Portal: Prelude

[Dezzimal]

http://www.portalprelude.com/

Released a few hours ago. Got a good review on gamespy which means its probably pretty fun if you enjoyed portal's gameplay. Anyone had a chance to play it yet?

[Waef]

Ugh, any free place to download it from?

[Dezzimal]

Well I had a torrent but it doesn't work now for some reason.

[Maguspk]

So the download is free but you need PC Portal to install the mod onto, right?

Will this work for the base PC Portal install? [Link]

[Kiarax]

Sucks. They took the well designed puzzles from the original and turned them into twitch gameplay. Also obnoxious turrets. The first room is compromised of you simply having to bunny hop forward past some turrets and hope you survive.

[Waef]

Well, I usually enjoy custom maps, within reason.

Some custom maps that seem all gimmicky and "shit where do I need to go?! Oh there's a tiny hole I need to shoot a portal through and then edge glitch through this wall and then do some elaborate jump and blah blah" then it gets annoying. Usually when I play custom maps, I do them once, then go back to the official maps.

[Dezzimal]

Sucks. They took the well designed puzzles from the original and turned them into twitch gameplay. Also obnoxious turrets. The first room is compromised of you simply having to bunny hop forward past some turrets and hope you survive.

Or you're bad and can't duck out of the portal, grab a turret and dive back in?

[Waef]

Got to level 8, and then my keyboard started acting up and basically made it impossible to play, so I'll go back to it later. For a little while I thought you had to

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bunnyhop through level 7, and I almost made it too, and then I looked around a little and noticed those convenient blocks sticking out of the wall and just used those. Shame I didn't quite make it across with the bunnyhop, although I suppose that would require really good timing...

[Kiarax]

Or you're bad and can't duck out of the portal, grab a turret and dive back in?

Wow I'm retarded, dunno how the fuck I missed that. Doesn't excuse some of the later levels from having bad level design (unless of course you want to play it for annoying twitch gameplay and not well made puzzles).

Got to level 8, and then my keyboard started acting up and basically made it impossible to play, so I'll go back to it later. For a little while I thought you had to

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bunnyhop through level 7, and I almost made it too, and then I looked around a little and noticed those convenient blocks sticking out of the wall and just used those. Shame I didn't quite make it across with the bunnyhop, although I suppose that would require really good timing...

Was 7 just the long bridge one? I just made a portal in the floor and ceiling, built up momentum and then shot the ceiling portal onto the wall and flew over the entirety of the bridge.

[Dezzimal]

I'm on 3 currently I think? The one with two pieces of wall extending out the bottom one sticks out further. Its pretty challenging. Looks like I need to catch a ledge on the left via dropping off the top extended thing?

This plays more like the old conc_ maps from tfc than portal.

[Kiarax]

Not certain I did that one right or not. But I just stood on top of the bit of wall that extends out, shot a portal behind me and one on the floor and jumped through it, looped into it again and that had built up enough momentum to get into the doorway.

[Waef]

Yeah I did that for 3 too I think. As for 7, I didn't really think of that like I said, my first idea was bunnyhopping. Oh well, guess I'll just know to do that next time.

[Max™]

Thats my favorite thing of portal.

Building up stupid amounts of momentum on myself or other objects, and then flinging them into other things.

I was doing that in the 2-D Portal java thing a while back when I got frustrated with um... 28 I think, which was just a whore.

I got a turret whizzing through a floor ceiling loop then pegged it into the other turret and laughed as they both spazzed around frantically spraying ammo, and then cried when they landed in the worst possible spot, guarding each others back underneath that little ledge where I couldn't easily shoomp them out.

[Waef]

Yeah, usually I like just messing around in the area with the 2nd jump in chamber 15 (in Portal, not Prelude), by like making a portal on the ground, and another on the thing that sticks out, jumping into the bottom one which crouching, landing in it again which sends me over the fizzler, and before landing placing a portal on the ground and another on the wall, which ends up throwing you back across the fizzler. After that I place 2 portals in the wall, which tosses me back out, and finally place another on the ground which throws me back over the fizzler.

Okay, bad description, I should make a video of it or something.

Edit: Got to the last 2 chambers of Prelude before you go into the back area. Got the cube and then got bored trying to figure out what to do next, so I used the edge glitch to get past the door. After that I went up to the top, only to realize you need to throw the cube into an incinerator.

So I just edge glitched past that door too but using a moving platform thing. Anyone wanna spoil those chambers for me? Because none of the buttons seemed to work or anything.

Edit II:

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Holy fuck, the last part of the game is REALLY annoying. "Here, run back through the entire way you just came with things shooting rockets at you in every room. Oh and here's some other random flying things with razors that get in your way and cause you to take damage and overall are a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS. Seriously, that was completely unnecessary. All it did was make it extremely annoying when you're running and OHCRAP you get stuck on some stupid flying thing.

Not to mention both parts with GLaDOS are really freaking stupid. Flying you around, shooting bursts on the ground, shooting a giant fucking lazer at you. Woohoo, it's not fun when you can't do shit and just gotta try to survive somehow. And the worst part is, the 2nd time you fight her, she does all that shit, and you need to try to find the damn module that she just flew all over the room, and there's those fucking flying things all over the place again. Even if you get the module quickly you still have to get it up to her, which is a feat among itself.

Anyway, the point is, I probably won't be playing this again as the original Portal is much better, and that last level is seriously one of the most annoying parts of any game I've ever played.