Portal2 Screenpics (spoilers)

[JRD]

Very nice pics, fragger... great attention to details on both furniture but also on building newer offices on top of the old ones...  ;)

[fragger]

Thanks all :) I must say though, the great graphics in this game make it hard to take a bad screenie :-X

[mmosu]

Thanks all :) I must say though, the great graphics in this game make it hard to take a bad screenie :-X

Agree with that, I was just admiring the scenery myself a little while ago  :-X
I've never been in a totally abandoned factory myself, but Art's story did remind me of some place I used to w@&k.  During college I worked in the laboratory at a paint company.  The plant was built in two different phases, with the back part being much older than the front.  That older back part had two extra floors on it that, at the time I worked there, were used mainly for storage.  Up on the fourth floor there was an old metal shear and a pulley system used for moving big coil of sheet metal around.  I would have to go up there every once in awhile and cut metal to be painted for test samples, but outside of that there was very rarely anyone up there, so it might as well been totally abandoned.  It had a bare concrete floor, cinder block walls, and the frosted-glass crank open windows you see in old factories.  There were a few times I got a little weirded out up there by myself, just way too quiet.

[spaceboy]

all excellent stories guys!

I worked for awhile in an old manufacturing plant, very old sliding fire doors and an old barn like section, it was very cool in my opinion.  But let me tell you, the couple times that I went to turn on the alarm and one of those back doors wasn't making the right connections...

If it was winter, dark outside, and all the lights out in the warehouse/manufacturing area.  ooh boy - since it took like 15 minutes for the lights to warm up and turn on (I'm not kidding) I just had to tough it out and grab a flashlight or surrender my manhood and wait 15 minutes for the lights to turn on.

Anyways, I went for it with the flashlight. Yep, I'm that tough lol.  ;)

[PZ]

Great stories, guys!  :-X

[Art Blade]

yep, and I like reading those kinds of stories  :) :-X

[fragger]

There is an interesting place west of Sydney, in the bush near a place called Newnes, where there are the remains of a large shale-oil refinery. Some friends and I have been out there a couple of times. It was all built out of bricks - millions of bricks - and today the bush has reclaimed about half of it as it's been sitting out there unpopulated since the 1920s. In recent years the local authorities have begun trying to preserve what's left and have prevented the bush from swallowing it completely, and they've put up signs and diagrams around the site showing what used to be what. It's hard to imagine that such a huge operation was in progress there almost a hundred years ago, with rail lines going in and out and their own brick-making works on-site, when today there are only half-collapsed walls, foundations and the occasional bit of railway track left. It's strange to think of all the noise and hubbub that must have emanated from it when you're viewing it today, surrounded by the relative silence of the bush.

[Art Blade]

sounds interesting :)

[fragger]

Binnatics sort of beat me to this idea at the start of his cool Portal trip, but here it is anyway:

Such a nice room and comfy bed, I think I'll go back to sleep for a while...

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Oh-oh... Looks like I slept in a little...

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Er - the room service leaves a bit to be desired...

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That does it - no more tips for the maid!

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[Art Blade]

nice :)

lol@ sleeping in a little  :-()

That maid of yours.. she's certainly someone I'd love to recommend to some people I know could use her "help"  >:D

[PZ]

Good pic series, fragger!  :-X

[Art Blade]

going to see those for myself soon.. all I checked were those "extra" (demo) flicks in the game and then I jumped straight into MP with Binnatics. Looking forward to SP now :)

[fragger]

Thanks PZ :) It's from a terrific animated sequence almost right at the beginning, with your starting room getting progressively trashed around you - as you can see :-()

Art, that's cool! I really do hope you enjoy the SP game :) :-X

[Art Blade]

Cheers.. going for it right now :)

[Art Blade]

some interesting secret rooms sometimes..

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[Binnatics]

These wallpaintings are brilliant!!!  :-X

[JRD]

I guess none of you guys saw any mention to cake! GLaDOS wouldn't try the same old story again would she?  ;)

[spaceboy]

it's not mentioned by her but there is a door at one point with the reference.

[fragger]

Here it is:

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[JRD]

... and what's behind it?  ::)

[Art Blade]

An Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary, perhaps?


:-()

[Binnatics]

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[Art Blade]

 ;D :-X

A couple of moments ago I came across that "cake door." Behind it was a trap and things went slightly off track. Nothing serious, really, only difference is that Wheatley kind of whacked himself over his head and things went over his pinhead just as well. :-D

[fragger]

The cake was a lie - again ::)





(Portal 1 in-joke, in case anyone's wondering)

[JRD]

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Holy crap... there might be kids browsing OWG you perverts!!!  :-D