o00o Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 get it while it's currently free: http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 finally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 mac support launched today, linux on the way. <3 you valve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Thanks for the info, will download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 valve are the last remaining mainstream game developers with souls. this is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ms-dos Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? if you're referring to whether Portal is still free after 24th May, yes it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? portal is perhaps the best game of the last ten years imo so it's a good starting point, trust me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? portal is perhaps the best game of the last ten years imo so it's a good starting point, trust me :) that's the problem. if you start with Portal, you're gonna be in for a bit of a disappointment when you find out that not every game is as brilliant as Portal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? portal is perhaps the best game of the last ten years imo so it's a good starting point, trust me :) that's the problem. if you start with Portal, you're gonna be in for a bit of a disappointment when you find out that not every game is as brilliant as Portal. that's when you start working your way through the HL2 series and get TF2 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Is HL2 or the Too Orangey for Crows Box or whatever it's called available for mac yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Is HL2 or the Too Orangey for Crows Box or whatever it's called available for mac yet? probably next wednesday... Valve are releasing more games every following wednesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I love portal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 4gig, fucking hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 4gig, fucking hell you probably have to download components of the source engine too? if you have other source games installed, will probably be less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I'm very curious to see what they are going to do for a linux version of Steam. Ports of source-engine games would be utterly amazing. Should be possible since they apparently got the source engine running on OpenGL now. Valve is doing great things to keep PC gaming alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Heh, I don't even know if I can run portal on my late '07 MBP. Such is the state of mac gaming that I no longer remember what discrete nvidia card I have, although I think I maxed everything out (or rather, those things that were sensible to max out via apple.com). This is going to be a slow afternoon until I can get home and open System Profiler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Heh, I don't even know if I can run portal on my late '07 MBP. Such is the state of mac gaming that I no longer remember what discrete nvidia card I have, although I think I maxed everything out (or rather, those things that were sensible to max out via apple.com). This is going to be a slow afternoon until I can get home and open System Profiler. i could run it on an older celeron computer so i bet you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Heh, I don't even know if I can run portal on my late '07 MBP. Such is the state of mac gaming that I no longer remember what discrete nvidia card I have, although I think I maxed everything out (or rather, those things that were sensible to max out via apple.com). This is going to be a slow afternoon until I can get home and open System Profiler. probably Nvidia 128MB or 256MB card, can't remember which one though. it'd probably run, although i've heard reports of having to dial down graphics options even on the latest portables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I'm very curious to see what they are going to do for a linux version of Steam. Ports of source-engine games would be utterly amazing. Should be possible since they apparently got the source engine running on OpenGL now. Valve is doing great things to keep PC gaming alive. i'm imagining similar to what iD did for doom 3 linux - the map files remain the same. doom 3 linux just required you to purchase a pc copy and then you could download the linux engine for free and copy the map files over. i reckon it'll be a sort of similar setup with steam. can't see them open-sourcing jack shit though, lol. so possibly something like only red hat and debian derivatives supported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ms-dos Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 oh shit, i was confusing portal and steam. i'm going to give this a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 valve are the last remaining mainstream game developers with souls. this is awesome I don't know about that, waiting for HL2:EP3 is damn near killing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 nice.. downloading now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 valve are the last remaining mainstream game developers with souls. this is awesome I don't know about that, waiting for HL2:EP3 is damn near killing me. at this point i'm more looking forward to Portal 2. i can't believe they announced it so fucking early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I'm very curious to see what they are going to do for a linux version of Steam. Ports of source-engine games would be utterly amazing. Should be possible since they apparently got the source engine running on OpenGL now. Valve is doing great things to keep PC gaming alive. i'm imagining similar to what iD did for doom 3 linux - the map files remain the same. doom 3 linux just required you to purchase a pc copy and then you could download the linux engine for free and copy the map files over. i reckon it'll be a sort of similar setup with steam. can't see them open-sourcing jack shit though, lol. so possibly something like only red hat and debian derivatives supported? I'm hoping it would be a little more seamless. It's rumored (or maybe confirmed?) they'd bring Steam to Linux so that takes care of distribution and installation of the games. Sure, closed-source binaries are largely not distributed through the official repositories. But something like Steam would certainly be added to repositories like Medibuntu or AUR in a matter of hours. And if they're working on getting the source engine working on a wide variety of platforms I'm sure they'd be able to cope with a generic X/ALSA and Nvidia closed-source drivers. I'm reading some reviews of the OSX port and am very impressed that it is visually equivalent to the DirectX version on Windows. EDIT: Yeah it is confirmed. This is amazing. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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