Does Portal even need a sequel?

[b1r2u]

I just wanna hear GLADoS all over again!

 

[DocBalance]

Portal 2 will be awesome, and we all know it deep down in our hearts.

 

[Uber Waddles]

Complicated question.

Many believe Portal was a classic, as it had its own merits. I personally thought it sucked; but thats because it gave me a migrain every time I played it.

Making a sequel doesnt diminish the first, and people want it. Why not?

 

[blankedboy]

You've seen how Valve improves vastly with their sequels. Even if it's not NECESSARY, it'll still be great.

 

[brunothepig]

My thoughts. When i first heard it I thought the same as OP for a few seconds. Hmmm, will they do it well enough to be a worthy sequel. Then I remembered. This is fucking Valve! Now after seeing the gameplay videos.. Well, it looks damn amazing. Definitely looking forward to Portal 2.
I realise this doesn't quite answer your question. Yes. Yes it does. If it's going to be even half as awesome as Portal, the sequel will be great. And it looks like it will somehow be better than Portal.

 

[Cazza]

If Valve wanted to give more portal but not give another game they could have just added more content. With the way they ended portal they needed to make a second. I always welcomed it as long as they don't screw it up. By the looks they still have what made portal great plus more.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Portal was a great game and doesn't need a sequel. That doesn't mean that a sequel won't be great.

 

[pwnzerstick]

Well almost no games actualy need a sequel, that is unless they end on some cliffhanger, but I still think Portal 2 will be great.

 

[8bitmaster]

portal 2 will be amazing and the original felt short. I am gonna play it for sure, but think about it this way.... this will have a much longer life span with co-op and all which is one thing that I think will make the portal idea feel fresher than fresh picked fruit.

 

[Woodsey]

Nope. Portal is great, but it ended. And no, Valve adding a new ending just to make the sequel more justified doesn't make the sequel necessary. Adding a new ending for that purpose is just pretty sad really.

It's called clever marketing. Valve often does similar things to announce stuff these. And it's not a new ending exactly, it's just 10 seconds added on after the last game faded out.

OT: New features, characters (are personality cores characters?), an improved look, more humour, more story, more Glados.

Yeah, I think that's justifiable as a sequel.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

I don't think so. I'll buy it of course. But the first was perfect the way it was, okay sure it was a little short. But the story was told perfectly, didn't drag out. I didn't need to know all the background information on plot and characters. Not knowing made it that much creepier. And it will be really hard to recapture the "magic" of the original going into a sequel pretty much knowing what to expect.

 

[MaVeN1337]

Welcome to planet earth.
If something will produce money, Even if it is completely bat shit stupid. People are going to do it.

 

[mikecoulter]

I agree that Portal is a strong game by itself, but after seeing my character dragged back to Aperture Science, I want to see what happens!

 

[scoHish]

No, it doesn't... but I sure as hell want one.

 

[Crispee]

Of course, I could probably count the different ways I used Portals on one hand for the first game.

 

[SenorFuzzeh]

I think the main reason they decided to make a sequal was becaouse the orginal Portal was in a small little studio with mainly students working on the project, yet it became a masterpiece. I think they just wanted to see how it would do if it was a full retail game in its own, with more people working on it and it being longer. I'm not saying it was needed, but thats probably their reasoning

 

[Why Am I Naked]

The first game felt like a test to me, like Valve was just trying to establish the whole idea of portals. Judging from the trailers I've seen for the sequel, it looks to be a far more comprehensive puzzle game, with the portals being used in new ways to solve more complex puzzles. So yes, I think Portal was in dire need of a sequel.

 

[linwolf]

Need, no.
Deserve, yes.
That game was perfect, if the new is just half as good I'm going to love it.

 

[Flac00]

If the game runs about 3-5 hours...it will be fantastic. If it runs from 8+ hours, the game will get really really boring after a while. The best thing about Portal, was how the Portal concept never overstayed its' welcome. Though to be fair, this is a real sequel, unlike what they do now where they just add a character or two, slap a 2 at the end and your done. The game has new mechanics, new characters, new locales (if you can really call them that), and a storyline that branches off the first game.

It will be 8+ hours but I noticed something about Portal 1 after replaying it for the 5th time. Every time I would start to get bored, something new would happen. I started to get bored and they gave me the full portal gun. I started to get bored again and then they put me behind the scenes. I started to get bored again and they had me at the boss fight.

Same thing, but the thing is that the game was still rather short. It was a game that, as you say, "never overstood its welcome". The humor was dark, the characters...i mean character and her sweet evil talking turrets, were all very interesting. When you have to take those things into a sequel, it feels like all your doing is adding new levels. I must admit though, Portal 2 is probably the closest thing to a full fledged honest sequel since Half Life 2, cause there are games that doesnt add anything new to the series, and decides to make a whole separate story from the last game, and still slap on a 2 on the end (or 3 or 4 or 5...)

I think that Valve has a fix for the "overstaying your welcome" problem. That is to just mix everything up a lot. Look at hl2, I don't think i ever did the same thing twice throughout that whole game. Plus, Portal 2 looks absolutely sick! Something else you guys might want to know about is the Co-op mode in the game, apparently the two characters are actually completely different gameplay wise (I think one is a supped up turret and the other is like a super companion cube). I just will play Civ 5, Starcraft 2, and Crysis 2 until then. At least I will be warmed up.

 

[duchaked]

after seeing the trailers and the new puzzles and narrative...idk it's fascinating and I'm really interested

even if I'll probably get stuck on the puzzles like insanely so this time around...oi