Portal 2 Officially Announced (Updated)

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• Yes. Enjoy! : Johnny Law
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  yeah I never get the reference to holiday season. I take my holidays all throughout the year. I know its ... : hanabal
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    Christmas : rrmills
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      thank you kindly : hanabal
      • October/November launch window. : dahanese
      • Well, more specifically, probably around Thanksgiving or a little before so there's plenty of time to buy... : rrmills
• http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time Fall 2011? : zehh
• Two words: Valve Time : brabee
• Easter is a holiday season, right? : Super Sparker

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  Counter Strike players are a very vocal minority. : Rodeoclash
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    A minority of ~150 000 consistent players? http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ : SpikeMeister
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      Every single one of which complain about the most minor of changes to their loving game. CS2 wouldn't sat... : pyide
      • Anything on based on the same engine with the same mechanics would satisfy. The only thing they bitch abo... : Seabass307
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        That's exactly what Valve said, which is why they don't do it. It's also the reason the guy who made orig... : Archangel2007
        • That's true enough. Goose always did what he wanted with it, changed it how he saw fit; he never listene... : badcaps
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  That was just in August 09. They have been working on this game since early 2008, they weren't going to j... : Smurfy12
  • ah alright, I wasn't aware of that. : Seabass307

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• yeah. a part of Portal's charm was that it was a huge surprise from a small, you could say, ''add-on''... : vujinovicm
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  I'm glad it was hugely successful enough to merit a sequel. : Haxim
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    its hard to overstate my anticipation : Fooldozer
    • I was unsure before but now it appears that Valve is alive and doing programming. : snot3353

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• In Episode 2 theres a shot of a freighter than says "Aperture Labs." The tie in is already there. Foun... : Trips

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  Because we all know Valve only has ~10 people working on one game at a time... I wouldn't be surprised i... : aqtrans
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    Or maybe it IS episode 3. Eh? :-) Gordan learns to use portals. : JediDwag
    • I was actually thinking about this... what if they really went all out and hugely expanded on Portal to a... : Gwyndion
• Half Life 3, HL2 episode 3, or whatever you want to call it is taking so long because they're prepping ei... : ajvitaly
• They'll get to it, they released TF2 afterall. Just give'em some more time : mexpak
• A lot of the clues from the Portal update pointed to HL2 E3 clues, I'd say it's possible they will reveal... : Leviathan41
• yea >< episode are suppose to reduce the production cost and time ..... but it seem so far that it has n... : Gapyro

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  Unless of course the compound/ship is actually derelict in a jungle :P : Sifer
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    Oh, and to add again, it could be in the middle of a jungle because of the [o]teleport tech it is meant t... : Sifer
    • SPOILER IN ABOVE POST!!! My bad :( Used the completely wrong tag. I apologise : Sifer
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  However, it's also possible that Portal 2 takes place at the location mentioned in Ep2, but not at the sa... : Liquid
  • I'm really hoping this is it. Visit the Borealis twice, once in Portal, the next in EP3... of course it w... : Scoots06
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  Im thinking this game will either end where E2 ended, or it will start where E2 ended and be a story betw... : awt88
  • Aye, definitely. Either of those would make sense to be honest. Not to mention...brilliant. And what if, ... : Sifer
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  I thought It was just the remains of glados, and the room she was in. : CaptainSurly
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    Can't be. Did you not see the ending? :P : Sifer
    • It's been a while, from what I recall it was very... explodey... : CaptainSurly
• episode 3 is going to take place on the Borealis which is derelict somewhere in the artic : cell9song
• I don't think many plants grow in the arctic... : Smurfy12

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• I believe each "EYE" becomes it's own monster. So you will have to fight each (maybe one will be a good e... : TOnez

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  drattmannh0nee, duh. : GloriousCow
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    well i can figure that much out :) does that mean something? : radio_babylon
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      drattman/h0nee, it's probably another BBS login for this ARG stuff they're doing : Bamtan
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        yes, this has been confirmed. there is new stuff now streaming down from the BBS using the new userid & ... : Lokatana
        • Oh, and you can check out what they're finding at http://portalwiki.net : Lokatana
• Valve news story for Portal 2 - Contains New BBS Login: drattmann/h0nee" : Yanks
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  One man that nerd? : Snif DeCrac
  • On net than dream? : Snif DeCrac
• U R MR GAY : ihya

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  i disagree, it was the prefect length. : peetabix01
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    it's still a mayor complaint of a lot of people though : zehh
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      people are writing to the mayor about this shit? : two50six
      • that was the joke. prefect.. mayor.. : duffman03
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    But for a "full-price" release? This one better be much longer if they are going to charge $50 for it. : jdcope
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      It has a 2 player co-op mode with a separate story : two50six
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        Any proof of this? : SquareWheel
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          From gamestops website "Coming this holiday. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Game of the Year and dr... : two50six
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            Doesn't necessarily say a seperate story : Katarn3279
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              http://kotaku.com/5486758/portal-2-adds-multiplayer-co+op-new--familiar-characters : two50six
              • Okay but your post didn't mention it :P : Katarn3279
    • Exactly. The first was fine as part of the Orange box, but if this is a standalone release for $50 it be... : Inarion
  • Thats what she said. : X-Nice
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  The complete lack of sexual metaphor in this thread is disappointing. =( : Lucien Irenicus
  • Seeing the portal open, he lunged into action! : oneandone11

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  just like half life 2? : hanabal
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    HL2 had deathmatch. : critch
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      that came out after the general release : hanabal
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        What does that matter? : greh kleh
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          not much really. But I remember when HL2 came out. more than a few people were pissed about no HL2 multip... : hanabal
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            Oddly enough, no one really played MP even when it did come out : two50six
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              Actually, the number of concurrent players has stayed pretty steady, at around 2000 - which is quite good... : thesubtlesnake
              • I remember liking the first half-life's multiplayer a lot more. : CaptainSurly
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  wasn't the original Portal a full title AND a Valve game? : awaypaster
  • I'm assuming by "full title" they mean longer (and more highly priced) than Portal 1, which was primarily... : bipolar
• There's no basis whatsoever for that assumption. MP Portal has great potential, but until they say it... : SeraphielX
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  Have you considered how hard that would be to balance? I don't think it's a reasonable thing to expect mu... : gooblerampling
  • It's a portal gun. What's to balance? Plus who's to say MP isn't COOP? : dookiebot
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    If you think about it, it is perfectly reasonable to expect a Multiplayer component to Portal 2. Coop IS... : fade2black244
    • "Coming this holiday. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Game of the Year and draws from the award-winning ... : two50six

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  That could be pretty cool, would make for some interesting Braid-style puzzles. : Zek
  • That would get really complicated really fast. BRING IT ON! :-D : JediDwag
• Oh that would be quite wicked. : spazzium
• Why didn't I infer that from these screenshots? Awesome possibility though; not sure how it would work... : Dr_Cube
• That's what I got from the two images as well. Exciting. : menkey

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  We can try and avoid it together! Like a support group. : marmite
  • I'm making one of those safety-record flipsigns to hang over my monitor: 0 days without seeing Portal : Johnny Law
• With portals, the impossible is easy! : Zips

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• Agreed : ease one
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  Yea, I'd rather pay $20 for 5 hours than $40 for 10. : aethyr
  • If they had to make a Portal 2, that's exactly what I would have wanted as well. : TGammet
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  It might mean it's more than just test chambers this round. I could see running around like a Mirror's e... : grabbie
  • There's no 'might' about it, the covers show a jungle. : critch
• It's Valve! : justwr!ght
• Now of course, a co-op game might make it worth it ... : darksied
• It's interesting - I thought at $50 that L4D1 was way too expensive for what it was, which is why I didn'... : Schnapple
• ahaha >.< i'm thinking of that as well / it will be damn nice if a new orange box with portal 2 + hl2... : Gapyro

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• yep, yep. As I said before ;) : two50six
• It should be Zoey and Bill. Valve sucks at making characters. : ArB

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  Agreed. Portal was great, but I'd be much happier with another Portal add-on to an Ep3 or HL3 package, a... : Thund3rball
  • Yeah seriously. I would even go so far as to say that portal was just good and not great, especially for ... : bob3578

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• See "Update 2" in the article. It's a password. : scary_monster

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  lol, who knows about multiplayer but Valve wouldn't release anything without dedicated servers. If they d... : Zek
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    You do remember that L4D originally didn't have dedicated servers, right? I mean they went back on that, ... : K1Bond007
    • Always had dedicated servers, only updated to make it easier to connect a specific one : mollikka
    • They always had dedicated servers, but originally most of it was automated. Later updates allows us to g... : Leviathan41

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  I call it by the name Inara. : vx2o
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    Why do you have a name for his Companion Cube? : locash
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      That was the Companion Cube posting! : pulse2115
      • The Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak. : lunarbunny
  • oh... the Cube is that kind of Companion? o_O : Bingo
  • clever girl : MrBig0

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• I agree with you, but a ~10-15 hour Portal game would be amazing, seeing as Portal was one of the best re... : Navy Spitfire

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• Valve has got into a pattern of giving us something every year. I like this pattern. : SLUDGE^
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  Yeah. From Steam: Valve ... today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. : formkatze
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    Think they mean "4th of July" when they say holiday season? ; ) : zipr
    • You know, I wouldn't put it past them. : duffman03
    • 2012...... : erebus