[ALL] Portal 2

[SethMode]

Loving it so far. Stephen Merchant's character is hilarious and as Virix said, the writing is VERY impressive so far.

And man, Valve really can do no wrong as far as immersion is concerned.

 

[Twigg4075]

I should've just done store pickup. I figured it would probably be delivered before Thursday which is the first day I would be available to stop in a Best Buy. Boy was I wrong. I happen to stumble on a MK thread on CAG where people were bitching about how Best Buy uses a shipping service called Streamlite now that sucks major dick. Everyone was saying they received their games at least a week after release.
Well, sure enough, I check the e-mail they sent me yesterday and it says this game is being shipped by Streamlite. I click on teh tracking number and even though the e-mail said it shipped it shows as not even leaving their processing center. It also says that expected delivery is April 26th. LOL.

I hope BB send me one of those customer service e-mails.

 

[wingsfan77]

Yeah I wanted to do store pick-up but didn't see the option for it when I was ordering...oh well.

 

[Twigg4075]

Yeah I wanted to do store pick-up but didn't see the option for it when I was ordering...oh well.

Actually, you might be right. I don't think there was an option.

 

[wingsfan77]

Wait a minute, I'm right and you're wrong? No way, I don't believe it....I can't wait to start playing this after seeing all of the spectacular reviews.

 

[leaffan]

Saw it was like 50 bucks on steam. Not going to bother till they have at the least a half off sale now.

 

[SethMode]

I should've just done store pickup. I figured it would probably be delivered before Thursday which is the first day I would be available to stop in a Best Buy. Boy was I wrong. I happen to stumble on a MK thread on CAG where people were bitching about how Best Buy uses a shipping service called Streamlite now that sucks major dick. Everyone was saying they received their games at least a week after release.
Well, sure enough, I check the e-mail they sent me yesterday and it says this game is being shipped by Streamlite. I click on teh tracking number and even though the e-mail said it shipped it shows as not even leaving their processing center. It also says that expected delivery is April 26th. LOL.

I hope BB send me one of those customer service e-mails.

Dude, those 3rd party or whatever you'd call them shipping services SUCK. I've had 3 Amazon orders of my 1,000 or so that were through a local service and ALL THREE either didn't arrived or were completely incorrect. Everything else via UPS has ALWAYS been right. It's annoying and I feel your pain.

 

[Virix]

There was a pick up in store option, thats how I got mine. I ordered from the link Twigg posted and picked it up this morning.

 

[Twigg4075]

Ok, maybe there was. I should've went with that. Oh well.

I just can't believe that a huge company like Best Buy would use such a shitty shipping service.

 

[padman59]

I'm a few hours into the single player portion of the game, and I'm enjoying every bit of it. The puzzles aren't overly challenging, and the humor is great. The game looks great too.

I haven't touched co-op yet.

Don't believe reviews saying it only takes 4 hours to complete. Unless you're a puzzle solving savant, it's going to take you quite a bit longer than that to get through the single player portion.

 

[leaffan]

Ha starting to see people on my steam friends list popping up now while on their PS3's.

 

[Prodigal Son]

So is it just PS3 and PC that are compatible, or is it all 3 systems?

 

[padman59]

Only PS3 and PC are cross-platform.

 

[Juggernaut]

How are the hats in portal 2? I only have the man co hat.

 

[padman59]

Finished the single player part of the game. Pretty damn fun. Ending was great. As I mentioned earlier, most puzzles are not that difficult if you just take a minute or two to look around and come up with a strategy. Took me about eight hours to complete.

 

[Twigg4075]

Finished the single player part of the game. Pretty damn fun. Ending was great. As I mentioned earlier, most puzzles are not that difficult if you just take a minute or two to look around and come up with a strategy. Took me about eight hours to complete.

How would you say they compared to the puzzles in the first game? I know there were a couple towards the end of the first game that had me completely stumped.

Eight hours is pretty awesome considering there is an entirely separate co-op campaign.

 

[padman59]

How would you say they compared to the puzzles in the first game? I know there were a couple towards the end of the first game that had me completely stumped.

Eight hours is pretty awesome considering there is an entirely separate co-op campaign.

There were a couple of times where I was stumped for a few minutes, but not many. I think the hardest puzzles for most will be the ones where you have to make a path of two or three portals without landing to advance or get a key piece of the puzzle. Those always lead to some disorientation that takes some getting used to.

The end of this game seemed pretty fluid.

 

[Twigg4075]

How to find three of Portal 2's best secrets...
Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide

I'm obviously not watching this because I don't have the game yet but I would imagine this would be right up padman's alley. Or anyone else that finished it.

 

[calgaryballer]

I'm about 2, 2.5 hours in to this game. More of the best. Valve can do no wrong

 

[padman59]

How to find three of Portal 2's best secrets...
Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide

I'm obviously not watching this because I don't have the game yet but I would imagine this would be right up padman's alley. Or anyone else that finished it.

While you don't need to use this to find the secrets described in the article, I'm a little jealous that you can fly around and explore levels on PC with a little command in the console. I'm sure that you can find a lot more little items throughout the game with that.