Portal 2 Screenshots

[Blink]

PCGames.de have posted some nice hi-res shots taken from the recent Portal 2 trailer:

There are more to enjoy in their gallery.

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this actually doesn't look 'that' good
I liked the videos better

[Psy]

Loving the lack of AA.

[vcool]

Where's the AA? D:

[SotaPoika]

The first screencap reminds me of Citadel.

Anyway, it's not really that good looking as I thought.

[Dives]

This definitely looks like they have all their settings on low. Just look at the floor tile texture. Its clearly set to low.

Whoever took these screenshots, you are stupid. Very Stupid.

[Major Banter]

3 things.

1; this is on PS3, not Valves normal operating system, and therefore will not be running at 100% for a while yet.

2; the game is released in 2011. Ergo, these are WIP.

3; it's a fucking alpha kids. Valve do not have to decimate your skulls with epic detail with everything they do.

[Elv02]

3 things.

1; this is on PS3, not Valves normal operating system, and therefore will not be running at 100% for a while yet.

2; the game is released in 2011. Ergo, these are WIP.

3; it's a fucking alpha kids. Valve do not have to decimate your skulls with epic detail with everything they do.

1. They didn't take the media pictures on PC why...? It would look 10x better. It's not like they're IW...

2. Fair enough, not arguing that... But again, it could look better on PC

3. I'm just saying it's disappointing that they would take these "high res screen shots" of scenes that aren't as good as they could be.

Under proper settings, I'm sure this is sexy stuff...

[Major Banter]

I'd personally rather demonstrate what the PS3 is capable of; we know exactly how incredibly sexy the PC version will look. That's a given. If this is on PS3, which I expect it is, they'll be honest. While it'd be nice to see them at the top-level of prettiness, I think from a marketing perspective this is a wise move. Valve don't photoshop thier screenies, or use pre-render, and that's a ballsy move.

Either way, I think that just tearing into the shots is unneccessary.

[Gradius]

This definitely looks like they have all their settings on low. Just look at the floor tile texture. Its clearly set to low.

No, it's clearly on high just without enough anistropic filtering so the on-an-angle textures are blurry.
The dynamic shadows, water (wtf is up with the wierd blurry effect on stuff in the water? Some incomplete distortion effect?), normal mapping, and other clearly high resolution textures make that clear. Honestly I prefer the screenshots without AA, it gives a better impression of what the game will look like in motion.

[Dives]

I see no high-res textures in any of those screenshots. Even the textures viewed straight-on are much blurrier than any Portal 1 textures. Theres bump mapping, so the shader detail is on medium. Everything else appears low.
I don't think this is the PS3 version because even the badly ported PS3 Orange Box looked better than this.

Honestly I prefer the screenshots without AA, it gives a better impression of what the game will look like in motion.

I truly don't understand this. How do highly aliased screenshots help you understand what it looks like in motion? The best way to know how it looks in motion is to watch a video.

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3; it's a fucking alpha kids. Valve do not have to decimate your skulls with epic detail with everything they do.

hey I understand that shit, but that doesn't change the fact that those screenshots don't look so nice
it is not like they are making a mod (in wich case you can use that excuse)

[Mess]

en eagle-eyed chap on steamforums has noticed that we will at least be re-visiting Chamber 4 from the first game:

[Jike]

god damnit....

here we go again. theres hardly anybody being happy about these pics or portal 2

One of those pictures is already my desktop background and I am very very happy with it...

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god damnit....

here we go again. theres hardly anybody being happy about these pics or portal 2

One of those pictures is already my desktop background and I am very very happy with it...

oh I am excited for portal 2, is it forbidden to say anything negative or something?