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[Kevlar281]

Features

Portal™: Still Alive features the full award-winning Portal single player game from Valve, plus a new challenge mode. Designed to change the way you approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in any given environment, Portal has earned over 70 industry honors for its innovative gameplay, with more than 30 "Game of the Year" awards.
Break the laws of physics using "portal" technology to solve puzzles and survive in this darkly comic story weaving adventure with brain-bending puzzles.

• Innovative gameplay: Experience the first first-person puzzle-action-adventure game with hours of single player gaming.
• Extras: The game includes fourteen brand new bonus puzzles to challenge even the most skilled test subjects. And, get a glimpse into the making of Portal: Still Alive with commentary from the deveopers.

Achievements

Spoiler

1. Go for the Gold - Win a gold metal on a challenge map.
2. Out of the Blue - Once you have control of both portals, only enter the orange portal.
3. Rat's Tale - Find all the Rat Man dens.
4. Is Anyone There? - Complete the game without ever taking a bullet.
5. Saw That One Coming - Cause a rocket sentry to destroy its own rocket when the rocket has been redirected back towards it.
6. The Camera Adds 10 Pounds - Knock a turret over with a security camera.
7. Like a Rat - Trap yourself in a test chamber so that GLaDOS has to help you continue.
8. A Feeling Like Floating - Dissolve a turret.
9. Tests Like Chicken - Find the chicken's test results.
10. Cupcake - Beat 5 advanced chambers
11. Fruitcake - Beat 10 advanced chambers
12. Vanilla Crazy Cake - Beat all advanced chambers

I don’t like to start game threads since I’m not OCD about updating my initial posts with new info. But since there doesn’t seem to be a thread dedicated to Portal: Still Alive I decided to start one up.

The achievements are up; hopefully that means it will hit XBLA marketplace within the near future.

Edited by LinkinPrime, 16 October 2008 - 05:55 PM.

[BackInBlack]

The achievements have been up for awhile, who knows when this is ever gona hit the marketplace. Also, this is not Portal 2.

[youinreverse]

I can't wait until this comes out.

[jollydwarf]

So this is the original plus x amount of "advanced" chambers, right? Anyone know what x would equal? Any suggestion of DLC? Are there other features that would make it more justifiable for me to effectively re-purchase the same game I got with The Orange Box about one year later?

[Mojimbo]

I don’t like to start game threads since I’m not OCD about updating my initial posts with new info. But since there doesn’t seem to be a thread dedicated to Portal 2 I decided to start one up. [/spoiler]

This isn't Portal 2, it's Portal (1) released standalone with some extra levels ported over that are available on the PC for free.

(Not trying to sound like a dick, just don't want people getting their hopes up or buying the game thinking it's a sequel.)

[Kevlar281]

Ok, I edited out the Portal 2 stuff…this is why I don’t start game threads.

[APreciousDragon]

That's ok Kevlar! I would have probably done the same !

I will have to wait to see if the extra's are worth it on this one. I have it on the OB and it would be kind of silly to pay for the same game twice ... but if there was extra download content/several extra levels, and the pts were right I might.

Does anyone know, or are there rumors on, the amount of pts this will be?

[Zmonkay]

I wonder if the extra content may be purchasable separately and cheaper than the full release for those with Orange Box?

[BackInBlack]

That's ok Kevlar! I would have probably done the same !

I will have to wait to see if the extra's are worth it on this one. I have it on the OB and it would be kind of silly to pay for the same game twice ... but if there was extra download content/several extra levels, and the pts were right I might.

Does anyone know, or are there rumors on, the amount of pts this will be?

I forsee 1200 pts, if they are greedy, they'll try to get away with 1600.

1600 points will = no sale for me...20 bucks is not worth the extra levels considering i have TOB, and the extra levels don't flesh out the story anymore.

[danked]

So this is the original plus x amount of "advanced" chambers, right? Anyone know what x would equal? Any suggestion of DLC? Are there other features that would make it more justifiable for me to effectively re-purchase the same game I got with The Orange Box about one year later?

yes there are I think 14 still alive chambers, plus all the originals. no new features just a few more chambers.

[jollydwarf]

Thanks. That being the case, I really can't see paying more than 800 SpaceBucks for this thing, then. For those that haven't played the original, I'd say twice that amount is worth it.

I really hope we see the true sequel and Episode III by this time next year, give or take a month.

[DanteMayCry]

Considering I will be repurchasing Orange Box soon, I probably will be passing on this. Even though I would like the extra levels, I can't justify more than 10, and even then, I would have to think about it pretty hard.

[eswat]

Portal: Still Alive Hits Xbox Live Arcade Next Wed; Promises Cake and Companionship

[benjamouth]

Hmm, doesn't sound like theres much new content here.

I love Portal but I think I'll be passing on this.

[glockant]

how convenient, they left out the price. I smell a 1200+ point game.

[Bretters]

Not enough new content to warrant a purchase for me.

[KingBroly]

how convenient, they left out the price. I smell a 1200+ point game.

Considering on store shelves Portal is $20, I'd suspect this one is 1600 points. Either way, it's a no way buy for me. I had enough Portal already.

[eswat]

The retail Portal has been $10 for a while now.

[glockant]

Portal: Still Alive will be 1200 Microsoft Points.

[aniousjoe]

Portal: Still Alive will be 1200 Microsoft Points.

confirmed by nelson through joystiq and x3f

[ArthurDigbySellers]

The Orange Box is pretty much $30 new everywhere now, right? Seems kind of pointless to pay $15 for this when you can get so much more for $15 more.

[thrustbucket]

I was hoping for more story, then it might justify a purchase.

[ratzombie]

I don't really get who this game is for. Anyone who bought The Orange Box is most likely not picking it up, I know I'm not. And people who haven't played Portal should just go whole hog and buy The Orange Box.

[eswat]

I think it fits XBLA fine. Not everyone with a 360 wants to play an introverted, crowbar-wielding MIT graduate, so if they can shave off $15 to get something that doesn't involve killing but is humourous and fun, they will go for it.

[ratzombie]

I don't want to know those people then.

Half-Life 2 is easily the best FPS I've ever played, and Team Fortress has good humor and fun.

[Halo05]

Same here.

I was having enough trouble during Portal on the Orange Box, if they make it harder my head might explode.

[aniousjoe]

Same here.

I was having enough trouble during Portal on the Orange Box, if they make it harder my head might explode.

the levels are just 3D representations of the flash levels, iirc:

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

[jollydwarf]

Half-Life 2 is easily the best FPS I've ever played, and Team Fortress has good humor and fun.

Trust me, for the Call of Halo crowd (which is not everyone who plays mainstream console FPSes), the Half-Life series is far too heady for their tastes...and in a lot of cases, mental capacities. They probably didn't see any camo fatigues or space marines (with or without visage-concealing helmet) and just couldn't see the point.

Team Fortress is probably too 'kiddy' in appearance for roughly two-thirds of the console online 'community'.

So I sound elitist and extremely judgmental there. So fuckin' what? I'm right.

[eswat]

Jollydwarf has a point.

My reply was more about the casual players that just gobble up XBLA games. But, having looked at the Xbox forums when TOB came out (forgive me), even the Call of Halo Shootan kids didn't give a rat's ass about HL2 or TF2, for precisely the reasons given above.

Other than the TF2 lag problem, a lot of people bitched about HL2's "complex" story and the lack of a serious tone with TF2.

[MM3_XBOX]

I really loved Portal, but can't justify buying it twice. Maybe when it hits the XBL Arcade Hits and drops in price, and I've gone and forgotten all about it, I'll check it out. Thanks for the info OP!