You win: Another Pacific Rim Comic
August 9, 2013
3:54 am
I’ve never tried to beat the portal multiplayer because I can’t even fathom how frustrating it would be to try to get your reasoning in line with someone else’s to root out the solutions. I mean, it’s probably not that bad, but I’ve seen friendships nearly end over trying to steer a canoe together, compared to that team portal sounds like something multigenerational feuds would start over.
Ha! I haven’t had the money or chance to see this yet, but I’m excited to :) between your comic/tumblr, and Two Best Friends Play, I’ve just gotta see it XD
Hurry while it’s still in theaters!
Agree with ZeroiaSD, Jaccob. Watch Pacific Rim, ASAP. THAT”S AN ORDER, SOLDIER!! XD
*Ahem, sorry…*
Hilariously enough I just started playing Portal Co-op today. So far not as frustrating as I expected it to be. My friend and I probably aren’t “drift compatible” but we didn’t start loathing each other. They provide a decent system to “point” around the puzzles and to time the synchronized bits which helps a lot.
It is very hard when you get how to finish the room and they don’t. You try to explain what to do, and they still don’t get it. Frustrating in the extreme.
Are you playing in the same room or online? I beat that game with my brother, and it was only ever mildly frustrating and usually really fun. Yes, there were some levels that were hard to explain even though we were in the same room, but I was capable of just taking his controller and doing what needed to be done when that happened.
Same here, right down to the brother part. It’s pretty straightforward when you can talk to eachother.
On the other hand, I’ve also played online communicating using nothing but the pinging system, and that work fine too, if a little inefficiently.
I wish we would’ve been in the same room. I was doing this over the internet with a head set.
Lucky – I don’t have a head set so its all pinging and emotes with the occasional angry typing.
I truly hate using a head set. I miss the day before they became mandatory for online play (I know they aren’t literally needed, but people act like they are).
Yeah, that’s why I don’t play online much. Except Halo. After all, the entire objective of Halo is shoot everything. I do not need a headset to tell people this.
But trying to tell someone how to solve a puzzle game across a mass of fiber optics, radio waves, and copper wiring is why playing Portal co-op online seems really difficult.
I don’t feel like they’re mandatory for online play, but I think people who insist on using voice chat should have a a headset, especially when they start blaring music over the line or there’s massive feedback/echoing from their mic.
I played through the whole coop mode by myself with two controllers. I never had any problems with it until the very last level (the part with the two buttons at the end of the timed bridge).
GAAAAHD I HATED THAT @$&!$@& LEVEL. Also, kudos to you for playing with two controllers, that takes mad skillz. You might even be the very best (like no-one ever was)…
This is EXACTLY what that equipment was intended for!
Yes! A safer way to test it than strapping them into a giant robot with a fifty foot mega ton cannon that has just been loaded and pointed at your office!
New headcanon created: drift partners were originally meant to go through an initial VR training phase, but because of ‘we-need-to-act-now-or-we’ll-die’ reasoning, now they relive incredibly traumatic life events while strapped into giant robot capable of destroying a city block.
Safety procedures and common sense be damned when there’s the potential for dramatic tension.
I can’t stop smiling and will not apologise.
As someone who has played through Portal 2 co-op twice, it’s not as hard as you’d think… assuming you’re using voice chat and you actually know the other person. Maybe playing with a stranger would be terrible.
Don’t get upset about dumb people arguing in the comments section. Your comics draws the attention of so many people that is statistically impossible that a few morons get in and comment.
Waiting for your comics is the first thing I do when a new week begins, they’re great, very well drawn and very funny.
Thank you for keeping on it :)
Coelasquid, this is the best.
I played portal mp with my best friend and I think we never stopped laughing, screwing each other over and generally having a great time.
My husband and I played the Portal 2 Co-op by sitting back-to-back and pointed at each other’s screens XD
Started reading your comic last night, absolutely love it. :) Can’t wait to see more great works from ya.
Rayleigh’s face in panel 4…:p
This does make me wonder what else the “drift” technology could be used for within the universe of Pacific Rim.
I’m sure we’ll see some examples in the inevitable “Pacific Rim Job”.
Perhaps it’s not so much ‘inevitable’ and more ‘probably already existing’.
I guess it depends from person to person.
All I’m getting from these comics is that I should really see the movie.
You really should. It is very pretty and is actually worth seeing in IMAX 3D if that is an option for you. The complaints I’d seen were mostly about the acting… if you want high drama in a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, it had better have a 600 foot Shakespeare attacking London.
*Squish* [lifts up foot to look at the bottom] “Alas, poor Yorick.”
For a monster movie the acting is quite good.
“I knew him, Horatiobot3000. A man of infinite jest!”
Now I wish this movie was real.
Currently reading “William Shakespeare’s Star Wars”, actually by Ian Doescher (“Verily, a New Hope”).
If someone can email him or write him up and ask him to do a “William Shakespeare’s Pacific Rim”, that would be awesome, even if it were a book instead of a movie.
Yeah, watched this in Imax. It was awesome with a capital A!
..infinite potential unlocked.
Heh… Funny, i saw a Portal action figure & now when i got back home, i got this comic strip.
Nice job, Squid. Did you red my mind or something? XDDDDDD
Oh, & Happy Eid Mubarak for fellow Muslims who visited this AWESOME site!
Now you’re both thinking with portals!
I find that the ping tool is usually enough to communicate the solution to someone who hasn’t played the room before.
Also, I noticed the gamecube controllers.
You know, this seems like a whole lot safer way to test their drift potential than stuffing them in a robot where they might accidentally turn on the plasma caster and blow up the base.
right??
I played portal multi-player with my housebro. I seem to recall that if I got frustrated with him I could make myself feel better by pushing him off cliffs or taunting him or something.
And yeah, there are a lot of useful “emote” controls for doing things like pointing and highlighting stuff. Makes a big difference, I think.
Also, heard this great nerd pickup line today: “Hey baby, looks like we’re drift compatible, wanna come over and pilot my Jaeger?”
This one is by far your best Pacific Rim comic yet, and wow is it a good one.
Bravo, Coelasquid, Bravo.
I just started playing portal the other day. So far I love it and my wife hates it. Not sure if there are any 8-bit theater fans out there but the creator of it, Brian Clevenger, has a kickstarter going on for his Atomic Robo comic. It ends in 6 hours.
My friend and I played through the entire co-op campaign without saying a word to each other. Once one plopped a portal pair, the other would almost immediately figure out what to do. But then…we both played Portal 1 way too much and had just finished the single player and already figured out the new stuff.
…The second time through we actively tried to kill each other in new ways every level. …there was plenty of talking then…none of it repeatable in polite society.
Love it! And since it’s my first comment; great comic. :)
Regarding Portal 2 Co Op … I’ve been playing it with my boyfriend and he got quite frustrated about me picking up nearly every solution faster than him. Did not ruin our relationship exactly, still I felt kinda guilty afterwards.
Just let him solve one or two, even if you see the answer right away. It will sooth his nerves and ego.
Best way to end a friendship is any of the mario party games
my face hurts from smiling at this. Thank u
Kismet meant that I stopped by the movie theater on my way home only to find that Pacific Rim would be showing in about seven minutes. I promptly bought a ticket for a decent seat. At last! I can comment on the movie! I enjoyed it, by the way. It didn’t trigger irritated “Why?!” snarls (and believe me, lots of movies and tv shows do). I was also pleased seeing Ron Perlman and Burn Gorman.
Awesome crossover.
It really depends on who’s your co-op partner.
Maybe in the early stages of testing drift compatibility they actually used the Portal 2 Co-op as well?
My friend and I was able to get through the two-player mode in one night, while he was drunk. Luckily about halfway through he sobered up.
I haven’t played it yet but I can’t see it being any worse then Trine.
I had a blast doing the multiplayer of Portal 2. The only hard part is finding a friend who hasn’t gone through it already.
And that’s why my intelligence levels drop to minimum requirements for breathing and swallowing my drool when I play portal Co-op.
Portal 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Spelunky. What do they all have in common? They’re divorce games!
Must. See. It!
Saw Pacific Rim, was a good movie. However…I have never truly hated on a giant rampaging monster until I met claw/mouth tail kaiju. Claw/Mouth tail kaiju is the biggest ass of a kaiju ever!
Considering the person in the back of the canoe is really the only one who can change the direction a considerable amount, that tells us a lot. co-op portal wold pit those 2 in a death match
The person in the back steers but the person in the front needs to watch for underwater rocks and debris and tell them where to steer with enough time for them to actually do it.
Also, when navigating rapids, the person in front can steer for the short term, controlling speed and pulling the bow left or right. It does take some practice though.
Quid, you must have had a very interesting childhood.
And that is why me and my friend decided to do this the best way ever, by making a drinking game out of it, you die you drink (even when your freind gets you killed) Glados insults you, drink, and last the winners drop, when you finish the level, take a shot or bottoms up.
We do not get mad at each other, but then again… we do not really progress much in the game either cause we get each other to drink all the time.
I can say that playing Portal 2 with my dad is family bonding time ^_^
The last time we went canoeing/sea kayaking, we didn’t speak to each other for a week afterwards >.>
Loving the Pacific Rim comics! It’s good to see other people having fun with a great geeky movie :)
Multigenerational feuds, that’s awesome.
Ironically, GLaDOS was in Pacific Rim… sort of. But I’m sure Coelasquid knew that already.
Finally saw it. Recent here in Brazil.
Pretty cool movie. Too bad that the red people died quickly.
This is the best use of the equipment!
“I can’t even fathom how frustrating it would be to try to get your reasoning in line with someone else’s to root out the solutions”
Never played Myst Online/URU Live? Because it seemed the same thing if my old forum friends are correct.
My roommate and I play this in our common room. It all goes so well until one of us gets the urge to hilariously murder the other one right before they reach the exit. Turns out we are terrible people.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets pushed into toxic waste
You should submit this to #Jaegercon!
First time posting, I just wanted to chime in that Portal 2 Co-Op is the single most fun I’ve ever had playing multiplayer video games. Half the fun is attempting to explain what has to be done to your friend. No two people alive think with portals the same way. Frustrating, yes, but when a room is finished it’s such a feeling of accomplishment.
The only drawback is that once you play it through once, the magic is gone because you know how to solve the puzzles and linking two minds is much easier.
*alike. Stupid iPhone.
That movie just keeps on giving.
Thanks to this comic, I realized I’m drift compatible with my Portal Co-Op partner. We hardly talked, just pinged and a plan was instantly formed every time.
Awesome comic overall, but I had to comment on this. I feel GlaDos was underused, as I basically went because I heard her in the preview! Also: The number of divorces went up exponentially when drift tech became civilian accessible :P Yeah, you and your “Soul Mate” arn’t drift compatible…but really? Being in their head would be like looking into a fun house mirror of rage and loathing for every argument you’ve ever had! Chasing the Rabbit right into the ninth plane of hell…:P
Now I’m sad that they never released more co-op maps for portal 2. :(
Dennis Rodman & Kim Jong-un – drift compatible.
I like the PS3 version, but damn, it’s impossible to play online co-op.
Portal 2 co-op was pretty easy. If you have different logic to the other person, it means that collectively you are twice as likely to have a solution between you. Each part can be done by either player. Of course, we were in the same room; we mostly used the gestures to be rude/cute at each other.
Get a twin makes it a breeze even with 3 states between you.
I don’t think either one of us used a complete sentence the entire time.
I really like how Raleigh’s rivalry with Chuck also extends to video games.
This is the best and only reason why we need Drift technology in real life.
In which Stacker Pentecost is every pedantic Pacific Rim nerd ever.
I have a friend that I have known for 33 years. Since he moved to Denver a few years ago, we play XBL every Saturday for a few hours. On certain games like Gears of War, we’ve gotten to the point where we are almost drift compatible in that we not only know our strengths and weaknesses and how to mesh but we will just know without words when one needs help.
But, while Portal 2’s normal multiplayer wasn’t as bad, the DLC is tough. It didn’t help that I seem to be better with spatial logic than he is plus the DLC will often ask both players to do multiple steps in sequence at the same time, forcing a number of “You do steps 1, 2, & 3 while I do steps 4, 5 & 6 and we have to finish 3 & 5 simultaneously.”
It didn’t start a multigenerational feud but it did lead to him saying “I’ll finish this with you but I will never touch this game again afterwards.”
At least you didn’t head here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0LM0Ki_UQ
And now I’ll sit back and watch as we actually do head there.
These are funnier now that I have actually seen Pacific Rim. Which, imo, was a terrible movie that served a glorious purpose of letting me see giant robots fight giant monsters.
What’re you talking about? That’s precisely what that equipment was made to do!
Portal 2 coop is amazing. They designed it with a few basic functions to let you communicate with other people without text or voice and it’s surprisingly effective (although on skype with a friend is still the most fun imo). Give it a try!
My brother and I played portal multiplayer. Took us about 6 months as we couldn’t go more than two test chambers without dissolving into all out war.
On the other hand, I played it with a friend first and we completed it in one sitting. Clearly we are drift compatible.
A ship has just sunk off Hong Kong harbour. They are saying it was a typhoon but I think the monsters are here.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-14/cargo-shift-sinks-in-typhoon-off-hong-kong/4887576
Anyone here played overlord or overlord2. Trying settle a little argument.
Actually, Portal would be EASIER, because working as a team to steer a canoe still requires knowledge of where to steer. Portal is a lot easier because you can point to things using a game mechanic, explain what needs to happen or why something won’t work, and you aren’t trying to steer a wobbly boat away from another wobbly boat. XD I haven’t even played the game myself, but I can still say that, because I’ve seen plenty of videos. :P
I love how they are using Gamecube controllers for a non-Gamecube game.
I played through the multiplayer campaign with four different people. Half the time I didn’t remember the solutions so I wasn’t patronizing them. It wasn’t that frustrating for me, and 75% of the people I played with carry knives on them at all times.
I played the portal 2 multiplayer with my Brother. We’re about the same skill level and think along the same lines, so it was a piece of cake (well, it was still kinda hard, but even when we didn’t figure something out at the same time, it was easy for us to explain to each other what to do). There were plenty of levels where we coordinated well without needing to actually say anything.
I’ve never actually played Portal 2, but it can’t be ANY worse than the Multiplayer in the more current Mario games…
I have a brother. The way these things work is that we bully each other into being rational robots and tolerate no deviations. It works.
it’s actually not as hard as you would think, you just need to find the right person