For the next week or two anyway:
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
Even mac-tards have no excuse now.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
Even mac-tards have no excuse now.
Portal is free
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Same here.
I knew my miserly ways would win out in the future.
I think it's time to start Scrooging it up from here on out.
I knew my miserly ways would win out in the future.
I think it's time to start Scrooging it up from here on out.
maximaz
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
This actually makes me happy that I DID pay for it. Valve gives love and I give it back. Or it's the other way around but either way, it's cool.
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
rcorporon said:
That'd be ridiculous, especially if you were like most people and got it in the orange box.
rcorporon said:
That plus is really that much to ask for them to mow my lawn?
Surely you jest.Puokki said:
I liked Half-Life 2, though I did enjoy the original Half-Life a lot more. Episode 1 was kinda mediocre, Episode 2 was decent and TF2 is the kind of game you have to know how to play to play properly. Portal is a great First-Person puzzle game though.
(Btw, above how I said I haven't bought it before doesn't mean I haven't played them, my brother owns the Orange Box.)
rcorporon said:
Really? Do you generally stomp down the door of publishers to demand 50 dollars cash-back when you find their game years down the road in the bargain bin for 5 bucks?
Hell no, I can't believe how overrated crap the whole Halfl-Life 2 was; clumsy puzzles, enemies ranging from imaginationless to extremely annoying, all the weaknesses of the who-knows-how-old game engine (no aiming, health packs, carrying all the weapons at the same time, screwed-up weapon balance etc.), FUCKING STRIDERS, raped console version with the undisputed worst vehcile controls ever, extremely annoying way to tell the cliched story with all the usual "We're losing this war, oh look, Freeman with his crowbar, we're winning this war!", loads of inplausibilities etc. etc.
TF2 wasn't all that bad, the errors were more in the fact that Valve doesn't give a shit about PS3, so none of the bugs, elevators and such were never fixed.
IIRC it was not because of Valve, but because extra payment demanded by Mickeysoft and Sony for being able to push updates over their network?Puokki said:
No, that's their excuse for not selling it on the Xbox.SuAside said:
Their excuse for the PS3 is basically "we hate the PS3".
They didn't even make the Orange box port for it. They outsourced it to some random EA guys, so it's full of bugs and glitches.
Let that be a lesson to you all. Always buy Valve games on PC.
That has nothing to do with the game engine, it's just design decisions.Puokki said:
Some of us prefer it to today's aim-down-sights, auto-heal-if-you-duck-behind-cover, only-two-weapons-at-a-time DUMBEDDOWNCONSOLEBULLSHITDECLINEBANALBORINGSHITARGHARGHARGH
I feel the same way, so don't expect any sympathy from me.PlanHex said:
I thought the lesson was "fuck consoles".PlanHex said:
THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL NEWS! Thank you!
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rcorporon said:
No it fucking is not. The only gaming giant that exists while giving away games for free is Valve. Valve is showing consumers why they should buy more Valve products in the future. They are also probably giving respect to other developers that have products on Steam, since having Portal for free on Steam will increase traffic of visitors on Steam, and have them more likely to download Portal, plus buy a third-party product.
And in an age when corporations control the world, a fucking hand-out of gold is something you don't take for granted.
And micro-economics is a flimsy game that can be fucked up just buy the smallest slack in productivity. They probably waited to be able to afford doing this for a long time and now they have the opportunity.