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Can a remaster change the game genre? After hours with portals free ray recurrence update, I am tempted to say yes.

The original portal is shortlisted to be one of the funniest video games of all time. This puzzler, known as Half-Life in 2007, took the humor of its parent series and yanked it from the periphery into the spotlight. You play Chell, a lab rat who quickly outwits an artificial intelligence – called GLaDOS – that talks about Mitch Hedberg like Siri. You use more than their wits, Chells physical strength and an electric weapon that shoots out a pair of connected portals instead of bullets. Ignoring its cartoonish sound, the cake remembrance and the pop song are the credits written by Jonathan Coulton.

Portal with RTX is the same game in everything, but the optics. Unlike other puzzles, it is a scripting and voice acting experience, including dessert reference and endgame ditty. If not, it seems different. To get all the best out of the latest high-end graphics cards, Nvidia partnered up portalValve to make a new variant transformable from the graphical wizardry of the moment: ray tracing.

Images: Lightspeed Studios/Nvidia via Polygon.

What is the effect of ray rays? How much time will you have? If you have 20 minutes, I encourage you to do it. Check out this breakdown from the expert at Digital Foundry. You will be able to get the elevator pitch if you just have one minute left. The ray tracing method is much more realistic than the video games. By observing your light, you will see reflections and shadows as well as the incredible ways in which light is bounced, bend and absorb the material.

Ray tracing is particularly important in places where light is more noticeable – wet areas, reflective metals, glass and mirrors. portals of industrial laboratory test chambers offer natural solution.

In a way of producing an exceptionally realistic laboratory, the creative team for Portal with RTX created a version of portal that puts realism above all else. Since you could run this business and run, the Nvidia RTX 3090 has enabled to perform much faster on a 4K TV you’ll see a believable version of GLaDOS. And I mean the scariest thing.

Lightspeed Studios/Nvidia via Polygon, image: Lightspeed Studios/Vidia via Aylvania.

To emphasize the intensity of the LED light, portalThe Lab of with RTX is darker and moodier; Ink shadows are filled in every corner. Many surfaces look wet and grim now, and so you would have rare bacteria infection if you scratched your knees. The coal balls are getting winded up, which casting a bright and ghostly light. The walls look like bricks not only, they are as tall as metal panels, they look like metal blocks. The result is much more claustrophobic.

We saw a similar effect in other classic games that have received ray tracing updates. If natural light is not artificial, things tend to be a little dark and spooky. But adding rays to the visual graph has never been as close to horror as Portal with RTX. In this case, game isn’t all about the darker, there still are plenty of rooms for office rooms with morbid lighting. Through the visualisation of realism, portalThe overall spirit of the universe has turned from cartoonish to something far more sinister.

Valves 2000s games have a controversial, dirty, and muted aesthetic that is flattering to the corpo-fascist art direction of first-person shooters. While other AAA shooters of the era, such as Crysis and Call of Duty as technical showspieces, emphasized artistic direction. The aversion to weapons wasn’t so technically impressive, but people looked on for a second. The function of the appearance is fulfilled.

Image: Lightspeed Studios/Vidia via Polygonal Gateway.

The feature is for portals. Yes, you play as a human lab-rat, but success isn’t really possible. Valve made use of the best possible method for creating a family friendly game without deadly weapons and human targets. And Valves blocky aesthetics set a clear dividing between real and video game. In gaDOS, glaudo was escalated, and the malicious monologue was designed perfectly against the backdrop of dull, unrelenting labs.

Even in this eerie chamber of Portal with RTX, GLaDOS sounds more menacing. Red glass handles, companion cubes and towering viewing rooms were similar, but no longer feel very good. It’s now something she’s set in her haunted house. That’s a lot different to the gaming platform 15 years ago.

Portal with RTX isn’t portal, it’s not really. It is something other, an alternate vision whose half life is a little closer: Ravenholm. You might find the visual upgrade annoying, especially when you are more of an originalist who likes things like their own. Or you may be excited to visit again through a more menacing lens again.

Image: Lightspeed studios/nvidia via Polygon.

Maybe you know you should know about the future of video games, but what it is? There are many things that can’t be seen in the screenshots or in an early video on YouTube.

If ray tracing can have a sympossible effect on a game that it never should have, imagine what artists will do if they include the feature from the start.

Portal with RTX launches December 8, 2014 on Windows PCs and requires high-end system specifications. The game was checked on PC using a code for download. Vox Media has affiliated partnerships. There are no negative things about editorial content, although Vox Media earns commissions on products purchased by affiliates. Here is the page you can find.