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 […]
I really like Portal. I like the setting, the story, the characters, the gameplay. I find the entire thing a great time. The main problem with Portal is how short it is. When I got to Chamber #11, I was bearly over 20 mins in. And I feel like about 5-7 of them were figuring out how to […]
I really enjoyed playing portal. I’ve never played the game before or even heard of it before this class so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. All I knew was that it was going to involve portals and puzzles of some sort. The first test chambers were fun but extremely easy. At first I […]
The beginning of Portal was really enjoyable, but really easy. I was going through it really quickly and I stopped myself only when I realized I went past level ten and was now on level 14. Already knowing the basics from watching other people play made the tutorial feel unnecessary, but Portal does do a […]
I believe that McGonigal makes a lot of interesting points, but her examples and reasons seem a bit stale and not necessarily true. In chapter 13, she talks about how 10,000 hours will make a person a master of something. This seemed interesting to me at first, but I feel like you have to also have […]
