I played the game portal. Its amazing in everyway...but for just a 2 hour long game...it seems really pricey!! I mean i beat even quicker then that!!!
 
Any opinions????

Saw Portal at a friend's and must admit it looks pretty cool.  Played Narbacular Drop (free download) the "prequel" to Portal and it was kinda cute.  
 
I'll not be buying Portal or anything put out by Valve/Steam.  The horrible time I had installing HL2 left a bad taste in my mouth.
 
I will play Portal for free at my friend's house!

LOL I support valve they always put out good games so I pay for w.e game I want to play made by valve sometimes ID soft

i would consider portal 2 to have cost 10 or 5 bucks (5 if you got it early for 45). episode 1 was 20 bucks, so ep 2 should be worth 20 also. cs:s was 20 also, so tf2 is worth 20 also. that leaves 5 or 10 to portal. typical pricing, but of course they have to tell you how you saved $80 or whatever. typical pricing.
 
but yeah, portal was awesome.

I paid like 45.99 for HL2, HL2 ep 1, HL2 ep 2, Team F. 2, and Portal...Thats not bad...if you break it down...I actually paid like under 10$ per game which is a great deal for new releases

portal is definately worth it as you can never really grasp the possibilities the game allows in one run through.  also, did thatg run throguh include the advanced bonus maps?
 
  finally as with all source stuff if you finds it too easy or short you can always creat your own maps and really test yourself.
 
  a great game and one that provides a decent challenge.
 
  for what it cost me it was well worth it.

I'm almost done the advanced bonus maps I still have under 4 hours on it though But I would've liked a storyline that was more detailed and long. I think it might be uniting with the Half life series, just like blue shift and opposing forces is to half life 1

Portal may not be totaly worth $20 dollars but the game itself is fun and an interesting concept.
 
L1qu1d, you are right. Portal is going to tie into the Half Life series or already has if you played through Episode 2 yet. I have beaten both and see the ties there. I think Episode 3 should hold some interesting conclusions and maybe answer a few questions. My only question for Portal is the characters legs have the same metal extensions attatched to her as in HL2s stalkers.
 
lakedude, I feel sorry that you couldn't instal the game proberly. My suggestion is to just go buy the Orange box since it gives you all the HL2 series and TF2 and Portal. Plus this lets you install it from a disk instead of downloading it. I had to download HL2 since I bought a 9800XT and it came with it for free and it downloaded pretty nicely. Other than that you should buy the Orange Box. Its well eorth it and the story so far is one of the best in a game I have ever seen.

lmao you have an 9800XT? Thats how I got my account 2!!!....well my other 1....it got vac banned when I used the account on Windows Vista Beta and they said I hacked.....
 
So I dunno....
I'm not done episode 2 yet I literally played like 2.5 hours I'm just after the advisor

 
So what is it dude? You think you had a good deal with Portal or a bad deal?

packaged good deal, individually not a good deal....

Our Portal review should be going up tomorrow.

Portal came with the Half-Life 2 Orange Box... Turns out that it's a neat game.. I have played it to the end and have gone through all the advanced levels and I still like replaying it. I have more fun playing it than HL2 LOL! Even though I thoroughly enjoy playing it, I'd probably not have purchased it separately.

I've yet to play it, but hopefully it's a taster of things to come.  A coop mode where one player has a gravity gun, and another the portal gun would be interesting, with one making portals and the other pushing/pulling things through them.  There's certainly a lot of potential in Valve's engine that gives them the ability to innovate and create new genres.
 
I'm definitely looking forward to playing this, as I spent a lot of time playing around with zone portals in the unreal editor (think stairs sequence from the film Labyrinth).  Those were a pain to do as part of the map editing, so player creatable portals sound amazing.

I think thats why they packaged it all together.
 
The only game i would of paid $30.00 for in "The OrangeBox" is TF2.
Portal, HL2:EP1 HL2:EP2 were way too short, they knew people would be pissed if they had to pay $30-40 for each title.

I did eventually get HL2 to work but it took several days and hours of high speed internet time.  First major problem was that I only installed the single player version of HL2 (since at the time I was on dial up and didn't need multiplayer).  Turns out you need the multiplayer installed to get HL2 single player to work.  Even using a friend's cable (high speed) internet it took hours to get the game to install and convert and update and unlock and whatever the heck it did.  I had to drag my computer over to the friends several times to finally get HL2 working.  It was a mini-nightmare.  I'll not by buying Valve/Steam products unless they send me a personal apology and a stripper-gram.  

Also I'm just not that big of a HL fan.  It is an ok game/series but it is not my favorite and certainly not worth the trouble of the install. I found the Physics puzzles annoying (the one with the floating barrels lifting the jump ramp was really dumb/impossible) and I don't really care for the gravity-gun. FarCry, COD, and BioShock are all better games IMHO.

By comparison I purchased COD2 on DVD around the same time.  It took 10-15 minutes to install and worked perfectly.  In fact COD2 has worked perfect with both nVidia and ATI video cards and has worked fine on XP and Vista as well.  I will be buying Infinity Ward/Activision products in the future, in fact I've got COD4 (and Crysis) pre-ordered.

There's a demo of COD 4 out apparently...public beta version u should try it out
 

Thanks
 
Got it already from file front.  I was not disappointed.  COD is awesome.  Too bad COD 3 never came out for PC.  Anyhow this isn't a COD thread so I'll shutup now....

Open a COD thread then you'll get alot of ppl msgin on it