I have to say, I was a little disapointed in the puzzles too. Most of the time it's not "Where should I put this portal?" it's "Where on this massive dark grey wall is the single panel of lighter grey where I can plonk down a portal." the way you can't put down portals almost anywhere just makes the puzzles easier.
Zero Punctuation: Portal 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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*sigh of relief* I was worried you'd spoil the story for me, Yahtzee. Thanks. I'm trying to hold out until the price drops...
Great review there, been waiting ages for this to come up. And I do agree with you on how Portal 1 is better, don't get me wrong i like Portal 2(A lot!) But Portal 1 was just. so. fucking. good! Although i love the co-op mode and thought this was a more laugh out loud game than the first.
Actually Coop on Portal 2 have great replay value.
Get a friend who havent completed Coop maps yet, load it up and let him solve it for you. Refuse to do anything until he tells you to do something. On some levels it get REALLY hilarious.
Get a friend who havent completed Coop maps yet, load it up and let him solve it for you. Refuse to do anything until he tells you to do something. On some levels it get REALLY hilarious.
Honestly, as a PC user, the loading screens were even more annoying to me because I'm used to playing a lot of games that don't have them. Many developers have figured out how to pre-cache upcoming areas so they don't have to stop to swap out levels the way one would swap out disks in the DOS era. Sometimes even on those consoles that everyone says have too little memory.Yopaz said:
Even just having the elevator ride be a single track and setting it to load the next test chamber while you're in it, and going back to loading screens in places like the backstage areas where there are no elevators, would have been an improvement (Arkham Asylum had a mix of loading screens and pre-caching too, if I recall correctly). They were practically designed to be used this way, but then they didn't.
All memes are forced. Always. This should be one of those "Rules of the Internet", honestly.Shjade said:
Wow, what a useful comment! No, don't bother to tell us what you disliked about the video or anything, or even whether you thought he was being too nice or too critical of the game; just throw out a comment about as original and useful as "It sucks."EcksTeaSea said:
Yeah, I was kind of confused by this. If you can't wait for your friend to figure it out you're either massively impatient or they're a complete moron.ZingFreelancer said:
I really got the vibe that Yahtzee was just bagging on Portal 2 simply because he didn't want people to think he was biased because he loved Portal 1. I'm not sure how you can love the first one and not be completely in love with Portal 2. I do not know anyone who is not completely in love with it.
.GeorgW said:
All I can really say is.... "Yeah, what he said." So thanks for leaving me without any original thought, my friend.
When I first sat down to play Portal 2, I made the comment to myself right before hand "It may be awesome, but it will be less dense than portal 1."
The first portal was so short, that quite literally every moment of it was packed full of intrigue, humor, and narration. They only HAD a very small amount of dialogue, so it was polished to an incredible shine.
Portal 2 is a much longer game (though not exactly 40 hour territory here) and simply cannot keep that same density of awesome to time. Not all of it is awesome. Not all of the humor is incredible. You've taken the same amount of talent, but spread it a bit thinner.
Not too thin, though. It is still an amazing game!
The first portal was so short, that quite literally every moment of it was packed full of intrigue, humor, and narration. They only HAD a very small amount of dialogue, so it was polished to an incredible shine.
Portal 2 is a much longer game (though not exactly 40 hour territory here) and simply cannot keep that same density of awesome to time. Not all of it is awesome. Not all of the humor is incredible. You've taken the same amount of talent, but spread it a bit thinner.
Not too thin, though. It is still an amazing game!
don't know why but Portal 2 came across slightly self aware at moments, POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!
Such as when your facing down Wheatly and he comments on the fact that there aren't any portalable (portalable?) surfaces and that he won't leave all the killing work down to a rocket turret.
And there was one teeny refrence to that damn forest gateau that by now must be dryer than the surface of the sahara, when you fall into the room with a door labelled "GLaDOS control room and Cake Dispenser'
Anyone else find themselves forgetting they had a gun that shoots holes with them? halfthe time it felt like I was playing "Apeture Science's bag of uninvested products", then again that could have been what they were aiming at, the portal gun is all Apeture can really hold on to.
Such as when your facing down Wheatly and he comments on the fact that there aren't any portalable (portalable?) surfaces and that he won't leave all the killing work down to a rocket turret.
And there was one teeny refrence to that damn forest gateau that by now must be dryer than the surface of the sahara, when you fall into the room with a door labelled "GLaDOS control room and Cake Dispenser'
Anyone else find themselves forgetting they had a gun that shoots holes with them? halfthe time it felt like I was playing "Apeture Science's bag of uninvested products", then again that could have been what they were aiming at, the portal gun is all Apeture can really hold on to.
I noticed that every room seemed to be clearly defined as either a story room or a puzzle room. The story rooms were just linear progressions through a series of white-painted walls, and, though the constant dialogue and epic set pieces meant they weren't boring, they were a little... bad? I can't think of an adjective that works there.
Nice review, kinda expecting the critisms of the game which are fair points. For me I hold both Portal and Portal 2 as equal in quality.
good review I actually wasn't looking forward to this review as much from the fact that it is a decent game
it is much more entertaining to see his creative ways of completely picking apart and destorying bad games.
it is much more entertaining to see his creative ways of completely picking apart and destorying bad games.
I can't help to agree to most of your points.
Out of the blue: I think Yahtzee should check out Mount and Blade, an incredibly underestimated indiegame.
Out of the blue: I think Yahtzee should check out Mount and Blade, an incredibly underestimated indiegame.
