Push cx » Valve http://push.cx A tea-drinking web geek's coffee-flavored blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Very Short Review of Portal and Steam http://push.cx/2007/a-very-short-review-of-portal-and-steam http://push.cx/2007/a-very-short-review-of-portal-and-steam#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:32:26 +0000 Peter Harkins http://push.cx/2007/a-very-short-review-of-portal-and-steam Portal: 0/10

Crashes after the Valve logo. Apparently it fails to detect that it doesn’t support my video card. This is the first time I’ve bought commercial software in about five years, and it’s pretty sad that free, open source software has better forums and FAQs and such when I have to grovel around online because something blew up.

Steam: 0/10

Steam is the hoop you have to jump through to get Portal. At no time when installing Steam, running Steam, browsing for games, viewing Portal’s listing, purchasing Portal, downloading Portal, or installing Portal did it notice that they don’t support my video card.

There is room for these scores to be adjusted: for example, I might play Portal at a friend’s house. And Steam’s score could go negative if they fail to give a refund.

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