Poll: Did Portal 2 surpass it's predecessor?

[Arnoxthe1]

Yep, portal may have made the cake but portal 2 perfected it.

Just like Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie. Gosh, I have a lot of nostalgia now.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

My honest answer is that it did not. Yes, it was a better game in most respects but, though this might be a shock, I tend to expect that of a sequel. Though it is a better game, the relative impact of portal 2 is virtually non-existent. I've already played that game. Sure, more of the game was great and all. I suspect that the real problem is simply that my expectations for Portal 2 were quite high whereas I started portal virtually blind.

 

[blankedboy]

Well I think Portal 2's sliiightly better, but it definitely has it's drawbacks. As does the first one.

Who cares, they're not exactly replayable games. I'm bored of the entire concept now.

 

[SoranMBane]

Portal was one of the best games I've ever played, but, at the end of the day, all it was was Valve throwing a new concept at the wall to see if it would stick. Portal 2 is the real deal, taking the core concept behind what made the first one great and finally ringing all its true potential out of it. So, yes, Portal 2 is the superior game in virtually every respect.

 

[pearcinator]

I voted 'other'. It is in some ways better but lacking in other ways.

My favourite part from Portal 1 was the advanced/challenge mode where they re-made a level and made it way harder or, my personal favourite, gave medals for the challenges based on least portals/steps/time taken to solve the room.

Thats missing from Portal 2 and that is disappointing...the single-player from Portal 2 was way better than Portal 1 and co-op is a welcome addition but it needs the advanced/challenge mode that Portal 1 had to make it stand out as a better game.

 

[TheRealCJ]

In some ways, yes. It's certainly a much more fleshed-out game overall.

But Portal came out of absolutely nowhere. It sprouted up as filler for two high-profile game releases, and nobody really knew about it until they played it. It want trading on a brand name, or massive marketing campaign. The entirety of it's popularity was based entirely on the game itself.

Portal 2 is really just "the same, but more", not a bad thing, of course, but it'll never recapture that amazing feeling of playing a truly perfect game.

 

[Plazmatic]

The only respect in which I find it worse is the song at the end.

On the other hand it makes up for it with the song by the National and the turrets song.

I actually thought the song was much better. so you point is not across the board.

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Portal 2 is really just "the same, but more", not a bad thing, of course, but it'll never recapture that amazing feeling of playing a truly perfect game.

have you even gotten portal two? did you turn your sound off while playing it? did you skip half the game?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I thought it was more enjoyable than the first game in every single way.

 

[The Wykydtron]

It was way better than Portal 1... It had Wheatley in it for one (offically my new favourite game character ever... Sorry Edgeworth)

Also better character develoment in general and the gameplay is the same but better

Also this

 

[PhiMed]

In most ways, Portal 2 is better than Portal 1, but I sort of miss some of the difficulty of Portal 1. I enjoyed both games, and would say Portal 2 is mostly better than the first, but I don't define it as clear-cut for me.

(btw, anyone want to help me get the Professor Portal achievement (needs someone who hasn't done co-op yet)? ¬¬)

I haven't. But I've got it on PS3.

 

[Buizel91]

Seen my mate play it, and by god am i getting this 2morro!

May have to get Portal one as well xD

Although i will have to get the console version, as my laptop will die if it try's to play either.

 

[TheRealCJ]

have you even gotten portal two? did you turn your sound off while playing it? did you skip half the game?

Yes, I have played it through, Mr. I-know-better-than-you. Thrice.

And guess what? I thought it was fucking brilliant, I was laughing the whole way through, I got really into the new characters, and played it start to finish in one whole go.

Where did I say it was a bad game, smartarse? All I said was that it was less surprising than the first one. I knew the dialogue was going to be hilarious, I knew that the song by Jonathan Coulton was going to rapidly become one of my favourites, I knew the puzzles were going to be amazingly complex, I knew what to expect.

I played the first Portal game with no idea what I was getting into when I first started playing. I bought the Orange Box for Half-Life ep. 2, and the rest was just gravy. When I played Portal for the first time I was blown away by the great writing and fantastic game mechanic. Partly because I was simply amazed that something so good came out of apparently nowhere (look at how many people actually worked on the first game compared to the second).

Why do idiots always assume that "Not better than the first" means "outright bad"?

 

[Megacherv]

I'm sorry, but that song is beautiful, nobody can deny that. This part alone surpasses the masterpiece of Portal and puts Portal 2 to near-perfection

 

[irani_che]

yes,
if portal two showed it mature, it has grown alot since we last saw it, the basic premise is the same but it has developed, brought new mechanics into its repertoire,
granted it will not surprise you quite as much as you now know what to expect

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

The only thing Portal 2 did wrong was a lack of portal surfaces.

Remember that puzzle in Portal 1 that no one ever does the way the dev team designed it? Well Portal 2 didn't have any freeform creative puzzles, there was always a single right way to do it.

Which puzzle was that? I played through Portal several times (as did everyone) and I almost never really found different ways of solving a puzzle even after actively trying to do so. But if you can describe which puzzle you're referring to, I might crank it back up and check it out.

Spoiler: Also, in response to that first line; four words:

"Conversion Gel" and "the Fucking Moon" X)

All I said was that it was less surprising than the first one. I knew the dialogue was going to be hilarious, I knew that the song by Jonathan Coulton was going to rapidly become one of my favourites, I knew the puzzles were going to be amazingly complex, I knew what to expect.

I played the first Portal game with no idea what I was getting into when I first started playing.

This is a common trend for an answer and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, imo, may I confess that I don't fully "comprehend" why being a surprise Wild card was a pro for Portal1?

Or indeed why the fact that Portal 2 was advertised (with an ingenious campaign, as you probably know, too) and expected to be awesome was a Con.

People don't praise Mass Effect over ME2 becuase the latter was "expected to be awesome" for example. Would you kindly, help me understand the difference?

 

[jackpipsam]

umm yes

 

[Dana22]

In the gameplay, yes. But first one was, well, first. It had this charm of something new and fresh, which would be impossible for second game to achieve. In the terms of narration 2 is very different then 1.

 

[TheRealCJ]

The only thing Portal 2 did wrong was a lack of portal surfaces.

Remember that puzzle in Portal 1 that no one ever does the way the dev team designed it? Well Portal 2 didn't have any freeform creative puzzles, there was always a single right way to do it.

Which puzzle was that? I played through Portal several times (as did everyone) and I almost never really found different ways of solving a puzzle even after actively trying to do so. But if you can describe which puzzle you're referring to, I might crank it back up and check it out.

Spoiler: Also, in response to that first line; four words:

"Conversion Gel" and "the Fucking Moon" X)

All I said was that it was less surprising than the first one. I knew the dialogue was going to be hilarious, I knew that the song by Jonathan Coulton was going to rapidly become one of my favourites, I knew the puzzles were going to be amazingly complex, I knew what to expect.

I played the first Portal game with no idea what I was getting into when I first started playing.

This is a common trend for an answer and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, imo, may I confess that I don't fully "comprehend" why being a surprise Wild card was a pro for Portal1?

Or indeed why the fact that Portal 2 was advertised (with an ingenious campaign, as you probably know, too) ans expected to be awesome was a con. People don't praise Mass Effect over ME2 becuase the latter was "expected to be awesome". Would you kindly, help me understand the difference?

I don't understand why you think that I think that Portal 2 was worse than Portal.

Portal 2 is an excellent game. I personally think as a game itself it's just a good as the first game.

So if both games are both equally good in terms of gameplay and writing, I have to look elsewhere. Originality, for example.

 

[Marcosn]

I'm sorry, but that song is beautiful, nobody can deny that. This part alone surpasses the masterpiece of Portal and puts Portal 2 to near-perfection

I was with my brother while he beat the game and i was expecting just a normal song like in the 1st but then that came on and it was beautiful. I think portal 2 has one of the best endings of any game i've ever played, this includes the ending to the final boss and all the things that came afterwards.

I think that portal 2 was better than portal because it had Co-op which i loved and also the sheer awesomeness of the characters and what they say.
(i plan on getting the sound files of the different cores and putting them on my phone as alarms/ringtones)

 

[adrian_exec]

I think Portal 2 surpassed it's predecessor and it's a good example on how to make sequels, Valve offered us more of the same we liked in the first game like puzzles and Glados, but also adding new stuff like Co-op mode, showing us the history behind Aperture Science, introducing new characters like Wheatley or Cave Johnson the founder of Aperture, new puzzle mechanics like the gels from those old tests chambers and so on.


The sequel is better, period! And while Portal 2 was more about showing us the past, maybe Portal 3 will be about the future of Aperture ... Who know?! But I can certainly say I can't wait for part three.