I wish

[Majik]

games still came with instruction manuals!

[MacK]

Soooo.... does this mean you are now an orangebox owner? There is a manual on the steam website if I remember right, but you still have to print it.

[Majik]

Yes Sir. I was one of those that pre-purchaed a couple weeks ago.

[Your Hero Jed]

Portal is amazing. I escaped from the testing area this morning. Now i'm @ the part where i'm trying to get out the building. The helper voice is hilarious. The game is a blast.

I'd buy portal episode 2 in a heart beat.

[Majik]

I made it out of one room so far!

[Your Hero Jed]

So i just beat the main part of portals, and the song at the end was awesome. Now i'mma try the challanges and such.

[MacK]

LOL - I have now beat the main game twice. Loved it both times!! Wish it was longer...

[Majik]

And I'm feeling like an idiot!

[MacK]

And I'm feeling like an idiot!

Nah - there are some very tricky maps on there, Maj. Where are you stuck? I figured out how to do several of the maps by chance. On top of that, I played the Narbacular Drop a long time ago, and got the hang of most of the portal moves, so Portal wasn't entirely new to me.

[Your Hero Jed]

I can't wait to see the tie -in in HL2 with apeture stuff.

[MacK]

I can't wait to see the tie -in in HL2 with apeture stuff.

What is interesting is that midway through portal there is a room that a video is playing. You can only see it by looking through one of the windows - anyhow it says some stuff about Black Mesa in the video. Unfortunatly my texture settings were set so low that I couldn't ready much more than the title of the video, so there may be some details that I just can't read. Another interesting note is that the voice of the computer sounds very similar to the combine voice over the radio sometimes. Maybe something there too.

[Your Hero Jed]

I know the voice mentions that if you fail at Apeture Science you may be able to get a job @ Black Mesa then laughs.

[StrongMAD]

Anyone beat all the challenges yet? I've done the least portals ones (some of them are quite cunning, really) but the least time thing is kicking my a**...