Portal vs The Ball

[smeghead25]

Portal was great. The 17 compulsory tutorial missions leading up to the actual game were not so great, but they were still pretty good especially for a little experimental game included as a bonus.

...they ask me to name a better action/puzzle game I name a few (Tetris...)

TETRIS!? Seriously? THAT's a better puzzle game than Portal? But it's so damn simple, it involves no lateral thought and no outside-the-box thinking ever. It's not exactly challenging either. Okay I'm good now, it's out of the system. I guess I kinda miss playing it on my TV with the remote control...

Umm the best puzzle game so far imo? Far too many that are better than any games mentioned so far (seriously, indie games kick ass) to list, but I would have to say the best one I ever payed was Time Slip developed on the PS1 indie dev kit Net Yaroze. Picture P.B. Winterbottom type gameplay but much better, with the player as a snail and every time the clock hits a minute time repeats and you have to avoid hitting a previous self. Very challenging and incredibly good fun.

Thoughts on The Ball? Yeah I saw it, it looks interesting. I plan to wait a bit to see how it turns out though. It might be a brilliant idea let down by poor implementation.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Okay, to make it easy for people to understand I'll try and keep this short

*deep breath*

Almost everyone in this area has Portal and treats it like it's a "God" game, they never support why other then "It's like... a FIRST PERSON PUZZLE SHOOTER" then I say "It was 1 hour long, insultingly easy, and just plain boring up until the last chamber, and it's SOOOOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOOOOW PAAAAAAAAACED" argument goes back and forth, they ask me to name a better action/puzzle game I name a few (Tetris, Soul Reaver, etc) they say "those don't count"

So I find a trailer for a game titled "The Ball" and I look at it going... "is... is this a puzzle shooter? that's fast paced and GOOD?!"

So I guess what I'm asking is the following

1) Your opinion on "Portal"
2) Your favorite "Puzzle" game
3) Your impression on "The Ball"

I've already played the pre-UDK version of the ball, it was a lot worse than it sounds. In my opinion Portal was way better.

 

[TPiddy]

3) look at soul reaver, all the bosses are puzzles (except kain...) it actually works pretty well and it keeps you moving and on your toes

That's my point.... it's a puzzle game... you're supposed to figure out the puzzle. Soul Reaver was more action oriented and not puzzle based. Look at the puzzles in the Tomb Raider series. Many of them do not have any enemies in the area, it's just you vs. the trap.

While the monsters themselves can be the trap, that's a melding of action / puzzler, and not a straight up puzzler game. So to compare The Ball with Portal is like comparing Nectarines to Peaches.... they're similar.... but not quite the same category.

 

[Aeshi]

Portal is a collection of shitty memes held together with tedious slogs through boring samey test chambers that reduces the value of any platform it's infested.

Not sure what to make of "The Ball". Might get it just for the badass looking Killing Floor character you get with it.