Check out Valve's new mindblowing game "Portal"

[Michael Hill]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GWzmL05OlYA

The only thing I could say after seeing this is "My God..."

This game will REALLY get you thinking.

[Morgan Gillespie]

As long as it isn't run through steam I will be happy.

[Cuog]

portal definetaly sounds cool but needing steam to play it will be a pain.

[Michael Hill]

I don't know why you guys have such a problem with Steam. I've been playing CS since 1.3 with the WON authentication and everything. I've never had a problem with it, except for the whole playing in offline mode, but I don't really care about that. It's a great way for the developers to get their games to the players without any middle-man-money-making publisher.

[Cuog]

Once you already have the game steam is anoiying, my problem is that i had it crash alot when i had it installed and i also played mostly offline and that caused alot of issues for me, steam wont stop me from getting a game but i still wont like having to deal with it.

[Michael Hill]

Ya, it causes a lot of crap at LANs, because some people forget to connect to steam before leaving, so some people are scurrying around because Steam wants to update games before you play.

[Dan Petrovic]

Wow!

That looks like so much fun! When does it come out?

[Josh Goodman]

Cool i might get it

[Morgan Gillespie]

Have you ever tried to set up a program like HL2 on a comp with no Internet connection currently and the closest one is dial up? Steam is a pain for dial up, wont bug me as much anymore, I have high speed now, woot. Yet steam locks out all dial up users.
Although I have heard those turret sound effects before, I have also seen turrets that shoot and look nearly exactly like that, from a game also made by valve.... hmm HL2...

[Michael Hill]

Ya, that turret sound was also mentioned in another forum where I got this from. Hopefully it will change in the release.

[Cody Carey]

The game is based on this one, called "Narbacular Drop". Playing this is basically playing portal without the fancy graphics

You can download Narbacular drop for free. It was made by a bunch of students, and as soon as valve saw it, they hired the entire production team. VERY cool stuff.

Hope you guys have as much fun playing it as I did


P.S. If their site is down, Here are their external download links.

http://www.vgpro.com/file/10873_narb..._drop.exe.html
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/v...cular_drop.exe
http://www.fileplanet.com/161458/160...5BFree-Game%5D
http://www.digipen.edu/GameGallery/d...acularDrop.exe
http://www.filecloud.com/files/file.php?file_id=3611

(Filecloud is by far the easiest to download from.)