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Btw, to answer your question in the previous debate, RAB. There's many reasons I should use a fancy HTML poll for these things, and only really one reason against it, but it's good enough to keep me old fashioned. The current Dtoid poll we have up right now has over 8000 votes, which is dangerously close to an Internet meme. The most debate votes we've ever had? Maybe 250 or so. But getting all these detailed comments is worth it for the weekly discussion it brings. I love seeing you guys interacting instead of just clicking on a poll button. So that's why I keep it old fashioned like the gamer geezer I guess I am.
As for my vote . . . I'm not joking. I'll see you guys in an hour or so. I'm going to make my decision while watching the meteor shower outside, which had better not fucking be ruined by these looming clouds everywhere! Fuck you Lakitu! Get out of my life!
As for my vote . . . I'm not joking. I'll see you guys in an hour or so. I'm going to make my decision while watching the meteor shower outside, which had better not fucking be ruined by these looming clouds everywhere! Fuck you Lakitu! Get out of my life!
Portal Gun because honestly, until you get the Gravity Gun "powered up", all you do is carry shit around and break faces with chairs and explosive barrels.
Plus, I would have waaaaaaayyyyyy more fun with it.
Plus, I would have waaaaaaayyyyyy more fun with it.
Portal gun.
I have no need for a gravity gun but at least 3 reasons to own a portal gun.
...don't ask.
I have no need for a gravity gun but at least 3 reasons to own a portal gun.
...don't ask.
Tough choice, they're both totally awesome, and they opened up new gameplay elements in first person shooters, but it really has to go to the Portal Gun. The Gravity Gun was radical, but the Portal Gun was totally mindblowing.
"zero-point energy field manipulator" all the way
when you first pick it up you're like duuuude
and the last time you pick it up (end game) you're like SWEEEET
when you first pick it up you're like duuuude
and the last time you pick it up (end game) you're like SWEEEET
tricky...on one hand the portal gun may be useless against head crabs...
on the other hand the gravity gun doesn't defy the space time continuum.
Portal Gun by a hair.
on the other hand the gravity gun doesn't defy the space time continuum.
Portal Gun by a hair.
Portal Gun is an enhanced Gravity Gun, in my opinion, both in functionality and what it did to the overall game design.
The portal gun can already lift stuff, so why not be able to put some portals around and move stuff around that way?
Portal gun.
Portal gun.
I'm going with the Portal gun...but barely! Way back when HL2 came out the gravity gun was fucking awesome! But I gotta say the Portal gun literally blew my mind when I first used it.
This is a EASY choice! On one hand, the gravity gun just sorta moves shit, but the portal gun is a amazing and inuitive new idea!
Portal Gun.
Portal Gun.
Since I love them both pretty equally in terms of mechanics, I'll have to go with the Portal Gun because it's prettier and for the sound it makes.
Portal Gun, definitely. It's prettier too. Shiny white surfaces are the "thing" nowadays. According to Apple you can double the price of the product if you have a shiny white surface (and some extra bucks for adding an half eaten apple on it too)
Well... you can move things around with the gravity gun, but if you use the portal gun right, you can move things around as well. So really all you need is the portal gun. Think about moving furniture into an upstairs apartment directly from the place you are moving out of. That would be amazing. Imagine setting up a portal at a friend or family member's house then, whenever you felt like it, you could pop over from home instantly.
PORTAL GUN
PORTAL GUN
The gravity gun. The portal gun is just an easy way to simulate a roller coaster till you vomit, and I'm just so damn lazy that I'd rather have shit come to me than have to move my ass through a portal to get to it.
Fuck! I knew I would have to make this choice one day. I'm going to say gravity gun. But Episode 3 had better as hell have both.
I don't know. I mean, portal gun in the obvious choice, but how am I going to kill striders without a gravity gun? I don't think they would fit through a portal, and I hate striders. Not to mention that the portal gun doesn't work on metal or moving objects.
The gravity gun blew my mind when it came out, but so did the portal gun.
I'm going to have to vote for the gravity gun. Would Portal even exist if there had been no gravity gun?
The gravity gun blew my mind when it came out, but so did the portal gun.
I'm going to have to vote for the gravity gun. Would Portal even exist if there had been no gravity gun?
The Gravity gun is arguably much, much more useful, with the Portal gun only really being useful(or even usable) in the Aperture Science labs. However, when it comes to sheer fun in the actual games, I'd give it to the Portal gun, by just enough to tie it up :P.
This is hard, but luckily for me, theres a handy tie-breaker: Half Life 2 Deathmatch.
Unfortunately for the Portal gun, it cannot allow me to mercilessly kill my friends (and strangers) with barrels, boxes, bathtubs, and gas tanks like the Gravity gun can. So Gravity gun gets the win!
This is hard, but luckily for me, theres a handy tie-breaker: Half Life 2 Deathmatch.
Unfortunately for the Portal gun, it cannot allow me to mercilessly kill my friends (and strangers) with barrels, boxes, bathtubs, and gas tanks like the Gravity gun can. So Gravity gun gets the win!
Tough...
I gotta go with my heart, even though I love that Portal Gun, it wouldn't be here today without the Gravity Gun being created first. So I'm goin' with the Gravity Gun only because w/o it we wouldn't have the Portal Gun. And I love that Portal Gun.
Thanks Gravity Gun!
I gotta go with my heart, even though I love that Portal Gun, it wouldn't be here today without the Gravity Gun being created first. So I'm goin' with the Gravity Gun only because w/o it we wouldn't have the Portal Gun. And I love that Portal Gun.
Thanks Gravity Gun!
The Gravity Gun. I already know it's going to lose to the Portal Gun by a longshot, but goddamn if it isn't much more useful. What am I going to do with portals? Get to the other side of a room? Show off how I can shoot a portal on a wall and fall from the ceiling and break both of my legs?
The gravity gun is basically the power of levitation and move everything around me however I see fit with the press of a trigger.
Also, as ajaxender said, it means death.
The gravity gun is basically the power of levitation and move everything around me however I see fit with the press of a trigger.
Also, as ajaxender said, it means death.
Portal gun. And I quite honestly decided through the highly scientific use of eenie-meanie-miney-mo. (sp?)
Fuck you clouds!
I'm still undecided. Very good points have been made for both sides so far. I'm gonna eat and give the skies another scan and then come back with my vote.
Also, any suggestions for next week's debate?
I'm still undecided. Very good points have been made for both sides so far. I'm gonna eat and give the skies another scan and then come back with my vote.
Also, any suggestions for next week's debate?
Wow, this is quite possibly the hardest decision of my life.
If I wanted to rob a bank (HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING) I could just do this the sneaky way and use the portal gun to shoot one into the Vault and another into my room so whenever they close I can just jump through my room and take any amount I need.
OR
I can do this the sadistic sociopathic way and use the gravity gun to toss the security, LAPD, and army around like ragdolls and just take everything I need with the satisfaction of being omnipotent and unstoppable.
Hmm.... GRAVITY GUN
Final Answer.
If I wanted to rob a bank (HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING) I could just do this the sneaky way and use the portal gun to shoot one into the Vault and another into my room so whenever they close I can just jump through my room and take any amount I need.
OR
I can do this the sadistic sociopathic way and use the gravity gun to toss the security, LAPD, and army around like ragdolls and just take everything I need with the satisfaction of being omnipotent and unstoppable.
Hmm.... GRAVITY GUN
Final Answer.
portal gun gets my vote. Until the gravity gun gets supercharged all its good for is carrying boards an barrels around.
i'd like to say i at least gave the debate a serious thought...the gravity gun certainly isnt worthless: flinging enemies around like flaccid puppets is quite empowering. it also has many practical construction/destruction applications.
but, like many, i came to that age old question of, "Do you want to divide by zero?"
yes, yes i do.
vote: portal gun.
but, like many, i came to that age old question of, "Do you want to divide by zero?"
yes, yes i do.
vote: portal gun.
Gravity gun. It's old hat now, but back when HL2 came out, it was pretty amazing. I definitely spent more than 3 hours playing with gravity gun (hl2dm), more than I can say about portal gun.
Looking around the room, I feel like I can come up with dozens of uses for my Portal pal. With the grav gun, I'm going to throw the TV through the window. Sure, it's a matter of time until I turn everything in my life to rubble with either, but I'm going to get more longevity with the portal gun.
Besides, the portal gun's colours will match my outfit better. Very important too.
Besides, the portal gun's colours will match my outfit better. Very important too.
Gravity Gun. A portal gun just lets me move places. Doors do that.
Doors don't let me flip cars, throw explosive barrels straight into the air to see where they land or slice the heads off zombies with buzzsaws.
Seriously, portals have existed in games forEVER whereas the HL2 grav gun introduced awesome new physics and gameplay possibilities. It's obviously cooler to say the portal gun, because everyone gets plus cool points for mentioning Portal anyway, but there is NO WAY it was more influential to game design, more fun to use OR more original than the grav gun.
Doors don't let me flip cars, throw explosive barrels straight into the air to see where they land or slice the heads off zombies with buzzsaws.
Seriously, portals have existed in games forEVER whereas the HL2 grav gun introduced awesome new physics and gameplay possibilities. It's obviously cooler to say the portal gun, because everyone gets plus cool points for mentioning Portal anyway, but there is NO WAY it was more influential to game design, more fun to use OR more original than the grav gun.
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