These had effects like bouncing back turrets and blocks repulsion gel and creating platforms for portals conversion gel , but the real MVP was the propulsion gel. When slathered onto platforms, the propulsion gel would become a super-lubricant that would send you hurtling. Any other game would have added in propulsion as a block or some other feature on the game map.
What made propulsion gel so doubly fantastic was that you could sprinkle and hose it around as much as you liked. We spent an entire evening covering one section with the conversion gel, just because we could. The item is just there, overlooking something like a quarry. One of the best bosses in modern video gaming, reduced to squatting on a vegetable. But rather than feel like a cash-in on past glories, it makes her dependent on you, and the dynamic is completely shifted. But this is so much more dehumanising and embarrassing, and it fits Portal 2 like a glove.
We will admit to groaning a little bit when we realised he was going to appear in audio journals, which — in — were getting old, off the back of too many BioShock clones. We were so wrong. The sass and gravitas of J.
The pinnacle of the Cave Johnsonisms is the lemon rant. But later, as death takes hold of him, he goes on a rant, demanding that life takes the lemons back. Few people can rant like J. Simmons — just see Terence Fletcher in Whiplash — and you can see a little bit of that character come through in Cave Johnson.
How would Portal 2 handle its ending? There was the opportunity to do something different, to buck expectations in the same way that the opening did. But, in contrary Valve style, they went for the straight sequel. Want You Gone was written by Jonathon Coulton, same as Still Alive, but what it lost on surprise and cleverness, it gained in melody. Want You Gone is just a cracking tune, and it carries all the memories of the previous six hours of gaming with it whenever we spin it on Spotify.
A puzzle would blow our minds, until one of the two of us figured out what was needed. It was just simpler that way. And if you wanted an example of the level of detail in Portal 2, then look no further than the menu screen.
Updating with each level, it showed your progress with bespoke animated artwork in glorious HD. But writing this list has reminded us just how rewarding it would be to give it another ride. We might well go back and play it now. What am I supposed to do with these? Do you have memories of Portal 2? This smart laptop was enjoyable to use and great to work on — creating content was super simple.
As the Maserati or BMW of laptops, it would fit perfectly in the hands of a professional needing firepower under the hood, sophistication and class on the surface, and gaming prowess sports mode if you will in between. This small mobile printer is exactly what I need for invoicing and other jobs such as sending fellow tradesman details or step-by-step instructions that I can easily print off from my phone or the Web.
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Show Comments. Security Watch. Best NBN Plans. Best Mobile Plans. Not only was the first game a perfectly proportioned morsel of puzzle-solving action, it was a goddamn online sensation. Internet culture was still coalescing in everything had to have giant letters in Impact font back then, you know , but Portal helped shape it. How do you follow up the game that made "the cake is a lie" such a common phrase that everybody in the entire goddamn world got sick of hearing it, regardless of whether they played video games?
Portal 2 is the answer. Where its predecessor was a small, focused, joke-infused puzzle game, Portal 2 is a sprawling comedy adventure. No longer are players trapped alone with a single AI that wants to kill them. Now we have two AIs that sometimes want to kill us, and sometimes want to help us, but always want to kill each other.
The pristine white test chambers from the first game are now choked with overgrowth and twitching robotic wreckage. The depths below yield miles of rusty walkways and Aperture Science history. Down there we meet Cave Johnson or at least his voice recordings , the blustering chauvinist whose ambition and ego helped create the scientific hellscape we inhabit.
His speech about lemons is the closest Portal 2 ever gets to its own "cake is a lie" moment. Fortunately, Portal 2 is big enough that it doesn't need one T-shirt selling line to define it. Climbing through the strata of Aperture's corporate development with Cave narrating all the way is Portal 2 at its funniest, proving that Valve can deliver consistently humorous characters with a life beyond meme-worthy one-liners.
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