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Old May 12, 2010 | 06:09 PM
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Portal FREE on Steam until May 24

For the launch of Steam on Mac, they're making Portal free for a short time, so go download it now http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
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Old May 12, 2010 | 06:21 PM
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Is it free to use forever as long as you acquire it by May 24th or will Steam only allow you to play it at no-charge until May 24th? The Steam page is more than a little ambiguous about that. Not like it's a problem to finish the game in 12 days so you're pretty much guaranteed at least one complete playthrough for free.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 06:36 PM
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I think it's a free copy, otherwise they usually just do a "free weekend" or whatever. I think I got CS source and TF classic the same way a couple of years ago.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 06:39 PM
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Don't know what it is, but Im downloading it...
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Old May 12, 2010 | 06:48 PM
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Wow, that did absolutely nothing...
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Old May 12, 2010 | 07:29 PM
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The servers are choked now from everyone downloading it.

And yeah, it's yours for good
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...7#post14910927
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Old May 12, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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what is Portal?
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Old May 12, 2010 | 07:34 PM
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I thought STEAM was a game

So this entire time I never read any of the rumors about it...so now I have no real clue what steam is, other than some type of gaming service for mac.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 07:36 PM
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^^Seems to be a gaming portal for Mac / PC, sort of like popcap with a UI. Im very slowly downloading Portal now...
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Old May 12, 2010 | 07:37 PM
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Its 4 GB's...
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Old May 12, 2010 | 08:49 PM
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For anyone that doesn't know what the game is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA9ChSA6wV4
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Old May 12, 2010 | 09:30 PM
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meh.. after playing portal on the orange box... i found out why they had to bundle it with 2 other games to sell it.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 10:42 PM
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I've heard nothing but awesome things about it, except that it's a short game. I'll see, it's worth one mouse click to download.

Apparently there's a modded server on Team Fortress 2 that allows use of the portal gun. I'll have to find it and see how that plays
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Old May 12, 2010 | 11:04 PM
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meh.. after playing portal on the orange box... i found out why they had to bundle it with 2 other games to sell it.
Was it on a console? Specifically the ps3? The ports weren't that great.


Portal was by far my favorite game of 2008. Heck, I think have the ending song memorized.
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Old May 12, 2010 | 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Sarlacc
I thought STEAM was a game

So this entire time I never read any of the rumors about it...so now I have no real clue what steam is, other than some type of gaming service for mac.
i guess the big deal is that steam has been PC only since ... i think 2002/2003?

and now they're finally porting it over to macs

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Old May 12, 2010 | 11:49 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02n2yYBwHXo
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Old May 13, 2010 | 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Mizouse
i guess the big deal is that steam has been PC only since ... i think 2002/2003?

and now they're finally porting it over to macs

OK...so is Steam just an online gaming hub?
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Old May 13, 2010 | 12:22 AM
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when i last used it yea.

its kind of like xbox live. where you can download games and have a friends list and play games with them.

i guess its also the first time that half life and its related games will be playable on a mac?
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Originally Posted by Stapler
Was it on a console? Specifically the ps3? The ports weren't that great.


Portal was by far my favorite game of 2008. Heck, I think have the ending song memorized.
"The Orange Box"

was offered on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. in 2007

it came with..

Team Fortress
Half Life 2
Half life 2 Ep. one
Half life 2 Ep. two
and Portal

portal was my least favorite on that disc.
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Old May 14, 2010 | 12:47 AM
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I'm gonna take this to mean that you need to right click to shoot the blue ringed portal, in that case
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Old May 14, 2010 | 07:01 AM
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Played it for a little on my Mac and couldn't figure out hot to get out of the first room...FML
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