College Professor Requires Students to Study Portal

[wildpeaks]

I think this is awesome but non-gamers who can't navigate 3D space from a first person perspective are going to HATE this assignment.

I wondered about that too: being able to read the next pages of a book is easy (just turn the pages), but Portal requires a minimum of coordination and puzzle solving to progress to the next chapters.

Good thing for them that it's not Deus Ex on highest difficulty

 

[Jared]

Now that is awesome! I Really wanna do that course...heh, wouldnt mind doing a study on portal myself

 

[snowman6251]

I think this is awesome but non-gamers who can't navigate 3D space from a first person perspective are going to HATE this assignment.

I wondered about that too: being able to read the next pages of a book is easy (just turn the pages), but Portal requires a minimum of coordination and puzzle solving to progress to the next chapters.

Good thing for them that it's not Deus Ex on highest difficulty

I don't think it'd be an issue if the game was straight up puzzling but the puzzles often require coordination and speed. Ones that require acceleration to launch yourself forward and ones that require a high jump by making a long fall in a portal come to mind.

You know how you jump in a portal and always end up coming out facing the wrong way (and kind of upside-down)? That's going to drive people who suck at the controls absolutely insane.

 

[The Austin]

.... Really?

Why Portal?
Portal has no deep meaning, it doesn't focus of humanity, it's just a damn puzzle game!

 

[Corven]

While it is a neat idea, and the prof is indeed cool, I'm with everyone else saying that having to study and then write a paper on the inner workings of portal would definitely kill the fun of the game.

 

[Burck]

I wonder how the non-gamers are gonna do in that class...

 

[Terminate421]

Second greatest teacher ever.

The first one is the one that let us bring in COD4 and Halo 3 and kick each others asses all period (He also played too)

As for people who haven't played portal, Im going to imagine some girl who isn't going to know what the fuck they are doing.

 

[Aptspire]

Lucky students get the best teacher on the planet.

true
but it is a good discussion and thought provoking object, so kudos to the man

 

[Nico III]

My mum's a primary school teacher and has been using videogames in the classroom for 2 or 3 years now. This is nothing new.

 

[LightspeedJack]

Me: Awesome, here Michael Abbot have some cake.
Prof: For Reals?
Me: Nah it was a lie.

 

[Uber Evil]

I want to go there. Sounds like an awesome professor. Would like to meet him.

 

[Reaper69lol]

Its finally happening! Lucky bastards.......

 

[zombiejoe]

Epic Teacher is Epic.

Am I right people?

 

[General Ken8]

That would be awesome, if the teacher did that alone I'd probably love college.
Now, if they can do that with Portal, I bet he could do something like that with Bioshock. . .

Second greatest teacher ever.

The first one is the one that let us bring in COD4 and Halo 3 and kick each others asses all period (He also played too)

As for people who haven't played portal, Im going to imagine some girl who isn't going to know what the fuck they are doing.

You're a very lucky individual, scarcely do I hear of a teacher that cool. (BTW was he good at Halo or COD4?)

I heard one of the teachers in my high school brought Guitar Hero in towards the end of the year and destroyed all his students at it on EXPERT, that's my claim to fame

 

[Danpascooch]

Ok, this is awesome, and I am all for this, but I have to ask one question.

Are they requiring people to beat the game? Because that seems a bit crazy, what if someone can't manage to beat it? Do they fail the course!?

 

[SimuLord]

Fun fact: The very mention of Portal makes me whistle "Still Alive" as a Pavlovian response. It's really quite uncanny. You do what you must because you can, Tom Goldman.

 

[StBishop]

This made me smile,

 

[Hopkins]

Hm. Classy. I approve whole-heartedly. Get em' reading Watchmen(or playing Deus Ex) and we'll have something really going there.

Funny, my English class this past year had to do our thesis papers on a graphic novel (we had a choice of 5: Maus, Stitches, Persepolis, American Born Chinese, and - you guessed it - Watchmen."

 

[Someperson307]

He should have started them off with Limbo. It's way simpler than Portal, and the meaning of the game would be a great debate topic.