I noticed two major differences between test chambers 00-10 and 11-17: there was a noticeable increase in difficulty and a decrease in GLADOS’s cognitive function. The former is to be expected as this is the case with most games, but with the Portal being a physics based game, the gameplay itself didn’t just get harder: […]
I thought that these chambers were more difficult, due more to the actual controls than the puzzles themselves. I really enjoyed figuring out which strategies to use, which portal to shoot where, but when it came to executing them, I couldn’t use the the keys to make it happen. This was especially frustrating on the […]
I didn’t have the best experience playing Portal chambers 11-17. I actually replayed chambers 1-10 first because I had played them the first time without a mouse and with the sound off. Since I already knew how to complete the levels and could see the chambers a lot better with the use of a mouse, […]
Who would’ve thought that a block would become your best friend (for a short time at least). These chambers still weren’t THAT difficult but it was obviously more so than the first 10, requiring more intuition at times for timing events and where portal had to be placed. But back to the block bestie. GLaDos […]
I think it goes without saying that these levels are much more difficult to complete than the first ten chambers. I understand that the first ten chambers are tutorial chambers, but I had a very difficult time completing these chambers after 13. In my defense, I did not have a mouse with me for this […]
Even though I’ve played games exclusively on a PC all my life, I had somehow never come across Portal before this. I had heard of the game but never came around to playing it till now. However, because of my experience with PC controls, Portal didn’t seem too hard to me. The graphics certainly seemed […]
I’ve been playing video games for a long time now, but typically I am used to playing on a console with a controller. This game was one of the first times I played with a keyboard with the w,a,s,d keys to move around. What made things a whole lot worse is that I left my […]
Unfortunately, due to a lack of available time, I have only been able to complete chambers 0-3 of Portal as of the writing of this blog post. From what I’ve seen of the game so far, I really like how the mechanics are not spelled out for you and you instead slowly start to understand […]
After downloading Steam to my computer and purchasing Portal, I wasn’t sure what to think. The adventure of playing a game on my laptop was foreign to me. I loved playing mobile games on my phone and board games with people gathered around a table, but using the keys W,A,S,D, to control going forward, backward […]
I have heard about Portal a lot, but I’ve never actually played it so this was a real treat. I played with my friend, she was on keyboard and I was on mouse. Both of us found the robot’s voice disturbing, especially when she/it/they would start to glitch out(I really, really want to know what […]
