yeah, it's one of the best games i've played in a while.  it's pretty rare something this conceptually interesting comes along and the end result lives up to the idea itself!  the game looks and plays great, and in general is just pretty awesome the entire time.

Dammit. I want to play this game.
And HL. And HL 2, AND HL2 E 1, 2, and 3.

That's going to be the Orange Box for me.

I just listened to Still Alive, and damn, that song is actually so good XD

you know, it wasn't uh...HILARIOUS LAUGH OUT LOUD too many times, although the credits made me say "no fucking way", but really Valve knows what they are doing. all the jokes weren't great but they weren't cringe inducing like the rest of "funny" videogames.

that doesn't sound really positive but this was honestly a good game, if (necessarily) short as hell.

yeah, i agree.  i thought it was humorous for the most part (AND YOU WERE ALL LIKE NO WAY??  THAT WAS GREAT.  also the gas part at the end), but i didn;t really find it hilaaaarious so much as just kind of funny enough to smirk sometimes.  different strokes though i guess.  i was just expecting some amazing, revolutionary ending from what people at told me, though.

I'm actually still on the last stage of this game. It's been a fun ride up to that point, and the idea is just so fresh. The whole puzzle aspect of a first person shooter is nothing new, granted, but this takes it to another level. The portal puzzles are super fun and it's neat just to throw yourself in an infinite portal loop. That aside, nothing about this game makes me scream "wow." I really love it, but there are a number of factors that make the experience less memorable. I think my main problem isn't the length of the game, but the complexity of the portal puzzles in the main game. I wish there were something more challenging than the alternate advanced portal stages. The difficulty of the game itself never really increases or decreases. I haven't had to really try a stage over more than once.

I've also played TF2 which is included with this game in the Orange Box. It's also super fun and amazing, but like Portal it suffers from several setbacks. That's for another thread though!

I heard the Portal story coincides with HL2 Ep.3's.

Like you go to the ship in the Antarctic where Aperture Science is. That's where Mossman is. At least, that's what I've been told.

That would be kind of funny if Freeman had to invade the place with the portal gun and the gravity gun.