Holy. Shit. Portal 2 is amazingly hilarious.
It's not as quotable as the first one, which seems to actually prove the existence of some form of deity. Maybe I won't hear people constantly babbling off lines to this one.
I got to chapter 6-ish before I realized that it was way past my bedtime. Sleep deprivation FTW. I wish I could have finished it in one sitting, but I do have to work in...six hours, and I don't want to be completely dead tomorrow. I'm kind of happy that I was among the first 10,000 people to play it. When the GlaDOS@Home page refreshed on my other monitor after starting the game, it read 5,656. So yeah, I was a
single digit in that statistic, not one among 1000. :p
Graphically, I'm super-impressed by the lighting engine in the game. Holy crap, have we come a long way. It looks like they're still using the Source 2007 engine judging by a look at my SteamApps directory, but Valve really outdid themselves with regards to their attention to detail. Plus, the game runs silky smooth on my system with nearly maxed out settings (I left anti-aliasing at the default 4xMSAA, and bumped anisotropic filtering up to 8x...I should be able to push those up a bit more, but it's really not a huge deal to me). Most
older games with worse visuals don't run that well, so kudos to Valve for proving that optimization and light-weight DRM actually make a huge difference.
Enjoy your 32% and hat store. Really, that's bummed me right out.
Eh?
