Portal technology nothing new: Prey-team was this far back in 1998!

[Geronimous]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7844987544204140976&hl=en

Must see video of a developer of Prey, but in 1998.

PS I am not here to bash Ep2 or Portal... just showing you this because it made in awe...

 

[Polaris]

Please stop with this thing! Portal is far more original and completely different game than Prey...

 

[Geronimous]

I suggest watching the video first and reading my comments better, dude...

 

[Asuka]

This has been posted already. Late :/

 

[Kadayi]

The amusing thing about that clip is the fact that they dropped their awesome engine and went with the D3 one which pretty much curtailed all their ambitions. Still no Portal gun though so the jury is out.

 

[Para]

I suggest watching the video first and reading my comments better, dude...

You should actually link to Quake 1 then since it was doing the portal thing waaaay back then (in a mod though but technically it was Q1). If you want to be picky, you can of course find some related whitepaper from late 70's which bases the whole thing on raytracing/raycasting which goes all the way back to the 50's.

So yea, just let it be. Prey wasn't the first and won't be the last. Portal is a puzzle game, Prey is a (imo crappy) shooter. That's like comparing a Rubik's cube to a race track.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Wasn't it only done in a quake 1 mod though? If so then it does not really count.

 

[Para]

The engine was the same and back then they couldn't afaik code for Quake 1 itself at all (plugs like QuakeWorld not counting of course).

 

[Asknoone]

Seen it before, couldn't care less. Did you see such a thing in Prey? Did you? No, you didn't. I don't care.
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