I don't understand why you think that I think that Portal 2 was worse than Portal.GrizzlerBorno said: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.Generic Gamer said: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.
"Conversion Gel" and "the Fucking Moon" X)
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?TheRealCJ said: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.
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 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.Megacherv said:
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
The Wykydtron said:
Have you heard about Portal 3? I somehow doubt that they will make one, since 2 ended Chell's story pretty well.. But maybe they will make more with Atlas and P-Body.. Who knows?adrian_exec said: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.
I absolutely loved it. This song slipped passed me the first time I played through the game since I finished it in one sitting. I think this is the most ominous and beautiful menu screen ever made:Megacherv said:snip
It also added several elements to the puzzles that weren't in the first game and really added to the complexity. Also, it's longer. Definitely surpassed portal, it was a perfect sequel. It added a bunch of elements to the game play that don't inter fear with the original, and don't change the "feel" of the game, but which make game play more interesting. The story built on the original in a different direction. I don't think I will ever see a better sequel in any industry except maybe epic fantasy books.legion431 said:Yes, by far. Richer character development. Brilliant Co-op mode. Some of the best quotes in video game history.
Yea. Portal 1 (as brilliant as it is) never felt like a complete meal.DJDarque said:Absolutely. I thought of Portal as the appetizer and Portal 2 as the main course.
I know which test you're talking about......and I never did it that "easy" way. Not even in the challenge mode, where it was a pain in the ass to even get the damn box.Generic Gamer said:It's the test chamber where you walk in down a corridor, you have a 'pit' to the left, the exit in front of you and a door to the right. At the end GLaDOS says that a 'victory elevator has been activated in the main chamber'. The intended way to do the puzzle is to head to the left, have the stairs raise out of the pit, place a cube on a button to open the door opposite, hop through there and redirect a pellet into a receptacle to power the lift.
Phew.
The 'other' way to do it is to portal to the left, bypassing the pit so that the stairs don't raise out, place a portal in front of the elevator and one at the bottom of the pit and use your fall into the portal to reach the door.
By 'lack of portal surfaces' I mean it was always fairly obvious where to put the portals, I loved the sections with conversion gel purely because I got to pop portals wherever I want. Most of the puzzles were more about searching for a portal surface than figuring out how to use momentum.
Incidentally I loved that first room with Conversion gel (the 'lemons' room), I went mental and repainted the entire room with gel! Oh and the fluid physics in that game are gorgeous.
The jokes were of a much darker nature too. I can see myself switching between portal and portal 2 depending if I want to hear GLaDOS insult Chell or if I want the witty-silliness of her talk of cake and bending the truth and killing the companion cube.Legion said:Other and this:It was longer, funnier and more diverse, but Portal was original and started it off, so while Portal 2 certainly improved on many things, I do not think of it as 'Portal 2 > Portal'. I think they are both fantastic.Casual Shinji said:It didn't really surpass its predecessor, it simply continued the enrichment.
I never said, that you said, that Portal 2 was worse (i can't believe I got that sentence right).TheRealCJ said:I don't understand why you think that I think that Portal 2 was worse than Portal.GrizzlerBorno said: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?
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.