Comments on: On Team Fortress 2 and Portal

By: Noah Falstein

Noah Falstein — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:34:52 +0000

Portal was the most fun I’ve had with a computer game in years. Maybe since Diablo II came out. Works almost flawlessly on every level it attempts. Easily worth the price of the orange box alone. The humor is pitch-perfect, all the way through to the ending song (don’t try to listen to it before you finish the game!) This will be my example for game design lectures for years to come.

By: Jurie

Jurie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:52:03 +0000

Well, of course you can borrow my copy :) Once I have it.

By: Chris Wells

Chris Wells — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:16:55 +0000

Fair enough… I think I know someone else I can borrow A COPY FROM

By: Jurie

Jurie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:48:04 +0000

Oh, right, that’s why Play.com was so cheap.

In principle that sounds like a good idea, except this is one of the few games I’d like to own :)

By: Chris Wells

Chris Wells — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:40:40 +0000

Ah I see… play.com is from the Jersey Islands… which is not a part of the EU surprisingly. Anything from there over €22 is subject to zoll.

Game.co.uk is from Basingstoke I believe.

By: Chris Wells

Chris Wells — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:27:55 +0000

oh you mean play.com… thought you meant playasia..
Hmmmm… I haven’t had any problem with Game, ordered 2 games last month and 3 this.

By: Chris Wells

Chris Wells — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:26:32 +0000

sure its shipped within the EU.

By: Jurie

Jurie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:48:29 +0000

Would it pass customs? Play.com has become unusable ever since the customs loophole was closed.

By: Chris Wells

Chris Wells — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:12:12 +0000

I can order it (Orange Box) from Game.co.uk

Shall we go halves on it?

By: Jurie

Jurie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:20:36 +0000

I have that T-shirt too :) It lost its curiosity value when the game finally came out…

I never played the full game but the demo was pretty good. It still involved a lot of mind-bending portals, but they were all pre-defined, and not dynamic like in Portal. Back in the mid 90s portals were also the hot new graphics technology.