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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Portal is too good for this guys. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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oh whatever! no game is too good for that. yes yes i know but they touched my twee little heart and the narration is good but c'mon it's a fucking puzzle game, not world peace or a particularly delicious chicken vindaloo.
man also if there were portable vagina makers the world would fall apart in two or three days. we'd be gone in a year.
MAYBE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO APERTURE? _________________
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fish .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:06 am Post subject: |
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its GlaDOS just neurotoxined everyone. _________________ you cant spell selfish without fish |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: |
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your theory is solid but mine is funnier. (high tech portable version of austin osman spare's "earthenware virgins") _________________
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fish .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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i just realized that last sentence made very little sense.
so what's on the borealis?
a single portal device?
a huge portal device? that portaled the ship out to the middle of nowhere?
GlaDOS?
oh man i hope its her.
she's still alive, you know. _________________ you cant spell selfish without fish |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: |
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that thought crossed my mind as well (i.e. glados is chillin', literally)
as long as she's not all shodan'd up and shit, it would be pretty excellente. _________________
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fish .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: |
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i think its very neat how they tied in the borealis with aperture the way they did.
if you read HL2's art book, there's a section in there about how there were originaly planning to have a fairly large chunk of the game take place in the borealis (it had that name even then), but that they eventually decided to concentrate on city 17 and its surrounding areas. the final game ended up being a big loop out of city 17, into the wasteland, and back to the city. a boat in the arctic was a bit out of the way.
its great how they brought it back and made it integral to the story.
EP3's story, atleast.
now i wonde,r how are they gonna get there?
all the events so far have pretty much happened in real time. back to back.
are we gonna teleport to boat? fly there?
oh also, if you play around with HAMMER, you can find all sorts of borealis props and meshes that werent used in the final game. _________________ you cant spell selfish without fish |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Hey, so like, because my wife kind of stole the TV (and HL2 from me)--and I've been messing around on my PC alot doing things with the magazine--I decided to give HL1 a whirl and... like, I think this game is completely fucking different than the PS2 version? I could be wrong, but like, it seems like I remember getting stuck in some bullshit swimming section in the sewers in the PS2 version. I don't remember these horrible jumping puzzles with boxes hanging in the air at all! Also, I want to say that the "training room" was integrated into the game itself (after the train ride) in the PS2 version.
Am I crazy? _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: |
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i don't think glados would fit in half-life 2. i also don't think the player will be getting a portal gun in episode three, because of all the time it would take to retrain the player in using it, and because of all the ways it would challenge the developers to arbitrarily constrain their levels. it also might just not be feasible given the cost of rendering; they had to do a lot of black magic to get portal to move smoothly.
i'd imagine episode three gives the player some type of related but far less convenient portal device. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | i'd imagine episode three gives the player some type of related but far less convenient portal device. |
Like only the blue gun?
Anyways, I kind of see this going the other way around: Portal 2 merging further into the HL2 story line and becoming a sort of parallel. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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fish .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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lets gordon makes it to the boat, and he finds the device there.
i think the boat would be a closed-enough environment to allow for some portal puzzles. as opposed to white forest or city 15.
if all the portaling took place inside the boat, it could work. _________________ you cant spell selfish without fish |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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I think adding the Portal gun in Half-Life 2 in any form whatsoever would be forced and less rewarding than people imagine it would be. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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ryan .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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I keep reading that the controls in the 360 version kind of suck. Consensus! True or not! _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:45 am Post subject: |
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eh they did it with the gravity gun. i could see it being used in a very limited fashion within the borealis perhaps.
i have faith that it will at least be pretty neat. we'll know more in what 2009? _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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ryan wrote: | I keep reading that the controls in the 360 version kind of suck. Consensus! True or not! |
untrue.
then again, i can't stand the keyboard / mouse setup. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:05 am Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | eh they did it with the gravity gun. i could see it being used in a very limited fashion within the borealis perhaps. |
Yeah, but that's just it: Why even bother if it's going to be limited? It wouldn't live up to the concept that only works in something akin to Portal's environment. I don't relish the idea, in any case. I don't feel it would be appropriate. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: |
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for the same reason they bothered with the super powered gravity gun? _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: |
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There was a clear reason they made sure that didn't overstay its welcome. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: |
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ryan wrote: | I keep reading that the controls in the 360 version kind of suck. Consensus! True or not! |
Not!
Dracko wrote: | There was a clear reason they made sure that didn't overstay its welcome. |
I'm sure they could do the same thing with the portal gun. Just think if Portal were something inside of HL2.
Go with me here: you have the start something like HL2 where you're running and rather than getting saved at the end of the chase you get captured and then put into the portal setting? EH?!
Also, I agree, placing the Portal gun along with the other weapons in HL2 would ruin it. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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fish .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: |
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re:controls
i have a harder time shotguning a zombie in the face at close range, lets say.
but other than that, its fine.
plus i loathe mice.
i spend enough of my waking life pushing one around as it is.
the entire right side of my body is FUBAR thanks to fucking mice. _________________ you cant spell selfish without fish |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | When I go in a vagina my dick comes out a hole in the wall and knocks over a robot. |
N.B. I was going to say ''whenever I have sex my dick comes out of a hole in the wall in the next room over', but I thought you might have missed the reference to glory holes and just thought I was implying I had a massive cock. |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | Go with me here: you have the start something like HL2 where you're running and rather than getting saved at the end of the chase you get captured and then put into the portal setting? EH?! |
You could, but it'd be forced: I understand that they wanted to somewhat relate both universes with the few odd winks here and there, but that goes beyond subtlety and would render the entire thing garish: They're completely different moods aiming for completely different things. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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ryan wrote: | I keep reading that the controls in the 360 version kind of suck. Consensus! True or not! |
Eh? I think the controls work just fine. The rotation speed's a little too slow by default, but you can change that in the options screen without any problem.
-Wes _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | N.B. I was going to say ''whenever I have sex my dick comes out of a hole in the wall in the next room over', but I thought you might have missed the reference to glory holes and just thought I was implying I had a massive cock. |
Way to disappoint us all, Harveyjames. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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ryan wrote: | I keep reading that the controls in the 360 version kind of suck. Consensus! True or not! |
OH! I almost forgot: driving sucks. Then again, I hear that's the same with the PC too! _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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oh yeah, driving is terrible. so's carefully placing / manipulating objects with the gravity gun.
i have no idea if these are any better in the pc version. the driving is notably improved in episode one. _________________
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Pavement .
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Confirming that driving is also somewhat awkward in the PC version. |
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Six .
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:21 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | the driving is notably improved in episode one. |
ha. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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Winged Assassins (1984) wrote: | Harveyjames wrote: | N.B. I was going to say ''whenever I have sex my dick comes out of a hole in the wall in the next room over', but I thought you might have missed the reference to glory holes and just thought I was implying I had a massive cock. |
Way to disappoint us all, Harveyjames. |
I'm so sorry
I've had a lot of late nights ;_; |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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in the games i am playing thread, i wrote: | i just finished the xbox 360 version of half-life 2. disappointments: no achievement called "outbreak", no achievement called "if you see doctor breen, tell him i said fuck you!" |
i might replay episode one with commentary next. i don't know how long it will be before i'm up to replaying episode two.
i enjoyed the commentary on team fortress 2. i think i would appreciate invulnerability in commentary mode in the games where they actually shoot at you. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Episode Three will likely have an achievement called "Get Busy With Alyx" and will involve a lot of valve turning and crank turning puzzles. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:54 am Post subject: |
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i think the key to driving, at least on the pc, is to never turn while accelerating at any real speed. i found that to be the key to the boat in the first and all the driving in the rest. _________________
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Pink Teddy Bear .
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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I just need to remember not to move my mouse so much while I drive. I can never get my view re-centered after I've already moved my view. |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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I never had any troubles with the driving whatsoever, except when I engaged the Turbo function at times, and that made sense to me. What issues are you guys having? _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: |
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the issue is that the car gets stuck on every stupid little thing, and then i need to get out of the car and bump it around gracelessly in order to be able to drive it again. which totally wrecks the momentum of driving.
at least, that's my issue with it. _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: |
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The car has been sweet from start to finish for me, except when I'd over-eagerly try to run down a Hunter and wedge the car gracelessly into a tree. Embarassing. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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I get exceptionally disoriented when shooting and driving. On top of that, there's quite a few tunnels and jumps that are only slightly wider than the vehicle you're in making me bump into lots of walls and redo a few jumps. I mean, I can do it (I got through the helicopter sequence with the fan boat in my first try on hard this time through) I'd just rather have a gas and break/reverse button. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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silentmatt .
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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For all of the Portal love... Here is something that might interest you guys:
Basically, someone figured out how to get the portal gun into Half-Life 2.
For instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKg3TUPQ8Sg
(the tutorial to make it happen:
http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/ ) _________________ PSN: Twitch_City ||| Wii: 8083 5371 5767 6700
"Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient."
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: |
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i played through episode one with commentary. i wish, first, that game and dialogue volume would drop while a piece of commentary is playing, and second that the commentary would take control of the camera more often and show me things. these scenes are all very neat and i wish there were more of them. _________________
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RaBeeWilliams Beatnik
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http://aperturescience.com/
Help is as far as I've gotten. I want to see how long I can last without looking for any resources online. But the relay from game to site is really nonexistent, and I don't have a clue what could possibly tie them together.
In another words: a fun challenge, if only a diversion.. _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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The key to unlocking this is actually found scrawled on a wall during Portal. Highlight below if you like.
Type LOGIN
Username CJOHNSON
Password TIER3
Type DIR
Type NOTES _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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I'm so glad Valve aren't letting Erik Wolpaw go to waste. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: |
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i want to rename this thread "i've got my spine i've got my orange box". _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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are you saying i dont have a spine _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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yes _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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can i have yours _________________
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Dracko .
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cycle are you being fresh? _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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depends, do you like it _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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KEEP IT IN THE BEDROOM, GOD |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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having material stolen itt _________________
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