[XOne] Portal 2

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|| Platforms Xbox 360 | PC | PS3 ~ Uitgever Valve ~ Developer Valve ~ Genre Puzzel ~ Release datum 21 April 2011​ Welcome to Aperture Laboratories The highly anticipated sequel to 2007's Game of the Year, Portal 2 is a hilariously mind-bending adventure that challenges you to use wits over weaponry in a funhouse of diabolical science. Using a highly experimental portal device, you’ll once again face off against a lethally inventive, power-mad A.I. named GLaDOS. And this time you won’t be alone. Meet an expanded cast of characters as you think your way through dangerous, never-before-seen areas of Aperture Laboratories. Break the laws of spatial physics in ways you never thought possible, with a wider variety of portal puzzles and an expansive story that spans a single player and co-operative game mode. Praise for Portal "An astounding accomplishment; part abstract brainteaser, part sci-fi thriller, part black comedy. Imagine being stuck inside a 3D puzzle with a playfully cruel sense of humour." Charlie Brooker, The Guardian UK "Sinister, sardonic and stunningly realised… Valve's idiosyncratic extra [is] a work of genius." Top 10 Games of the Decade, The Guardian UK "A masterpiece... One of the decade's best villains." Best Games of the Decade, The Onion AV Club "One of the most influential games of the decade." Wired Magazine "Ingenious." USA Today "Brilliantly designed, innovative, witty and wonderfully devious... Absolute genius." Game of the Year, Eurogamer "Phenomenal in every sense of the word." Game of the Year, Joystiq ​ ___________________________________ Portal 2 zal zich 100 jaar na de gebeurtenissen in de eerste Portal afspelen en deze keer zowel single- en multiplayer coöperatieve spelmodi zal bevatten. In de single-player maak je kennis met nieuwe karakters zoals de maffe robot Wheatley die de stem van Stephen Merchant zal dragen, verse puzzelelementen en een grotere set aan gemene testkames. Je zult tevens nieuwe omgevingen verkennen van Aperture Science Labs en de soms moordlustige en ietwat gestoorde computer GLaDOS weer tegenkomen. De coöperatieve spelmodus voor twee spelers is een aparte campagne waarin een uniek verhaal, aangepaste testkamers en twee nieuwe karakters een verhaal doorlopen en zal je dwingen om op een nieuwe manier coöperatief te denken met Portals. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Full retail price...Full fledged standalone sequel... De game lijkt dus groter te worden dan XBLA, of een gamepje wat je in een Oranje doos kunt duwen. Awesome. [yt]Y6ljFaKRTrI[/yt] ​ ​

 

hmmmm, will there be cake?

 

I love my cube

 

Jeuh! Portal was een erg leuk spel(letje) en verreweg het beste dat The Orange Box te bieden had. Leuke levels, interessante gameplay en veel humor. Een volledige game kan dus erg tof gaan worden.

 

portal 1 was geniaal dus ik kijk hier echt naar uit
Maar portal 2 is geen portal als m'n companion cube er niet in zit
Let's celebrate it with cake!!

 

Portal was zeker een toffe game, maar oh god wat heb ik me kapot geergerd soms met die challenges damn. Volle retail prijs, moeten ze veel voor doen om dat te kunnen verdienen, maar als iemand het kan, is het valve.

 

Portal was geniaal...echter zo uniek dat ik niet weet of ik zit te wachten op een vervolg.

 

Echt genoten van deel 1. Puzzels waren echt heel tof gedaan en de humor die erin zat vond ik ook erg goed passen . Tof dat ze er een volledig spel van gaan maken en vooral de toevoeging van co-op (hopelijk wel splitscreen) lijkt me erg vet

 

In de ene kant wel, maar aan de andere kant denk ik dan wat voor mogelijkheden er nog onbenut zijn gebleven met het concept van die portals.

Er is bijvoorbeeld een mod voor Half-life 2 waarin je gewoon de single player kan spelen met de portal-gun, dat levert echt vreemde situaties op maar ik denk dat er ook gewoon nog veel interresantere puzzels gemaakt kunnen worden.

 

Dat ze deze maar bij Half Life 2: Episode 3 proppen. Mocht die nog ooit komen...

 

Portal was idd echt een geweldige puzzel game. Awesome
Hoop wel dat Portal 2 een heel stuk langer is though.

 

@egelhunter: Liever niet, want dan moet ik HL2E3 ook kopen.

 

Niiiiice, ik vond Portal geweldig. Maar geloof echt niet dat ie nog dit jaar komt..en het lijkt er niet echt op dat ze haast hebben met Episode 3 huh....hmmm.

 

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[gb]Chell v2.0[/gb] Spoiler Redesigning Portal: Valve’s Artist Speaks ​ Designing a character for a game is no easy task. Even little nuances such as a character's shoes or hairstyle can affect how players perceive their hero. Redesigning a character brings additional challenges because players already have a set of expectations for established characters. Designers will go through hundreds of concepts before settling on a final design for their character. Valve's concept artist, Matt Charlesworth, explains how that process is working for Portal 2. From The Beginning “We sort of agreed that as a character Chell was really successful in the first Portal. She fit into the world really well and complemented it without the distractions that a more flashy character would bring. She served a utilitarian purpose for that game, but at the same time when we started out on Portal 2 we weren't sure if we wanted to bring her back. So we explored a few other characters before returning to Chell. “Right from the beginning, we were constrained to replicate the character that was in the first game. Later on, we decided that we were probably missing a trick by not having Chell present, so we moved her back into that role. We were trying to do different things. Some of the images started with a sporty look – almost like motorcycle gear. Very different from the first aesthetic, even though we were still going for clean and simple. We were playing around with proportion as well, trying to play a lot more with extreme feminine proportions and a totally different color scheme. “We explored changing Chell’s nationality for a little bit. Nobody really knew what Chell was in the first game. She kind of had a hint of Japanese ethnicity to her, but we were still not quite sure if we were going to keep her or make her a new character. In the end, the things that were successful were the more minimal, clean, utilitarian looks. Nothing was on there for fashion. The constraints we had were that this girl was supposed to be dressed by machines, so any markings on the suit would have been on there for readability by the computer. She was never supposed to look as if she'd been designed. But that's something we fought with – to make her still appealing to the player, but not look over designed. Anything that doesn't serve a real purpose on the character tends to get cut. Throwing Out Ideas “We played around with some different machine-read imagery, and what extra things you might have on a suit like this, but we’re leaning away from the bar code design now, because it seems like it's been done quite a bit before, and originality is something I really associate with Portal. “The stuff that was more successful was the really minimal approach, and that's sort of led us to this concept. This just seemed to strike a chord with everyone, because it really seemed like it belonged in the Portal world. It made her look physically capable, but at the same time, there is a vulnerability about her. That's what is attractive to everybody. “The 06 is an arbitrary graphic put on there. We're trying to de-humanize the character a little bit. That's something that was continually coming up with some of the other concepts suited to the prisoner number system – that constant dehumanization of these test subjects." Work In Progress “This is not supposed to look like a sexy Marvel superhero suit. It’s supposed to look like it was designed without any thought of making her look attractive. We don't want to make her be unattractive, but we want to balance that out. Chell is a test subject, so she should look like one. Not a prisoner or a janitor or something. We also want people to remember the character this time around. Before I started working on Portal 2, I barely remembered the character from the first game “The hat came up sort of halfway through the concepting phase. It just seemed to strike a chord with everyone. It's something that always makes me think of test pilots – people who were subjected to testing and extreme conditions. It serves a second purpose too, because if there's a graphic on it that's constantly readable from all angles then there can be graphics on the hat that are trackable by the computers in the world. That sort of serves the fiction of her being tested by GLaDOS. Also it keeps the hair out of her eyes. “We’re still not entirely sure what we're doing with the spring heels. They were always something that was in Portal 1, and some of us are attached to them, and some of us aren't, so I’ve experimented with how we can do with them right this time around, and how we would go about replacing them. Everything should look 10 times better than the first Portal, that's the goal.” Valve's Tristan Reidford is the artist working on designing the game's co-op bots ​ Designing For Two “We went through a phase of putting stuff up and deciding what the direction was. The co-op bots, at the very beginning our concepts had a very Westworld feel. We wanted them to look human, but feel robotic. They eventually developed into being these far more graphic, very industrial looking robots. We took turrets and the personality spheres and integrated them into the designs. There's so much personality in Portal that we thought we could almost tell a story with their design and get more use out of the art than we already had. “We drew them holding hands because it just kind of describes the whole co-op idea, if slightly tongue-in-cheek. Portal’s got a sense of humor. It's quirky, but it shows that one of the biggest things that is important to Portal 2 will be that you're playing with a friend. It's one of those weird things, where somebody just kind of did it, and we had the sort of team moment where we were like “yeah that’s pretty cool.” [gb]Het maken van test chambers[/gb] Spoiler Thinking With Portals: Making A Portal 2 Test Chamber ​ The test chambers that populate the vast interior of the Aperture Science testing facility may seem deceptively simple at first glance – just a few key components nestled in a sterile room – but once you try to escape that room you'll realize that things are much more complicated than they seem. The designers at Valve use a very particular process to craft these devious challenges. Valve explains how that process works for Portal 2. Valve on setting goals: “Out of all the possible problems that can be posed to the player, how does the team decide what should go into a new test chamber? While it may seem obvious, the final decision always starts with a specific goal in mind. We never sit down and throw random pieces at the whiteboard to see what sticks. We always focus on some key aspect of a mechanic, and on how we can teach it to players while still challenging them.” All the test chambers in Portal 2 begin their life on a whiteboard. Using isometric sketches the team is able to block out the rough shape and components needed for whatever challenge they’re trying to pose to the player. Working roughly, they’re able to very quickly sanity-check a design and try to poke holes in its implementation​ Valve on training players: “This core criteria for map building helps guarantee that the game is always giving players the right incremental step in their understanding of portals and portal challenges. Generally speaking, the training is one of two types. The first type is what the team calls checklisting, where new mechanics are broken down into the core components players must understand in order to have fun using that mechanic. This is often just a matter of broadcasting the fundamental rules of play. For instance, the most basic function of a tractor beam is to grab a player who has entered its zone of influence and float them in its direction of travel. So when players first encounter a tractor beam, they're given a very clean room to safely experiment with it. “The second form of training occurs after players have learned the basics. Once we feel comfortable that players understand the basic rules, we start to enumerate the interesting things that can be done with the mechanic we're focusing on. This helps us generate a list of fun experiences the player can have. We then use that list to generate new challenges. These challenges typically force players to think laterally and usually involve taking a previously learned rule and turning it on its head. Figuring out those little twists is often the most rewarding for players.” Once the whiteboard sketch has been vetted by the design team, a designer will take the sketch and start to build the true level. Here you can see a view of that process using Valve’s level editor, Hammer ​ Valve on playtesting: “Coming up with challenges for players is only a starting point. Challenges can't just be solvable; they also need to be fun. Playtesting is the most important tool the team utilizes while creating puzzles that fulfill both of these requirements. Even the best ideas can fall flat once they're put up against real players, so until a wide variety of testers have played through a map, it can't be considered ready to ship. “Sometimes playtesting unearths simple problems, such as a player discovering a solution the team didn't expect. If the solution is interesting and makes the tester feel smart, it might be left in as an alternate solution. If, however, the unintended solution makes the player feel as if the game is broken, the team will find ways to remove or reconfigure the elements that led to the errant, unsatisfying solution. Ultimately, it's the playtesters' perception and enjoyment that dictates what goes into a final map. “A common issue that crops up in playtesting is players failing to notice the tasks needed to solve a challenge. Players very rarely look up, and they almost never look at the things that are obvious to us as designers. We'll add something to a room that seems far too obvious to us, but if playtesters miss it time and time again, we know that we need to draw more attention to it or find another way to approach the problem.” Valve on Portal 2’s paint feature: “Portal 2 gives players the ability to paint surfaces in order to alter their properties, which takes the fundamental binary constraint of a traditional Portal puzzle surface and changes it into something very powerful. Players are used to having the world tell them what they can and can't do. Portal 2 strives to give players more control over the rules of the world and let them set their own terms. However, with that higher degree of freedom comes a higher degree of challenge when trying to design a puzzle. Because of the fluid (and messy) nature of the paint, maps very quickly change from clean and tidy to chaotic and mottled. The upside is that it gives players a much more varied and interesting set of options when solving puzzles, without the designers having to change the central portal gun mechanic.” Here is a test chamber that has been fully art-passed with vegetation, dynamic lighting and detail texturing. This is the final stage for any of the maps Valve on the art of design: “Once the map is playtesting well and the developers feel confident that the basic shape of the test chamber won't be modified, the team's artists step in to transform the space from an abstract space into a chamber that feels truly buried in the guts of the Aperture Science testing facility. “Unlike the often sterile and pristine environments of the first game, Portal 2 provides a more visually rich backdrop for GLaDOS's devious testing. This richness can also add confusion to a space if not implemented correctly, so after a map has received its art treatment it heads right back into playtesting to make sure that players are still having fun. “Oftentimes adding that visual complexity can create distractions or red herrings for players, so the team often has to pull back if they've gone too far, or clarify elements that may have been inadvertently obscured. Not only does it increase the visual quality of a setting, the art pass can often help gameplay problems. Lighting and dynamic elements can help draw the player's attention to exactly where it’s needed while giving them a completely different impression of their surroundings.” Valve on the importance of GLaDOS: “Another element the designers typically add at the tail end of a map's production is GLaDOS herself. We almost always have GLaDOS talk at the beginning and end of a puzzle. Portal 1 playtesting showed us pretty quickly that even though people like hearing GLaDOS, they really, really don't want to listen to her while they're actively thinking through a puzzle.”

 

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Op de E3 zal ie iig wel nog aanwezig zijn.

 

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jammer, hopelijk wordt ie echt tof, verheug me op deze game!!

 

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