Though Portal 2's Source Engine is a few years old, it's still more than able to portray atmospheric scenes never seen before. Check this Slider Comparison between the Maximum and Minimum Settings of the game - drag the sliders to start or click on the links underneath each picture.
Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."
Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.
Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.
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I can't fk with this list. They missed on alot of games probably before the writers times. Also I know people loved some portal but I was never a fan.
Tomb Raider 1
Driver 1
Abe’s Odyssey
FF6
King of Fighters 94
Mortal Kombat OG
LINK 2 the past
Street Fighter 2
Resident Evil 1
Infinite but not the first two games? Witcher 3 but not the first two games?? GTA V but not literally any of the games before it??? Portal 2 but not the first? Also if you're going to play Shadow of The Colossus play the remaster and not the remake. Can't say I disagree with the list but my man it's all over the place.
Awesome list! Hot take on Fear (and it's hard af expansion Persaus Mandate!) Bioshock Infinite is stellar, so is the Witcher 3 and you nailed it by having Ocarina of Time. So many fantastic games! Gotta play 'em all! Next one on my list is Prey after I beat Dead Space 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Chris Brandrick, writing for overkill, speaks to Stefan Heinz, the lead developer on Portal: Revolution, a new fan-made campaign prequel to Portal 2.
valve suck so much at making games now, opting just to smaug on top of an enormous pile of money,
that fans got so desperate that they have to make their own games.
this industry is fucking over.
I like the glass in the minimum version better for some reason.
Almost as clear as the difference between 360 and ps3!
But I troll, obviously PC on minimum looks better than either of those :@
/joke...
Those minimum settings can't be the actual minimum. Maby with a nooby option dropdown box selection, yes. But I am sure the settings go far lower than that.
Still, Valve always do a good job optimising, I played Hl2 fine when it came out on fairly decent settings on a non-gaming laptop with a basic intel graphics chip, 256MB RAM and a 1.5GHz single core amd cpu. For those low settings, the game still looks nice.
..maximum of 10 years old. So don't expect Crysis level graphics from Portal 2 but I fully expect Half-Life 3 to go all out in the graphics department or else there will be hell to pay from us loyal PC fans that have supported Valve for the last 14 years.