What makes Portal 1 and Portal 2 some of the most iconic games of the 2010s and among the best games of all time?
They have the good parts of Nintendo's design philisophy without suffering from the problem of actually being made by Nintendo
>>719559234Cool.
>>719559116But aren't these basically just Reddit: The Official Video Game?
>>7195609804chan loves Portal.
>>719561021Makes sense, 4chan started as an offshoot of Reddit after all
>>719561060>redditIt's not 2016 anymore.
>>719559116Portal was part of The Orange Box which was probably the single most well-received game ever released, and Portal 2 didn't shit the bed so it gets to bask in some of its glory.
>>719559116>picked a single game mechanic and executed it so well it became "the portal mechanic" despite being used in games before>near perfect difficulty curve, and you can hear in the dev commentary how that was basically their only goal>so different from other games that everyone starts from zero instead of bringing 10+ years of FPS/strategy/racing skills that make it impossible to optimize the difficulty for both noobs and pros>didn't pretend to be more than it wasRemember this game got released as a side dish together with Episode 2 and TF2, Valve didn't go around telling people "this is our new blockbuster game" so everyone who played it got a lot compared to what they were expecting.
>>719564834I never played Team Fortress 2.
>>719567058The title tells you everything you need to know. People rarely play as a Team, only a handful of maps have Fortresses and it's actually the third entry in the series.
>>719567058I can't speak to how playable it is now almost 20 years later but there's a reason it spawned the entire hero shooter genre. Great game. Landmark game, even. I put hundreds of hours into it back when it was being actively updated.
>>719567058>>719567351>>719567473Team Fortress 3 when?
>>719568354Right after Half-Life 3.
>>719559116Portal 1 is my favourite game. The gameplay is perfect. The story is told almost entirely within the gameplay. It made me an anti-cutscene zealot. The writing is perfect. The aesthetics are perfect. Portal is how games should be.
>>719568442Aw, I wanted it now.
