Portal 2 Invades The Ball, Killing Floor
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Meh, Portal was a good game, but nowhere near close to great. I don't understand all this hype, in the end it's main selling point is that it's a Valve game.
No, you are wrong. YOU think it isn't great. Others might think that it is great (as the post above shows), if you aren't too narrow minded to understand that others might have different tastes.
It's main selling point is the gameplay which is damn close to perfect imho.
Even if you don't like the genre, you have to admit it got a LOT of stuff right. They took a simple and relatively unexplored idea (a portal gun), placed you in a rather unassuming but lovely environment, gave you a great character (Glados) as a guide/adversary, and let a story unfold in a rather surprising way. The humor was sharp, the writing crisp, and it didn't drag on forever and ever.
There may be games with MORE of good things in total, but there aren't many that take a fresh concept like that and just nail it.
Yeah, okay, the idea sounds great on the board, and the presentation was pretty damn good, but all of the actual puzzles in the game were so unimaginative and easy it literally took a couple of hours to beat. That does not a good game make in my opinion. I would have expected them to go wild with the level design, but meh. All I saw was wasted potential.
I'll wait until the price drops heavily for this before I'm even considering buying it. Would have never gotten Portal if Valve didn't give it to me for free.
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I played it over this weekend in a couple of sessions... 1.9hrs apparently. http://steamcommunity.com/id/slainchild/games?tab=recent
To be fair though, I have played it a few times before (pre-stats tracking era) so I knew how to do the puzzles.
Here's the thing about Portal.... it was bundled in The Orange Box along with Half Life, Episodes 1 and 2, and Team Fortress 2. It's been sold separately, but it has always been priced accordingly and sometimes free.
