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Valve's Portal Part of the Half-Life World
1up had the chance to sit down with Valve to talk about Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. They've come away with some great information, with probably the most exciting information focused around Portal. In a writeup of the visit, Matt Leone reveals that Portal is actually a part of the Half-Life 2 world. The protagonist is a new character, and eventually the fascinating puzzle/fps title will hook back into the Half-Life story at large. From the article: "'The origins of this character will be clear... eventually,' says Swift. Given that Portal has now been in development for just over a year, we wouldn't be surprised to see a few retroactive references pop up in Episode 1 as well, but for specifics we'll have to wait to hear more from the creepy narrator that taunts you while you play (yep, the same one from the first trailer)." For video and all the details, check out yesterday's episode of the 1up show.
You bought it on a CD?
Ew. Major ick.
Use STEAM. Buy everything via Steam. I've never had any problems with any content purchased and downloaded via Steam -- aside from, yes, the first month or two of Steam in which EVERYTHING was broken.
Seriously, Steam's looking to be one of the greatest innovations in entertainment delivery in the past decade. Or two. Who knows. Bored? Open steam, click on a new game you want, you get charged 5/10/20 bucks, and bam a lil while later there's the whole game. Gotta reformat? Who cares, just download the client, put in your login info, and bam.. there's everything you ever bought, no need to find CDs. On vacation at a friend's computer, bored while they're at work? Getcho that Steam client, you've still got all your games.
Seriously man.
You bought the CD?
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
Why do people do this?*
Whenever there's an article about Valve, people write the same "Valve sucks!" / "Valve rocks!" comments, even if the comment has nothing to do with the story. Example: even though this article is acutally about Portal, and doesn't have anything to do with the content delivery system, I guarantee that a dozen slashdotters will see a story about Valve, and reflexively copy-paste their stock "omg steam is teh wrostest" comment. And they won't get modded off-topic.
The same thing happens with articles about Wikipedia. I've never been able to understand it. Slashdot, why does this occur?
*And you, parent poster. Why go out of your way to post on every HL2 story? Especially when the title of your post is "I don't care"? And especially when you end your post with "Now 5 guys will mod me as flamebait"? I honestly don't get it. Why bother?