now i feel left out :P whats portal?

An awesome first person puzzle/platformer included in Orange Box from Valve.

Ok thanks guys, I beat it and 1 advanced puzzle. I liked how they rolled a boss fight into a puzzle game. Very cool.

Valve seems to have an awesome yet disturbing obsession with cake.

The cake is a lie =(

Is portal even possible with Dual Analog sticks? It takes some pretty incredible aiming in those advanced levels with very little time to react...

O/ NUDE


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AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Anyone notice the text inside of the secret room in lvl 17 with login information?

Login: cjohnson
Password: tier3

A quick visit to www.aperturescience.com (type login, then the proper info when it prompts you) grants you access to C Johnson (founder of Aperture Science)'s user account. Type dir to see what all is in his directory, and then type NOTES to read notes on the company.

They're really freaking funny.

Turns out, portals were really meant to have some sort of possible useful nature in helping people get into the shower.

credit to OberonOfAmber on gamefaqs for the discovery. Run through the stuff on there though it's hilarious.

bump. More must see the awesomeness of the Aperture Science website.

Haha...so excellent. The humor in this game was so unexpected, and will probably go unnoticed.

And yeah, I watched a video of Portal and TF2 being played on the PS3 and 360. Eh. Looks fine, but the controls did seem quite slow and inaccurate.

I'm not trying to a PC fanboy. But I notice that a lot of FPSs, including TF2 here, on the consoles force players to do a lot of strafing left and right.

They can't immediately and accurately line up a shot with the right analog stick, so they do a bit of strafing with the left stick to try and line it up while spamming the gun. It works, but it sure isn't as good as immediately pointing between the dude's eyes and pulling the trigger. And with Portal, I definitely had to make some far away portal shots on a certain ceiling tile, and that would be quite a bit harder if I overshot because of an analog stick.

Duel analogs works for most console FPSs because they're designed around them, the console FPSs are designed to take that slight inaccuracy and use other gameplay mechanics like assisted aim, secondary weapons like nades, whatever to help compensate. And it's fine with TF2 because everyone's at the same level.

But PC and consoles will not play well together unless the game is gimped somehow, really.

You can argue that duel analogs are better, and I'd understand why...but for games like this, you really need precision.