Man Plays Portal 2 - Claims It To Be Valves Best Work And GOTY

A lucky individual recently got to sit down at Valve studios an have a play with Portal 2. In short he says

"Portal 2 is just mind-blowing, the story, the puzzles, everything is the best that Valve has ever made. Valve could sell this game at $100 a pop and I would still buy it, thats how good it is. And as for a demo, this game does not need one. Take it from me, Portal 2 GOTY 2011 no contest."

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[DaThreats]

GOTY
For the PS3/PC version
We get all the extra features

[plb]

Yeah, it said he got to test Steam on PS3 also...lucky guy.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Someone trolling w/ disagrees doesn't have the balls to actully reply why? Weird.

I wish he was a little more in depth about a few things, but I'm sure that would be frowned upon.

That is prolly the coolest office to work in ever. Monster/dead hands coming from the ceiling and whatnot.

[plb]

Gabe also said Portal 2 was the best they have ever done so maybe he's not just hyping their game. Always loved Portal anyway so hopefully it delivers as people say it will.

[Queefy_B]

No crappy PS3 port this time im sure, cant wait to play it.

[ATiElite]

but it won't have 64 player maps only 24....Sorry i could resist :b

[jony_dols]

I would sacrafice 64 player maps and dx11 in BF3, just for the chance to play 5 minutes of Uncharted 3.

Sorry couldn't resist.

Portal 2 is going to be amazing btw.

[SnakeMustDie]

Picking this game up for the story and the co-op. I'm kinda tempted to pick up the PS3 version because of the free PC copy also with PS3-PC cross platform play.

[TheMysterion]

Wanna play on pc n sell me the ps3 version for cheaper?

[Raendom]

Definitely GOTY contender, but I can't believe for a second it has "no contest"... LBP2 says hi and this is just the 3rd month. Deus Ex, Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 3 and Gears of War 3 are still coming this year.

[im-12-years-old]

Dark souls

[ATiElite]

Portal 2 GOTY NO CONTEST
then
The Witcher 2 GOTY NO CONTEST
then
Red Orchestra 2 GOTY NO CONTEST
then
Star Wars: The Old Republic GOTY NO CONTEST
then
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim GOTY NO CONTEST
then
Uncharted 3 GOTY NO CONTEST
then
Mass Effect 3 GOTY NO CONTEST
then
Battlefield 3 CONTEST OVER!

seriously i guarantee all these games will win a GOTY award...like the award even matters anymore cause everyone is handing them out like Halloween candy. hip hip hooray for Portal 2!

[palaeomerus]

You forgot L.A. NOIRE.

I think that is the probable front runner for GOTY on "art" and "advancing gaming" grounds for a lot fo the critics.

[TheMysterion]

You forgot cod. I was kidding but then i realized they made the original mw. So when they need to bring it they do and with bf3 they need to bring it at full speed. Gosh darn it im sucked in again sigh i blame kz3 for being disappointing

[news4geeks]

Can anyone tell me, if I link this game to my steam account from my friends psn account does every future game I play through ps3/steam need to be linked to that same psn account. Or can this be changed? Or do I have this all wrong?

[ATiElite]

that's a good question....

I gonna say you can change it. all you have to do is cancel your registration then make a new one with the corrected information. Steam will automatically find your games. Make sure you back up all info before deleting the old registration so you won't loose info saved in the cloud (servers). I don't know if you can have multiple Steam accounts pointing to one PSN account...are you sharing PS3 and or Internet with a friend? why don't you have your own account?

I'm only familiar with Steam PC but if i'm wrong (i doubt it) i'm sure someone will let me know in like 2 minutes. :)

[HenryFord]

to make sure you could ask the Steam-Support, generally they are pretty fast with responses.

[sickbird]

Already have it paid off.

[Raider69]

Again the hype train and this time for a puzzle game that evolves around a portal gun.GOTY i dont think so,sorry!To many good games yet to be released and most likely way better than a game with a portal gun!Valve shoud start thinking about HL episode 3 insted!

[radphil]

You're saying puzzle games can never be GOTY?

[Ducky]

Guy plays game, says GOTY.
Other guy hasn't played game, says I don't think so.

Hmm, who to trust? =/

[SnakeMustDie]

So shooters are the only ones that are allowed to win GOTY?

[Raider69]

@ above
NO!Im saying that there are better games that are coming that probably deserve GOTY more than Portal 2!Witcher 2,Uncharted 3,From dust ,la noire, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine,lElder Scrolls V: Skyrim,Batman: Arkham City,Child of Eden,Rage,Deus Ex: Human Revolution,El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron......No to mention The Last Guardian....

[Soldierone]

GOTY my arse....its Portal. They probably upped the visals, added a few gameplay elements, and thats it. You guys do realize the amount of games coming out this year? Gears an Uncharted say hello how are you. You want third parties? Battlefield 3 says hello....hell even Duke Nukem can become a contender for certain reasons.

Valve fans are so annoying. Anything and everything Valve releases is god, and no one can compare to them period. Am I saying Portal 2 is gonna suck? No, but this whole conceided outlook on all their games turns me off.

Portal 2 will be a contender, dont say its GOTY until you played the other friggin contenders. End of story.

[evrfighter]

So which developers do compare to.valve?and have they contributed to the industry as much as gabe has?

Or do they just put out a good game and start dropping dlc shortly after?

See the difference?

Good, see that wasn't so hard to understand now was it.

[Louis_Guzman]

evrfighter: You really have a tiny penis, don't you? Also, Nintendo is beyond anything Valve has ever done. Except when it comes to stuffing jelly donuts down one's hole, Gabe has the market cornered on that.

[solar]

hey another "Gabe is fat" joke. i forgot how funny that was, especially coming from gamers. /s

you seem to fail to realize what Gabe and Valve has done for gaming in correlation that Nintendo has done for gaming. both innovators, both pushing genre's and tech to where it hasnt been before.

as for Soldierone, have you played L4d1/2? have you seen how co-op has progressed because of the series? or acknowledge what HL1/2 did for the FPS genre in both storytelling, atmosphere and physics/facial animation in 1998/2004?

pushing genres. something you do not see in this generation of gaming. overhyped promises that do not see the light of day. like Molyuex with Fable, Crytek with Crysis 2, just to name a few.

what other dev has done new an exciting things that havent been done before?

[Soldierone]

Ummm there are TONS of companies that have done way more than Valve. What exactly has Valve done thats so incredible? nothing. Without ID creating Doom, Half Life wouldn't stand a chance and the list goes on.

You actually see Sony first parties, MS first parties, and even third parties like DICE with BF3 pushing the limits of hardware and bringing the game industry to new levels. Meanwhile Valve is still bragging about Half Life and a game COD throws in as a bonus....

Steam is alot better than it was, but thats not something mind blowing to me.

Thank you though for perfectly explaining my point. Conceided and NO ONE in the world compares to Valve! I mean they shove out a game here and there and milk the hell out of Steam, they are like gods! Whens the last time they have been "groundbreaking" honestly? Cus I dont remember anything beyond Counter Strike....Portal had a chance if it wasn't just a test dummy for Portal 2.

Id respect Valve alot more if the fans were not like this. They are NOT the gods of video games, get over it. Its honestly worse than PS3 an 360 fanboys, hell ill even put up with PC fanboys over this crap.

@Solar....really your gonna give L4D the props for team play? Do you have any idea how many games were there before? Or any idea how easy it is to create that? There is an indie game called Killing Floor for only 15 bucks that does the same thing.

Half Life created stories? Uhh no. It was boring as hell and lacks in todays enviroment of games. Last time I checked MGS was telling stories, and Medal of Honor has amazing stories for FPS titles too.

Also I do believe Epic can be thanks alot more than Valve. They pushed the boundries, but also allowed other companies to do so by using their engine. Gaming wouldnt be anything it is today without Unreal Engine. Source is nothing more than a few hacked up games that never go anywhere outside of Steam....

Again if Valve is so mind bending an out of this world pushing new boundries, what exactly have they done? Dont bother bringing up steam cus ill easily counter with Xbox Live and PSN, so bring up something original. Portal? meet Mirrors Edge...

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

you seem like your BUTTHURT for no reason.

Why don't you use some of those tears to rinse the sand from your vagina.

[No Way]

"Anything and everything Valve releases is god.." Hmm, that sounds familiar.
That sorta, almost, yet most definitely sounds like Sony fanboys, on n4g! :)
".. And no one can compare to them period." Well, iduno, but ..
Valve are very good developers. Very well respected.

I kid, but see how that works? All fanboys are annoying..
Though, you are correct .. way to early to pick a GOTY game.
Though, you could surely, and most welcome to chose a contender.

[Ducky]

I own KillingFloor, and I enjoy it (more so than L4D). I own BlackOps, zombies is fun too... but, neither of those two games are really comparable with L4D.

L4D gets props for the in/out system (Brink is doing something similar), as well as the AI director.

CounterStrike and TeamFortress were mods, so perhaps Valve shouldn't get credit for them, but they have supported the mod community. Only other modern devs I can think of that do that are Epic (mostly) and Bethesda.

As for pushing boundaries; Half-Life was an influential game for FPS in terms of story and gameplay (keyword: FPS, you seem to have missed that earlier). You may not like it, but the majority does. PS3/PC steamworks integration with portal2 is also an innovation. Steam on PC can be attributed with popularizing digital distribution. MannCo store on TF2 is an interesting take on 'microtransactions'.

I love Valve because they're one of the few publishers that aren't as hell-bent on ripping me off. They support their games. That is a rarity in modern times with publishers rehashing games and going for the quick profit. This is why Valve is one of the few publishers I'd pre-order from with enough confidence that I won't get screwed. They also do a lot to promote other devs with tie-in deals (such as the KillingFloor deal that gave you new characters)
I may not agree with some of their decisions such as MannCo or L4D2 or how their recent games handle user-created content, but they still offer great sales, great community support and have a good sense of humour in their trailers/teasers.

As for Valve having the most influence, that's debatable. I'd personally pick iD (but hey, what has iD done this generation so far?). However, it is an opinion.
You're basing your respect on a company because of its fans, which is quite asinine. There's retarded fans in every domain, from publisher to hardware manufacturer to shampoo. Base your respect on what they do and what they've done. That, and you're acting like this is the first guy that says a game will win GOTY. I've seen similar comments on LPB2 and KZ3... are those any better?

... otherwise, there's enough maniacs running around on N4G that'd make you loathe Sony (along with MS) for the rest of your life.

[Ducky]

"They probably upped the visals, added a few gameplay elements, and thats it."

So Gears, Uncharted and Battlefield do something more than that? O.o

Also, the 'fans' you describe exist for everything... but yea, I'll agree that it's way too early to be calling GOTY shots.

[radphil]

"Portal 2 will be a contender, dont say its GOTY until you played the other friggin contenders. End of story."

"GOTY my arse....its Portal."

Oh the irony...
You're right though in that one can't call the GOTY shots early, but still I had to point that statement out earlier. :p

But seriously let's not kid ourselves. The games that get released in the Fall section are usually the ones that for the most part will make it on "GOTY Lists".

[Kakihara]

Goat ovaries taste yummy?? Why would he even say that?? first of all it's not true and second it has nothing to do with the game, as far as I know.

[solar]

i can not wait for Portal 2. i could care less how many GOTY awards, if any, it gets.

i just want to have fun with my friend i have lined up for co-op and jump back into Aperture Science Laboratories!!!

[BeastlyRig]

ps3 deal is great! but im buying this for $45 on steam..

or what if buy ps3 version then sell it for $40 & just play the pc version!

It would be a $20 game!! unless portal 2 means you have to sign into steam to play? hmm..

if so I'll just buy it on steam & it comes with a copy of portal 1!