nin wrote on Apr 27, 2012, 09:29:
Wow. I played through the original on the 360, just to see if it could be done, and it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience...

Krovven wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:51:
I havent played Portal 2 since the first week it was out. I've loaded it a couple times, reminded of the puzzle I was stuck on and then quit out.

Was after the escape, big lake or just bottomless pit...and I can't see a single wall that will help me get anywhere.

One of these days I'll look up the solution and continue on. I too found several of the puzzles to be very vague, with only one solution...unlike Portal, I did beginning to end without having to look anything up.

I know I'll be burned as a heretic, but I played P2 on Xbox360, and I desperately want this DLC! (Though, what I really want is more official single-player levels...)

Agrajag wrote on Apr 27, 2012, 08:10:

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 27, 2012, 07:51:
Well I didn't start Portal 2 after the first week either mainly because i played through it twice (100% secrets and everything) including coop and that was it. Nothing really life extending about the game, it was good while it lasted, but it has nearly 0 re-playability. Even new puzzles (few exceptions..) are always more of the same principles.

I guess, essentially this game idea is sucked dry now ;p

I disagree completely... If they did nothing but churn out new level packs regularly, I'd be in heaven, and would pay good money for them even! There's pretty much an infinite variety of puzzles you can create using "more of the same principles" we already know... And, for me, they never once got the slightest bit boring... Yes, after replaying the same levels over and over a few times, then it gets kind of boring certainly, since there's nothing left to solve (unless you've got a bad enough memory to have forgotten the solution by now!)... But, any new level that requires figuring out the new solution would be exciting to me, even if it only made use of the same old features from all the old levels...

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 27, 2012, 07:51:
Well I didn't start Portal 2 after the first week either mainly because i played through it twice (100% secrets and everything) including coop and that was it. Nothing really life extending about the game, it was good while it lasted, but it has nearly 0 re-playability. Even new puzzles (few exceptions..) are always more of the same principles.

I guess, essentially this game idea is sucked dry now ;p

SirKnight wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 20:14:
Yeah one of the spots I got stuck on had to do with white gel. I ended up painting the whole damn place with white

Dades wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 22:58:

Sepharo wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:46:
I don't like the first Portal more but that is one aspect I did enjoy more. Unless I'm misremembering Portal 2 didn't even have the "solve in least amount of portals" challenges did it? That was actually my favorite part of Portal 1.

There were no least amount of portals puzzles which was a shame.

In 2, you had to guess how they wanted you to solve it, and almost anything else tended to end in death....

Sepharo wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:46:
I don't like the first Portal more but that is one aspect I did enjoy more. Unless I'm misremembering Portal 2 didn't even have the "solve in least amount of portals" challenges did it? That was actually my favorite part of Portal 1.

Krovven wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:51:
I havent played Portal 2 since the first week it was out. I've loaded it a couple times, reminded of the puzzle I was stuck on and then quit out.

Was after the escape, big lake or just bottomless pit...and I can't see a single wall that will help me get anywhere.

One of these days I'll look up the solution and continue on. I too found several of the puzzles to be very vague, with only one solution...unlike Portal, I did beginning to end without having to look anything up.

nin wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:36:

Sepharo wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:31:
In Portal 1 I solved many a puzzle "incorrectly" but I think there was only one in Portal 2. Mostly because of the limited portal-able surfaces and good level design that draws you to the solution. A lot of my "incorrect" solutions involve falling down a pit but grabbing a minuscule edge and working from there. Also in Portal 1 I put a cube through a hole near the ceiling that was supposed to be just an opening for firing the portal gun.

To me, that's exactly why I liked the first one better. You were encouraged to experiment, and it was possible to solve things in a way they might not have intended.

In 2, you had to guess how they wanted you to solve it, and almost anything else tended to end in death....

Sepharo wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 21:31:
In Portal 1 I solved many a puzzle "incorrectly" but I think there was only one in Portal 2. Mostly because of the limited portal-able surfaces and good level design that draws you to the solution. A lot of my "incorrect" solutions involve falling down a pit but grabbing a minuscule edge and working from there. Also in Portal 1 I put a cube through a hole near the ceiling that was supposed to be just an opening for firing the portal gun.