Portal 2, behind closed doors at E3

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Portal 2

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GoukiJones and I paid a visit to Valve’s meeting room at E3 to take a peek at Portal 2


Goukijones and I paid a visit to Valve’s meeting room at E3 to take a peek at Portal 2. The game was not playable, it was demoed as a Blu-ray video, so don't expect this to be released anytime soon. Valve has only said "some time in 2011".
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Valve showed us several new pieces of Aperture Science equipment:

  • Excursion Funnels are liquid tunnels that can carry you or any cubes you may need either horizontally or vertically and can be redirected through a portal.
  • Aerial Fiath Plates are sections that launch you (or a storage cube) across the room in a certain direction.
  • The Thermal Discouragement Beam is a laser that can either take out a turret or activate certain switches, it can be redirected through a portal or with a Weighted Pivot Cube (basically a mirrored storage cube).
  • Pneumatic Diversity Vent is a tube that sucks up anything underneath it, you can as expected drop a portal underneath and use the other end of the portal to remove any obstacles in your way.
  • Propulsion Gel is an orange goo that, when spread on the floor, allows you to travel much faster than usual.
  • Repulsion Gel is a blue goo that you will bounce off of (much higher than a jump).

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There were some funny notes in the instructional slides shown before the demos of the different equipment. You can see that the humor of the original game is very much present in the sequel, even at this early stage. Here's the text in case you can't read it in the youtube video.

Excursion Funnels – are part of an investigation into how well test subjects can solve problems while travelling through a churning funnel of liquid asbestos. Results so far have been highly informative: They cannot.

Aerial Faith Plate – are part of a larger trust experiment designed to help the enrichment center discover whether the capacity for trust is effected by being catapulted into space.

Propulsion Gel – Designed as a diet aid and marketed under the name “Propulsion Pudding”, this sweet, largely non-toxic liquid form of fiberglass insulation increased the velocity of any food that followed it through the digestive tract, leaving the body no time to absorb calories. Propulsion Pudding was pulled from the shelves when it was discovered that digestion plays several crucial roles in the eating process, such as breaking down food into small, manageable chunks before it is violently expelled from the human body.

Repulsion Gel – Apeture’s second attempt at a dietetic pudding substitute resulted in Repulsion Gel, a much sweeter, slightly less non-toxic form of fiberglass insulation that caused subsequently ingested food items to bounce off the lining of the dieter’s distended stomach and out his or her mouth. For various reasons, this was also pulled from the shelves.

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Comments
goukijones

No I agree. This game is cool on such a unique level for gaming. It's incredible.

goukijones rated Portal 2 Buy it
Jun 20, 2010 by goukijones

fnjimmy

I will never beat this game, I don't think I can finish the first one, crazy.

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Jun 20, 2010 by fnjimmy

de bad shot

Man jimmy this game fucked my life up, first semester of video game programing all my profs and all the jimmys in my class were ripping this up hard. my roommate and i got a big bag of chron and went nuts with this. Highly anticipating the new one.

de bad shot rated Portal 2 Buy it
Jun 21, 2010 by de bad shot

choke

I'm really fucking dumb so this game is beyond me, but it looks really cool and I respect it's uniqueness. Can't wait for Portal 3, the FPS.

choke has not rated Portal 2 yet.
Jun 21, 2010 by choke

BatRastered

Ugh, delayed until April 2011 now.

BatRastered rated Portal 2 Buy it
Nov 24, 2010 by BatRastered

Phresh

Didn't realize they spoiled the gels and such

Phresh rated Portal 2 Buy it
May 15, 2011 by Phresh

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