I thought I was in FP : RikiTiki2
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    Those damned portals. : freshyk
    • hahaha : rand04
    • Thanks to the apeture handheld device, the impossible is easy. : SolrFlare
    • Hahar thats good stuff. : Rich McNinch

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  They're not "adding it into the game," this IS a game. It's based off a student project that was feature... : Chris Remo
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    And that student demo was done over a year ago, which was long before any info on Preys portals was float... : Beady
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      as i said in my first post, unreal 1.0 had portals, which was years ago. : grindking
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        So what? What's your point? Doom had graphics way back when, omg HL2 has graphics, THEIVES!!!! The poi... : lont
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          You're forgetting that in the world of PC FPSs, graphics + technology = gameplay. If the tech and the art... : jake2000
          • That seems to be a ridiculous equation. : thechunder
    • (actually Prey had 'em since '97) : wild falcon
  • Horray for common sense and a bit of research! : Zips
• Why are you hating on Vavle and not 3DR/HH seeing as their portal game is out? : Schnapple
• yeah lets just sit on the plateau of boring and uninnovative gameplay for a while and not improve games :... : Chandler55
• I agree. I also hate the whole "mouselook" thing everyone has been reusing lately. : Pink0r
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  This self-serving post is retarded. If you need to boost your own ego for whatever fucking reason, do it ... : annih1late
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    haha how is this trying to boost my ego? : grindking
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      Two points: 1) Your mention of your own map with portals borders on bragging, hence it may sound self-s... : UtilityMaximizer
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        Wait, that's three points. Oops. : UtilityMaximizer
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          We still doing that BF2 lol shackbattle? : Orange Pylon
          • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12513539 : UtilityMaximizer
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        Umax has arrived, I'd give up if I were you. : d0gbert
        • this really would be the wise course of action. UMax's grasp of logic and attention to detail is astound... : themelon
      • UM:3 DickwavingKing: 0 : kingdepork
• This game has been around awhile from my understanding Valve is just sourcerizing it. : the rizzo
• Who cares? You couldn't create portals on the fly in Unreal 1, and there certainly hasn't been a game tha... : Orange Pylon
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  Dude don't be lame. Remember how in the end it's all about fun? : NastyJack
  • Don't you know anything? In the end, it's all about the benjamins. : Orange Pylon
• Yeah because there have been so many portal-based tongue-in-cheek puzzle-ish games... so many... like, uh... : johnsto
• HAY GUYZ I INVENTED PORTALS IN GAMES! : ColoradoCNC
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  According to Remo, this is based on a digipen student final project or something, the guy works for Valve... : ErneX
  • You mean Ressurection of Evil? : -efx-
• yes, valve created this game in the few weeks that Prey has been out. Shame on them for jumping on the b... : deathofrats
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  And portal tech hasn't really been around since. Yes Unreal1 had it. Yes it was awesome (I made a few ... : famine101
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    actually there was a UT map that had a portal in it, which you could access by shooting some switch in t... : ballystix
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      Wasn't there portals in UT "Facing Worlds" or some map named like that? You'd jump in the portal in the f... : BuLL_2006
      • No they were teleporters. Also, Unreal Engine portals were much more limited than Prey's, and even moreso... : GreatGooglyMoogly
• If you think about it, a portal is simply a teleporter. A device that instantaneously takes the player ... : MR 9000

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• **tagged** portal game download : Korban
• mad props to da remo - will it work w/o a 3d accelerator? I'm on my old laptop. : deceiver
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  im stuck fairly early on. i used the turtle to hit one button while i hit the other, but i guess i still ... : Maarten Goldstein
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    Escape - restart level. For some reason the boulders wouldnt spawn until I restarted the level. Once t... : Beady
    • ah. yeah the first time i played neither the boulders or turtle would show up : Maarten Goldstein
• You guys killed it. :( Here's a working dl, it seems: http://www.vgpro.com/file/10873_narbacular_dr... : zehh
• puts it on the front page : mista mista
• tagged for after work!! : godm0de
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  phooey bandwith exceeded : Unleashed
  • I've got it, can someone start a torent, I'll seed what I can. my upload is limited to 12kbps.. cell mode... : deceiver
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  Any chance of a fileshack mirror? They ran out of bandwidth! : Fayk
  • Nice fast download of HD file here: http://files.filefront.com/Half+Life+2+Episode+Two+Portal+Trailer/... : noleh8r
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  Sweet.. looks like they increased the depth of poral-within-portal visibility. In Narbacular Drop, as we... : Mr.Fusion
  • Yeah, that was one thing that I thought was a really cool improvement. : Chris Remo
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  too bad it lacks mouse invert. unplayable :[ : bradsh
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    First of all, it DOESN'T LACK IT. Hit ~ for console, and then type invert mouse. Second of all, invert... : lont
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      bite your tongue. invert is what makes fps games feel more immersive. If I wanted to just point and cli... : deathofrats
      • Ok that's enough, this isn't the time or place for an inverted mouse debate. : Carnivac
      • Thank you for putting that bitch in his place. : h0rus
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        No, it doesn't make them "feel more immersive" and it isn't "unplayable" without it. It's just something... : lont
        • EVERYTHING DIFFERENT IS WRONG!!! TERRORIST!!! : Acid Gumball
    • goddamn i agree with this guy so damn much. : abrasion
• Mirror: http://www.vgpro.com/file/10873_narbacular_drop.exe.html Snagged from the SA thread on this. : Carnivac
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  well, it only took like ten minutes to finish (this is not counting bugs and deaths, just learning the co... : AbortedFetusChristi
  • Just a purchase... to your girlfriend. Why? : Ride-My-Rocket
• Has anyone managed to actually bind using the console? I can't get the syntax right. I need to change ... : zehh
• Wow that was fun, good stuff. : abrasion

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• Yes. This is all I want. Oh and TF2. : deeveee

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• OH MY FUCKING GOD OPFOR SEQUEL IS COMING GUYS : j33uk
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  "That would be fucking cool if you play as Shepard : Flying h4x0r
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    What do you think Shepard is doing after G-Man enisted him? Testing weapons tech, of course! : silentw
    • I figured after G-Man lost control of Freeman, he would pull out his ace in the hole Shephard. Freeman w... : Acid Gumball
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  Adrian shepard crosed my mind when I watched the video, after all, portal is part of the HL universe and ... : Lobito
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    Why is Shepherd the logical choice for a character in Portal? : jake2000
    • or however you spell his damn name : jake2000
    • In Opposing force one of the weapons he used was called a Displacer, it would teleport him to random loca... : nutcrackr

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  this looks to be even more puzzle oriented than prey. you're fucked buddy : JINKY
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    yeah, I know. But, I will say this. Valve is very good at training players in how to use a game mechanic ... : oatmela
    • yah I would hope some of those crazy puzzle maps are closer to the end of the game. :P : Shadowdane
• Interestingly enough, if this technology did actually exist in real life as presented, it would probably ... : SolrFlare

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  the trailer certainly refers to you as a "test subject" and implies that your life is fairly disposable..... : lont
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    Yeah, I forgot about that. So maybe this portal tech is new for the Combine, and they are testing to see ... : ventro
    • It would certainly fit the plot that they've seen what damage your grav gun can do, and so start testing ... : lont
• It puts the portal on the wall or else it gets waterboarded again! : lont
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  Pretty sure Portal isn't meant to fit in to the HL universe at all. : aeg1x
  • Well they do have teleporters, which I'd imagine operate in a similar way to portals. : Grim_Grom
  • No, it is. : Chris Remo
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    (Valve has said its in the HL universe) : jake2000
    • Wow, that's really cool! : rand04

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• 11 AM PST. Forgot which time that was, sorry. =P : Kurashu
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  Kurashu, let me the first to publicly say that I love you Also, please login to msn/icq/whatever as I ... : zehh
  • I'm just so hyped about TF2, you know how much I talked about it and you guys bashed me for it being vapo... : Kurashu
• C'mon! Real TF2 news here! *bump* : Kurashu
• last bump! =P : Kurashu
• Damnit, what a time to be at work. : Barbarian
• Thanks, good to know. : megarust32

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• That could work as long as the portal was time limited & the engy could only open one portal at a time. ... : Shadowdane
• Screw that, the engineer should not have a portal. I think that was in QW TF 1.6 as well, then deleted... : Barbarian

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• At the enrichment center, we beleive that a highly motivated test subject can carry out rather complex ta : aeg1x

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• Yeah: using the messed up way you can "throw" yourself by falling through successive portals, you can bui... : lont

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• Ha! That's why I had that eerie feeling. Dammit, good call. : brome
• I saw a video interview with Robin Walker (I think it was him anyway) where he said Valve were big fans o... : aeg1x

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• Duke Nukem Forever will be packaged with Episode 3. : zipperface
• I think the episodes will remain independent games, at least unless they make a 'collectors edition' or s... : jake2000

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  I'm going to go take a poop. : deceiver
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    Bah, I did that months ago : Liquid
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      PREY DID IT FIRST!!!! : lont
      • and valve does it best! : Chandler55

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• Yeah I suspect this game's gonna kick the shit out of me. : Rotten Deadite

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• The impossible is easy. : lont
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  Oops... anyway, striders don't work that way. They aren't truly walking around with physics yet, so maki... : lont
  • Let's give credit where credit is due though. Even though Valve is assisting with this game, credit belo... : noleh8r
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  Let's give credit where credit is due though. Even though Valve is assisting with this game, credit belon... : noleh8r
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    Aren't they essentially Valve now though? : megarust32
    • True, but I just wanted to make a bit of a distinction. : noleh8r
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  It's already been confirmed that Portal is set within the HL universe, hence all the Half-Lifery. : johnsto
  • aww, i was hoping for some new setting : RikiTiki2
  • Portal is the Combine's training facility. How did you think the respawning mechanic worked? :D : Damodred
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  this is a good test for ep3. they could set limits to portals, like perhaps they only stick to certain m... : ermac
  • That was the way it was in ND: you can use the portals on rock, but not iron. Allows them to set up bett... : lont

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  Holy crap the mods will rock. So delicious. grant : Sturm08
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    And I signed it like an email at work. How odd. : Sturm08
    • Check your outgoing email for 'pwned bitches!!1' : Carnivac
    • HELLO GRANT! : deathofrats
• Yeah I think there's big potential there for people to keep outdoing each other with weird portal maps...... : SatansFist

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• I think both of these portals can technically do the same things. Valve is using them in a completely dif... : freshyk
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  Juding from the (great) video, both Prey and Portals have pretty much the same thing feature, technologic... : zehh
  • That's essentially true. In reality what happened was they saw the people working on Narbacular drop, th... : Chris Remo

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  hope you can turn it off : Schnapple
  • haha seriously. looks like it could be as annoying as bloom. : datoo
• No it doesn't... DoF is not going to be effective in all games, so it's not certain that we'll see it in... : crummynz
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  At least HDR does actualy exist in sight (to an extent) I hate things they do to make it look 'cinematic'... : spdon
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    Are you saying that human eyes don't have Depth of Field? : famine101
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      not like a camera, because you are focusing on one group of objects, where as when looking at a monitor y... : spdon
      • they are trying for photo-realism, not real-realism, it could be toned down just a hair though. : deceiver

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• Yea, maybe you should play for a bit longer. I haven't finished Ep1 yet (taking my sweet time), but I thi... : famine101
• Keep playing, you'll get more stuff. : Chris Remo
• lol @ ADD : Magus

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• This next task.... is impossible : Schnapple
• kept waiting for "audois turd nuggets" at the end of the trailer, ala grandma's boy : deceiver
• We believe that a highly motivated test subject can carry out rather complex tasks while enduring the mos : johnsto
• I hope that narrator is in the game : jake2000

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  well there were prey screenshots way back in 95 or 96 on the duke 3d cd.. : kemical
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    but i don't remember seeing anything about portals until the latest incarnation that matches this timelin... : giroml
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      they were there right from the start, that was the whole big thing about prey, portals. : Maarten Goldstein
      • i guess i missed this video from 1998 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7844987544204140976&q=pr... : giroml
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      I remember. So I guess the old ass prey, then quake3, then new prey, now hl2? : not work safe
      • oh and the TV show SLIDERS. : not work safe
  • The Ultima series had portals in the 80s. :) The general idea of portals isn't new; I think what peopl... : Johnny Law
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  valve is notorious for 1uping everyone, like when bf2 came out it released info on day of defeat. it's a ... : deceiver
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    DoD 1up'd BF2? : pigvomit
    • Right: wth? What is he talking about? They aren't even slightly the same sort of game. : lont
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      1up in terms of press and buzz, the most recent press coverage timing seems to follow competitions sucess... : deceiver
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        DOD:S came out in what? November or October. BF2 had been out since June. Explain. : the rizzo
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          Sept 26 so Basically October, thats 4 Months after BF2 : the rizzo
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            He's talking about releasing info about it i guess. As in BF2 is released and valve says "look what's up... : kingdepork
            • http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/37357/ yep, that's what I was talking about, it may not be a valid... : deceiver
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    COMPLETELY different games dude. : the rizzo
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      I was not very specific in my argument, I was refering to Press coverage and buzz, similar to intel relea... : deceiver
      • Welcome to the world of business. : MaxPete82

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• new things take baby steps. prey just happened to be first : RikiTiki2
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  is this not going to be multiplayer? : carazy
  • They've described it as a new SP game, but I don't see why it couldn't include or have a MP component. I... : lont
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  Prey SDK prior to Episode 2 = this game before "Portal" is released : Schnapple
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    No. Having the same technology working != the same game. A game is something carefully designed and pla... : lont
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      Well.. yeah... I think he's implying that you'd get something similar from users if a Prey SDK was releas... : crummynz
      • I'm sure they'll pathetically attempt to copy the Portal trailer almost exactly and whine about "hey see,... : lont
• lets hope for some co-op, they could do some interesting things with different amounts of players if im t... : USteppin
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  Someone mod'd the PC demo of Prey to turn the monkey wrench into the same thing. It had recurisve portal... : jake
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    Here's a video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDDvrovKgeM&search=prey%20wrench : malevolence
    • yeah all we need now is the SDK to make it a wee bit closer to this. But the physics, etc. of Source will... : Schnapple

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• Fuck CS! There, I said it. : coyoterys
• CS still exists? I thought WoW was the only game now.. : tavis

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• i thought the same thing when I first saw this.. hey looks like some of the conc maps from TFC. : Shadowdane