Portal could've been god-tier horror game on top of being already a great puzzle game if something was actively hunting/chasing you throughout the whole game and you had to solve puzzles quickly.
Portal could've been god-tier horror game on top of being already a great puzzle game if something was actively...
Henry Lopez
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Logan Bennett
How would the thing that's chasing you work for the tight corridor puzzles that require near constant back and forths
Jose Adams
Bentley Reed
>XYZ could have been better
That would be epitaph on the grave stones of a lot of games if it weren't for the "people" who playtest and determine the lowest common denominator for those games.
>and you had to solve puzzles quickly.
People already struggled with the puzzles in P1 adding time pressure into it would have sent them into a screeching rage
Robert Sanchez
>the edit: thanks for the gold thing is real
Bentley Brooks
>that infamous playtester was a fucking Plebbitor
Of course. God I hate Reddit so god damn much. A plague on the houses of all of the faggots that use t hat website.
Logan King
should try alyx
David Reed
yes dummy it's called GLADOS. the first game was already like that. it actually fit into the half life universe. the second went full disney pixar
Ian Thomas
Time limits and puzzles don't mix well.
Bentley Evans
Am I the only one who thought that Portal 1 was a top tier horror/paranoia game and felt that 2 wasted it by leaning into the humor too much?
Jason Taylor
i always felt that way. i could probably appreciate it more on its own terms if i tried it again but at the time it was an obvious disappointing direction
Jackson Ramirez
I know what you mean. What other games tap into that same paranoia without being full blown horror?
Oliver Morgan
Hunter Sullivan
Carter Edwards
portal 1 is one of those special games where you can just linger in one random area and feel chills
Justin Johnson
>Rushing the player instead of letting them solve the puzzles at the pace they want
>You get caught, you have to try the puzzle from the beggining
>It's the same puzzle, so you know how to progress trough it until the point you got caught
>Solving puzzles becomes a drag
Joseph Russell
Would the game be even creepier if it still had Beta/Nova Prospekt aesthetic?
Cameron Cox
No, you'd just get 1/3 through the puzzle then the thing kills you, you restart, you get 2/3through the puzzle, the thing kills you again and then on the third go you complete the puzzle and the thing never gets there
Elijah Johnson
The game was barely 90 minutes long and half of that is without a fully functional portal gun. I needed something to boost the challenge
Jose Murphy
Would work if it was like a sonic game where failing would just put you on a lower route instead of killing you. Would also make replaying worth it
Of course they'd never do that
Camden Reyes
>le monster is chasing you!