Portal 2

[neo2046]

Valve、『Portal 2』を正式発表、Game Informerでカバー特集
http://gs.inside-games.jp/news/222/22290.html

Portal 2 announced - full price PC/360
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=389380

Portal 2 特設サイト
http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

今週謎のアップデートが配信され、続編登場の兆しがあったPortalですが、本日ValveがPortal 2を正式に発表しました。Game Informerに掲載された僅かなディテールによると、Orange Boxの収録タイトルの1つだった前作と異なり、続編はスタンドアロンのフルプライスタイトルで、新たなゲームプレイシステム、ストーリー、驚くべき仕掛けが用意されているとのこと。

Game Informer最新号ではカバーを飾って12ページの特集記事が掲載される他、特設サイトでも今月中に随時情報が公開されていくようなので、続報をしっかりチェックしておきましょう。


※UPDATE： Steam上での発表によると、発売時期はホリデーシーズンになるそうです。

※UPDATE 2： Game Informerによれば、本作は二人でのCo-opモードを特徴としており、協力してパズルを解くことができるとのこと。また、ValveのDoug Lombardi氏がEurogamerに伝えたところによると、機種はPCとXbox 360を予定しているようです。詳細はこちら。

[neo2046]

Co-op対応、新キャラクター登場…『Portal 2』のディテールが続々公開
http://gs.inside-games.jp/news/222/22295.html

本日Valveから遂に発表のあった約3年ぶりのパズルシューター続編Portal 2。海外サイトでは本作の新たなディテールが次々と明らかになっています。

前作では数時間のシングルプレイモードだけが用意されていたPortalですが、続編ではなんとCo-opプレイモードをフィーチャー。Co-op専用のキャンペーンや2人のプレイアブルキャラクターが登場し、Aperture Science研究所の全く新しいエリアが舞台になるとのこと。ポータルを駆使した難解なパズルが、協力プレイによってどのように変貌するのか楽しみです。

また、大手小売店GameStopでは早くも本作の商品ページが掲載。それによると、発売日は2010年10月26日、価格は49ドル、対応機種はPCとXbox 360となっています。商品概要文には、「ダイナミックな新キャラクター」「新鮮なパズル要素」「より広大で難解な実験室」「Aperture Science Lab内のかつてないエリアを探索」「GLaDOSとの再会」などなど、気になるディテールがいくつも記載されています。

Mac版も確認？『Portal 2』の特集記事スキャンが海外フォーラムに掲載 (1)
http://gs.inside-games.jp/news/223/22307.html

[RPG之鬼]

會唔會繼續同半條命扯上關係呢?

[david]

portal同half life 2 o既關係只係portal係用half life 2個source engine開發出o黎，同包埋入orange box，其實兩者關係不大。

[綱之小子]

無ps3版本......咁咪無得玩......=.=

一開頭玩orange box唔知呢隻咩來的,
後來試玩就鐘意左玩......期待左咁久的2無係ps3到出....

[kashiko]

作者: 綱之小子

無ps3版本......咁咪無得玩......=.=

一開頭玩orange box唔知呢隻咩來的,
後來試玩就鐘意左玩......期待左咁久的2無係ps3到出....

portal 硬體要求唔高, 可以玩PC version

[TCS_disable]

作者: david

portal同half life 2 o既關係只係portal係用half life 2個source engine開發出o黎，同包埋入orange box，其實兩者關係不大。

故事上其實係有少少關聯

[ahleung]

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archi...st-speaks.aspx

Redesigning Portal: Valve’s Artist Speaks

Designing a character for a game is no easy task. Even little nuances such as a character's shoes or hairstyle can affect how players perceive their hero. Redesigning a character brings additional challenges because players already have a set of expectations for established characters. Designers will go through hundreds of concepts before settling on a final design for their character. Valve's concept artist, Matt Charlesworth, explains how that process is working for Portal 2.



From The Beginning

“We sort of agreed that as a character Chell was really successful in the first Portal. She fit into the world really well and complemented it without the distractions that a more flashy character would bring. She served a utilitarian purpose for that game, but at the same time when we started out on Portal 2 we weren't sure if we wanted to bring her back. So we explored a few other characters before returning to Chell.
“Right from the beginning, we were constrained to replicate the character that was in the first game. Later on, we decided that we were probably missing a trick by not having Chell present, so we moved her back into that role. We were trying to do different things. Some of the images started with a sporty look – almost like motorcycle gear. Very different from the first aesthetic, even though we were still going for clean and simple. We were playing around with proportion as well, trying to play a lot more with extreme feminine proportions and a totally different color scheme.

“We explored changing Chell’s nationality for a little bit. Nobody really knew what Chell was in the first game. She kind of had a hint of Japanese ethnicity to her, but we were still not quite sure if we were going to keep her or make her a new character. In the end, the things that were successful were the more minimal, clean, utilitarian looks. Nothing was on there for fashion. The constraints we had were that this girl was supposed to be dressed by machines, so any markings on the suit would have been on there for readability by the computer. She was never supposed to look as if she'd been designed. But that's something we fought with – to make her still appealing to the player, but not look over designed. Anything that doesn't serve a real purpose on the character tends to get cut.



Throwing Out Ideas

“We played around with some different machine-read imagery, and what extra things you might have on a suit like this, but we’re leaning away from the bar code design now, because it seems like it's been done quite a bit before, and originality is something I really associate with Portal.

“The stuff that was more successful was the really minimal approach, and that's sort of led us to this concept. This just seemed to strike a chord with everyone, because it really seemed like it belonged in the Portal world. It made her look physically capable, but at the same time, there is a vulnerability about her. That's what is attractive to everybody.

“The 06 is an arbitrary graphic put on there. We're trying to de-humanize the character a little bit. That's something that was continually coming up with some of the other concepts suited to the prisoner number system – that constant dehumanization of these test subjects."


Work In Progress

“This is not supposed to look like a sexy Marvel superhero suit. It’s supposed to look like it was designed without any thought of making her look attractive. We don't want to make her be unattractive, but we want to balance that out. Chell is a test subject, so she should look like one. Not a prisoner or a janitor or something. We also want people to remember the character this time around. Before I started working on Portal 2, I barely remembered the character from the first game.

“The hat came up sort of halfway through the concepting phase. It just seemed to strike a chord with everyone. It's something that always makes me think of test pilots – people who were subjected to testing and extreme conditions. It serves a second purpose too, because if there's a graphic on it that's constantly readable from all angles then there can be graphics on the hat that are trackable by the computers in the world. That sort of serves the fiction of her being tested by GLaDOS. Also it keeps the hair out of her eyes.

“We’re still not entirely sure what we're doing with the spring heels. They were always something that was in Portal 1, and some of us are attached to them, and some of us aren't, so I’ve experimented with how we can do with them right this time around, and how we would go about replacing them. Everything should look 10 times better than the first Portal, that's the goal.”

Valve's Tristan Reidford is the artist working on designing the game's co-op bots

Designing For Two

“We went through a phase of putting stuff up and deciding what the direction was. The co-op bots, at the very beginning our concepts had a very Westworld feel. We wanted them to look human, but feel robotic. They eventually developed into being these far more graphic, very industrial looking robots. We took turrets and the personality spheres and integrated them into the designs. There's so much personality in Portal that we thought we could almost tell a story with their design and get more use out of the art than we already had.

“We drew them holding hands because it just kind of describes the whole co-op idea, if slightly tongue-in-cheek. Portal’s got a sense of humor. It's quirky, but it shows that one of the biggest things that is important to Portal 2 will be that you're playing with a friend. It's one of those weird things, where somebody just kind of did it, and we had the sort of team moment where we were like “yeah that’s pretty cool.”

[神龍]

THE CAKE IS A LIE
呢隻game我好鐘意

[石主乙個]

會唔會獨立發售呢?

[ahleung]

Valve取消左Portal 2 嚮E3既消息發佈會.
話取而代之既係一個 "surprise".
(篇新聞稿好攪鬼 )

可能有新作公佈, 亦可能只係Portal 2既宣傳手法........?



Valve cancels Portal 2 press event at E3 and it's amazing

I'm deep in E3 planning, so when any one event gets canceled or shuffled, I'm not entirely pleased. But Valve, it can do whatever it wants.
See, it had a Portal 2 press conference event taking place on Monday, June 14. Now it's not happening; it's been canceled. Valve says that it has replaced the event with a "surprise," but doesn't go into any details. I'll find out, I'm sure -- I'm already penciled in to see Portal 2 (and whatever else they'd like to show me -- begin speculation now) behind-closed-doors.
But why is this so amazing? It's how they canceled it. The full email, in all of its glory, after the jump.


[Image]
Subject: A note from Aperture Science
Dear Subject Name Here,

Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word "surprise", of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.

If you'd like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.

Thank you for <>

PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.

[失業中年漢]

作者: ahleung

Valve取消左Portal 2 嚮E3既消息發佈會.
話取而代之既係一個 "surprise".
(篇新聞稿好攪鬼 )

可能有新作公佈, 亦可能只係Portal 2既宣傳手法........?


-skip-

唔通係改名做half life 但係玩portal 2既野

[ahleung]

Valve那個 "surprise" 係關於 Portal 2 的. 所以唔駛再估咩 Half Life, L4D新作了


Valve E3 surprise is “Portal 2 themed”
June 9th, 2010 @ 18:26
By Johnny Cullen



Valve’s confirmed that the surprise it has planned for E3 is “Portal 2 themed”.
Confirmation of which came at the end of a note from the developer, which also confirmed it had delayed the game into 2011.
The note said:

“To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 ***PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD’S SAKE*** surprise…”

So there you have it. Not Left 4 Dead 2: Episode One, not Half Life 2: Episode Three, not Half Life 3 or Source Engine 2, as we were told.
Let the speculation end. Once. And for all.

[ahleung]

延期至2011
http://www.vg247.com/2010/06/09/port...nto-next-year/

[KUTAR#]

作者: ahleung

Valve那個 "surprise" 係關於 Portal 2 的. 所以唔駛再估咩 Half Life, L4D新作了


Valve E3 surprise is “Portal 2 themed”
June 9th, 2010 @ 18:26
By Johnny Cullen



Valve’s confirmed that the surprise it has planned for E3 is “Portal 2 themed”.
Confirmation of which came at the end of a note from the developer, which also confirmed it had delayed the game into 2011.
The note said:

“To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 ***PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD’S SAKE*** surprise…”

So there you have it. Not Left 4 Dead 2: Episode One, not Half Life 2: Episode Three, not Half Life 3 or Source Engine 2, as we were told.
Let the speculation end. Once. And for all.

surprise is Portal 2 coming to PS3

E3 2010: Portal 2 Coming to PS3

One of the biggest surprises of the Sony E3 Media Briefing came when Gabe Newell walked onto stage and announced that Portal 2 will be available for PlayStation 3. "I've been very outspoken about my thoughts on the current generation," Newell deadpanned. "Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things."

Portal 2 will now ship in 2011 and the PS3 version will support Steamworks in several ways, including game updates, community features, and connecting players to the Steam Cloud.

A trailer for the game was then shown, in which a dilapidated science center in the jungle began reconstructing itself by some invisible force. As the trailer ended, GLaDOS teased the audience. "I think we can put our difference behind us—for science, you monster."

[沙翁]

topic要改了...
係ps3

[ahleung]

作者: KUTAR#

surprise is Portal 2 coming to PS3

E3 2010: Portal 2 Coming to PS3

PS3版 獨佔 "steamwork", 令portal 2會有更多網上元素. 但無講邊個機種係首要開發平台.







真係驚喜. 又一個開發商被$ony既魅力同誠意打動, 改邪歸正.
咁攪法M$俾幾多錢買獨佔都無用啦.

[Designer]

將PS3變成Steamworks Open Platform，唔怪之得肥仔肯轉軚，遲啲steam game肯定湧到黎，L4D,L4D2,Half-life...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1309679

PORTAL 2 COMING TO SONY PLAYSTATION 3



Valve to Deliver Blockbuster Sequel With Steamworks Support


June 15, 2010 - Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises and leading technologies, today announced that it will deliver Portal 2 on the PlayStation 3 platform simultaneously with previously announced platforms. The PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 will be the only console version to include Steamworks.

"When the PlayStation 3 was introduced, I was the one of the platform's biggest critics," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "However, Sony Computer Entertainment has proved that the PlayStation 3 is the most open platform of all the current generation consoles and has worked extremely hard to make the platform the most desirable for consumers and developers. As such, we are delighted to announce Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 and believe the Steamworks support included will make it the best console version of the game."

Portal 2 is the sequel to the title named "Game of the Year" 2007 by over 30 publications around the world. Portal 2 promises to break new ground in next generation gaming by expanding the award-winning recipe of innovative gameplay, immersive story, and creative inclusion of music while also introducing multiplayer co-op game modes.

On the PlayStation 3 Portal 2 will be supported by Steamworks, a complete suite of game features and services including auto updates, community features, downloadable content, and more. Previously deployed on the PC and the Mac, Valve's Steamworks development platform will make it possible to deliver the higher level of service gamers have come to expect.

"Valve is one of the industry's leading studios and Portal is one of the most innovative properties launched in the past 10 years," said Rob Dyer, senior vice president of publisher relations at Sony Computer Entertainment America. "Valve's decision to bring Portal 2 to the PlayStation 3 with Steamworks support is incredible validation of the power and openness and momentum of PlayStation 3."

Portal 2 is targeted for launch in 2011 on the PlayStation 3, PC, Mac and Xbox 360 platforms.

For more information on Steam, please visit www.thinkwithportals.com.



Here's Gabe at the Sony E3 Press Event with the Portal 2 on PS3 announcement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1YHKwMaXPg

[now_loading]

L4D, L4D2 => PS3 真係講極都唔悶..

[王小虎]

[billlam]

L4D, L4D2要黎都無用~ 都過曬氣啦~
返而支援STEAMWORKS未來會多啲GAME玩下既~

[Designer]

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/06/15/...n-any-console/
E3 2010: Portal 2 for PS3 Confirmed [Valve Promise Portal 2 on Playstation 3 will be Best Version on Any Console]

When you get the likes of Valve’s Gabe Newell appear on stage in the middle of Sony’s Keynote event it’s already newsworthy in itself but when its then confirmed that Portal 3 is indeed set to hit the Playstation 3 and, as if that were not enough, that PS3 owners are promised the best version of Portal 2 to appear on any console then, well, that’s beyond mere news – its something far, far more special.

[neo2046]

IGN: Portal 2 Demo (Part 1 ~ 3) - E3 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THiN8szSKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq2mZoKkqMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlyQmmvj0w

[Anson225]

支持steamworks wor
sony好波

[Designer]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS
E3 2010: Valve: PS3 is 'the most open console'
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010 8:50 AM Developer says it might now bring old games to Sony console
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Valve has labelled PS3 "the most open console" on the market - following a deal with Sony to bring both Portal 2 and features of its Steam service to the platform.

Valve head honcho Gabe Newell appeared at the Sony E3 conference yesterday in Los Angeles to break the news. He shocked attendees by claiming that the PS3 edition of Portal 2 was the best console version available.

It was some turnaround for a man who once called the machine "a waste of everybody's time" - something for which he later apologised to owners of the console.

However, having failed to get its Steamworks service onto Xbox 360, it appears Valve's affections may be shifting.

"We're a huge fan of open platforms in general," Valve's Erik Johnson told CVG today. "That's something that we feel like is the right thing for customers. The PS3 looks like the most open of the consoles right now.

"Fundementally, we want all of our customers to be able to interact with each other - especially with a game like Portal 2, where people want to tell each other about Portal and have fun together.

"The work we're going to do on Steam [on PS3], feature-by-feature, we don't know exactly what that's going to look like today. But we want to create that same kind of thing on PS3 [as we have on PC] - where people can talk to each other, know what they've played."

When we asked how long ago Valve decided to develop for Sony's platform, he added:

"In terms of timing, it was a while ago. The thing for us that made it make the most sense was talking to [Sony] about Steam.

"We shipped Team Fortress 2 on PC and the Xbox. We shipped over 120 updates on the PC and we've shipped less than five on the Xbox. That's something that we feel like we've done a pretty poor job on and we don't know how to fix it.

"There's problems with shipping that many updates on the 360. For us, we kind of need to solve a problem with PS3 customers and hopefully Portal 2 does it.

"We want to make sure we're doing it right and they're gettin the kind of value welike to provide to our customers. We're not interested in giving them a less than stellar experience."

And in big news for PS3 fans - especially those that want to see the likes of Left4Dead on the platform - Johnson told us that older Valve titles could now be migrating onto Sony's device.

"Sure, it's possible," he said. "We're focused on Portal 2 right now though."

Can't blame them. It looks ace.

The game's out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next year.