Though each puzzle clearly had a "right way" to solve it, the environment was malleable enough that many times we could devise our own solutions to the problems.
I'm not going to pretend that this was an open-ended sandbox game or anything like that, but we could solve many of the problems in our own way. The game had this rich sense of discovery : we were not merely following the script, we could put our own unique stamp on the puzzles. The game was not just fascinating: it was deeply rewarding , too. But Valve didn't just create a game with a highly compelling core gameplay mechanic. It created a game that was rich in atmosphere.
I realize that this is as much by accident as by design; the game was designed as little more than a tech demo, and the reason there isn't a huge back story, or any real exposition, or many different characters is as much due to budgetary and timing constraints as any deliberate effort on the part of developers.
But the result is what matters, and the result had me gripped. I can't play Portal at night. The game has this pervasive, soul-destroying feeling of solitude. The Aperture Science Enrichment Center is incomprehensibly enormous, and yet moving through it we meet not a single living thing. The test chambers are equipped with observation rooms—plainly there should be people up there—this should be a busy, bustling science lab.
But they're all empty. The lights are all on, but there's literally no one at home. Even when we break out of test chambers, there's nothing. No scientists, no research assistants, no secretaries, no janitors, no maintenance men—not even any other test subjects. The closest thing we get to companionship is GLaDOS, the murderous experimentalist forcing us to perform these tests. She calls it science, but she's no more a scientist than Josef Mengele.
She voyeuristically watches over us, putting us deliberately in harm's way, and ultimately trying to kill us directly. Comedic moments, sure. But all thoroughly tinged with evil.
This loneliness is further compounded by the Companion Cube. Holy shit! Disregard games. Acquire weed. MK has more sex appeal and sex appeal is where its at. Portal 2, never been a fan of MK games, got more joy out of the movies :wonder:.
Vicious but truuf. I will get neither, waiting on that 3rd Strike Online. Buy portal from Amazon Amazon. And the only ones belittling it are those without a short-term memory.
I've waited for Portal 2 for a long time but I've waited way longer for a true new MK. That game is in the running for GOTY big time! Looks like a two purchase day to me. I'll be getting both versions on the PS3. Mortal Kombat has Kratos, Portal has Steamworks. Portal 2. Just remember, if you get MK, you'll have the chance to be dismembered by Jeff or Brad not long after. I just looked through the games that are released on the 19th and MK is still the only one im interested in I'm taking time off to play Mortal Kombat.
I couldn't be more hyped for it. I've played the demo more than any other game this past month. I have Portal 2 pre-ordered on Amazon.
They have a Steelbook case thing going on.
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