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CloseAlright bitches if there's still someone out in the world who HASN'T played the best game of last decade. Well... It's now free.
I'll just spend the rest of the topic doing some Portal-loving. Portal is a great example of how it's not the length that matters but how you use it. Portal has probably one of the best scripts ever found in a computer game. With one of the most memorable villains ever as well as some truly great comedy.
Everyone who tries to make their own game can take lessons from the way Portal works. From the script and characters to introducing the player to new elements in the game to level-design and storytelling by showing, not telling.
Portal has all that. (for a deeper look I might suggest the commentary mode where you can get a lot of great insight)
Portal is close to the perfect game. It is a very clever game. It is THE game.
And even though we're all sick of cakes and AI by now there's a reason those things became so big. Because they really. Really. Are that great.
(and even if you're a mac user Portal will be free for you!)
I'll just spend the rest of the topic doing some Portal-loving. Portal is a great example of how it's not the length that matters but how you use it. Portal has probably one of the best scripts ever found in a computer game. With one of the most memorable villains ever as well as some truly great comedy.
Everyone who tries to make their own game can take lessons from the way Portal works. From the script and characters to introducing the player to new elements in the game to level-design and storytelling by showing, not telling.
Portal has all that. (for a deeper look I might suggest the commentary mode where you can get a lot of great insight)
Portal is close to the perfect game. It is a very clever game. It is THE game.
And even though we're all sick of cakes and AI by now there's a reason those things became so big. Because they really. Really. Are that great.
(and even if you're a mac user Portal will be free for you!)
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Portal is a great example of how it's not the length that matters but how you use it.
That's true, but it's also a prime example of a game that ended when it needed to. Eventually, the gameplay would have gotten stale, or the puzzles too hard - so the length was quite perfect.
thedjt
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You know I had it on 360 Orange Box but I never bothered looking for it on PC. So I guess this is a good time than any to play it again. Will have to put aside Dragon Age and Torchlight for a bit.
Gongo
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I got it when the orange box came out, I came buckets, wish they would get of there lazy asses and release HL2-EP.3
Kaempfer
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Portal is scary good, and the commentary is amazing. Some of the people are sort of boring, but the designers who speak are incredibly interesting to listen to. I could literally play through all of HL including Ep 1 and 2 with commentary on non-stop and love every minute of it.
Portal is just... so... so good! It's got that really mysterious "WHAAAA" factor that Lost had when it first came out (before it got REALLY ridiculous and it was clear they weren't going to wrap anything up), like when you find maintenance corridors and stuff with the CRYPTIC MESSAGES.
I played it on my friend's account so now I can get it for myself! Yay!
Portal is just... so... so good! It's got that really mysterious "WHAAAA" factor that Lost had when it first came out (before it got REALLY ridiculous and it was clear they weren't going to wrap anything up), like when you find maintenance corridors and stuff with the CRYPTIC MESSAGES.
I played it on my friend's account so now I can get it for myself! Yay!
post=137749
Portal is a great example of how it's not the length that matters but how you use it.
Free is the only time when length doesn't matter, and only in the context of gaming.
thedjt
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Portal is scary good, and the commentary is amazing. Some of the people are sort of boring, but the designers who speak are incredibly interesting to listen to. I could literally play through all of HL including Ep 1 and 2 with commentary on non-stop and love every minute of it.
Portal is just... so... so good! It's got that really mysterious "WHAAAA" factor that Lost had when it first came out (before it got REALLY ridiculous and it was clear they weren't going to wrap anything up), like when you find maintenance corridors and stuff with the CRYPTIC MESSAGES.
I played it on my friend's account so now I can get it for myself! Yay!
Just completed it with the commentary. I loved the parts with the Voice of Glados. Everything they do at that game has a reason, there's so much thought behind everything they do.
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