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PAX East 2011: Portal 2 Single-Player Demo

Check out Portal 2's first few minutes and get acquainted with the head of Aperture Science.

Mar. 17 2011

Posted by: Drew

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Portal 2

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awesome

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Edited By peligroy2k

Pretty Cool!!! 

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Dammit I have to go to bed.

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I need a new PC so badly.

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Edited By Rxanadu

Tried and true concept: if you want people to laugh at your jokes, have a pompous British man say them. 
 
Edit: since everyone loves to get mad at people like me who tend to have a snarky sense of humor, let me rephrase this sad attempt at a joke:  
 
If you want people to laugh at your jokes, have a British writer/actor/nobody say them in the most nonchalant way possible without coming off like an ass. 
 
Happy now, Internet?

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Edited By s-a-n-JR

Gotta love smerch. 

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Edited By MayorFeedback

I definitely recommend not watching this if you don't want some of the opening moments of the game to get spoiled. And I think they're worth not spoiling.
 
That being said, AAAAHHAHALKFSDH:LHS2FuiWEUI34NOFVSNDKLF6SJLF I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS

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Wow, this game looks as entertaining as it looks beautiful.

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YES!

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WHY AM I NOT PLAYING THIS GAME YET?!

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Can't wait looks awesome

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I like that they have an excuse in this game for why your character doesn't talk. 

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@Rxanadu said:
" Tried and true concept: if you want people to laugh at your jokes, have a pompous British man say them.  Edit: since everyone loves to get mad at people like me who tend to have a snarky sense of humor, let me rephrase this sad attempt at a joke:   If you want people to laugh at your jokes, have a British writer/actor/nobody say them in the most nonchalant way possible without coming off like an ass.  Happy now, Internet? "
JK Simmons isn't British
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I really wouldn't know how to play any game with that fucking sphere with annoying voice chirping in my ear.  
Valve being too cute here, how much disdain I have for those inane 'cake' memes. Tone in down, 10-2.

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Edited By Nottle

I don't know why but the apple joke is funny. I just don't get why thats the jump tutorial.

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Edited By Icemael

Man, that robot is annoying. And not annoying in a funny way. Just annoying. The writers on this game are trying way too hard.

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Stephen Merchant doing a great job with that great dialogue; not to mention how emotive a sphere with a glowing light and a little movement is made.  Genuinely funny too; poking fun at the player's interaction in the speak/apple bit was really good. Sold on Portal 2 methinks.

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@Sanj said:
" Gotta love smerch.  "
He is my favourite goggle-eyed freak boy.
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looks cool

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@fraser said:

" @Sanj said:

" Gotta love smerch.  "
He is my favourite goggle-eyed freak boy. "
Don't forget lanky
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JK Simmons? This game just a whole lot better.

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Edited By MysteriousBob

I still don't see why this game needs to exist. The original was a cute little distraction for an afternoon, but its by far the least interesting/entertaining of Valve's franchises.

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FUCKING APPLE.

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@endaround: he's on about the sphere, which is Stephen Merchant. Ricky Gervais co-writer, he's hardly a nobody...
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Looks great so far. Pretty funny too.

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Super excited. My secret dream is for the game to have a post-credits "Half-Life 3 - December 2011" at the end of this game, so they've already hooked me... with a hook that probably doesn't exist.

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Edited By Rxanadu
@endaround said:

" @Rxanadu said:

" Tried and true concept: if you want people to laugh at your jokes, have a pompous British man say them.  Edit: since everyone loves to get mad at people like me who tend to have a snarky sense of humor, let me rephrase this sad attempt at a joke:   If you want people to laugh at your jokes, have a British writer/actor/nobody say them in the most nonchalant way possible without coming off like an ass.  Happy now, Internet? "
JK Simmons isn't British "
As I said to you before (I'm just posting here to let everyone else know), I obviously wasn't talking about JK Simmons; I was talking about Merchant. 
 
Also, it's quite evident that the Internet isn't happy.  It's OK, though; it's just going though its teenage years, so it's that time in its life where it broods about, trying to rebel against its parent about something or other.  Give it a few more years, and its dreams and aspirations will be shattered as it goes through the proverbial cubicle job, where it will slowly die a miserable, lonely death.
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APPLE!  

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Game looks as hilarious as the first. Very. 
 
 
Man they've prettied up the Source engine. Getting it ready for Half-Life 3, right? RIGHT?!

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Definitely getting this. 
 
Pity I will have to play it on xbox though...

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Edited By Rxanadu
@Sharpshooter said:
" JK Simmons? This game just a whole lot better. "
I do love me some JK Simmons.  Great in nearly every movie I've seen him in.  He made "Burn After Reading" tolerable for me.  That's enough of a recommendation.
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You come to in the Dead Island trailer?

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@MysteriousBob said:
"I still don't see why this game needs to exist. The original was a cute little distraction for an afternoon, but its by far the least interesting/entertaining of Valve's franchises. "

Portal was a major critical and commercial success. That's why this game exists.
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Edited By scarycrayons

I'm definitely glad that this game feels like something original!  I was a little worried that it might've felt like... well, most sequels.  You know, more of the same 'whiteish rooms and GLADoS jokes' without much new in terms of environments.
 
That's not to say that I don't hope that GLADoS returns in a future Portal game, but new settings, characters and atmosphere is always welcome!

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@lclay: It's not really a blown out FPS so it's no big deal.And you aren't really missing much in the graphical department neither.
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Man... that was pretty funny stuff.  I'm looking forward to this.  Only a few more weeks.

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this looks amazing visually

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I want this!!

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@scarycrayons Gladdos was shown in the trailers
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Looks amazing. Will probably hold off buying it till end of summer though. Going to build myself a new PC for BF3 and might as well wait with the big PC titles until I have a system that can make them justice.

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Wow, this game looks incredible!

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Edited By paulwade1984

I just want Half life to be finished. Why won't you finish half life valve. Its really not fair. They promised us so much yet delivered so little.

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Apple, do you speak it?
 
Portal 2 is looking good. J.K. Simmons is a thumbs up in my book, not to mention the puzzles look like they are going to be pretty brutal with everything going on. The blue gel at the end of the long line of orange gel looks fun.

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Jesus fucking christ YES.

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Looks great!

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Is that JK Simmons as Cave Johnson?

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@endaround said:
JK Simmons isn't British "
 
True. Simmons is awesome, not British.
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Question is: Is Cave a human, or will he turn out to be an A.I. construct? 
 
Still, it looks amazing. Can't wait to play it.

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@BrownNote said:
" @fraser said:

" @Sanj said:

" Gotta love smerch.  "
He is my favourite goggle-eyed freak boy. "
Don't forget lanky "
Or Lizoidian
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Edited By I_love_Eva_Braun

 The game looks awesome, also JK Simmons, fuck yeah.