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Geek Culture / Portal is free if you grab it before September 20

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X Games
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Posted: 16th Sep 2011 15:02
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Seen this and had to share with you all

A lovely bit of news from RPS this morning. If you don’t already own it, you can download Portal for nothing on Steam. It’s being made free to download until September 20. If you download it before then, you’ll own it forever.

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Downloading now... Thanks.

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[WARNING: CONTAINS INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE]



That is all.

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funny as hell DJ Almix

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YAAAAAAAAAAY!lol


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Awesome! thanks a lot for letting us know*!

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This is great news for the people who've been living under rocks with tin foil hats, and not experienced how sweet this game is!

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Thanks for posting about this. Otherwise I don't think I would have found out.

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Never played it, just spent an hour trying to tell myself last level.

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I was neveer a big fan of pusselgames

hence why i AM considering getting portal 2 on Xbox 360, so i can co-op with my friend^^

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Quote: "I was neveer a big fan of pusselgames"

It's FREEEEE. It will only take you ~4 hours to play through too.

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Quote: "I was neveer a big fan of pusselgames"


I too thought that Portal was just a simple puzzle game when I first saw it... I had no idea of it's warped story line. There's much more to it than "solving a puzzle"

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Quote: "This is great news for the people who've been living under rocks with tin foil hats, and not experienced how sweet this game is!"


I got that reference!

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Quote: "I was neveer a big fan of pusselgames"

I'm not sure what a pusselgame is... Sounds pus-filled and gross.
However, I was never a fan of puZZle games until Portal. There's far more to it than simple puzzle solving.

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The difficulty level is just right. It's not annoying so far.

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I had to sit and play this through to the end, it was very engrossing I had no idea the story was as good as this (I have heard Cake jokes for years). I think I spent three hours on it. It is now 1:46 in the morning.


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iam going to be a douche and sasy i have played half of portal before: What story?

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Quote: "What story?"


It's got more story than the original Half-Life!

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Posted: 18th Sep 2011 10:47 Edited at: 18th Sep 2011 11:34
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not that HL had a remarkable story in my opinion, but it was a solid FPS ^^


Portal, well..


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*spoiler above*


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yeah, major spoiler, hold on

edit: better? XDD

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Quote: "Portal, well..
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If only Half Life had that much depth it would be a better game.

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nah, HL has equal depth...



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I'd never played portal before this, cos I am no FPS fan boy. However, I will try anything for free (cheers X Games!). I quite enjoyed it for a couple of hours. Good novel concept. I got bored quite quickly as I'm not a puzzle fan either, but you definitely can't knock it for a freebie!

I'm guessing their strategy is to encourage people to buy the next chapters? I noticed when I started it the other chapters seemed to be greyed out.

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Quote: "I got that reference!"


There was a reference?

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Quote: "I'm guessing their strategy is to encourage people to buy the next chapters? I noticed when I started it the other chapters seemed to be greyed out."


No, they're just locked because you haven't beaten them yet.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2011 15:08 Edited at: 18th Sep 2011 15:09
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It's a pretty cool game, but when you've beaten it once there's not a lot to do (well I lie, there are challenges or something but they didn't interest me a whole lot), like any other puzzle games really. It's a shame they didn't include a mode where you play randomly generated levels, that'd be awesome.



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What the deuce! So what are they playing at? Perhaps it's to enhance Steam popularity in the wake of this EA situation. Nothing is free without a reason!!

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Well, if you put a game like that ofcourse it sounds very dull

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Portal 2

I think they are using this promotion to push interest and sales of Portal 2. I think at one time if you bought Portal 2 through XBox live you got the original Portal free, but don't take that as gospel.

I doubt Portal is generating a lot of sales now days on its own anyway. It is what three to four years old or something like that?

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Quote: "Well, if you put a game like that ofcourse it sounds very dull "


was my point

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Quote: "What story?"


The story really starts to get awesome when


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since it would take me about.... 200+ hours getting there with my pussle solving skills

... x)

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Well that's when you utilize the google

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i dont like having to use google for a full game... x)

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I haven't got stuck so far.. I hope I never have to look at Google. The fun is solving the problems, although I can't say I won't get stuck.

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The first time I played Portal, I had to look at a walk through once.


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I remember that one, it was pretty hard, but I solved it solo...like a man!

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Yay I have completed it, and didn't need to look at anything! Ace game, nice tune!

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X Games- thanks for the heads up on this. Fun game... I usually loathe FPP platformer/puzzle stuff but the colision is rock solid and just about everything is on a grid. I agree the difficulty was just right and found it to be enjoyable and relaxing rather than frustrating.

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Quote: "overcomplicating things."


This is the problem I had with both 1 & 2... I was trying out all these incredibly difficult ideas, when the actual solutions were far simpler and more elegant.

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Alright, maybe it's not story like a RPG would have. I was probably talking about the setting and mood of the game. Valve seems to always do a good job with this, and Portal was no exception.


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It has a good story, although the story is hidden like in the film The Cube.

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I bet the ones who just found this post are wishing they got out from under there rock, its not all bad if you missed out coz i paid for when it came out DUH

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yeah, I haven't played a PC game for ages. I played Roller-coaster Tycoon 3 last year for about an hour, and that's all. Portal takes me back to when games were good, and not just FPS.

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I would have bought this game but I don't have steam and never plan too again.

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The story is on the walls people!

I managed to download this, I have it on the 360 with the orange box but it's free and i'm not going to say no.
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