Portal

[mathboy]

I have summer vacation and feel like spending some money, preferably on games. And portal seems pretty cool. Will it run on a computer from 2004 (or something) that could run Bloodlines (they have the same engine, right?), I have an AMD64 3000+ or something processor and 1 gigabyte of RAM and a geforce 6800 le (128mb) graphics card?

And more importantly are there monsters (or scary robots) in the game?

 

[Hobo Elf]

It's a bloody puzzle game. There are no monsters or robots. The only enemies that can kill you are these cute little turrets, and the closes thing to a robot is GLaDOS, which just kind of hangs on the ceiling and tries to taunt you.

 

[Secretninja]

Orange box is cheap as fuck tho, and a very solid investment if you are into going BOOM HEADSHOT!!!!1
online

 

[racofer]

Other than the jumping mutants, nope, nothing scary.

 

[Satori (original)]

:baka da yo:

Multiplayer shooters are for cards, Half Life was dull as fuck and Portal tried too hard to be amusing (plus was short as hell). Don't waste your money.

 

[Rohit_N]

Your computer should run it.

 

[DraQ]

Portal was good and had specific atmosphere (up to and including credits sequence), however it was:

-short
-relatively simple
-not an FPS

 

[Hobo Elf]

Portal was good and had specific atmosphere (up to and including credits sequence), however it was:

-short
-relatively simple
-not an FPS

-railroaded as fuck

With a gun that shoots portals, they should've left the puzzles somewhat open ended.

 

[DraQ]

Portal was good and had specific atmosphere (up to and including credits sequence), however it was:

-short
-relatively simple
-not an FPS

-railroaded as fuck

With a gun that shoots portals, they should've left the puzzles somewhat open ended.

This too.

Still, it was fun all the way till the very end.

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Still, it was fun all the way till the very end.

Nope. I remember thinking "God, when will the tutorial finally end?". And then I fought GladOS. And then the game was over.

 

[Multidirectional]

Your computer will run it just fine, actually Portal should run better than Bloodlines cause it is actually optimised. And don't waste your time with "don't waste your money" advises, Portal is great, and the whole Orange Box is great, as long as you want your games simply to be fun, and not be able to cure cancer or some shit like that.. Certainly grab the whole Orange Box, as Portal by itself is too short to justify a purchase.

 

[Satori (original)]

Your computer will run it just fine, actually Portal should run better than Bloodlines cause it is actually optimised. And don't waste your time with "don't waste your money" advises, Portal is great, and the whole Orange Box is great

Everything Valve has shat out has little to no replay value unless you're braindead. Just pirate it and spend your money on some Indie game where the devs actually need your money and support.

 

[Gragt]

Orange Box is when Valve showed its true color, that of mediocrity.

 

[Major_Boobage]

Here mathboy Click

I used this site to buy L4D, its perfectly save.

 

[Multidirectional]

Everything Valve has shat out has little to no replay value unless you're braindead.

Then I'm braindead, cause I finished Half Life, Half Life 2 with Episodes, and Portal multiple times and I know I'm gonna do it again sometime. You know when a game has replay value? When it's fun. Who gives a fuck if it's linear.

 

[mathboy]

I don't think I'll buy the Orange box. I tried playing the original Half-life and actually managed to get to some place where you have to jump on big stone blocks. Then I saw some rope thing hanging down that I thought I'd climb. I looked up and saw it was not a rope, but a monster hanging from the ceiling, so I quit and uninstalled the game and hardly dared leave the house for a couple of days. That's not something I want to reexperience.

 

[entertainer]

Sad story.

 

[Hory]

Then I'm braindead, cause I finished Half Life, Half Life 2 with Episodes, and Portal multiple times and I know I'm gonna do it again sometime. You know when a game has replay value? When it's fun. Who gives a fuck if it's linear.

You know when someone is braindead? When he finds un-fun things to be fun.

 

[Multidirectional]

You know when someone is braindead? When he finds un-fun things to be fun.

Good thing there are people like you to guide these poor souls then. How would anyone know what's fun without you telling them..
You know what? Math can be quite fun sometimes. Also a lot of people find it un-fun. So I guess those who dare to enjoy it are braindead..

 

[Hory]

That wasn't a very inspired example to pick. The whole pleasure in math comes from solving new problems. No one likes "solving" the same problem repeatedly.

 

[Major_Boobage]

I don't think I'll buy the Orange box. I tried playing the original Half-life and actually managed to get to some place where you have to jump on big stone blocks. Then I saw some rope thing hanging down that I thought I'd climb. I looked up and saw it was not a rope, but a monster hanging from the ceiling, so I quit and uninstalled the game and hardly dared leave the house for a couple of days. That's not something I want to reexperience.

It's 10 euro. I dont think you can buy portal alone?

 

[JarlFrank]

I just played it. Some levels need a bit of thinking, but it's still way too easy. But it's fun. And at some places kinda creepy. And funny. I liked it, even though most of the puzzles were really obvious.

 

[Multidirectional]

That wasn't a very inspired example to pick. The whole pleasure in math comes from solving new problems. No one likes "solving" the same problem repeatedly.

I wasn't looking for an inspired example, I was just telling you that no one is an authority on "what's fun". It's perfectly fine to enjoy the same game all over again even if it's linear. And it's fine not to. But it's not fine to assume someone is braindead for liking something you don't. Unless.. they like "Teletubbies". Then they're surely braindead.
Videogames ar not only about "solving problems", they are also an experience, and someone might want to relive a certain experience again if he enjoyed it. "Solving the same problem" doesn't really apply to shooter games like HL anyway, they can be just as challenging and fun the second time as they were the first time. Puzzle games are a different story, but some of them, like Portal, can entertain you multiple times too.

 

[DraQ]

I just played it. Some levels need a bit of thinking, but it's still way too easy. But it's fun. And at some places kinda creepy. And funny. I liked it, even though most of the puzzles were really obvious.

That's more or less how I felt about it.

 

[MetalCraze]

That wasn't a very inspired example to pick. The whole pleasure in math comes from solving new problems. No one likes "solving" the same problem repeatedly.

Autists do.