   Portal Re-Visited
  Remember Portal?I played and finished it the very day it was released way back when. Including the 'advanced' levels. Like most people I found it way too short, and not challenging enough, although I did get temporarily stumped in a few places. Then I uninstalled the game and told myself I would play it again in a long time once Ive forgotten the solutions. Well I just played it again yesterday (whats that? 3 years later?), and it all came back to me like I had just played it twice back to back. I was not temporarily stumped even for a second. I think I beat it about as fast as you possibly can.So I was a little dissapointed and searched around for some user made levels. I found a few. Not surprisingly, a lot of them are crap, and there are a few good ones. None were very challenging though, except for a few where you had to basically exploit an engine glitch or find a hidden wall or something like that, which isnt fun. I also started making my own level for portal, which is pretty fun in itself. I think Ive come up with a few different puzzles that werent included in the game or any of the maps I downloaded. I'll post here again if I ever finish building it :)Has anyone else recently played Portal for the second time and been disapointed that the solutions came to you way to quickly? Has anyone come across any decent user-made maps? I was thinking the other day it would be cool if they had Portal for the WII. They dont, do they?   
  Did you get the two new patches a month ago?Portal 2 will be released soon enough.  Just be patient.   ;  2 new patches? This is the first Ive heard of them. Although, I'm on Steam so I'm pretty sure Ive got the latest every time I play.Also I havnt been following Portal 2 at all. How soon is soon? All I know is I keep seeing webcomics making fun of Gabe for being to busy eating cake to finish the game - I assumed it was still a long way off.   ;  I never played through portal until around Christmas time when a roommate bought the Orange Box.  It wast pretty cool and well done.I'm still waiting for some sort of multiplayer portal.  I think just the concept of trying to get from point A to point B before another team of players would be absolutely insane.EDIT: I guess I should clarify.  Imagine a game where there are two or more players per team, each having a portal gun.  Each team is trying to reach a particular destination on the map before the other team gets there.  It would be a race to the destination, but with the portal guns you could open up portals underneath your opponents, flinging them to wherever.  You could even have other game modes, like some form of basketball where you are trying to get the ball to a certain point in the playing field.  I think it'd be hilarious.  Incredibly technically difficult to create, but I think it'd sell.   ;  Have you tried Portal: Prelude? I think I tried this one after completing Portal and found it quite challenging. That was before it got a story, though, so I can't comment on that.;  Promethium - thanks for that, I will check it out tonight!Moe - That sort of reminds me of unreal tournament (I forget which version) - where you had a translocator , which was basically a hockey puck you could throw anywhere, and then if you right click you get instantly teleported to the puck. You could do things like throw the puck at another player and if you teleported close enough you would kill them. I think it also preserved momentum after teleport, which added to the fun. The construction of some of the levels was complicated enough that a clever player could definetly get places faster than a noob. So, trying to get to the big weapons first, in a sense, is sort of like a portal race like you described.   ;Quote:Original post by AndreTheGiant2 new patches? This is the first Ive heard of them. Although, I'm on Steam so I'm pretty sure Ive got the latest every time I play.They added a new achievement, added some Easter-egg style elements, and modified the ending sequence.  Google can find more if you care about that sort of thing.Quote:Also I havnt been following Portal 2 at all. How soon is soon?Last month they announced it as "this coming holiday season."  So no date, but sometime in Oct/Nov/Dec of 2010 or maybe even Jan 2011.;  One thing I found really cool about that game was that you could set up two portals so that falling through one would lead you to falling through the other would lead you back to falling through the first in a continuous loop where eventually you would reach terminal velocity. The effect was similar to falling into a bottomless pit, except you could exit by stepping to the side and crashing into the bulkhead on either side of a portal.   ;Quote:Original post by LessBreadOne thing I found really cool about that game was that you could set up two portals so that falling through one would lead you to falling through the other would lead you back to falling through the first in a continuous loop where eventually you would reach terminal velocity. The effect was similar to falling into a bottomless pit, except you could exit by stepping to the side and crashing into the bulkhead on either side of a portal.">Sounds like fun! [smile]   ;Quote:Original post by AndreTheGiantPromethium - thanks for that, I will check it out tonight!Moe - That sort of reminds me of unreal tournament (I forget which version) - where you had a translocator , which was basically a hockey puck you could throw anywhere, and then if you right click you get instantly teleported to the puck. You could do things like throw the puck at another player and if you teleported close enough you would kill them. I think it also preserved momentum after teleport, which added to the fun. The construction of some of the levels was complicated enough that a clever player could definetly get places faster than a noob. So, trying to get to the big weapons first, in a sense, is sort of like a portal race like you described.Wow, I'd totally forgotten about the translocator.  I think a multiplayer portal would be pretty different in that the other player could fall through the portal and come out somewhere else, rather than just being gibbed by having someone teleport into them.Quote:Original post by Diodor">Sounds like fun! [smile][lol]