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Dec 17, 2019 · Where its predecessor was a small, focused, joke-infused puzzle game, Portal 2 is a sprawling comedy adventure. No longer are players trapped alone with a single AI that wants to kill them.
- Press A to Speak
- The Collapse
- The Callbacks
- Still Flying
- Propulsion Gel
- Potato GLaDOS
- Cave Johnson and The Lemon Rant
- This Is The Part Where He Kills You
- Want You Gone
- Blowing Two Minds
Back in 2011, Stephen Merchant was a bit of a punt. He’d written The Office and Extras but barely appeared in them, had a semi-successful stand-up career and a role in the film Hall Pass. Sure, he was just about stretching his long legs over the Atlantic, and was beginning to get American recognition, but he wasn’t what you’d call a name. But witho...
Anyone coming from Portal will feel a false sense of security. Everything about the original game’s opening was safe and curated: a sterile set of guided tasks, completely authored by GLaDOS. Lesson after lesson. Portal 2 understands this, gets Wheatley to unconvincingly create a similar setup, and then tears the whole thing down. The opening bedro...
Of course, there’s a rug pull after the rug pull. We were still reeling after the statement-making collapse section, which clearly said that you’re not getting the original Portal. And then you walk into the original tutorial for Portal. It’s the same room, the same ‘joke’ of seeing yourself wandering into a portal, just overgrown and left to rot. ...
The puzzles in Portal 2 are great, just as they were in Portal, but Valve understood the best bits of them. It’s not necessarily their cleverness, which is on point, but often it’s just about building up momentum and catapulting yourself across entire levels. More so than in Portal, you’re Hail-Marying yourself out of portals just to see where you ...
Valve really knew that flinging yourself out of portals was fun. Not content with just creating infinite falling loops and boost pads, we were given the gels. These had effects like bouncing back turrets and blocks (repulsion gel) and creating platforms for portals (conversion gel), but the real MVP was the propulsion gel. When slathered onto platf...
It’s such a double-take moment. The item is just there, overlooking something like a quarry. “What’s that?”, you likely asked. “A potato?”. And then it talked, and it was GLaDOS. One of the best bosses in modern video gaming, reduced to squatting on a vegetable. But rather than feel like a cash-in on past glories, it makes her dependent on you, and...
Some way through Portal 2, we’re introduced to the late founder of Aperture Science, Cave Johnson. We will admit to groaning a little bit when we realised he was going to appear in audio journals, which – in 2011 – were getting old, off the back of too many BioShock clones. They’re a step up from collecting text journals, but only one step. We were...
It’s just so stupid and childish. “Well, this is the part where he kills us”, says GLaDOS. “Hello, this is the part where I kill you”, says Wheatley. Up pops the achievement: “This is the part where he kills you”. Gold.
“Well here we are again It’s always such a pleasure Remember when you tried To kill me twice? Oh how we laughed and laughed Except I wasn’t laughing Under the circumstances I’ve been shockingly nice” How would Portal 2 handle its ending? ‘Still Alive’ was one of the most iconic ending sequences in gaming, and people were expecting… something. There...
And just like Portal arriving with the sheer generosity of Team Fortress and Half Life 2 in The Orange Box, Portal 2 came with its own form of generosity. A full co-op campaign was bolted onto Portal 2, bringing us ATLAS and P-body to complete their very own sequence of puzzles, with all the GLaDOS-taunting and cleverness of the solo campaign. We h...
- Portals bring large ecosystems together. The most important feature of a portal is not showing information but integrating data. Portals can bring applications, mobile apps, ERPs, CRMs, legacy systems, dashboards, and content together in a single experience.
- Portals are multi-purpose. Mobile apps and applications, in general, tend to have specific and clear objectives. They guide users to achieve them step by step, such as scheduling appointments or reviewing the status of an order.
- They can be Mobile-First. Portals have also evolved a lot with time. Using new frameworks, design systems, and templates, they can be Mobile-First and accessible through a browser on mobile devices.
- Portals are secure. When implemented with a Digital Experience Platform (DXP), portals comply with enterprise-level security requirements and certificates.
Feb 22, 2016 · While the history of Portal from student project to surprise smash hit of The Orange Box is no secret, the Valve News Network team has done a great job collating publicly known information with...
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Portals is a British papermaking company that has had two distinct existences as an independent business, from 1711 to 1995, and from 2018 onwards. It has been variously known as Portals Limited, Portals Paper Limited, and Portals De La Rue Limited, and currently as Portals International Limited.
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In her second feature about magic in children's stories, Kate Walker takes a look into secret portals. Since Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s novel, published in 1865, there have been evermore fantastical places to explore. But where do fantasy portals stem from and why are these stories important? A Magical World
