This will be in Half-Life 2, episode 2, IRC. Intriguing...
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From http://www.penny-arcade.com/
" While I was glad of that, it was also easy just to change the tf2 in the link to portal and get the high-res Portal video - it's also available here, if Valve's servers begin to think the better of it. There's a lot of "diagram humor" in it that comes across better at 720, and there's all kinds of extra information there about techniques when you can pause it yourself. It also has a story apparently, which hasn't been communicated by the trailer, but it takes place in the same continuity as Half-Life itself. I've heard the ideas it presents dismissed as ripping off Prey, and if there is a more ignorant statement to be made regarding these two games it has yet to be discovered. Prey's portals aren't user created. What's more, they're used in a completely different way: Prey is a first-person shooter, while Portal is clearly... something else. It's a puzzle game, or an adventure game, or a platformer. You tell me.
I wasn't aware that it was based on a game called Narbacular Drop until Chris said so, but apparently that's old news - that first link is broken right now because the entire gaming world descended on their equipment for an early taste of what became Portal. It was a DigiPen student project apparently, and what I heard (but don't know) is that Valve picked up the whole group of them and set them to work on the concept using Source. It doesn't look like Source though, not the Source we know - it's using some depth of field effects on the weapon itself, and it has that motion blur Next-Gen titles like Perfect Dark Zero use when you look around. No doubt that stuff will make it a better fit on the next-gen consoles its destined for."
JMJon Miller-
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