Dark Drakan;294530 said:
There was no hype it was merely a game thrown onto a package (The Orange Box) with very little said about it. I didnt even know what it was when i purchased the package but thought it was genius and funny once id got used to it. It was after people played it and critics loved it that it became as well known as it was. It was after all originally never meant to be released as a retail game and was merely Valve playing around with ideas.
Sorry, you right. I meant extremely overrated. I bought Orange Box around when it first came out because people told me to get it and it was like, "teh best ghame eva." The Half Life games in it? They were awesome. Team Fortress 2 in it? That was awesome as well. Portal...I could not get into it at all. I should explain why or you just think I'm saying the opposite of the popular belief and just trolling.
First of all, this game is between stupid easy and stupid hard for no reason. While a lot of puzzles in the game were extremely insipid, some of them in the later parts of the game were absolutely ridiculous and nigh-broken in the amount of stuff I had to do with the damn Portals. But maybe they seem extremely hard like that cause the game really gives you hardly ANY hints at all in the later parts of the game but the earlier parts there was an abundance of them.
Secondly, wtf is so funny about this game? I did not laugh at a single word GlAdos said, not saying that she isn't well written, but the humour did not hit me at all. And Still Alive...ok it was cute the first time but its crazy that people act like this is the best song in a video game ever. It was even in a freaking Rock Band game (or maybe Guitar Hero, I dunno they are so alike).
Overall, the game was mediocre to me and the only reason its even a twinkle in my eye is because using the Portal gun is fun...especially if you use a mod on Half Life 2 so you can use it. Its just not fun using it in the context this game wanted me to use it in, which is ****ty puzzles. Heres hoping Portal 2 has more better ones...and a few action parts in it.
This is why I'm somewhat optimistic about Portal 2. I'm hoping it be all the stuff people claimed Portal 1 was. But I dont want to get bitten in the A if I'm disappointed by it...so I might wait til my friend gets it.
