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The cake is not a lie, but it won't come soon : Valve ain't gonna milk Portal

StarJet | April 25, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3 
Portal is one of breakthrough titles that came in 2007, combined in The Orange Box with other epic games like Half Life 2. Though people would look forward to a "Portal 2", Valve says they're going to take their time to bring out a quality game just like the first one instead of rushing through saying "Okay, that was revolutionary, so its successor has to be equally as revolutionary".
Portal was a breakthrough title that prompted a lot of people to pick up the deal of the century disguising as The Orange Box. There’s something oddly satisfying about hurling yourself through one end of a portal and leaping out the other while avoiding wise cracking sentry guns. Be that as it may, while we know Portal 2 is coming, Valve is planning to take their time with the follow-up.

“I think that when you hit something like that, you have two choices: you can quickly replicate it and stick it out there - do the opportunistic thing and cash in on it - or you can do the crazy thing like we did after Half-Life was so successful and go off and try and say, ‘Okay, that was revolutionary, so its successor has to be equally as revolutionary” said Valve’s Doug Lombardi.

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  • 1 thumbs!
    Final Blade | April 26, 2008
    Good, Last thing we need is this getting milked like What Nintendo is doing with mario.
    • 2 thumbs!
      lord of vice city | April 26, 2008
      QFT, i hate it when companies milk their franchises, take capcoms RE4, or nintys mario kart, how many revisions were there of each?

      take your time valve, dont rush, make a great sequel to a great game
    • 1 thumbs!
      Raziel_326 | April 26, 2008
      Who thumbed him down for that? He's absolutely right. You'd have to be *bleep*ing blind to not see that Nintendo is milking the shit out of their characters.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Storm | April 26, 2008
    That's smart. Plus, many people have yet to experience the greatness that is Portal...or The Orange Box for that matter. More time usually means a better game. I can wait. ^^
  • 3 thumbs!
    Seproth | April 26, 2008
    Valve doesn't "milk" anything. They're like the opposite of EA.

    Plus I saw back at GDC(I think) that they were planning some sort of multiplayer.

    Nothing does a game with a lot of ambition better then plenty of time in development. The longer the better with Portal 2 if you ask me.
  • 1 thumbs!
    intrepion | April 26, 2008
    What?? But but... I WANT it to be milked! /consumerwhore
  • 2 thumbs!
    Red 9 | April 26, 2008
    Unfortunately whatever they make will just get a bad EA PS3 port like the last one was. Because somehow the PS3 is like Satan to them.
    • -1 thumbs!
      Final Blade | April 27, 2008
      Why was this thumbed down? Red 9 is right. Orange Box which EA ported the PS3 was horrible. You have to be blind not to see this.

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