Comments on: Got Nvidia? Get a Slice of Portal.

By: Phil Migrowen

Phil Migrowen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:06:16 +0000

This is nothing but a very short demo of the full version of Portal which itself is quite short to begin with. In Valve’s typical, exaggerated marketing-speak this “extended” demo is nothing but the first four maps of Portal and is only about 10 minutes of gameplay. Of course since Valve charges $30 to play TF2 and it only has two more maps than the number in this “extended” demo, by that stingy standard, this demo is “extended” and quite a bargain.

Of course if Valve wasn’t run by a bunch of money-grubbing pricks, the entire Orange box would have real demos that are truely free to all consumers (not just those with a certain brand of video card) and that have significant playable content as demos from other game companies do.

By: Shadowmancer

Shadowmancer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:23:21 +0000

i commited to the install but it neva showed up, btw got the full game is this a demo?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:48:51 +0000

I got to the checkbox part of it and was about to install when I realized that it might somehow ruin my Portal retail savegames. So I abandoned the install. Now it doesn’t show up under my applicable games lists.

I guess you have to committ to installing it from the get-go – at least for full version owners. I’m not about to mess with my full version install to find out, honestly.

By: Maide

Maide — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:04:34 +0000

So.. what’s so special about this version? I tried installing it on my account that already had the full version and no game was added (although I went through all of the dialogs successfully).

By: erathoniel

erathoniel — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:00:01 +0000

Awesome! I now love my Nvidia card!