@Đipic: They still force you to wait in line to download it. Considering how many people are going to try to get this, it'll take a while...

Kitsune Sniper

@Mister_Willy: Thanks, pal!

Kitsune Sniper

@FlameEye: ...which is free.

Đipic

@Jagged Toaster: @DukeOfPwn:

Glad you two didn't point out that "is", is actually supposed to be "was". Though, the change was intentional, seeing as this release is in the present.

Though, the release is for Portal: Prelude, which is actually taking place in the past...

So it's a past event taking place now, but not in the future...

*brain asplodes*

DoomDoomDoom

Kinda lame that Valve didn't make this :/ I'm sure it'll be good, but...still

Seinosuke

@Mister_Willy:

Haha. Nice! Take that exclusivity!!!

dead_red_eyes

Ugh. Stupid FilePlanet is forcing me to wait 28 minutes until I can download it.

Jorw

@Kenny: I'm sure they did. Remember though that you are getting the result of untold hours of work by the developers of the mod for free. Given that, if they make a bit of scratch off a minor inconvenience I can't complain.

Fangeh

@dead_red_eyes: not like you can't get a free account and get it

chup88

fixed

[www.demonoid.com]

Mister_Willy

@dead_red_eyes: The Insurgency guys pulled that shit too. They better be getting money or something, there's no other reason for selling out like that.

Kenny

The whole fan made mod part kinda puts me off of this one. When it comes to story based elements I don't like non-canon.

RaptureScientist

@Taurus_McGee: And that's why I never buy Valve games on consoles. You don't get the unbelievable mod community.

QualityJeverage

FilePlanet 24h Pre-Launch Exclusivity

Lame.

dead_red_eyes

@DoomDoomDoom: I'm making a no-
NO! WILL NOT SUCUUMB TO REFERENCING STILL ALIVE! AAAARRGH!
...
-te here, huge success.

DukeOfPwn

@DoomDoomDoom: I'm making a note here: huge success.

Jagged Toaster

@Fangeh: You just need a FilePlanet account, which is the same as an IGN account. Both are free.

DukeOfPwn

@Sap_My_Sentry: And, if you had a FilePlanet subscription.

FlameEye

This is a triumph.

DoomDoomDoom

I was an idiot for buying the Orange Box on the 360. If I just waited until I built my great new rig I could be playing this right now.

*sigh*

Sap_My_Sentry

Lame!! I only have the 360 version. I can't even update my TF2 for cryin' out loud. Stupid Microsoft. :(

Taurus_McGee

It looks like it's only for FilePlanet subscribers right now, am I wrong?

Fangeh

I am all over this!!!!!!
I am in Line to download and I am going to say out right this will be a triumph... ok I'm sorry

stormcrow85

@Taurus_McGee: Tell that to us PS3 owners =(

90sKid

@Seinosuke: Well that's an odd complaint. Valve games are renowned for their amazing mod communities, and mods like this are precisely why.

QualityJeverage

@Mister_Willy: It's going so slow though. :(

Đipic

@Pupnasty: Ok....So it is already being torrented, my bad, lol.

Pupnasty

@RaptureScientist: Yea same here. It's pretty much interactive fan fiction, albeit what looks to be a decently designed one.

DragonSphere

@Kitsune Sniper: I see it being on torrent sites veryyyy soon.

Pupnasty

even if I have to wait 29min to download it once it's going it only took me 10 mins to get it, so i have no problem with fileplanet.

Chaoticevl

Ugh, I wish I had a computer that was capable of playing this.

Bernard McGraw

@DragonSphere: Goddammit, you beat me pretty much word-for-word!

I blame portals. And science.

V1L3

@RaptureScientist:Yeah, with you on this. It might be very good fanfiction, but it's still fanfiction.

V1L3

@Seinosuke: What difference does it make? lol

Đipic

So... to those who HAVE it and've played it.... is it worth a download?

ca$h

In the queue on Fileplanet. I'll be here all night at this rate. Think i'll just go to bed in fact and get it tomorrow. I need to be up in about 6 hours.

Spidery_Yoda

"Fan mod prequel". Eh...I'll probably only ever pick up portal again for the story. So...I'm gonna pass on the fan fiction.

Dudemeister

@Sap_My_Sentry: Thats why I traded in my 360 copy. Just got a new comp and will be purchasing the PC version, + it comes with EXTREME Peggle !!!

p.s. Haven't even played Portal yet so i'm looking forward to that.

Nexus6

If I was the designer I'd make the fans furious by having a ridiculous slapstick plot. A talking pig may be a major character.

osteofight

so much harder, can't even get past the third room.

Chaoticevl

Ran through it quickly with noclip just to get a sense of the plot they've put onto it.

To be honest it's clear the majority of effort went into making the maps nice and challenging. The story is next to non existent and the voice work is quite clearly text to speech.

A map pack with a little extra touch would be the best way of describing it.

Gofthick

Already 200 people in the line....:'(
Whatever, I can wait. This has potential.

Benjammn

@Taurus_McGee: I know how you feel Taurus, I hate how the updates arent even out yet.

HELLSRIDER

OM NOM NOM...
DELICIOUS CAKE... I MUST EAT IT!!!

But seriously - I'm totally going to download this when it's on a server that doesn't require me to be a member to make use of it.

fuchikoma

30 minute queue line?! :'(

ELUNO

@RaptureScientist: Completely agreed. I'm not a huge fan of this notion.

antialias02

@Benjammn:
The wait is ~20 min. I'm around 100 in the queue now.

Benjammn

@Sap_My_Sentry: the original portal runs on a shyte machine... serious no lie...
i can run portal on high settings on my current "gaming rig"

my "gaming rig" specs are
Pentium III copermine @849mhz
512mb of SDRAM
nvidia Geforce FX5200 constained from 4x AGP to 2x AGP
all running on a geriatric intel SE440BX-2 Mobo...

im serious... i can run this game without any hiccups... im quite sure you have a more powerful computer in your garbage

segamanxero

@Seinosuke: More Portal is more Portal!

DukeOfPwn

Fair warning - this is many levels of magnitude more brutal than the original.

And I'm talking about the original challenge levels.

Aleeightone

well um I cant get past the third room I dont know what I am missing

stormcrow85

@Aleeightone: Yes it is brutal. You have to do some things perfectly, PERFECTLY. You can do something a pixel too early or late and not meet your objective. I can understand wanting difficulty in your mod, but seriously, at least give us a few pixels of wiggle room.

Ayanami

@fox01313: This has nothing to do with Still Alive.

Kitsune Sniper

This might be the same mod that is coming out (Still Alive) going to the 360. I had to get both since I needed the SDK on the PC so will put up my thoughts if it ever downloads.

fox01313

@segamanxero: that's probably because your running the game at, or, lower than 800x600

TeknoVagrant

@TeknoVagrant: yeah he has to be. any higher and it'd be unplayable.

EaGle1337

@fox01313:

Glad to hear Still Alive is different after trying this out. Here are the thoughts.

Well what I was able to see for the 30 min or so of playing, along with being quite thankful that there wasn't a cost to the bloody mod, is that the voice acting is two guys in the roles of labcoat observers so not sure if Glados pops up later. They reskinned Chell so you're playing a blonde, believe her name is Abby. Only saw the first few rooms as unlike the Portal game we know & love, the level design here is fricking brutal to say the least. After you leave the entry room with the sleeping pod you get the orange half of the portal gun but the blue portal puts you in the line of fire of 4 turrets. Room 3 (counting the sleeping pod cubicle) has half of one area you can put portals, a blue portal in a small pit & across the pit where you need to go is an area covered in the reflective black tiles you can't put a portal on. With nowhere to really fling yourself with any great momentum I gave up on it for now & will come back to it later so that's all I saw for now.

I feel sorry for the poor bastards who get this mod & the Orange box and decide to play the prequel first, they will undoubtedly hate Portal for a while until they try the Valve creation over this mod.

fox01313

Downloading from the Demonoid torrent now. I'll come back once I've played it and tell ya about it, if everyone hasn't already played it once I finish downloading :P

Maykie

@Mister_Willy:
THANK YOU.

Screw FilePlanet. Worst file site ever.

It is going a tad slow, though, despite the number of seeders and peers... And I know I have no problem running torrents...

BPMΣ

@Fangeh: It's long on torrent :)

13xforever

I do hope that consoles will eventually have access to the modding scene like us PCs - especially for Valve games. I have probably already played 10 amazing mods for the series.

mcderek3000

@mcderek3000: The consoles will in the future, however I guarantee the console makers will charge money for these mods. Given the fail that is DLC on consoles at the moment (A severe lack of portability, you can't take it to your friends house without lugging the whole bloody system with you) and people still buying, I can't imagine that the makers of the consoles wouldn't charge for mods, despite them being free for PC.

Ayanami

Third level is not impossible, it's just VERY VERY unforgiving if you don't do things exactly right. You probably know what to do but the stars haven't aligned for you yet.

Not really happy with this fan made game. I think they bought too much into making it challenging and made it a bit too hardcore.

outforprophets

@RaptureScientist: I don't think I'm even a fan of canon. I like the bite size story of Portal, and to have it expanded on... well I just don't need that. (ex: Matrix) Best to imagine the events surrounding Glados, if you even care to imagine. I'm fine with it the way it is but I'll play this "expansion" and just do my best to ignore whatever new plot elements it introduces. That'll be impossible to do I know but it would be equally impossible for me to NOT play this expansion just so I could avoid additional story.

Hemlock

This is incredibly challenging, and I'm assuming it only ramps from here. Not a great idea, but whatever.

Tetelestia

@outforprophets:

Agreed on all, the people who made this mod didn't realize many people didn't play these challenge maps until the could do it blindfolded while walking on glass spikes with people shooting guns at them.

Luckily with it being pc & known cheats we can just noclip through the bad parts.

fox01313

Portal anything = win.

GlItCh017

yesssssssss!!!!!!!!

gloveofpower

GAH! I can't get through Test Chamber 01! This is going to be torture.

Umandsf

I can't believe half the gamers here condemned this because it's "fan-fiction". You could be playing more Portal. It's a made up story; it's up to your own imagination not to allow it to be ruined for you. It's not real. It's a video game. I think it's awesome that people are so motivated that they continue to realize other developer's visions!

Sakilla

Ugh, that was awful. It really lacks polish pretty much everywhere and casting the scientists as sadistic loons makes GlaDOS relatively sane. The maps so far have felt really counter-intuitive; you get the impression that you won by exploiting bugs rather than the true feeling of genius you felt from the original.

JohnnyUK

Totally downloading this

Altima NEO

@Taurus_McGee: valve games are made for the PC, have low system requirements and are all amazingly supported through mods and updates seamlessly on Steam. Do yourself a favor and get orange box for the PC. Servers are goin nuts on TF2 and even on all the steam supported mods released last week.

PATSCRU

After going through the whole mod with noclip & some of godmode on it looks interesting but I'm more impressed with the capabilities of the SDK level creator, for this mod I'd suggest people who are interested to do the same (god & noclip) to see the end level. It's ambitious & hearing some of the commentary (before the game crashed as the last level is maxing out the limits of a single level) they should have just stuck with this and a few of the rooms but many of the test chambers are just torture to get through & I'd be surprised if they didn't have to walk the testers through the mod as there are many moments where many players would get lost.

fox01313

@outforprophets: Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. As soon as you get the orange portal gun, they immediately cheap-shot you. I tried to do it five or six times, and eventually decided to quit, uninstall and not recommend it to anyone I meet.

I'm not bagging on it simply because it's fan-made. Portal's accessibility is one of the things that made it shine - I've introduced several people to gaming with Portal, and those same people will be excited to hear that there's a fan-made expansion. I guarantee their fervor for Portal will not be reproduced with this mod. They go straight from "step on this switch to open the door" to "dead by machine gun fire" in about 30 seconds, no exaggeration. Wanting to make something challenging is not an excuse to ignore pacing.

clank-o-tron

more people should ignore fileplanet... I cant belive anyone would actually pay for already free software.. come one everyone wants to be a Pirate ARRRRRRRR!!!!

mwjw696

Thanks you SO much Willy!! 800kb + and it should be done before most people start downloading it on file plant WOOOOO! @Mister_Willy:

mwjw696

*tries*

still stuck on that level 5 timed tricky jump ! argh x_x

ProxyLei

the problem is, I know how to do the levels but it takes me 100 try's for that perfect extra lil bit of jump from point x to point y..

ProxyLei

*starts his fanboy screaming*

Ca$h: It was just released earlier tonight. Not sure of the exact time, but it doesn't appear to be for very long. It's doubtful that anyone's managed to play through the whole thing yet.

Tekz