Valve Announces Portal 2

[MNM]

You can always replace the model with your own. There would be no continuity breaks since Chell is never mentioned with respect to gender and she never says anything in a female voice either.

If you throw the companion cube in the air and it lands on you she screams "Oohhh" with a female voice

[Mess]

why hasn't anyone commented on how incredibly sexy portal 2 looks? Very model-based, higher resolution textures, and what looks to be much more dynamic lighting (those moving floor panels look awesome)

[source-maps]

and dynamic liquid , mess you're are right tho.. it looks extremely sexy

[Zipfinator]

why hasn't anyone commented on how incredibly sexy portal 2 looks? Very model-based, higher resolution textures, and what looks to be much more dynamic lighting (those moving floor panels look awesome)

I thought the same thing about the dynamic lighting but mr2 pointed out to me that it could have been pre-baked. If it's not though then yay!

[joe_rogers_11155]

i was worried that it was photo-shopped for the magazine. or concept art using bsp

If it is truly in-game then there is absolutely no reason for anyone to call Source an old engine

[Zipfinator]

The plants and such are concept it looks like but that chamber definitely is in game.

[staberas]

most of the pictures are in-game others are concept art
also no-one comment the new stuff they added , like the surface physics & ect ...

Episode 3 please.

[Spike]

I do want Portal 2 outdoors

[Chopium]

I AM MORE EXCITE!

[coder0xff]

I read half that article and then I was like,

"WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING!?! SPOILER FUFUFUFU."

Good thing I stopped when I did, but some of the oh-ah factor will be missing now I'm sure.

[YokaI]

Assuming the images aren't baked (Valve isn't really the studio to typically fake stuff) Portal 2 definitely uses a heavily modified version of the source engine. Lighting and shading looks something of a whole different league, especially in comparison to valve's latest game, it looks a whole different level. However, it still has that somewhat source feel. Is this what gamespot was hinting about with a new engine? Very very exciting. Looking forward to future developments.

AS long as the game is over 20 hours, I will not be disappointed!

[Major Banter]

IN OTHER NEWS

http://gizmodo.com/5487645/portal-2-confirmed-for-mac

[Psy]

i was worried that it was photo-shopped for the magazine. or concept art using bsp

If it is truly in-game then there is absolutely no reason for anyone to call Source an old engine

Except the tools are still pants and no developer who wants a game out in a reasonable amount of time would choose it over something modern like UE3.

[staberas]

IN OTHER NEWS

http://gizmodo.com/5487645/portal-2-confirmed-for-mac

oh and that was established onpage 2

[ThePain]

dynamic liquid

Wait wait wait, back the fuck up here for a second. WHAT?

Are we talking like the water in a glass's surface will appear to jiggle (boomer bile jar), or you have a dam holding back giant volumes of dynamic water that when the dam breaks will realistically pour out and destroy structures and carry away debris.

There's a huge difference as the first one has been done many times before, and the second one is one I dream about being able to implement into a map.