Of course, but the grown over chambers were supposed to be the areas from Portal 1, well, grown over. There were too many physical differences that made this impossible, like the Vital Apparatus Vents, cubes, buttons, the presence of Panels, and wall textures. I was extra confused by these things, since I played Portal enough to memorize everything about it. These are definately retcons.
I ain’t saying Portal isn’t awesome enough to still be relevant, but a graphical update and some improved puzzles would make an excellent mod.
There are things I call art that I’ve only seen once and never really paid much mind to afterwards. (Items of Obsession = False)
I’m a legal adult. (Underage = False)
I’m heterosexual. (Queer = False)
There are things I call art that I’ve seen and consisted of only one installation. I liked them and to this day do not know who the artists were. (Fanboyishness = False)
The word “art” has been around for a long time and has not been temporarily made popular by any institution or contemporary notion. (Catchword = False)
The rest is subjective nonsense. I could call someone who works out a lot pretentious if I really wanted to. “You put exaggerated worth on your bodily health!”
What if she intentionally put you through a different class of test chambers?
All the concrete-and-steel, panel-less-corridor type areas from Portal 1 could just be in another part of the facility.
Remember, at the bottom of Aperture, the maps say that there are nine columns of Asbestos Spheres. “Portal 2 Aperture” is at the top of the right-most one, who’s to say that “Portal 1 Aperture” isn’t just at the top of another?
It’s worth bearing in mind that the place is big enough for GLaDOS to simply forget about what sounds like a LOT of old test chambers, until Wheatley rediscovers them.
I dunno, ‘that guy’ just felt he needed to go and try to be clever, all because of a single sentence I wrote.
Apparently my way of putting it does have a strong effect on some people’s fragile egos.
Just wanted to point that out to those who are incapable of understanding the simplest of concepts of the human society.
Personally I don’t think Half-Life 2 warrants a remake just yet. I still enjoy it for what it is.
Half-Life 2 pulls me into a world I thoroughly enjoy, and I wouldn’t want to change that experience by using tools like Cinematicmod for the sole purpose of “refining a classic.” when it’s poorly done.
That’s like taking Für Elise, adding beats and pop-lyrics to it and calling it better than the original.
If you plan to improve something that people already love, you need to do it properly. Remaking Half-Life, and actually working hard to make sure to keep consistency and experience, is the way to go.
Improving Half-Life 2 by adding semi-erotic npc’s, fog, bloom and other rubbish… Not so much.
I can see the appeal of Cinematic Mod, but when I was a child I played the Commadore 64, Nintendo 8-bit and Sega 16-bit. Graphics meant absolutely nothing in comparison to the art, story and experience of the games that made me fall in love with gaming, that made many of us fall in love with gaming.
Games today look prettier, but offers less. The Half-Life series are some of the few games today that still try hard to offer us the things we really want, rather than the things we think we want.
YO PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL, you are coming on way too strong, champ. Besides, ODB was directing his attack about art at Dotard, not you. So please calm down, stop trying so hard to sound like a virgin, and please stop defending underaged idiots. It encourages people like Dotard to continue being annoying.
That first post I did was straight facts, nothing high-minded. ODB started posting gifs and saying cryptic memes so I busted his balls. If that’s upsetting you, get someone to ban me, I’m coming off how I want. If that’s a virgin with a fragile ego to you guys, have fun with it. It’s not gonna rain on my parade.
Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.
