>-Both games are built around a game mechanic.

Copyright infringement?

>>22563815

Reported to Sony

>-Both games are built around a game mechanic.
HOLY FUCK PORTAL SHOULD SUE

>Both games are built around a game mechanic.

>-Both games only take about two hours to beat.

wat

HALO INVENTED GAME MECHANICS

>>-Both games only take about two hours to beat.

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>>22563834
wat

>>22563862
facepalm.jpg

Fuck yeah, I love those little masterpieces like Portal and Beyond Good and Evil. Little is the keyword.

I hope that ME is equally awesome.

>Both games have theme songs named "Still Alive"
Except in the case of Mirror's Edge the song is actually titled "Still Arrive".

FUCK THE WHAT I JUST MADE THE SAME THREAD EXCEPT WITHOUT TROLLING

>>22563960

OP here, thx for the thread.

>>22563915
OP here. I'm sure the game will be awesome, too. I'm not even trying to troll. Portal is one of the best games to come out, this generation.
>>22563898
I heard this from a journalist on a gaming podcast, sir. I am more of an expert on this topic than you are.

>>22563815
And one cost 20 dollars, the other 60 dollars

>-Both games have theme songs named "Still Alive."

WHAT

>>22564006
Haha. Most games this generation aren't worth buying, anyway. I'll be paying my seven dollars for the rental, as I have with every other game on the Xbox.

>>22564049

More plz.

>>22564049
>Yes, I'm poor. ; _ ;

FUCK A SMOKERS GOT ZOEY

SHOOT IT

>>22564006
And one of those (hint: not the 20 dollar one) will have DLC that will cost even more.

>>22564099
BONER

>>22564099

Good god...

>>22564002
>>a journalist on a gaming podcast
>>journalist
>>gaming podcast
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>>I am more of an expert on this topic than you are
>>Mirror's Edge Demo Playing Expert, Has Played Mirror's Edge Demo 1000+ Times, Current Demo: Mirror's Edge

Portal was the 'best game in long time' because it was this neat little thing that would be included in with the Orange Box, and when we got our grubby hands on it, it turned out to be everything the hype led us to believe, and that made it that much better.

ME looks just as interesting, to me anyways, but the fact that its a stand-alone game (meaning 60 bux for you console tards), and the PC version (which i'll be getting unless it turns out to be Portal length) doesn't come out till January, means that even if its as good and innovative as Portal, it will not get nearly as much acclaim, due to the hefty price compared to the limited amount of content.

Also i haven't been keeping too close an eye on this game. Is it confirmed this game is going to be very very short?

>>22564099

>>22564049
Moar of her.

>>22564231
AS I SAID, SIR, a gaming journalist told me this.
I, too, agree that this game has been overpriced.

>>22564099

demand name

if its moddable, the game might have a long life to it.

>>22564222
>anonymous
>thinks his opinion is worth a damn
epic lulz

>-Both games have theme songs named "Still Alive."
Wait, what?

Not to mention the fact that both have environments that consist of a clean, white backdrop and industrial areas.

And the protaginist in both is an asian chick.

And they're both video games

>Both games are built around a game mechanic.
HOLY FUCK

>>22563815
>-Both games only take about two hours to beat.
So it's torrenting then...

Both games last 30 minutes tops.

>>22566189
To me Chell looks more like a Native American

Both games will spawn shitty memes

.......................... 2 hours to beat!? Are you fucking kidding me?

inb4 /v/ in the last 3 weeks

>>22566189
NO NO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO.
That puerto rican bitch from portal is nothing compared to the hotness that is faith.

>Both games only take about two hours to beat

Nice judgement on a game thats not out yet. Faggot.

>Both mechanics rethink motion within a first-person action game.

You mean they both are ORGINAL GAMES. Double faggot.

>>22564099
MOAR damnit

>>22566355
two hours is generous for portal. I beat it in an hour, including the 'extra levels' after the main section.

>>22566572
>>22566572
>>22566572

Yeah, but is it 2 hours for the mirrors edge? Is this confirmed?

>>22566598
How the fuck should I know?

>>22566598
How the fuck should I know?

How do you know it'll take 2 hours to beat? It hasn't even come out yet...

I thought you were referring to some representative of EA actually making a statement about a 2 hour completion time.

>>22563834
>>22563855
You jest... but some company already patented 'video games.' There was a whole debacle about a few years back.

Mirror's Edge is the spiritual successor to the Jet Grind Radio series.
-Both games are built around a game mechanic.
-Both mechanics are interesting ways of moving around the world.
-Both games have main characters in the minority.
-Both games are fun to play.

>>22566684
>>22566728

I don't understand how anyone can seriously object to this. Anyone who needs official confirmation to know that this game will be short must have never played a video game in their life.

>>22566771
No, dude, you tried this the other day.
You failed then and you failed now.
Please learn what "spiritual successor" means and come back when you do.

>>22563815
OP, you also failed. The phrase "spiritual successor" does not mean what you think it means.

>>22566961
Enlighten me. Because I have no objection to OP's claim.

>-Both games are built around a game mechanic.

Mirror's Edge is the spiritual successor to Halo
-Both games are built around a game mechanic.
-Both games are FPS
-Both games, the player plays as an alien.
-Both games are on the 360.

sage for a moron who doesn't know what 'spiritual successor' and 'game mechanic' means

>>22566998
CORRECT USAGE
--> = "is a spiritual successor to..."
Portal --> Narbacular Drop (same dev team, same mechanic)
BioShock --> System Shock 2 (same dev team)
Ikaruga --> Radiant Silvergun (same director, bleak/badass Treasure shooter)

INCORRECT USAGE
Mirror's Edge --> Portal
Mirror's Edge --> Jet Grind Radio

Mirror's Edge is not the spiritual successor to Portal.
- Portal is a good game.
- Mirror's Edge sucks balls.

>>22563815
>>22566771
>>22566998
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_successor

Fail more.

>>22567025
What the heck is the source of this anyway!?

>>22567041
>-Both games, the player plays as an alien.

lol'd

>>22567125
If portal is a good game. Oh, fuck... there is no hope left.

So, the game (PAL) is out on trackers ^^

>>22567134
I see.

So, if we just change "spiritual successor" to "rip off," all is well.

>>22567214
That wouldn't work either, because Mirror's Edge doesn't seem to be ripping off anything from Portal or Jet Grind Radio.

Thank you for continuing to fail.

>>22567272
>Mirror's Edge doesn't seem to be ripping off anything from Portal

Oh really?
>-Both games are built around a game mechanic.
>-Both mechanics rethink motion within a first-person action game.

I'd say that's pretty substantial, since that pretty much is the sole point of both games.

>>22567394

>>22567394
YEAH WE HAVEN'T SEEN MORE GAMES THAN PORTAL WHO IS BUILT AROUND A GAME MECHANIC

>>22567394
See >>22567432

>>22567432
Seriously, how are they that different? They're games where you just solve relatively easy puzzles in first person perspective, and if you want a real challenge, you can play again and just solve them faster. Those of you outright denying the obvious similarities are the trolls, IMO.

>>22567565
That may be true, but to call it a rip-off or a spiritual successor because of that is just fucking retarded.

Hey guys, I got Mirror's Edge, and I'm loving every second of it.

>>22567565
>>22567634
If she used some kind of portal gun with which to solve those puzzles while some commander/AI constantly gave her shit for it, THEN I'd call it a rip-off.

"Spiritual successor" is still completely wrong for this situation.

>>22567637
The combat needs some getting used to that's for sure.

>>22567741
Damn these guys are annoying but fun.

"Still Alive" is a very common phrase amongst the parkour community, almost like a creed or motto or something.

The choice of title (and lyrics) had nothing to do with portal. Just putting that out there.

Also spiritual successor is not even slightly the right phrase to use in this situation.

Also i finished the game in 8 hours, suck a dick.

>Portal is the spiritual succesor to narbacular drop. No other game relates to portal in any way.

Fixed

>8 hours

short game is short

>>22567891
>8 hours

damn.

>>22568009

Time trials are the meat of this game for me.

I'm viewing this game as a racing game. Its main objective is speed, it features speed runs and time trial modes, and the main campaign or story is only average length for a game these days, possibly a little shorter.

This is also true of most racers.

basically, mirrors edge is a racing game.

>>22567943
Portal is a rip off of prey.

>>22568009

average length for a bare essential completion of todays games.

>>22568187
that doesn't change the fact that

>short game is short

>>22568185
they may have taken the portal mechanic, but they added fun. Also it didn't take them 10 fucking years to actually make

>>22568237
I spot someone whose new to /v/

Portal doesnt go for 2 hours it took me an hour and 20 minutes

>>22568209

>average
>short
>doesn't understand how frames of reference work.

Fucking idiot.

If the game is the same average length as most games these days, then its average length.

Moron.

>>22563815
>-Both games only take about two hours to beat.
you know that because you've already played the whole game eh?

>>22568310

I can speed run it in 22 minutes.

>>22568357

this was the first play through so I had to work out how to do it all.

>>22568327
oh sorry but I've actually been playing video games for longer than just the past few years and so, I actually know how long an average video game is

Just because many recent games have been short doesn't mean the standards of a 'short game' have changed.

Moron.

>>22568439

Well yes obviously. Just saying.

>>22568453

Times are changing boyo, games are no longer 30 hours long as standard.

15 hours is now a long single player campaign.

>>22568304
you may think it's trolling, but prey actually did have the portal mechanic way earlier. Prey was originally supposed to release near Duke Nukem Forever, and it was going to be really revolutionary. Can you imagine if that game actually had come out in 1998? But the lead director died or something, and the game got put into dev limbo until just a couple years ago, and was released close enough to portal for people to make more direct associations. And although those associations are mostly accurate, portal is actually made by the people who made narbacular drop, which was the game that actually copied what prey was supposed to be (even though it wasn't ever made, so it can't truly be considered copying)

>>22568486
4 hours is standard gameplay time.
Or 40 hours, if they want to add in filler like 10 hours of walking for every four hours of actual gameplay.

>>22568665
I mean nine hours of walking for every hour gameplay. doh

>>22567272
XD EPIC FAIL DASU DASU ROFL MUDKIPZ NIGGER

>>22568665
Makes you really think about dishing out that 50-60 bucks for that 14 hours worth of gameplay. I for one have more fun being drunk 14 hours by dishing out 30 bucks.

>>22568665
>>22568695

Yeah, that's what happens when you pull numbers out of your ass, lol

>>22568665
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FALLOUT3?

>>22568665
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FALLOUT3?

>>22568665

That's a good point. Take out the travelan and grindan in any jrpg and what are you left with? Very little. Hell, take it out of WoW and you're left with nothing at all.

To be fair, though, that's an entirely different genre. ME does look disappointingly short but still good; I for one loved Assassin's Creed (inb4 troll, I'm serious) but if you took out all the repetition you'd have like an hour of gameplay. This looks to at least have more variety than Ass Creed, what with the levels actually being different. That, along with time trials/various paths (which will be especially cool with the 'runner's view' turned off) have sold me on it.

tl;dr it looks good, simmer down now.

>>22568784
Fuck no.
I was talking about Oblivion.

>>22568749

You can stay drunk for 14 hours on 30 bucks? Fucking lightweight.

>>22569247
Maybe he gets cheaper, harder liquor than you do. Ever think about that?

Portal doesn't suck.

/thread

The merc betrays you, he is working for the government.

>>22567394
But Portal Has Portals
Mirror's Edge Has....mirror's

>>22569355
what a twist

>>22569517
Gb2/wii music

archive this shit!