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"TGL recently caught up with Portal's Chell's real life actress, Alesia Glidewell to chat about her experiences working on the game with Valve."
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.
That's sweet, I've been thinking about building a modest pc to play some oldies
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.
I mean some sequels are objectively better and you don’t need to play the whole series.
But most of these games have a story to follow, sure you can catch up with a YouTube vid but where's the fun in that?
A list like this isn't telling you not to play the previous games if you want to. It's just giving you legendary games to play.
But tbh, you don't always have to force yourself to play every entry in a franchise to get to the better ones.
- The vast majority of Witcher 3 players never played the first 2 and had a great time. The first 2 games aren't in the same league.
- The GTA games are self-contained with the odd fun reference. You can easily jump into any of them.
- The Shadow Of The Colossus remake looks and controls better than the original (plus it has a 60fps option while the remaster is just 30fps). New players will enjoy it more.
- Portal 2 is a lot better than Portal 1 and takes the concept much further gameplay-wise. Storywise, Portal 1 is fairly light too. Not that you shouldn't play it but realistically ... you'd love Portal 2 whether you play it or not (at lot of Portal 2 players have never played 1).
Bioshock 1 is the only one I agree with you on simply because it's one the best games of all time and arguably better than Infinite. No other setting like Rapture.
Looking at the list, I'd recommend playing Uncharted 1 before 2 but no doubt, 2 is the legendary one you have to play.
I get it, but that's just my opinion on his opinion. I just think that before you play a sequel you should still play what came before it. Maybe it's just me but i find it fascinating playing through the first game in a series and seeing how it has evolved through its sequels. Like I said I don't disagree with the list, other than SoTC which I strongly believe the remaster of the original should be played above the remake.
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 hope for Portal 3 they will let her voice Chell and give her some Character development, I think theres a lot of potential for Chell as a character
It's 2011, Valve should try and make a game with a nice fully developed main character that can speak for once
I thought Portal 2 was the perfect chance they had, I mean fair enough the first Portal game was just a test to see if people liked it...and we did....a lot
Theres always moments in Portal 2 where you think it would be a perfect time for Chell to say something. Like when GLaDOS is the potato and your carrying her around, the portal writters are brilliant why couldn't of they added some funny dialouge between the two, maybe Chell speaks for the first time after GLaDOS goes too far and she could be completely stunned.
Or maybe Chell could speak her mind showing how alone she is in the test chambers, maybe she could speak about what she needs to do (if the player is taking to long to complete a test chamber) kind of like offering her own insight into the current situation or we could witness her cracking up under the pressure of being underground, lonley for so long like she could laugh nervously or mumble to her self.
Chell seems like a waste of a good chance at some character development, they have a great looking character they may aswell do something differen't from the mute Gordon Freeman and let her interact with the world or lab around her.
Gordon is differen't because he was mute back in 1998 when HL was released and we got used to that like what Gordon was known for having him speak in future games might of been off putting but Chell has so much potential. Erik said once that she can talk but she's just annoyed about her surroundings and is p!*sed off basicaly not wanting to give those around her the satisfaction of her speaking. I'm sorry but she can't be p!*sed off for two games even after being in statis for like over a 100 years.
I hope one day Valve will consider this, I'm sick of the whole "You feel like the main character" crap
Awesome!
Wasn't this already posted?