Opp... Portal 2 stuff, as much as I love Portal I think I'm going to take the "Not watch any trailers or read anything about it" till the game comes out. Or rather, till I finish the game.
Opp... Portal 2 stuff, as much as I love Portal I think I'm going to take the "Not watch any trailers or read anything about it" till the game comes out. Or rather, till I finish the game.
Isn't that missing the whole point of all the viral advertising that's being done in the first place? It's not like it's spoiling anything for you, and it's goal is to make you want to play it even more.
I suppose, but this video was not shown anywhere besides Valve's own Youtube channel (as well as some people who made mirrors I'm sure.) It's not deliberate advertising, they're showing off a new character to their own subscribers. Of course it doesn't have a spoiler alert, and we all sorta knew about everything they showed besides Wheatley. Even so, if you're really trying to avoid all spoilers then avoiding this video is reasonable.
Besides, one reason I'm sure Mike is trying to avoid any videos is that so when he plays the game all the new game mechanics are really are new, and therefore more difficult for him to figure out. Just a way to make the experience a teeny bit more satisfying.
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, I didn't enjoy the original Portal at all, but on the other hand, maybe if I play this one before all the jokes are run completely into the ground by the Internet masses some of them might actually be funny.
Then again, GlaDOS is still in it, so it probably won't make much of a difference when I play it. Even her brief appearance in this video made me cringe at her incredibly forced "humour." I kinda liked Wheatley in this video, but I'm sure the guys at Valve will find a way to make me want to dump him in an incinerator within a few minutes of finding him in the actual game. I mean, it's Valve. That's what they do.
So I was at a party last night, and we were playing Rock Band. The gay dude singing wanted to do Still Alive, and nobody else there played Portal (except me because I'm hip and indie). I sang along because who wouldn't. I'm a man who's been on the internet for far too long and has heard all of the portal jokes run into the goddamn ground, and can still play the game every now and then in total enjoyment. That's not the kind of thing that ruined me. What ruined it for me entirely was last night, when the gay dude proceeds to tell his boyfriend and everyone else playing rock band that never played portal the entire plot of the game, ruining every single subtle joke about the cake being a lie, and then going on to say that he has the song on his ipod because it makes him feel good about himself. I can completely understand not liking the game because of people doing what they do best, being total idiots, but that did not ruin the game for me.
I haven't actually watched any of the trailers actually, not because I don't want anything spoiled, but because I run a completely shitty computer that makes watching any kind of video a total hassle. I can watch it on, like, my ps3 or some other computer, but I just haven't gotten around to it. If it was more readily accessible to me, I would watch these videos and then probably never talk about them after seeing what I've seen. And I know that people have grown up a little more since the last portal, and I honestly have faith in those people to appreciate what this new portal might be. Sure, there might be the occasional idiot like my gay friend, but that should not ruin it for those people genuinely looking forward to a solid game.
And I actually wanted to play PDA by Interpol but nooooooooo.
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, I didn't enjoy the original Portal at all, but on the other hand, maybe if I play this one before all the jokes are run completely into the ground by the Internet masses some of them might actually be funny.
Then again, GlaDOS is still in it, so it probably won't make much of a difference when I play it. Even her brief appearance in this video made me cringe at her incredibly forced "humour." I kinda liked Wheatley in this video, but I'm sure the guys at Valve will find a way to make me want to dump him in an incinerator within a few minutes of finding him in the actual game. I mean, it's Valve. That's what they do.
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, I didn't enjoy the original Portal at all, but on the other hand, maybe if I play this one before all the jokes are run completely into the ground by the Internet masses some of them might actually be funny.
I also hated Portal before I even played it, because all of my friends wouldn't shut up about it. They would always shout THE CAKE IS A LIE to each other like it was the funniest freaking inside joke ever, and made me listen to Still Alive a whole bunch of times before I had even played the game. The jokes weren't funny to me, because, duh, I didn't get any of the references. I was more annoyed by everything else, but luckily, many months later, my friend was appalled to find out I STILL hadn't played Portal, and he let me finish the game in one sitting on his laptop when we were hanging out one day. I still didn't think the jokes were as hilarious as everyone else had made them to me (after all, I had heard them all), but I still enjoyed the game.
I'm interested in playing this one as soon as it comes out, so I can maybe experience all of the funny parts for the first time in the GAME instead of from everyone else.
I probably won't buy it though... I already know Greg is going to be buying it, and I figure he'll beat it within a day so I can just play it when he's done. Does that make me a bad person?
An arcade near us had this hacked In The Groove machine, and the kid who hacked it set 'Still Alive' as the music you'd hear anytime you beat a song. I hated it because I hated that kid and therefore I hated anything he ever did to the machine, and also because the beginning of the song isn't that great and that was the only part I ever heard, over and over. Then a couple weeks later my roommate got Portal and I got to hear the song in context (as well as more than ten seconds into it) and it's all good and it's on my mp3 player and Rock Band now.
But there is a gigantic difference between deliberate advertising and spoilers.
Indeed, but I've got a bunch of games around that I wish I knew absolutely nothing about so that I could play them again. And this one is likely to go into that pile, so I figure I'll go into it knowing NOTHING about it at least once.
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I'd watch their show.
Isn't that missing the whole point of all the viral advertising that's being done in the first place? It's not like it's spoiling anything for you, and it's goal is to make you want to play it even more.
Dickbags who want everything ruined for them like spoilers. But there is a gigantic difference between deliberate advertising and spoilers.
Besides, one reason I'm sure Mike is trying to avoid any videos is that so when he plays the game all the new game mechanics are really are new, and therefore more difficult for him to figure out. Just a way to make the experience a teeny bit more satisfying.
Then again, GlaDOS is still in it, so it probably won't make much of a difference when I play it. Even her brief appearance in this video made me cringe at her incredibly forced "humour." I kinda liked Wheatley in this video, but I'm sure the guys at Valve will find a way to make me want to dump him in an incinerator within a few minutes of finding him in the actual game. I mean, it's Valve. That's what they do.
I haven't actually watched any of the trailers actually, not because I don't want anything spoiled, but because I run a completely shitty computer that makes watching any kind of video a total hassle. I can watch it on, like, my ps3 or some other computer, but I just haven't gotten around to it. If it was more readily accessible to me, I would watch these videos and then probably never talk about them after seeing what I've seen. And I know that people have grown up a little more since the last portal, and I honestly have faith in those people to appreciate what this new portal might be. Sure, there might be the occasional idiot like my gay friend, but that should not ruin it for those people genuinely looking forward to a solid game.
And I actually wanted to play PDA by Interpol but nooooooooo.
Also you are a bad person.
I love this series. Banal, yes, but that's part of what makes it funny.
I also hated Portal before I even played it, because all of my friends wouldn't shut up about it. They would always shout THE CAKE IS A LIE to each other like it was the funniest freaking inside joke ever, and made me listen to Still Alive a whole bunch of times before I had even played the game. The jokes weren't funny to me, because, duh, I didn't get any of the references. I was more annoyed by everything else, but luckily, many months later, my friend was appalled to find out I STILL hadn't played Portal, and he let me finish the game in one sitting on his laptop when we were hanging out one day. I still didn't think the jokes were as hilarious as everyone else had made them to me (after all, I had heard them all), but I still enjoyed the game.
I'm interested in playing this one as soon as it comes out, so I can maybe experience all of the funny parts for the first time in the GAME instead of from everyone else.
I probably won't buy it though... I already know Greg is going to be buying it, and I figure he'll beat it within a day so I can just play it when he's done. Does that make me a bad person?
Indeed, but I've got a bunch of games around that I wish I knew absolutely nothing about so that I could play them again. And this one is likely to go into that pile, so I figure I'll go into it knowing NOTHING about it at least once.
Anyway:
The Double Rainbow Song.
And the original for those of you that haven't been witness to the crazy.
Now i'll slip away for another...four weeks. Au revoir!