Portal for Free until May 24 / Steam on Mac

[guedo79]

Like videos games but haven't gotten around to buying Portal? It's now free until May 24th here: Portal is FREE!

Have a Mac? Portal and Steam now work on Macs.

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I copied and pasted this from the thread I created on CM in hopes people on ENworld would be interested too. Portal is a great game and anyone who hasn't yet really should.

 

[Welverin]

Portal used to cost money. Until May 24th, it's free. End of story.

Well, technically speaking, there are some strings attached. Fortunately, they're entirely decorative. We just like the way they look, swaying in the gentle breeze created by a million people simultanously fainting from shock at the news that Portal is free. Now you have no reason not to try Portal.

"I have a reason," some of you are probably typing into an angry email. "You see, sir, I own a Mac."

Well guess what: For the first time ever, Portal is also available for the Mac.

"Capital news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars."

You'd think that, especially since it actually won over 70 Game of the Year Awards. But, like we keep saying, Portal is free. Free on the Mac. Free on the PC. But only until May 24th. So you only have a few days to decide if your free copy of Portal is worth the price we're currently charging - which is you ever-so-slightly moving your index finger just barely enough to click the big red "download" button right there to the left.

Now there is some funny.

 

[stonegod]

Yup. Downloading it now. I've played Portal on all platforms it has been out on, so time for my MacBook...

 

[Merkuri]

Grr, it keeps telling me the servers are busy.

 

[JediSoth]

This is awesome news. Unlike the Free Release of Mechwarrior 4, I was actually able to download and install this!

 

[stonegod]

Looks like HL2 is out tomorrow as well (though not free).

 

[Merkuri]

Looks like HL2 is out tomorrow as well (though not free).

Not free? Doh!

Portal reminded me how much I loved the original Half-Life. There was so much character in that game! (Talking about the quality of the game itself... as it had very few recurring actual characters.)

I remember one of my favorite moments was crawling through air ducts and hearing military radios squawking below. At one point, when I was right above them, one of the soldiers says, "Did you hear that?" and I freeze. After a moment they go back to their normal routine and I continue on, then I come to a grate I have to smash with the crowbar. As soon as it smashes, a soldier yells, "MOVEMENT!" and I have just enough time to go "oh, sh--" and scramble backwards as the duct where I had been crawling a moment before is riddled with bullet holes right before my eyes. I think that whole thing was a scripted event, but it (and a lot of other scripted events in the game) was perfectly executed and made the game feel like nothing else I had played.

I can't seem to do twitch games anymore, though, which makes me think that if I pick up HL2 I'm just going to play it for an hour or two and then it's going to start collecting dust in my closet. Which would be a shame, as it's probably as great a game as the first was.

Edit: Did you know in Half Life it's possible to kill the big boss monster in the train tunnels without setting up the huge electrical trap? I ruined that set of scripted events by killing the monster much too early. Friends of mine didn't believe it was possible, so I went back to an old save and did it again while they watched.

 

[Ron]

I downloaded Portal but I haven't played it much. I also took the opportunity of the heavy discount and brought Torchligth, which I am enjoying a lot. Anyway, the Mac version of Half-Life 2 is being released now. I should get this one too.

 

[Welverin]

Anyway, the Mac version of Half-Life 2 is being released now. I should get this one too.

Along with Ep1&2.

Unfortunately after finishing them you'll have to wait for Ep3.