Portal

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:51 am

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:55 am

I haven't tried it yet, because I've been playing Episode 2 from the boxset, but I am totally looking forward to trying it when I'm done. Glad to hear it's good!
-bill

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:45 am

Yeah, I've been watching Cartoonmonkey play this one, and it almost looks cool enough to make me play it... which is really quite something.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:41 am

Jonathan Coulton is genius. And he's in Brooklyn, which only helps to explain his genius. And he drinks Gorilla coffee. Go figure...

This may make me a gamer as well.

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:57 am

Within 24 hours of buying Orange Box, I played through Portal three times, without even touching the other games.

Needless to say, this was a triumph.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:09 pm

I have yet to play through the advanced levels. All I ever really want to do in this game is get in a big room and portal all over the place for a solid hour.

Tonamel wrote:Needless to say, this was a triumph.

It's a huge success.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:20 pm

When I saw the title, I thought it was about Portal, the Edmonton-based prog-metal band (which I love). They're up in the top tier of prog at Garageband.com.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:11 pm

I've been waiting patiently for the PS3 version of Orange Box to come out but now everyone else on the Internet has been all "OMG PORTAL IS SO R0X0RS!!!!!!!" and now everything about it and cake and the companion cube is such a played-out series of memetic jokes that I'm not sure I want to actually play it anymore. Like why it took me years to finally see Fight Club.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:50 am

Boy, I'm glad I can enjoy things based on their own merits.

Now, back to listening to this My Chemical Romance album.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:37 am

Well, it's just kind of easy to get oversaturated and burnt out on something. Hasn't there ever been anything you're interested in which you were looking forward to but then everyone else talking about it constantly eventually reaches a certain point where you stop being so interested?

Plus, the PS3 version was just delayed ANOTHER month, which has me annoyed even more.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:05 am

Guess you should have bought a Windows machine hahahahah
-bill

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:40 am

All right, this game is awesome (sorry fluffy). However I was a little disappointed that it was just so SHORT! I played through the regular game Saturday and the advanced levels yesterday. It appears that you can load other levels into it ? Did I really read that? Anyway, I love the song at the end. I didn't think I knew any Jonathan Coulton, but now that I look at the wiki I think I heard "Codemonkey" at some point. Is this song representative of his work?

Anyway I love the gameplay. Puzzle solving and FPS mixed together, fantastic.
-bill

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:18 am

Code Monkey is Coulton's best song, but it's not really representative of his music. Otherwise it wouldn't be his best song, it'd be an average one.

He has a few good songs but most of his stuff is kind of meh.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:35 am

fluffy wrote:He has a few good songs but most of his stuff is kind of meh.

I'll respectfully disagree. He has a wide variety of music, so many songs will not land in your particular comfort zone. But that's how it works with versatile artists. I don't mean he's the greatest or anything but he's witty, and his songs are very well written and produced. You can download all his music and listen for yourself (and pay for what you want).

Highlights include:
- Skullcrusher Mountain (sicko hick who kidnaps pretty girls and ...)
- Creepy Doll (you know, the kind they make movies about)
- Code Monkey (geek stuff)
- Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance (hyper)
- Re Your Brains (zombies gonna bash your head to eat your brains)
- Over There (stinky cheese and filthy bathrooms in Europe)

Many songs are somewhat explicit, but my kids love:
- The Presidents
- Chiron Beta Prime (christmas song from a family taken hostage by robots in a work-camp on an asteroid)
- That Spells DNA (science geekiness)
- Better (girlfriend evolving into a borg)
- The Future Soon (geek who meets a heart throb years later after his borg armies blinded her)
- De-Evolving (man becoming ape)
- I'm a Mason Now (secret handshakes)
- Mandelbrot Set (math geekiness)

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:39 am

I do like all of the songs you listed, there. But that's a tiny proportion of his songs. He's written, what, over a hundred since his experiment began? Most of them start to blur together after a while.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:04 am

I meant is "I'm Still Alive" representative, but I think the answer is "no".
One, the vocal is by somebody else, and Two, roy says wide variety.
I think I didn't like the Codemonkey song that much.
-bill