Idea: Portal Multiplayer

rellikpd · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

its always been a load this is nothing new, we started discusing it atleast 100 years ago

Gadgetboy · New Employee Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

Hober · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/post13241.html#13241

cornontheCoD · Test Supervisor Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 164

I think co-op would be cool, the one with one color for each player. and there could be flings.

I was thinking, what about one where there is only one portal gun, and the 2 players have to "give" the gun to each other by bumping into each other or pressing E near them. this could make for some interesting puzzles where the player without the gun is in another room, but is like a walking companion cube, pressing buttons and stuff. then there could be slots you could pass it through. just a thought.

rellikpd · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

thats not a bad idea at all. HOWEVER. 2player multiplayer games rarely do well. people want to get on and KILL KILL KILL
now if this was just a mod someone worked out. it might be ok. but i doubt it would get LOTS of acclaim, cuz you would have to find a friend, and since we spend all our time online... we don't have any of those.

Ricotez · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

For KILL KILL KILL they have CSS, DoD and TF2. If you only want to KILL KILL KILL you're not playing Portal anyway.

rellikpd · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

oh i know. keep in mind i'm portal obsessed.
i'm just talking about a multi-player mod making it, and typically people want to interact with other people.... by kililng them.
Like i said COD's ideas were actually pretty good. the only way i think portal MP would work is in some sort of co-op mode.

zztucozz · New Employee Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

Maybe we could add the KILL KILL KILL with thinking... So that Both players are in different rooms (laberynths) And in the labyrinths there are lots of bottoms jumps and all that. So if you press a bottom the other player gets a shock-wave or something and losses health (this means no regenerative health) or adding rocket-launcher, all that things. And try to kill the others with your team, resolving puzzles and that. The more puzzles you resolve a new map will be added to you to play. Or could be a random map...

pestchamber · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject:

lol ok you are in 2 different rooms. if you were like 10 people on the server. 5 is in ea room. then you solve puzzles in these rooms and when you done that you reach a button to make the ones in the other room lose hp. until 1 team win. when you press the button you are teleported to start in a fizzler so your portals get closed.

EDIT: i mean of course.. theres alot of puzzles and a button in the end of ea one

Remmiz · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

Doomsday192 · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject:

(for once) i understood that

what hes saying is:

have 2 teams, each with an identical puzzle series. at the end of the puzzles is a button, which kills the other team when pressed.

so its basically a race to the finish to kill the other team

Hober · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:02 am Post subject:

pestchamber · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:40 am Post subject:

Bulska · Test Supervisor Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 170

We need a poll...

I can easily imagine loads of fun gametypes for portal multiplayer. The problem with having fun with portal multiplayer is mostly dependent on the map. If there's modular floors and walls everywhere it's no fun. There should be metal floors to be safe on too.

Many people say that portal is a puzzle game and is not about shooting other people. That is true, but that doesn't have to mean that the Portal Gun can't be used in combat multiplayer games without having fun.

rellikpd · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:10 am Post subject: