Portal, haven't played? PLAY IT! Must do!

Greetings.

I want to share my story of portal.

I read the review of portal on gamespot, saw videos, gameplay screenshots, and still was hearing everybody saying that was a great game, one of the top games ever played, and really fell sorry for those people (kiddin), (not) ^^ , anyway, before playing and buying it, I heard the credits music, and in that time I though, ok, tha's a good music, I really enjoyed, but I got over that pretty quickly.

Anyway, I bought the game, and oh my god, I never played a game like this! Ok, I love crysis, I love Cod4, there's a bunch of games that I love for specific reasons, but come on, with a so simple concept, with a huge sense of humor, and so simple levels as well as graphics, I really didn't believe that Portal could be this fun.

Conclusion: This game rules. When I finished the game and hearing that nostalgic song, I'm not saying that I started crying, but I had that feeling... those butterflys in the stomach, you know what I'm talking, and damn it was deep. Portal has a strange, unique and quite beautiful story behind it. Yes! It is a shame that is so short, but somehow that makes it special, and eager for more.

Just wanted to share my portal story, a game to be remembered, and be played four years from now.

Take care.

Ok, I love crysis, I love Cod4, there's a bunch of games that I love for specific reasons, but come on, with a so simple concept, with a huge sense of humor, and so simple levels as well as graphics, I really didn't believe that Portal could be this fun.

TomasLacerda

While I love Portal, I think it's fair to recognise its shortcomings too. If it weren't for the writing (which carries the entire game), and the originality of the concept (though obviously Narbacular Drop is the game on which Portal is based, so Portal has little claim to genuine originality) Portal just wouldn't be all that great.

I mean, their internal testing must've either been done by people who are absolutely stupid, or just aren't gamers - who can't think like we do. If you listen to the audio commentary, they seemed to have great trouble encouraging people to do such simple things... like the concept of momentum. Ninety percent of the game is just one big training mission, which could have probably been condensed into ten minutes.

Aside from the writing, which is pure genius, and the atmosphere of the environment, Portal just isn't a very good game. It's a string of puzzles that are more procedural than cognitive - you don't have to figure it out as much as just doing it. It's not really a puzzle game... or if it is, it's puzzles for pre-teens. It's great that we're doing something we've never done before... but what it is that we're doing... it's just not all that good. In one of the trailers, one of the soundbytes used was GlaDOS saying this next test is impossible. I went into the game expecting a real puzzle game - a real challenge. I was more than pleasantly surprised to find out that it was a comedy game more than anything else, but still... it was a disappointment.

I do love Portal, I think The Orange Box as a whole is one of the finest games of 2007, and Portal plays a significant role in my opinion, but I just dearly wish that there was more to the game that some brilliant writing - though, admittedly, that is more than enough to carry the entire game.

I just think there was a lot of wasted potential in Portal, and replaying harder versions of the maps I'd already played didn't do it for me.

i second the notion!fireandcloud

I third it.

Greetings.

I want to share my story of portal.

I read the review of portal on gamespot, saw videos, gameplay screenshots, and still was hearing everybody saying that was a great game, one of the top games ever played, and really fell sorry for those people (kiddin), (not) ^^ , anyway, before playing and buying it, I heard the credits music, and in that time I though, ok, tha's a good music, I really enjoyed, but I got over that pretty quickly.

Anyway, I bought the game, and oh my god, I never played a game like this! Ok, I love crysis, I love Cod4, there's a bunch of games that I love for specific reasons, but come on, with a so simple concept, with a huge sense of humor, and so simple levels as well as graphics, I really didn't believe that Portal could be this fun.

Conclusion: This game rules. When I finished the game and hearing that nostalgic song, I'm not saying that I started crying, but I had that feeling... those butterflys in the stomach, you know what I'm talking, and damn it was deep. Portal has a strange, unique and quite beautiful story behind it. Yes! It is a shame that is so short, but somehow that makes it special, and eager for more.

Just wanted to share my portal story, a game to be remembered, and be played four years from now.

Take care.

TomasLacerda

Amen to that.

Greetings.

I want to share my story of portal.

I read the review of portal on gamespot, saw videos, gameplay screenshots, and still was hearing everybody saying that was a great game, one of the top games ever played, and really fell sorry for those people (kiddin), (not) ^^ , anyway, before playing and buying it, I heard the credits music, and in that time I though, ok, tha's a good music, I really enjoyed, but I got over that pretty quickly.

Anyway, I bought the game, and oh my god, I never played a game like this! Ok, I love crysis, I love Cod4, there's a bunch of games that I love for specific reasons, but come on, with a so simple concept, with a huge sense of humor, and so simple levels as well as graphics, I really didn't believe that Portal could be this fun.

Conclusion: This game rules. When I finished the game and hearing that nostalgic song, I'm not saying that I started crying, but I had that feeling... those butterflys in the stomach, you know what I'm talking, and damn it was deep. Portal has a strange, unique and quite beautiful story behind it. Yes! It is a shame that is so short, but somehow that makes it special, and eager for more.

Just wanted to share my portal story, a game to be remembered, and be played four years from now.

Take care.

TomasLacerda

I would play, but the jackasses never gave me a demo to download.

Yeah I downloaded Portal to see what everyone was fussing over and was surprised by how fun it is.

Funny? I haven't seen too much humor, but I'm only on level 16. Reccomeneded!

once i got on portal and got the hang of it i fell in love with it.

easily the most unique puzzle game of all time.

[QUOTE="TomasLacerda"]

Ok, I love crysis, I love Cod4, there's a bunch of games that I love for specific reasons, but come on, with a so simple concept, with a huge sense of humor, and so simple levels as well as graphics, I really didn't believe that Portal could be this fun.

mfsa

While I love Portal, I think it's fair to recognise its shortcomings too. If it weren't for the writing (which carries the entire game), and the originality of the concept (though obviously Narbacular Drop is the game on which Portal is based, so Portal has little claim to genuine originality) Portal just wouldn't be all that great.

I mean, their internal testing must've either been done by people who are absolutely stupid, or just aren't gamers - who can't think like we do. If you listen to the audio commentary, they seemed to have great trouble encouraging people to do such simple things... like the concept of momentum. Ninety percent of the game is just one big training mission, which could have probably been condensed into ten minutes.

Aside from the writing, which is pure genius, and the atmosphere of the environment, Portal just isn't a very good game. It's a string of puzzles that are more procedural than cognitive - you don't have to figure it out as much as just doing it. It's not really a puzzle game... or if it is, it's puzzles for pre-teens. It's great that we're doing something we've never done before... but what it is that we're doing... it's just not all that good. In one of the trailers, one of the soundbytes used was GlaDOS saying this next test is impossible. I went into the game expecting a real puzzle game - a real challenge. I was more than pleasantly surprised to find out that it was a comedy game more than anything else, but still... it was a disappointment.

I do love Portal, I think The Orange Box as a whole is one of the finest games of 2007, and Portal plays a significant role in my opinion, but I just dearly wish that there was more to the game that some brilliant writing - though, admittedly, that is more than enough to carry the entire game.

I just think there was a lot of wasted potential in Portal, and replaying harder versions of the maps I'd already played didn't do it for me.

Way to bum everyone out. Hahaha, just kiddin, I agree for the most part