Portal 2

Challenge maps are kinda fun I
Guess

what a delightful and thought-provoking game!

isnt it though?

This game rules

now i want to play it all over again

still have never played co-op

me either

Not good for couples. Xpost

the coop campaign has some REALLY good stuff, better chambers than the main game, IMO. downside - you can't play it with someone who's already done it

co-op is fun for couples imo though we burnt out by the dlc part.

the sequence through the 'historical' section of the complex (the j/k simmons bit) is just amazing. valve are so good at storytelling.

have been playing this co-op w bestie (pc-to-mac); have been putting off the single player and thus the story. the levels alone are joy.

the light bridge stuff!

i find myself talking out loud about what i have to do. "ok so i need to get that block, but this other thing is... and these turrets can't go... [20 mins pass] OH MY GOD DUHHHH OF COURSE"

co-op is fun for couples imo though we burnt out by the dlc part.

Well the other part of my couple isn't very good with any game that requires jumping/timing. I think the coop levels almost cause us to get divorced.

shades of Penny Arcade calling the New Super Mario Bros. Wii co-op Divorce Mode (which at least in that case was very on point, it was almost impossible NOT to kill your partner in that game)

Yeah, NSMB was insane.

Me and GF have had to improve our communication on co-op games. Most comes to the fore playing Lego:

Me: Go over there!
Her: Where?
Me: Over there! (waves hand at telly)
Her: !?!?!

Portal's co-op has a handy "No, THIS is where I mean!" feature, which I'm sure was added after playtester manslaughter.

that absolutely was an essential feature

played this with my girlfriend at the time and i ended up crying literal tears of frustration and was in a mood for the entirety of the day after.

the sequence through the 'historical' section of the complex (the j/k simmons bit) is just amazing. valve are so good at storytelling.

― goole, Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that whole section of the game is really special, to the point where the later stuff back in the normal complex is kind of disappointing

jk simmons is amazing

narratively and atmopsherically it was great, but in terms of the puzzles it was a little weaker than the other parts for the sheer fact that the number of portal-able surfaces were so limited

yeah, but the puzzles were interesting in their sheer size, i thought. like, few portal-able surfaces, but they were sometimes hard to find, just a tiny lil white spot across a huge room or something

^i totally said "portalable" all the time while playing

i came up with the mental neologism of 'whitewall' for what i needed

FUCK NO WHITEWALL THERE WHAT DO I DO FUCK

played this with my girlfriend at the time and i ended up crying literal tears of frustration and was in a mood for the entirety of the day after.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, May 10, 2013 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha its a healthy exercise in being patient! you forget how unnatural using 2 sticks to move and turn your view is for people not used to fps games. she ran in circles a lot instead of just turning her view >_<

you forget how unnatural using 2 sticks to move and turn your view is for people not used to fps games. people who play fps games with a mouse and keyboard, as god intended

omg you use a two button LOL

two button mouse* #fail

the frustration was at how bad I was - she is far better at games than me. we were playing it with her housemates watching us and she was berating me for being shit and it all got a bit too much for me tbh.

aw

mh otm about control schemes; gamepads for fpses are an abomination before the lord

I played some doom in my day but came of age in the realm of shooting people in quake with a sweet Logitech mouseman.

Lol olds

i am a clinger. here's a picture i took five minutes ago (i did have to retrieve the disc from a drawer)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/0a124241-7687-47e6-9f1f-73ba7a09903e_zpsd160bc76.jpg

that stuff on the mouse is noob blood

mousepad also obv from like 1995

Doom was the last shooter I was any good at

doom actually when i replayed it last year i discovered that because there's no Z-axis you can get total precision just using the keyboard: left hand on WASD to move forward/backward and strafe left/right; right hand on the left and right arrow keys to turn. (the left pinky and thumb rest on CTRL and SPACE for shoot and use respectively.) as a kid i was totally unaware of this approach; what i did was play mouse-only, as in i pushed the mouse forward across the pad to walk forward, which now seems INSANE. i kind of want to write a book about FPSes that's why this post is okay.

(that was also the excuse i used when downloading eric harris' custom doom levels)

(but wait: aiming with the arrow keys is the same as aiming with a stick only not analog and thus less precise. i guess what this means is i wouldn't mind the sticks in modern shooters if you weren't allowed to look up or down. actually that single technical limitation gives doom a HUGE elegance boost imo.)

except when you're shooting point blank at a wall and the invisible bullets magically careen upward in a parabolic arc to nail the zombie sergeant on the ledge above

ha i had never thought that that would happen point-blank! but of course you are right it would. the doom-quake axis of shooters is so abstract compared to the new ones: nobody least of all john carmack really thinks you're a space marine. you're a floating node.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWjP77TztTQ

5 years after everybody else in the world I have just finished this.

And then immediately replayed the whole thing.

Would like there to be a 3rd person replay view - some of the flying jumps are impressive but you don't really get a sense of distance with 1st person.

still probably my favorite game ever