The cutscene change happened at the same time they added the radio achievement, so chances are if you've played the game since Portal 2 was announced, you've seen it.
Al it is is a several second bit at the end where an off-screen bot starts dragging Chell back in (and says "Thank you for assuming the party escort position" or something like that).
Which they recycled a lot of. It's not they made yet another witch model all from scratch for LFD2. As far as balancing the game that is going to be much easier when you're coming hot off of the original and the sequel is more or less an expansion pack. Don't get me wrong. I love LFD2 and I'm glad I paid for it but the effort put into the second will almost certainly have been less than the first on every front.
I haven't looked at Witch specifically, but I know for a fact a lot of the other zombies have newer models. Heck, the L4D2 Boomer comes in both male and female models, whereas there was only a male model in L4D.
I'm also pretty sure I read somewhere that Portal essentially was a tech demo, although I cannot be sure of that (and couldn't find a citation in the limited time I devoted to searching for one before posting this).
Narbacular Drop was a tech demo. Portal was a game created by the same dev team after Valve hired them using a lot of the same mechanics.
I have it preloaded but I will be heading for a camping trip on Friday. If that's right, I'll probably just stay home. Who needs friends when you have Valve games?
Well, the reference in the decoded message that started this rumor said somthing like 04-19-2011_7AM = 04-15-2011_9AM
Portal 2's official launch date/time is April 19, 2011 7am PDT, so... that would put the early release date at 9am PDT Friday. Thus, you can likely find out before camping time on Friday (9am PDT/noon EDT/4pm UTC).
Or were you being sarcastic?:D
P.S. I have 31 out of the (at last check) 34 known potatoes on my Steam profile. I have to get all remaining known ones before tomorrow morning.:O
Orange Box comes with all 3 HL2 games, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 (which IMO is one of the best multiplayer FPS games of all time... at least the PC/Mac version is, despite all the flak Valve gets over the in-game store).
When The Orange Box came out, the games in it used 3 different versions of the engine. Half-Life 2 used the original, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 used the Episode 1 version, while Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 used the Episode 2/OrangeBox 2007 version.
As it stands, as of the Mac update, the single player games in Orange Box use the OrangeBox 2007 engine, but TF2 (and other multiplayer Source games) use the OrangeBox 2009 engine.
It took me 40 minutes to get Steam installed and log into an existing account. How is that better than 15 minutes?
Steam is a bug-ridden piece of shit that keeps you from actually playing games.
As long as we're citing anecdotes, the last time I installed Steam, it took me less than 5 minutes to download and install, then log in using my existing account and start installing games.
So... were you trying to install it on WINE or something? On a Mac with a case-sensitive file system?
Last time I checked, the Potato Sack Indie bundle sale was still going on (it's a PORTAL TWO promo, but Portal 2 doesn't launch for another 6 days, 23 hours, and 29 minutes.). That has both Amnesia and Super Meat Boy in it.
I can't check steampowered.com from here, so I can't say whether or not the sale it over yet.
At least Steam always tags games like that with the Third Party DRM tag... it shows up below the publisher information in the right column, along with any other tags.
I can understand for special offers. I have to wonder who the hell in their right minds ever pays full whack for games on Steam. In virtually every single instance, you can find the exact same game in a store at 30% off the price MSRP / RRP listed on Steam. In some cases, such as Valve's own games, the game is Steam powered anyway so you're saving money, getting a disc backup and a manual for less. e.g. Portal 2 is â28 + free postage on Amazon.co.uk, and â44.99 through Steam.
Steam has occasional good deals but the price of brand new retail titles is nothing less than a scam.
Steam uses a weird system where they assume $1 USD = â1. Needless to say, Steam's prices are a bit more comparable to retail on the west side of the Atlantic.
Also, Slashdot is eating my Euro symbols and changing them to some other character in preview. If it does this in the final post, I apologize.
They had a reason: they didn't want to support it any more.
Yes, that is a reason. It's not an acceptable reason at all. They billed OtherOS as a feature when they sold the console. Then they took it away. I don't give a damn what their reasons were, that's fraudulent.
I never said it was a good reason.
Although I didn't address it in my last post, the reason they removed it from newer consoles is that it was essentially costing them money... because the PS3 was sold at a loss, recuperated through Sony's licensing fees on developers. Places like the military would buy large numbers of PS3s only for its number crunching abilities... which means Sony took a hit on every single one of those sold.
I completely agree. The last *good* products Sony made were the Walkman's. After that they became a POS brand that replied on the reputation they built in the 80's.
I disagree. Both the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 worked very well... it took something like 8 years for my PS2 to start dying, which is well beyond the 6 year life cycle a console traditionally has.
I can't say much about their other products, though.
PS2 Compatibility is the one thing on that list that I actually use with my PS3.
I probably would have just been better off getting a Slim, as my (used) PS3 60GB is starting to have weird issues.that I think are caused by overheating, which I hear is less of a problem in newer models.
Hell, I shouldn't have bothered with a PS3 in the first place, and just stuck with a new PS2 to replace my dying one... but that's neither here nor there. It was one of those "look, I has tax refund!" things a year ago.
And there are thousands of people that 'spent large amounts of money on a PS3 so that they can do one particular thing with it:' and that's use the OtherOS feature that Sony took away for no reason.
They had a reason: they didn't want to support it any more. This should have been obvious when Sony started to ship the PS3 Slim with no OtherOS support even before they removed it from older models.
Geohot, et. al. gave them just the opening they were looking for: an excuse to remove it from all older consoles via a firmware update.
I was going to say "your right to a walled garden stops where my right to tinker with the things I've bought begins," but I'll go farther and say that it is depressing that our roles in society as consumers has eclipsed and dominates are status in society as citizens. Because even if, at the end of the day, you recognize that your convenience is not important enough to justify legal action someone who has tinkered with what they've purchased, there are thousands and thousands of people who do not recognize that.
Except that you intentionally bought a device that is a walled garden when there are plenty of devices of the same type that aren't walled. And then choose to bitch about it being a walled garden.
You should try this fancy process called "voting with your wallet."
You seem to misunderstand the problem with Honeycomb.
The problem is that Google gave some companies the source to it, but refuse to release it to the public so the companies that didn't bribe^Wcooperate with Google can't make Android tablets with it.
However, the companies that Google has given the code to are the companies that users complain about locking Android down, such as Motorola... the Xoom is on sale already.
Then Opera is in the lead at version 11 Of the major browsers, only IE and Opera should legitimately have high version numbers due to how long they've been around. I know Firefox comes from Netscape stock, but Firefox is a different beast than Netscape. I do understand Firefox not wanting to look like they are behind due to their version number being small, but I'd have more respect and understanding if they went to a different versioning scheme altogether instead of inflating minor releases with major version numbers.
No, Chrome is in the lead with Chrome 12.
But, like you said, IE and Opera are the only ones who should legitimately have such high number.
4.0 was NT4... my guess is 95/OSR2/98 were all 3.2x
Windows and Windows NT were considered two separate products lines until the old Windows line died after Windows ME. Thus, both Windows 95 and Windows NT4 had versions starting with 4.
Slashdot Mirror
The cutscene change happened at the same time they added the radio achievement, so chances are if you've played the game since Portal 2 was announced, you've seen it.
Al it is is a several second bit at the end where an off-screen bot starts dragging Chell back in (and says "Thank you for assuming the party escort position" or something like that).
Which they recycled a lot of. It's not they made yet another witch model all from scratch for LFD2. As far as balancing the game that is going to be much easier when you're coming hot off of the original and the sequel is more or less an expansion pack. Don't get me wrong. I love LFD2 and I'm glad I paid for it but the effort put into the second will almost certainly have been less than the first on every front.
I haven't looked at Witch specifically, but I know for a fact a lot of the other zombies have newer models. Heck, the L4D2 Boomer comes in both male and female models, whereas there was only a male model in L4D.
I'm also pretty sure I read somewhere that Portal essentially was a tech demo, although I cannot be sure of that (and couldn't find a citation in the limited time I devoted to searching for one before posting this).
Narbacular Drop was a tech demo. Portal was a game created by the same dev team after Valve hired them using a lot of the same mechanics.
Google already patented that for GMail with Google Motion. ;)
I have it preloaded but I will be heading for a camping trip on Friday. If that's right, I'll probably just stay home. Who needs friends when you have Valve games?
Well, the reference in the decoded message that started this rumor said somthing like
04-19-2011_7AM = 04-15-2011_9AM
Portal 2's official launch date/time is April 19, 2011 7am PDT, so... that would put the early release date at 9am PDT Friday. Thus, you can likely find out before camping time on Friday (9am PDT/noon EDT/4pm UTC).
Or were you being sarcastic? :D
P.S. I have 31 out of the (at last check) 34 known potatoes on my Steam profile. I have to get all remaining known ones before tomorrow morning. :O
Orange Box comes with all 3 HL2 games, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 (which IMO is one of the best multiplayer FPS games of all time... at least the PC/Mac version is, despite all the flak Valve gets over the in-game store).
When The Orange Box came out, the games in it used 3 different versions of the engine. Half-Life 2 used the original, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 used the Episode 1 version, while Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 used the Episode 2/OrangeBox 2007 version.
As it stands, as of the Mac update, the single player games in Orange Box use the OrangeBox 2007 engine, but TF2 (and other multiplayer Source games) use the OrangeBox 2009 engine.
I didn't know about Decay. Thanks!
Decay was PlayStation only (or PS2 only). Which is why most people have never heard of it.
As long as we're citing anecdotes, the last time I installed Steam, it took me less than 5 minutes to download and install, then log in using my existing account and start installing games.
So... were you trying to install it on WINE or something? On a Mac with a case-sensitive file system?
I assumed Sandy was a person, not a description. Sandy may or not be fictional, though.
If it's $15 USD, it's on sale this week. Normally TF2 + Garry's Mod is $25 USD.
Last time I checked, the Potato Sack Indie bundle sale was still going on (it's a PORTAL TWO promo, but Portal 2 doesn't launch for another 6 days, 23 hours, and 29 minutes.). That has both Amnesia and Super Meat Boy in it.
I can't check steampowered.com from here, so I can't say whether or not the sale it over yet.
At least Steam always tags games like that with the Third Party DRM tag... it shows up below the publisher information in the right column, along with any other tags.
Steam uses a weird system where they assume $1 USD = â1. Needless to say, Steam's prices are a bit more comparable to retail on the west side of the Atlantic.
Also, Slashdot is eating my Euro symbols and changing them to some other character in preview. If it does this in the final post, I apologize.
They had a reason: they didn't want to support it any more.
Yes, that is a reason. It's not an acceptable reason at all. They billed OtherOS as a feature when they sold the console. Then they took it away. I don't give a damn what their reasons were, that's fraudulent.
I never said it was a good reason.
Although I didn't address it in my last post, the reason they removed it from newer consoles is that it was essentially costing them money... because the PS3 was sold at a loss, recuperated through Sony's licensing fees on developers. Places like the military would buy large numbers of PS3s only for its number crunching abilities... which means Sony took a hit on every single one of those sold.
I disagree. Both the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 worked very well... it took something like 8 years for my PS2 to start dying, which is well beyond the 6 year life cycle a console traditionally has.
I can't say much about their other products, though.
PS2 Compatibility is the one thing on that list that I actually use with my PS3.
I probably would have just been better off getting a Slim, as my (used) PS3 60GB is starting to have weird issues.that I think are caused by overheating, which I hear is less of a problem in newer models.
Hell, I shouldn't have bothered with a PS3 in the first place, and just stuck with a new PS2 to replace my dying one... but that's neither here nor there. It was one of those "look, I has tax refund!" things a year ago.
They had a reason: they didn't want to support it any more. This should have been obvious when Sony started to ship the PS3 Slim with no OtherOS support even before they removed it from older models.
Geohot, et. al. gave them just the opening they were looking for: an excuse to remove it from all older consoles via a firmware update.
Except that you intentionally bought a device that is a walled garden when there are plenty of devices of the same type that aren't walled. And then choose to bitch about it being a walled garden.
You should try this fancy process called "voting with your wallet."
Not just developers, but also retailers. Who do you think sells the games?
You seem to misunderstand the problem with Honeycomb.
The problem is that Google gave some companies the source to it, but refuse to release it to the public so the companies that didn't bribe^Wcooperate with Google can't make Android tablets with it.
However, the companies that Google has given the code to are the companies that users complain about locking Android down, such as Motorola... the Xoom is on sale already.
For now. Until they decide to delay (read: stop) releasing the code for it.
and I clearly can't spell to save my life tonight. grr again.
The comment must have been in beta.
Let's just hope he gets around to fixing spelling instead of shoveling paragraphs up until the last minute.
No, Chrome is in the lead with Chrome 12.
But, like you said, IE and Opera are the only ones who should legitimately have such high number.
Windows and Windows NT were considered two separate products lines until the old Windows line died after Windows ME. Thus, both Windows 95 and Windows NT4 had versions starting with 4.