Dedicated to Gamers takes a scathing look at Valve's most recent title, Portal 2. While the game is entertaining and funny, it fails to deliver the content that a $60 game deserves. Should Portal 2 have been a full retail release, or did Valve make a mistake by making this Portal sequel a stand-alone game?
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Sorry but I meant consoles.
@ Jio
Sales meant that customers wanted the game. How is such a basic concept so hard for gamers to grasp?
Your article is fail.
Portal 2 was an amazing game. It was like 3 times longer than the first game. Loved the ending. The new gameplay elements are great.
Definitely worth my money.
Clearly there was a drop in value.
Yes, the Orange Box is maybe the greatest deal of all time, but we can’t expect Valve to give us stuff like that all the time. They’d go bankrupt. The fact of the matter is it has two full game modes, prospective DLC and what is there is amazing. I think it’s worth it, and many other people do too.
Orange box was a great value yes, but were all separate games before that. valve put together a great package, shouldnt take away from future releases.
portal 2 will give you average length single player, a co op mode, and with ps3 and pc you will get tons of updates and custom levels.
Assuming you wrote article, where are you seeing lack of a good fan reception, and what are your sources. I have seen borderline worship for this game. stop using hunches and trying to put them as fact
If you are so concerned about the amount of content that comes with games these days, I would have been super critical about Killzone 3. Three game modes and 8 multiplayer maps out of the box, in a genre that in order to keep things interesting they must have more than 10 maps on release. I felt the same way about Bad Company 2, it got released with 4 game modes and 8 maps. I think you have to pick the games and the specific types of genres a bit better if you're going to criticise games for lack of content. Some games you are buying for the storyline and perhaps a co-op experience, and some genres like shooter rely on a busy online experience that has enough content to keep gamers happy over the long term. I didn't buy Portal 2 because I figured that I would be playing the game for months on end, but I bought Modern Warfare 2 with different expectations.
$60 does not justify a relatively short non-replayable game. valve should have released a puzzle creator, and that would have definitely added huge value.
Why would we defend something we’ve never played? I, for one, have certainly played and beaten it. Yes, it was short... but now I have Co-op to look forward to, and I was already satisfied with what I played.
Portal 2 is a great game, it's fun, it feels fresh and stands out in a genre dominated by Call of Duty. I think it's easily worth 50$ (on PC) and would have no issue buying it at 60$ on console if I didn't have a PC able to run it properly. I'd rather have a great, solid, fun game that last a few hours than have an overly long game that feels like yet another CoD/Halo/generic shooter that overstays its welcome.
Now I'm told it's not. I don't know what to believe anymore. Perhaps life isn't worth living.
But as a sequel to Portal being more of Portal only improved, not sure what this dude expected in order for it to be a grande experience. I paid the same price for games with much less value or worth so the standard has already been set. At least it's an awesome game.
Perhaps Portal Kart-Racing? Portal darts? Lego Portal?
The Orange Box came out before the recession. We won't see deals like that for a long time. I could be wrong but when a big mac is almost $5 because of rising food cost due to inflation, don't expect a huge company like EA to hand out bargains. They probably don't even pay their taxes. We got lucky there wasn't an online pass. That's the best we're going to get.
Also I've bought plenty of blu ray and dvd boxsets like ones from HBO and the BBC (which are always expensive) over the years that cost way more and that I've only watched once. Like this game, I don't regret buying them.
I want to know what "audience" this article is talking about.
There’s a small group of Valve fanboys that are simply insatiable. When Valve tried to give you a full sequel to Left 4 Dead, you cried “Should have been DLC!” When they tried to give you a full sequel to Portal, you cried “Should have been DLC!” Fine, if Valves’ lesson from you is to never make full sequels, then you’d really be complaining if they didn’t.
/end rant
There is not a lack of content in this game by any means. I'll play through it again a few times just because I think it's ALMOST perfect, but it would have been easy for Valve to add some challenges like the first one (complete in x amount of time, using less than x portals, etc)
Unlike Cave Johnson, the writer of this article is NOT saying what everyone else is thinking :D
Might as well add this crap website to my list of garbage sites never to visit again.