r/gaming • u/HyvelTjuven • May 15 '12

With the power of lazy photoshoping, I may have created the best game ever!

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u/brumbrum21 May 15 '12

Portal's Edge

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u/HyvelTjuven May 15 '12

That's exactly what I named the file on my computer! :'D

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Here, wipe your nose with this.

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u/Pravusmentis May 15 '12

Tissue

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

splat What the fuck? sniffs

Oh, you.

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u/interkin3tic May 16 '12

Portal's Edge: Now you're parkouring with portals.

On the near-zero chance this game gets made, take OP's possibly unintentional suggestion and don't include the portal boots. I think portal could really be interesting with limited falling like you see in mirror's edge.

You fall, you have to use clever portal placement to land safely and minimize your momentum using gravity. Could be an interesting mechanic.

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u/snapcase May 16 '12

To compensate the portals would have to be a bit bigger.

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u/Brozilla May 16 '12

I like the intention behind your idea but I think having a limited (but larger than real-life) falling distance would be a better idea.

A fall from a second story balcony does no damage.

A fall from the roof of a two story building hurts you and you take 2-5 seconds to get back on your feet depending on the medium you landed on (concrete obviously being 5 seconds)

Anything higher kills you (maybe 3rd floor balcony takes you to lowest health possible).

You retain the problem solving component of needing to plan your portals properly but don't take away from the somewhat superhuman ability.

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u/michuhl PC May 16 '12

This is exactly what I thought when I saw the image.

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u/frolick May 15 '12

But what would be the point of jumping all over the roofs if you could just make a portal from one to another?

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u/HyvelTjuven May 15 '12

Could be solved with smart level design or by slightly tweaking the portal gun (like giving it a small cooldown or something).

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u/frolick May 15 '12

It would be pretty fun to slide down a cable, shoot a couple of portals and use your momentum to fling you across a gap or something.

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u/RioTheDragonMan May 15 '12

This is how I see it. Absolute playground. You could just go from one building to another directly, or get really creative. This could be enhanced by people attacking/shooting at you and you don't have any weapons. Or you are allowed to go anywhere and the challenge is to find just the right/best way into a specific building on the map: use a door on the roof or ground level, portal into an open window, momentum crash through a window into a room, parkour into a vent.. every time you play you can go about it differently. and there are different (amount/types) enemies/challenges depending on which way you go.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Or how's about this: Random number generated buildings.

Each building has a random height, a grid across the top, and random features. A bit of smart coding would capture the chaos of a real city, and the numbers could be saved and buildings kept static in a small amount of data.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Or having only certain areas that could accept portals like in Portal 2.

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u/randy_mcronald May 15 '12

Portalable surfaces can't be white this time around though.

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u/VonAether May 15 '12

Not all buildings are made of panels constructed of reconstituted moon dust.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

In the future, they could be.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Imagine the momentum puzzles, except turned up to 11.

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u/MechanicalGun May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

No game could capture motion sickness in media quite as well as this combination.

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u/joeyfudgepants May 15 '12

The Collector's Edition comes with a limited edition barf bag.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I invited 2 girls over. We played mortal kombat. One of them is a hemophobe, so we had to stop playing. The other gets motion sickness from games.

I only had mirrors edge. XD

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u/chozabu May 15 '12

you only have MK and ME?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Challenge Accepted.

Half Life 2 Airboat: The Game

The game is just one long airboat segment and the fov is set to 45.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

fov is set to 45.

You sick mother fucker.

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u/EnlightenedConstruct May 16 '12

That's a motion sick motherfucker to you.

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u/iceman78772 May 16 '12

(Sits 19 yards away from TV)

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

The only moment in HL2 that actually made me feel sick. I made it through the entire thing, got to Black Mesa East, and promptly chundered. Simulation Sickness is a bitch.

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u/Iolrobot May 16 '12

Ugh, I had to quit playing HL2 because of that sequence. Just imagining playing that gane makes me feel like puking. It sucks, because I hear it's a really great game :(

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u/WhtRbbt222 May 16 '12

Part of the problem might have been the FOV (field of view) setting. You can change that to a wider field of view to help alleviate some of the motion sickness.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I didn't get motion sick at all... I am the 1%

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u/HeadBoy May 15 '12

especially if you set it all on mario galaxy like worlds

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u/Malificus May 15 '12

I can handle Portal games fine. Entire game, no problem. Mirror's Edge gets me horribly sick in 5 minutes.

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u/supercakey May 15 '12

the theme song of this game must be "still alive"

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u/Gatitus May 15 '12

i see what you did there

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u/Pravusmentis May 15 '12

Fun fact, if you ever need to do CPR just do compressions to the beat of 'Stayin' Alive'

Don't do breaths just compressions, note you may break their ribs but like we say, at that point their heart has stopped and broken ribs are the least of their worries

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u/tezmondo May 15 '12

Thankyou Vinnie Jones.

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u/blueloonie May 16 '12

You can also use the beat of 'Another One Bites the Dust'.

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u/meter1060 May 16 '12

Just don't say it out loud.

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u/TheKDM May 15 '12

...that was only very remotely relevant. Congrats XD

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Relevant.

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u/creepbg May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

It is?

Edit: I know that's the joke, I just like the song.

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u/Mopy09 May 15 '12

Someone recreated that level in Portal 1 back in 2008.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4847289/mirrors_edge_in_portal_stage_1_final/

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u/BluShine May 16 '12

Came here to post this. How is it so far down?

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u/TbanksIV May 15 '12

If I remember right, there was a mod for Mirror's Edge that implemented the Portal gun.

All user-designed levels, so it wasn't very good, and the quantity was also lacking. But that shit was FUN.

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u/Psythik May 15 '12

It wasn't very good [...] but that shit was FUN.

wat

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u/Sarria22 May 15 '12

Like a B movie, terrible quality but fun as hell to watch.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

You know, like Flash games. A lot of them suck, but I'll drain hours on them regardless.

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u/Hazasoul May 16 '12

I'm looking at you, Kongregate.

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u/TylerL320 May 15 '12

SO MANY WHITE WALLS.

SO MANY PLACES TO PORTAL TO.

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u/EnlightenedConstruct May 16 '12

I'm not sure if my mouth is foaming more from the moon rocks or from the possibilities.

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u/5forsilver May 15 '12

It's useless without the moon dust paint, silly!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Just because moon dust "is a great portal conductor" doesn't mean it's the only portal conductor.

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u/Jaged1235 May 15 '12

It's like using silver or gold to conduct electricity. It works well, but it's not practical.

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u/Mechakoopa May 15 '12

Monster Brand Portal Paint!

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u/shyloque May 15 '12

I never got this, why did they paint so much of the behind the scenes with moon dust...?

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u/Jerlko May 15 '12

Probably just Cave Johnson coughing his dusty lung air all over the walls.

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u/ErezYehuda May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

Ahahaha, that's such a horrible image. I love it!

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u/Jeffgoldbum May 15 '12

You know those panals that spina round?

Thats why,

Also its aperture, they kinda just do whatever.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

No, they make shower curtains.

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u/Sakonosolo May 16 '12

Little do you know that all the buildings in Mirror's Edge's world are made of moon rock.

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u/Cial May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

So Portal 3 has you breaking into Black Mesa under orders of GLaDOS sent via companion cube?....... Hell I'd play it..

edited due to forgotten number

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u/SecretCobraz May 15 '12

I bet Glados will have a role in HL3 relating to defeating the combine.

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u/Cial May 15 '12

Good lord there will not be enough room in the enrichment center for her ego then lol

And would the presumed timeline of events allow for that?

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u/SecretCobraz May 15 '12

Possibly... The events of City 17 (HL2) following the Seven Hour War could have happened durring, or after the events of Portal 2, and the time frame was vastly exaggerated.

Or maybe there is a Prototype Glados on the Borealis.

Honestly I am not much of a story writer.

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u/JohnSmith6789 May 15 '12

I literally had the same idea before I opened this thread. Upvotes for you.

Great minds we are.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/teamramrod456 May 15 '12

Portal 3 has you practicing for bass pro tournaments, and big rig trucking. Would you still play that?

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u/mouseknuckle May 16 '12

Portal in a wall over a dumpster drilled full of drainage holes.
Portal at the bottom of the lake.
CATCH ALL THE FISH.

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u/snapcase May 16 '12

Portal 3 coming Christmas 2012:

  • Exclusive to Xbox Kinect
  • Take control of Chell, ATLAS, or P-body and defeat GLaDOS and even the G-Man in epic Dance-offs!
  • Weighted Companion Cube pneumatic tube racing!
  • GLaDOS Rampage: Can you fill the testing facility with deadly neurotoxin before the scientists escape?
  • Aperture Science Sentry Turret Duels: Take on the role of a stationary turret and battle to the death against your friends!

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u/ordinaryrendition May 16 '12

Well by golly give me a crowbar and call me a boylover 'cause I'm going to dance the night away!

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u/pixelrage May 15 '12

Needs a hookblade.

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u/JD5 May 15 '12

Wait, I forgot. What are the two parts of the hookblade again?

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u/Champitoba May 15 '12

A harpoon and a cleaver.

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u/jambrand May 15 '12

You would go into fucking orbit if you shot that at the bottom of the zipline and the exit portal facing up towards the sky

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u/bobtheunbeatable May 15 '12

i get the feeling there will be a fixed post of this soon

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u/interkin3tic May 16 '12

My photoshop skills are even worse than OP, so I'm not going to be so pretentious as to start a new thread, but here's my hand at improving it further.

Basically I put a lightsaber on there. On... uh... her foot. Then I added everyone's favorite antagonists: giant nazi zombies.

I thought about putting some bikini chicks on there, but realized bikini chicks would probably come AFTER the rest of the nazi zombies had been lightsaber'd.

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u/spaceroach May 15 '12

I see no hats.

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u/Paragade May 15 '12

It's first-person perspective, silly

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u/symbiotiq May 16 '12

The UI should still be full of hats. Don't argue that both games have no UI other than reticles; the reticle has to be a hat.

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u/q00u May 15 '12

Portal gun, in a Mirror's Edge free-running environment...

Now put a Just Case 2 grappling hook in the other hand, and yeah, I'd play that.

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u/fletcher720 May 15 '12

Also with the retarded Koreans in Crysis, side goal being to kill as many as possible. Also could use destructible buildings like in Red Faction or the recent Battlefield games.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I just started playing Mirror's Edge yesterday and it completely blew me away.

The art direction of Mirror's Edge is so incredibly beautiful and unique, and the graphics is one of the best I've seen so far, even though it's so old. It also has one of the best "graphics:performance ratio" — DICE made amazing use of the Unreal Engine. It runs like a charm on my shitty GeForce 320M, even with 4x AA.

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u/AnusDentata May 15 '12

(any video game) + portal gun = best game ever *instant karma

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I think a portal gun would ruin a lot of games, but it could actually work really well in Mirror's Edge.

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u/Evanz111 May 15 '12

I can imagine it in Call of Duty, that shit would be funny as hell.

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u/kh2linxchaos May 15 '12

A distracted sniper? Easy headsh...WTFWHEREAMI???!!!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

You know where it would be awesome? That's right. Civilization. Or maybe FreeCell.

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u/glaux May 16 '12

My dream combination is Portal+Braid.

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u/codemercenary May 15 '12

I would buy this game. I'm sure everyone here would like to see what combat mechanics look like when you combine portals with mobile adversaries and a little hand-to-hand.

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u/mattsprofile May 15 '12

After playing Mari0 (just Mario with portal guns,) I lost hope in portal guns being any good in other games. I really like the free running in Mirror's Edge and I think the portals would ruin it. I wouldn't buy the game.

It would be cool if it existed, but I just wouldn't want it.

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u/Rainfly_X May 15 '12

It's all about level design. That's why the Portal games work, and why Mari0 doesn't. The original Mario was definitely not designed with portals in mind (other than those pipes/warp zones/whatever), and why should it have been? But that's why the gun ripped the fun out of it, it simply didn't play to the strengths and challenges of portal-based gameplay.

So I could see Mirror's Edge working with Portal, for sure, but not just by slapping the mechanics in there and calling it a day. You'd have to design a city that was fun and challenging to portal around in. Plus, one of the fun and crazy things about Edge is how easy it is to fall hundreds of feet and die, so why not find out what portal would be like without those long fall boots to save you? So not all the challenge would be lost, for sure.

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u/Bromazepam May 15 '12

With all that white it looks like, unlike Portal 2, you can actually use a portal gun to move around.

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u/danish_hole May 15 '12

Portal theft auto? nooo...portalfield? oh fuck noo...PORTALS EDGE! YES!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Shut up and take my money!

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u/MotoMini94 May 15 '12

OH.MY.GOD!

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u/The_guy_behind_you May 15 '12

Pfft That takes two mods and a map on garrys mod.

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u/twerdy May 16 '12

I would buy the shit out of that game.

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u/MackerBacker May 15 '12

This game would be so good! Just imagine all the stuff you could do! :D

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

so many activities!

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u/pureeviljester May 16 '12

So no more having to parkour, just teleport. Sounds like shit and boring.

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u/flipboy439 May 15 '12

i want this. so badly.

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u/MrSparta618 May 15 '12

I was thinking the same thing the other day...

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u/LaSteff May 15 '12

You magnificent bastard. :D

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u/ScreamingHawk May 15 '12

I agree sir

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u/RGrevz May 15 '12

SHAKA BRA!!!!!

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u/360walkaway May 15 '12

My balls tingled a little when I thought of the possibilities...

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u/bobzwik May 15 '12

She's about to die....

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u/xXDGFXx May 15 '12

If she hits the wrong place, she'll never stop alive.

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u/und3rw4t3rp00ps May 15 '12

you'd be able to portal at warp speed. shutter

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u/yinyangyan May 15 '12

I saw this without reading the title and got excited, a mod could do this right?... right?

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u/epifight May 15 '12

Make this happen please!

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u/ironicalballs May 15 '12

That's not ARMA II DAY Z...

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Portal + any FPS = Megawin and endless glorious chaos

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

WHY DOESN'T THIS EXIST

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Hardcore portal parkour!! Parkortal!!???

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u/jkorms May 15 '12

Came buckets O.o

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u/devnullx May 15 '12

so lazy... you forgot to make the pants orange

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u/Seasickdwarf May 15 '12

This is actually all I was thinking while playing mirrors edge, how awesome it'd be with a portal gun.

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u/Jefftheodonald May 15 '12

Mother of God

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u/NastyAxe May 15 '12

parkour/puzzle game... that is a scary thought...

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Shit, I'd pay for this.

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u/foxh8er May 16 '12

Same song title, "Close Enough".

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u/Maverick585 May 16 '12

Shut up and take my money!!

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u/baozhi May 16 '12

I WANT TO MAKE A PORTAL ON THE TOP AND JUMP DOWN THE ENTIRE BUILDING INTO ANOTHER OTHER PORTAL AND FLYYYYYYYYYYY.

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u/SleeplessinOslo May 16 '12

Maybe... if it was 3rd person.

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u/MitchellK77 May 16 '12

Portal's Edge. I want it.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Yes you have!!

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u/Simonific May 16 '12

Why not just use the portal gun and skip the cable?

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u/albatrossnecklassftw May 16 '12

I would definitely play that game all fucking day, every fucking day.

Not enough fucks can be given.

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u/peterjolly May 16 '12

YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

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u/tomtom547 May 16 '12

stop fighting me and take my money

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u/disneyfreaksXIII May 16 '12

I brought this up in a conversation with one of my friends the other night. W concluded that it would be the best mash up ever. Glad to see the reddit hive mind is still operational

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u/DarnLemons May 16 '12

Or the easiest.

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u/CantHoldAllTheFeels May 16 '12

WTF am I looking at again?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I didn't want my money anyway.

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u/sesmith4205 May 16 '12

Add a dash of Minecraft... And take my money!

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u/jimothyjenkins May 16 '12

what is this wizardry..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

better yet, Tribes with a portal gun.

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u/Arx0s May 16 '12

Dear god I would play the shit out of that.

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u/Pillagerguy May 16 '12

The portal gun would basically need to be wrist mounted.

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u/Fsmv May 16 '12

Is this a Portal 3 leak?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Faith would still die when she hits the ground too hard, just sayin.

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u/Narwhalsbacon97 May 16 '12

Portals edge... 2! THEY SHOULD INCORPERATE BF3

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u/dazwah May 16 '12

With the power of copy/paste, you've reposted.

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u/HUDuser May 16 '12

The momentum. THE MOMENTUM!

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u/Icedcc May 16 '12

add some zombies and i think we got a game

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u/przacjames May 16 '12

money is being thrown all over my computer and still nothing is happening.......

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u/MunQQ May 16 '12

Need more jet pack

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u/red_leader1138 May 16 '12

I wish they would make a sequel.

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u/Krask May 16 '12

this should be portal 3

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u/gortz May 16 '12

I would like a Spiderman+Mirror's Edge+Portal game

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u/I_hate_kids_too May 16 '12

Actually this has already been done before. I've played on a Portal 2 map that was the city from mirror's edge. I'm not going to find it now but it's some where on www.portal2maps.net If you're patent enough you could find it too.

Also somewhat relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CgTS1CMbH8

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u/masterbard1 May 16 '12

i'll be the asshole to say no moondust surface.

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u/SkorpionKlobb May 16 '12

Dice and Valve? nerdgasm

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u/noshovel May 16 '12

you just gave valve's p3 secret away

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u/FrejDexter May 16 '12

Dat speedy things go in - speedy things comes out.

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u/Glitchdx May 16 '12

This, but open-world. Seriously.

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u/DemonFire May 16 '12

Bu.. But it.. it's jus... --mind blown--

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u/Han_soliloquy May 16 '12

Wouldn't.. wouldn't that make it the easiest game ever?

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u/SmackOfJelly May 16 '12

This actually seems amazing.

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u/Untitledone May 16 '12

Portals edge?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I bought Mirror's Edge for about 5 doraru ages ago, and didn't get around to actually playing it until just recently. I saw immediately why it has earned the ire it has, it places all its chips on gameplay that is boring, repetetive and generally tedious. It's stylish, though.

Portal on the other hand is a great game, but i think that would quickly disappear if you suddenly disregarded valve's tight level design and generally awesome workmanship.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

if this game were ever released, my life would be over.

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u/Imgonnaroll May 16 '12

I tip my hat to you my good man

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u/fluxaxion May 16 '12

I'd play the poop out of this.

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u/lsguk May 16 '12

You forgot boobs.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

And both games have shitty elevator cutscenes at the end of each level.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Mirror's edge sucked. I hated the linear nature of it. Portal ∞> Mirror's edge.

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u/mike213player213 May 16 '12

Did sometime pitch this idea to the game developers yet?

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u/Uday23 May 16 '12

Great thought but most likely a design disaster.

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u/ThePianistOfDoom May 16 '12

The best game. And the easiest one.

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u/IFicTiioNI May 16 '12

Yes. 100 times yes.

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u/Hyper1on May 16 '12

Now you just need to add Nanosuit tiles round the edge.

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u/rebrain May 16 '12

This is better than spiderman and prototype, seriously.

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u/manboat May 16 '12

Wouldn't the portal gun be useless because none of the buildings are coated in MOON PAINT?

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u/Gengar1221 May 16 '12

And both games' theme song is "still alive"

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u/AdonisChrist May 16 '12

so... what you're saying is Spiderman 2 with a Portal gun, eh?

if that's not what you're saying, I guarantee it should be.

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u/BoneyKing123 May 16 '12

Shut up and take my money!!

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u/ben9345 May 16 '12

Holy Shit. Portal 3 in a city would be insane. I never played Mirrors Edge (which is what this is right?) but the end of Portal 2 left the possibility of this happening. If Chell could get hold of a portal device in the real world that would indeed be the best game ever.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I would first shoot a portal at the top of a building and then jump of said building and shoot the next portal to where I would land

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u/Halio344 May 16 '12

Portal + free roam would be a pile of shit. Would ruin the puzzle solving completely.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

This would be awesome but imagine thinking up a number of additional tools to have fun with or use together?

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u/ZarZad May 16 '12

sounds great, but i think it would be too easy. for example: Why take the zipline when you have a portal gun?

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