Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · August 5, 2011, 7:25 pm

Hello all,

I was searching on the net for more info about the Portal 2 Game Guide, and found out that there are two versions available; the official guide and the collectors edition. As I understood from the results of my search, the collectors edition has 20 pages less (332 compared to 352) but has a different cover and an extra art section.

Did someone buy one of the guides? If so, please reply below. Are the differences I noticed correct, or is there something more (that I missed)?

thanks,
RockeTeK

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#2 · August 6, 2011, 12:22 am

a game guide.... for a puzzle game...
isn't the purpose of puzzles to exercise your brain?

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#3 · August 6, 2011, 6:22 am

rellikpd wrote:

a game guide.... for a puzzle game...
isn't the purpose of puzzles to exercise your brain?

Yes... but please answer my question

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#4 · August 6, 2011, 6:30 am

I find guides ultimately useless. It's like buying a guide on how to solve a Rubik's cube. - It totally defeats the purpose of learning how to solve it yourself.

I guess just follow the advice of where ever you got the information on the guides. If you like an arty guide - go for the bigger one.

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#5 · August 6, 2011, 3:21 pm

chickenmobile wrote:

I find guides ultimately useless. It's like buying a guide on how to solve a Rubik's cube.

I totally agree :thumbup:

Not in cruelty
Not in wrath
The REAPER came today
An angle visited this grey path
And took the cube away

#6 · August 6, 2011, 3:51 pm

Okay, does anyone here besides me know how to solve a rubik's cube?

Portal 1.5 http://www.moddb.com/mods/portal-15

#7 · August 6, 2011, 4:01 pm

yeah, you rotate the different sides until each side has only one color

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#8 · August 6, 2011, 6:00 pm

yohoat9 wrote:

Okay, does anyone here besides me know how to solve a rubik's cube?

No, but a Rubik's Cube wasn't painstakingly designed and playtested to be solvable in a fun and interesting way. Portal 2 was.

I agree that you shouldn't want or need a guide. But that's not the question at hand.

RockeTeK: I don't think anyone on here has bought either of the guides, and you will not find the answers you're looking for. This is a mapping board, not a general Portal players' board. Try the Steam forums or anywhere else with a Portal 2 section.

The people who make maps for games aren't the kind of people that have other people tell them how to solve maps.

"Games are made out of smaller games ? turtles all the way down, until you hit the game that is so trivial and stupid it isn?t deserving of the name." --Raph Koster

#9 · August 6, 2011, 11:21 pm

yohoat9 wrote:

Okay, does anyone here besides me know how to solve a rubik's cube?

I brought it up and you don't think I can :O!

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Nah seriously, what Hober said. Try on the steam forums. At least one person would have bought it there.

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#10 · August 7, 2011, 8:06 am

Thank you Hober

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