It's the best three hours of gaming I've experiencedsince I got my Playstation3 last summer by far. I'm just going to list the things I liked about that game.
1. The puzzles were complex and challenging, but solvable if you just thought through them. If games even have puzzles, they're either way too simple, or you have to consult a manual to figure it out. Not Portal.
2. Despite the fact that there were no traditional enemies, there was still a need to have good reflexes like any other FPS. In certain sections, I would actually feel a little panicked as I approached energy balls or flames that were about to kill me, and have to quickly shoot portals to avoid them.
3. The humor, which is so hard to pull off in videogames without coming across as lame as ****, was hilarious. The "voice" (I don't want to give away the story) said some things that made me stop what I was doing and laugh, not to mention what the turrets would say when you were hiding from them. "Are you still there?! I promise I won't hurt you."
4. The story, which I just mentioned, was actually better than 99% of the games out today. I seriously rushed my way through puzzles just to figure out what was going to happen next.
5. The Portal gun. For those of you familiar with the game, you must have thought how much fun this would be to use in a extended single player campaign where you actually had to kill enemies. I couldn't stop thinking about how cool it would be to use the Portal gun in online multiplayer to eitherget behind enemies, or get them to shoot themselves.
6. The song. (The cake is a lie.)
"This (game)was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS."
Just thought I'd share all that with you who were hating on the Orange Box. (TF2 sucks still though, stupid EA servers.)
and yes... I'm gonna marry Portal.
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