Comments on: Portal 2 http://tleaves.com/2011/04/29/portal-2/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://tleaves.com/2011/04/29/portal-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9563 Chris Tue, 03 May 2011 16:21:32 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2577#comment-9563 It's funny how "puzzle game" has become a description for various kinds of games that in fact do not contain puzzles, otherwise it would be a perfect description for a problem-solving game like Portal/Portal 2. As it is, we don't have a name for these kinds of games. Fortunately, having been raised on text adventures, and apprenticed in making point-and-click adventures, I find anything whose core play involves scratching my head incredible dull and so I don't have to play them any more. >:) I'm glad that people still make them, though, and shocked that people are willing to pay sixty bucks for one. *waves* It’s funny how “puzzle game” has become a description for various kinds of games that in fact do not contain puzzles, otherwise it would be a perfect description for a problem-solving game like Portal/Portal 2. As it is, we don’t have a name for these kinds of games.

Fortunately, having been raised on text adventures, and apprenticed in making point-and-click adventures, I find anything whose core play involves scratching my head incredible dull and so I don’t have to play them any more. >:)

I’m glad that people still make them, though, and shocked that people are willing to pay sixty bucks for one.

*waves*

]]> By: bbot http://tleaves.com/2011/04/29/portal-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9553 bbot Mon, 02 May 2011 20:41:17 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2577#comment-9553 "Damn this puzzle game! Why must it contain so many puzzles?" “Damn this puzzle game! Why must it contain so many puzzles?”

]]> By: Tolmar http://tleaves.com/2011/04/29/portal-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9551 Tolmar Mon, 02 May 2011 20:06:53 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2577#comment-9551 I agree that the game felt like it dragged, especially around the middle. I don't think it was the number of puzzles so much as the degree to which puzzles relied on you finding awkwardly placed, semi-hidden portal points. This was worst in the between-courses sections in the middle of the game that you mentioned, but even the game's proper test courses suffered a lot from this sort of thing. I agree that the game felt like it dragged, especially around the middle. I don’t think it was the number of puzzles so much as the degree to which puzzles relied on you finding awkwardly placed, semi-hidden portal points. This was worst in the between-courses sections in the middle of the game that you mentioned, but even the game’s proper test courses suffered a lot from this sort of thing.

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