Poll: Should I buy portal 2?
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i got about 7 or 8 hours of single player gaming out of it, which for 60 bucks is a rip-off in my opinion, but short games for outrageous prices is par for the course with games of late.RejjeN said:
that said, it was an enjoyable game and you should at least play it. if you can rent it, more power to you.
Portal 2 is not better than Portal and I'll tell you why.TheFunPolice said:
Portal had slow building atmosphere.
you go from "I'm gonna solve these puzzles and get cake"
to "Why is the floor so deadly?"
to "Why are there turrets on my training course?"
to "Oh shit. The cake is a lie."
and finally "holly crap this AI is trying to kill me."
Portal 2 can't do that because you already know that the Apature Science Enrichment Center is a place of torment and misery.
That being said Portal 2 is very good. All the humor is intact, in fact I think it's funnier than Portal.
The puzzles are just as fun and interesting. Some are sort of easy and there's no challenge courses. There's also no opportunity to earn metals for doing a chamber fast, or with least portals or in least steps which hurt the game for me.
The story is good. The writing is stellar, but the lightning didn't strike twice.
The Co-Op is awesome.
It's totally better with a friend but I played mostly through randomly joined games and I still loved it.
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There is a bit of a diffirence between Portal and Portal 2, and I'm not talking about the length.
Since Portal was such a short game, all the effort was put into making the puzzles as interesting and complex as possible without becoming frustrating. Even when you played through the game more than once the puzzles still took a good deal of effort and planning. In Portal 2 the puzzles are more simplified. First time solving them still took some time, but on the second playthrough I breezed right through with little effort. I don't necessarily blame Valve for this since the sequel is way longer, and having every puzzle be as complex as the ones from the first game might become frustrating after 7 or 8 hours. Still, I felt slightly left wanting after I played it a second time.
The other thing is Glados. She's still great and the synthetic hum in her voice is as intoxicating as ever, but that omnipotent mystery that she had in the first game is more or less gone. I'd say she gets revealed a bit too much and it breaks down some of her charm.
Still, the best gaming experience I've had in "a long time".
Since Portal was such a short game, all the effort was put into making the puzzles as interesting and complex as possible without becoming frustrating. Even when you played through the game more than once the puzzles still took a good deal of effort and planning. In Portal 2 the puzzles are more simplified. First time solving them still took some time, but on the second playthrough I breezed right through with little effort. I don't necessarily blame Valve for this since the sequel is way longer, and having every puzzle be as complex as the ones from the first game might become frustrating after 7 or 8 hours. Still, I felt slightly left wanting after I played it a second time.
The other thing is Glados. She's still great and the synthetic hum in her voice is as intoxicating as ever, but that omnipotent mystery that she had in the first game is more or less gone. I'd say she gets revealed a bit too much and it breaks down some of her charm.
Still, the best gaming experience I've had in "a long time".
To be honest, take everything you liked about the first one, add more of all that, a little bit of polish, and the great dream that there will one day be a 3rd portal, and you have portal 2. There really is no reason not to get it. I'm sad that I've already beaten it, and I was enthralled every moment that I played.
Just get it
Just get it
In the first game there where a good deal of puzzles which involved guiding an energy bolt into a power outlet. Even when you knew how to solve those puzzles it still took time, effort and quick thinking to see it through. Especially the ones near the end.Bags159 said:
If you were able to easily breeze through those than, well, congratulations with your nerves of steel and elephant memory, I guess.
I literally can't shut up about it. No seriously, it's actually starting to piss of my girlfriend, and she even wants to play it.
Get it now.
Get it now.
I think it's true that Portal 2's puzzles are more about the "Aha!" moment than anything else. Once you know what to do it's usually pretty simple. I would say though that planning was never the fun part of Portal for me. No puzzle game is going to have any real significant replay value after the first play though unless it's been a long time and you've forgotten the solutions.Casual Shinji said:
Same for me, took about 8 hours and to me that felt just right. Sure, more would have been great but as has already been mentioned making a game in Portals style last 30 hours would be incredibly hard while maintaining quality. Honestly I'm baffled it's even as long as it is (+ the amazing coop), considering how much harder it must be to make the playstyle of portal enjoyable to most people.Ascarus said:
If you want an incredibly well designed and paced game with funny dialogue, great delivery, great atmosphere with fun and challenging gameplay then Portal 2 is a definite must buy. It is, by the vast majority of accounts, an absolutely brilliant game.
That being said, Portal 2 isn't an incredibly long game and as a puzzle game doesn't offer much in replay value - yet, (must always account for yet unannounced DLC that may or may not be coming.) If your focus is simply on time-to-cost ratio then you may be disappointed. There is no gameplay-lengthening filler here. If you're happy to sacrifice this for the aforementioned fantastic pacing and design with the great dialogue and fun, challening gameplay then Portal 2 is a must-own game.
My opinion, all things considered, Portal 2 is a fucking fantastic game. I have no concerns about length, Hell I wish more games would take out the gameplay lengthening stuffing and focus instead on keeping every part of their game relevent and compelling.
Get it.
That being said, Portal 2 isn't an incredibly long game and as a puzzle game doesn't offer much in replay value - yet, (must always account for yet unannounced DLC that may or may not be coming.) If your focus is simply on time-to-cost ratio then you may be disappointed. There is no gameplay-lengthening filler here. If you're happy to sacrifice this for the aforementioned fantastic pacing and design with the great dialogue and fun, challening gameplay then Portal 2 is a must-own game.
My opinion, all things considered, Portal 2 is a fucking fantastic game. I have no concerns about length, Hell I wish more games would take out the gameplay lengthening stuffing and focus instead on keeping every part of their game relevent and compelling.
Get it.
YES!
it has GREAT character development (even explaining a bit about GLaDOS)
a GREAT story (They show a bit of how Aperture Science first started in the second act)
and a GREAT ending
it makes Portal 1 look like a demo for Portal 2
the co-op is also allot of fun!
it has GREAT character development (even explaining a bit about GLaDOS)
a GREAT story (They show a bit of how Aperture Science first started in the second act)
and a GREAT ending
it makes Portal 1 look like a demo for Portal 2
the co-op is also allot of fun!