Portal 2 Completion?
Even though this isn't a real "issue," I kind of see where Lostprophetpunk is going with this. I met several people that never played SP before. It kinda throws me that someone would play Co-op without knowing what to expect in the game. I also agree with Hober that everyone plays the game differently. Heck, I've solved some of these puzzles in the most strangest ways. However, I don't agree with Hober saying
Who's said that everyone should ascribe to his idea of fun or even an idea that is similar? Not Lostprophetpunk. He just stated an opinion and was asking other people's thoughts were about it.
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I started with Co-Op when I got the game because I have 1 copy of the game and more than 1 person in my house who want to play it. Anything wrong with that?
I had never played Portal at all when I got Portal 2. I've beat both Co-op and have beat Single Player twice.
I map for Portal 2 so I basically try to get the best out of my Portal experience. By either downloading more content or making more content. I prefer to find games that have a longer replay value, specifically in the aspect of a versus multiplayer mode or a creative mode (in which I might create the versus multiplayer mode, depending on the strength of the level creation tools) so that way I get the most out of that 60$ I got from Cave Johnson. 
speaking of shit that other people do that annoys us. lol. To me this is like a 
cuz i love the shit out of Portal 1. and until they release some challenges and advanced chambers or wtfe they are going to release this summer (valve time) it's still going to be my favorite.
for me its kinda like saying "Oh man I can't wait to see Transformers 3! (but i never did see 1 or 2)"
for me its kinda like saying "Oh man I can't wait to see Transformers 3! (but i never did see 1 or 2)"
valve actually designed portal 2 specifically so people who haven't played through the first Portal could play P2.
And the people who did play portal 1 recognised the chambers from the first portal when Aperture was 'destroyed' before you
I suppose they thought that these were good 'training' type tests (and to also show off how much better it looked with the new engine and high-res textures xD).
But on the note that people sometimes don't play the single player game is weird. I mean; they pay $40 or w/e it was, for a piece of software, which they only half-use. Though personally I think I have played coop 2wice-3x as much as I have singleplayer and it says I have played portal for... 307.6 hrs :S! 
I was intending to play the co-op campaign first, since it seemed to be the most creative way to put a spin on the portal concept. However, my to-be co-op partner wasn't online when the game was released, so I just went straight into SP. =/
I personally preferred the gameplay in co-op, although I'm not sure if it would have been a good idea to start with it first after all. However it seemed a lot more true to the original style of Portal, which was gameplay and puzzles first; writing and fancy graphics come lower priority. I certainly wouldn't call single player the "main" game just because it reboots continues the story.
Except for some sleep, I went straight through the SP mode in one day on my PS3. It took me 11.5 hours gametime, so you can tell I'm not much of a gamer!
The next week, my brother and I started the coop mode, then I left the game with him to practice in SP mode (he had never played the original, so everyhing was new to him.) The week after that, I went back and we finished coop mode in two nights (side by side).
This week, he got his own copy, and we are working our way through coop mode online so I can get my trophies. Unfortunately, in the middle of play, there was a power blink and my UPS didn't handle it well. It scrambled my profile. 3ven though we had completed courses 1 and 2 the night before, I lost those trophies. We basically had to start over. Once we are done, I will only need to hug two more online players to get 100%.
Yesterday, I got my DS3 controller working on my PC (thanks,Motion in Joy), and have started playing SP user maps. I am looking forward to meeting friends online to play some of the coop user maps, too.
Does anyone know if the coop maps need to be loaded on both machines for an online session? I don't know if my brother plans to get the game going on his PC, and he's the one I usually play with.
I love the maps I have seen here, so far! I would need to be tutored in Hammer before I could even begin to produce stuff like I see here. I can't even create decent levels in Little Big Planet, which is much easier for noobs.
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Aperture Time Testing Center
ML's Halloween Trick - 1000 downloads!
ML's Halloween Treat
ML's Combination - 1000 downloads!
ML's Jailbreak Labyrinth
ML's Tricky Teamwork [Co-op]
WIP:
"Capture the Cube 3"
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does it really matter? I flit from Portal 1 to Portal 2 now and again as I normally forget how I did stuff (always play Portal semi drunk FTW), how someone uses their moneys worth is ireelivant isnt it? (good speeling) Personally I am trying to learn hammer to try and give something back to a fantastic community. All you can really say is that someone is missing out for not embarking on the full game?, hardly offensive is it?
It does matter as bit as if the game is designed and created in such a way, that the game is initially meant to be played in a certain way, due to the fact that it would follow the way it is meant to be played. Playing the game in a linear fashion helps to fully understand the story, which is why the single player takes place before the co-op.
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