Behold the championing of the little guy, the brief but beautiful, the games which refuse to outstay their welcome. Limbo, Portal, Journey, here's to you shorter games, here's to you.
Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."
Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.
Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.
Given the medium's wild diversity, this primer of the essential video games everyone should try is a good place to start.
I can't fk with this list. They missed on alot of games probably before the writers times. Also I know people loved some portal but I was never a fan.
Tomb Raider 1
Driver 1
Abe’s Odyssey
FF6
King of Fighters 94
Mortal Kombat OG
LINK 2 the past
Street Fighter 2
Resident Evil 1
Infinite but not the first two games? Witcher 3 but not the first two games?? GTA V but not literally any of the games before it??? Portal 2 but not the first? Also if you're going to play Shadow of The Colossus play the remaster and not the remake. Can't say I disagree with the list but my man it's all over the place.
Awesome list! Hot take on Fear (and it's hard af expansion Persaus Mandate!) Bioshock Infinite is stellar, so is the Witcher 3 and you nailed it by having Ocarina of Time. So many fantastic games! Gotta play 'em all! Next one on my list is Prey after I beat Dead Space 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Chris Brandrick, writing for overkill, speaks to Stefan Heinz, the lead developer on Portal: Revolution, a new fan-made campaign prequel to Portal 2.
valve suck so much at making games now, opting just to smaug on top of an enormous pile of money,
that fans got so desperate that they have to make their own games.
this industry is fucking over.
I love short games that I can start and finish in the same evening, that give me a unique experience.
I got Skyrim last year, but the shear length of the game is so daunting to me that I haven't even started playing it yet.
I for one completely agree with this article; more unique, cheap, short games please!
You cant compare Journey with LIMBO or Portal. You can play Journey several times and every single time it will be a different experience. LIMBO and Portal will always have the same puzzles and the same dialogues everytime you play it. That's why Journey is such a masterpiece.
But I agree, most games (mostly open world games) try to get a lot of content and just make stupid, filler missions to make the player do something. It breakes story telling, it breakes character development and it breaks the sense of immersion to the player. Although some games such as RDR can maintain the balance between filler missions and story, most games nowadays either try to go for 40h filler missions or 5h corridor objective based missions.