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PSA: "The Final Hours of Portal 2" [Now On Steam For PC/Mac]
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Castor Krieg said:
I'm sorry, am I wrong? It doesn't matter if he released it only for iPads or only for Zunes, he released it on platform with a relatively small userbase. It was a fucking stupid move that left the vast majority of people who want to read this with no option other than pirating it. By the sound of it he's scrambling it rectify his mistake, but it should have been obvious from the get-go.
Tain said:
Where?
Lasthope106
Member
Spire said:
Second this!
I'm not complaining about the price. I would gladly pay $5 for the content, but being iPad only is what most people are complaining about.
scar tissue
Banned
Really?sam27368 said:
I haven't been following the iPad piracy and homebrew scene (Note: I'm not saying Homebrew = Piracy so put the banhammer down) but I'd be surprised if it wasn't cracked wide open. Piracy is rampant on the iPhone, after all.
Zomba13
Member
Well if it was in a magazine I could go buy it for around £5 or less. Seeing as I don't own an iPad I'd have to spend a couple hundred. I think I should be allowed to complain about that.snoopeasystreet said:
I'm sure the interactive stuff is amazing and the whole article will lose meaning without it, but couldn't he, you know, put it on the internet? I'm not saying for free, he deserves to make money off it if it really is a great thing, but iPad only is a bit silly. Why not set up a website or a place to download it from once you pay a price or something? Or get a website/magazine to run it if they paid a price for it or something?
POWERSPHERE
Banned
fuck eyepuds
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
I liked it overall and thought it was worth the purchase. Would like more interactivity, maybe audio interviews...video? Interviews, more exclusive behind the scenes stuff. Basically, more of everything.
Getting this makes me REALLY want an iPad version of the MGS digital comic book with full voice over.
Good job!
Getting this makes me REALLY want an iPad version of the MGS digital comic book with full voice over.
Good job!
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Geoff...might want to fix that mgs2 final hours link. Doesn't work or is it me?
Interesting read on hl2. Might give it another try, but I get severe motion sickness and I could't get through it last time.
Why portal 2 and tf2 are fine with me is still a mystery.
Interesting read on hl2. Might give it another try, but I get severe motion sickness and I could't get through it last time.
Why portal 2 and tf2 are fine with me is still a mystery.
Mr. Spinnington
Banned
not sure $502 is in my budget to read an article
Wolves Evolve
Member
One of the best pieces of writing on videogames I've seen, and mega informative about where Valve is going and how they work creatively. Well done Geoff.
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
I adore reading about the game development process, despite Geoff's melodramatic style. Enjoyable top to bottom, when Geoff was on the pulse he did a great job, but yeah, maybe a bit more subtle next time. More or this, please, game journalism industry. 
This thread is hilarious. The iPad is a great big touchscreen slab. None of you can understand why that's an ideal and unique way to present a mixed-media article? Really? You're incensed that this isn't available as a PDF or pay-gated flash site (as if he'd be able to make that sell, hahaha, the bitching in that thread would top this one) I don't own a 360, and you know what? I don't get to play Xbox 360 games. It's a fucking crime against humanity that I can't, I know. I'd get out and protest but I'm incapacitated by the sheer weight of my own sense of entitlement.
glad geoff returned to doing the behind the games pieces as the wealth of first hand information in them is just so interesting to read, especially as we don't often get access to that stuff, and i thought his career had diverged from doing things like this. hopefully it'll do well on ipad and encourage more well presented and researched articles like this, as well as create a market for similar style articles from other writers (with maybe better writing styles). thumbs up from me, will definitely buy when it's available elsewhere.
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
The line about Portal 2 potentially being Valve's last single player only experience was a little scary. The five-year game mustache twirl at the end was also, you know, mustache twirl --
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I don't have an iPad, I badly want this. Also, after seeing that they were formerly from Pixar, I KNEW Portal 2 gave me a Wall-E vibe for a reason.
Also, that Wheatley plushie, when are they going to start selling those?! My girlfriend has expressed interest in one as well if it were to ever exist.
Also, that Wheatley plushie, when are they going to start selling those?! My girlfriend has expressed interest in one as well if it were to ever exist.
Burger
Member
Purchased and read the whole thing today. It was excellent, I only wish it was longer!
It was great to finally read a long format article surrounded by rich media, videos that didn't need to buffer and high res photographs everywhere. It really added to the experience.
I didn't care for the 'interactivity' bits very much, I thought they were largely superfluous, and didn't really add anything, nor were they particularly interactive.
But solid, solid work. Hope you make some money Geoff, and damn right you should.
It was great to finally read a long format article surrounded by rich media, videos that didn't need to buffer and high res photographs everywhere. It really added to the experience.
I didn't care for the 'interactivity' bits very much, I thought they were largely superfluous, and didn't really add anything, nor were they particularly interactive.
But solid, solid work. Hope you make some money Geoff, and damn right you should.
Wrestlemania
Banned
I can't believe he released something on the platform that allowed him to deliver the story in the format he wanted and at a cost that would allow him to recoup his costs. What a prick.
I've just read a little of it, I'm going to have to wait for it to come to a non-iPad platform till I can read more, but I'm pretty surprised Kim's concept for Portal 2 got discarded. While I don't really agree the Braid/R&C 'recording' of actions is a good idea in a 3D environment, time dilation seems a really natural fit for Portal. I could easily imagine something akin to those blue light tubes in Portal 2 that speed up and slow down time, having the player position the tubes to speed up a platform so it's in place for a box to land on it etc.
I think the goo in Portal 2 is a little incongruous and while the orange goo is an interesting addition in terms of allowing horizontal acceleration to be used for vertical lift, a light tube that speeds up time would have the exact same effect.
If Kim is working on a bootleg Portal 2, I'll be there day one to buy it.
I think the goo in Portal 2 is a little incongruous and while the orange goo is an interesting addition in terms of allowing horizontal acceleration to be used for vertical lift, a light tube that speeds up time would have the exact same effect.
If Kim is working on a bootleg Portal 2, I'll be there day one to buy it.
lol @ the whining. I don't have an iPad, but I recognize how great it is for something like this article with interactive elements. What's even more funny is that if this had been a thread about an article released with multimedia for everything but it cost money, we would have a lot of 'What? I'm not paying money for a news article!' responses. Knightley was smart here to pick this outlet for it, particularly if he needs to recoup some of his personal cost.
Yup.
Yes. Castor is right. And there are a shitload of iPads out there.
About as much as complaining that you can't play Uncharted 2 because you don't have a PS3.
Massa said:
Yup.
Spire said:
Yes. Castor is right. And there are a shitload of iPads out there.
Zomba13 said:
About as much as complaining that you can't play Uncharted 2 because you don't have a PS3.
Doublesith
Member
Rez said:
This. Half-Life 3 being co-op only would be my biggest gaming disappointment ever. BTW, Geoff clarified that this was something Valve told him and not his speculation:
http://thefinalhoursofportal2.com/blog/finalhours/welcometotheblog/
Valve isn't the sort of developer who would shoe-horn MP into a game. If an MP component is to be a part of Episode Three/Half-Life 3, it's not going to be half-arsed. More specifically, if it's "forced" co-op, an ever-present companion is going to be written into the narrative well and not thrown in there for the sake of it a la Capcom and SHIVA! SHIVA! 5.
Edit: Oh God, I typed "their" instead of "there".
Edit: Oh God, I typed "their" instead of "there".
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
Akia said:
can you elaborate on this story?
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I don't like to buy a ton of apps but this is 3 bucks well spent. Good job.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
Bought it. Loving it.
beelzebozo said:
If I'm not mistaken, Wolpaw was having rather serious health issues and went in to hand his resignation as he couldn't function at work. Gabe told him that his job at Valve was to get better, so he sent him home to his wife and said to come back when he's in better shape.
BannedEpisode
Member
Man if I had an iPad I'd be all over this.
Im just too impoverished.
Im just too impoverished.