6th December 2006, 8:41 PM
And as I said, I don't care (though Portal is apparently more derived from a really old demonstration from a group at Digipen). All I care about is what the final product can do.
Here's the scene:
Kid A: Prey is awesome, and in the really early builds you could actually make your own portals, they weren't preset!
Kid B: That's amazing! Do it!
Kid A: Can't, it was only in the testing phase!
Kid B: Oh, well here's Portal. It can actually do that right now, while we play.
Kid A: But it didn't come first.
Kid B: But this is the one where you can play it!
Kid A: But they HAD it!
Kid B: Okay fine, you can sit there and enjoy your old pictures and videos and play your non-self portal making game and I'll be sitting here actually DOING everything that they took out of your game.
Kid A: Okay...
Here's the scene:
Kid A: Prey is awesome, and in the really early builds you could actually make your own portals, they weren't preset!
Kid B: That's amazing! Do it!
Kid A: Can't, it was only in the testing phase!
Kid B: Oh, well here's Portal. It can actually do that right now, while we play.
Kid A: But it didn't come first.
Kid B: But this is the one where you can play it!
Kid A: But they HAD it!
Kid B: Okay fine, you can sit there and enjoy your old pictures and videos and play your non-self portal making game and I'll be sitting here actually DOING everything that they took out of your game.
Kid A: Okay...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)