Is it possible to be THIS bad at Portal?
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Oooooooh, that was slightly painful to watch. My face has a red palm shape on it now which shall not dissipate for many an hour.
I hope she's trolling, else I'm forced to wonder how she managed to either:
A) Walk to the shop (or, God forbid, drive there) and interact with the salesperson in such a way as to express her desire to buy the game. Or...
B) Press so complex a sequence of buttons on an online shopping site and input relevant details to have the game delivered to her place of residence.
Cause that display there was... nigh-on unbearable.
I'm not gonna say I hate her for being bad at the game, or even for possibly harbouring a mental handicap. But if you are that bad, and you know you are, why on Earth would you ever think to record yourself playing it and put it on the Internet?
I hope she's trolling, else I'm forced to wonder how she managed to either:
A) Walk to the shop (or, God forbid, drive there) and interact with the salesperson in such a way as to express her desire to buy the game. Or...
B) Press so complex a sequence of buttons on an online shopping site and input relevant details to have the game delivered to her place of residence.
Cause that display there was... nigh-on unbearable.
I'm not gonna say I hate her for being bad at the game, or even for possibly harbouring a mental handicap. But if you are that bad, and you know you are, why on Earth would you ever think to record yourself playing it and put it on the Internet?
..not like this.FightThePower said:
I mean.. trying to be serious for one minute here.. It's possible to not really get how to move around. To figure out the camera, and then forget how to do it again when you start to run, or the camera swoops back and forth, etc. You need to learn this. If we go down to the absolute basics here, those things have to be learned. No way around that - you don't instinctively start to look the right way using a thumbstick, etc.
The portal mechanic is a bit different from that - you have to think ahead and predict what's going to happen later.
And.. the problem is that I've heard publisher folks use people like this .. whether she's trolling or not doesn't matter.. to suggest that in order to make a game appeal to "everyone" - it has to require zero thought to complete. You should be able to ace the game by just learning the controls, and then mindlessly running around - because "most people" like that experience.
So you might say something like... "but look - even a retarded fake American eventually managed to learn how to do it! It proves that we should have something complex in the game after all". And that idea would be shot down with "but that seems risky! Why not go for the safe and fun game instead?".