Portal 2

[Reverend]

Yeah, I cannot afford to spend SIXTY BUCKS on a video game. I buy it, play it in a week, sell it off, and make most of my money back. It's a sweet deal.

I'm not on X-Box Live so I couldn't do the co-op online.

It's okay though I'm watching a YouTube walkthrough of the co-op as we speak, by two people who are complete morons and take ten minutes to figure out every puzzle. You'd think they'd work out the puzzles before recording it in HD and uploading it onto YouTube

Yeah...seeing as not two pages ago you admitted to using a walk-through for a puzzle game I can't see how you can criticise someone else taking the time to solve it themselves.

I know I spent a lot more than 10 minutes on some of those SP rooms and I expect the co-op rooms to be just as, if not even more challenging. So much the better.

Seriously though, what's the point in watching a walkthrough to a game who's whole appeal is working it out for yourself. Deckerd is correct that you may as well have just watched the whole thing on youtube and saved yourself some money, to say nothing of the mental strain involved in actually having to think for yourself.

 

[Deckerd]

I wouldn't be that harsh. I just like working it all out myself, as do most people. This kind of game is so much more enjoyable for me than a shootemup because I'm not very good at them. The main thing you need for this game is the patience to work out what to do, plus a little marksmanship along the way and occasionally having to move quickly. I'm still stuck at the third strike at the end but I'll work it out eventually.

 

[Mr Light]

I just want to hear what Glados say in the co-op campaign, that's all

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I wouldn't be that harsh. I just like working it all out myself, as do most people. This kind of game is so much more enjoyable for me than a shootemup because I'm not very good at them. The main thing you need for this game is the patience to work out what to do, plus a little marksmanship along the way and occasionally having to move quickly. I'm still stuck at the third strike at the end but I'll work it out eventually.

You wouldn't be harsh? Who are you and what have you done with our Deckerd?

Took me a while to figure that out. Momentum is your friend.

 

[Deckerd]

I like the way in the middle of his rants Wheatley yells "you never called!"

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I like the way in the middle of his rants Wheatley yells "you never called!"

Does he? I never noticed, maybe I didn't give him enough time to rant sufficiently. Is it GLaDOS who calls you a mute freak or Wheatley?

 

[Deckerd]

I like the way in the middle of his rants Wheatley yells "you never called!"

Does he? I never noticed, maybe I didn't give him enough time to rant sufficiently.

Oh preen preen.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Does he? I never noticed, maybe I didn't give him enough time to rant sufficiently.

That's one more reason to play the game more than once.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Yep, just standing around and letting him mutter is a good thing to do. I just tried to get the boss fight done knowing it was on a time limit.

 

[backstept]

just started playing yesterday

what's the story early on with the Chell shrine?

 

[brian577]

just started playing yesterday

what's the story early on with the Chell shrine?

Check out the Portal 2 comic under the extras menu.

 

[gh4chiefs]

How often do you really go back to play old games? I sure don't, hell, I have a huge pile of unplayed NEW games that I need to get through. Portal is about as replayable as a Big Mac. I can totally understand the concept of getting a return on the game after being done with it. Shame about missing out on the co-op though. Lot's of fun.

Of course I don't sell off my old games... but I think that might be a flaw more than anything.

Some of them we do. I'm not saying getting rid of a stack of old games isn't a good idea but boasting about getting it finished (but not completely) and sold straightaway is just baffling.

Well it's interesting how people look at things. I find going back and playing a game over and over equally baffling, especially when there are so many new games coming out.

Count me as one of those people who beat it, and then sell it on Ebay. I'm not an achievement/trophy whore, so I don't care about those and try as I might, I can't ever get interested in playing a game again once I've been through it once.

The only games I keep any length of time are the ones that have online components that I really like such as Modern Warfare, and even those eventually get sold. (And with each passing year as I get older and older and my skill diminishes, I'm getting less and less intereted by online with each passing day.)

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Then you could say the same for re-reading books, re-watching films or listening to music over and over.

 

[Deckerd]

I'm still getting my head round "How quaint and strange! I play the games and get them sold.



Except when I don't."

 

[gh4chiefs]

^Then you could say the same for re-reading books, re-watching films or listening to music over and over.

Well I don't re-read books, but I do watch TV shows and movies over (but generally after long enough time has passed where I've forgotten what I've watched). Music is not the same IMHO, but yeah I listen to that over and over.

I don't know what to tell you. Once I've beaten the game I just have no desire whatsoever to pick it up again. Been there, done that. While on the one hand I enjoy gaming overall, most games have at least one or two (or more) elements/levels/missions in them that I find tedious and extremely annoying. And those tedious/annoying moments come very close to ruining games for me and I sure as hell don't want to live through them again.

Plus by selling it, I have (some) funds to apply to the next game.

EDIT TO ADD: Okay, serious question, not counting the co-op portion of Portal 2, once you've solved the puzzles and moved through the level, what is there to "do over?"

 

[Yoda]

Video games don't age nearly as well as the other things you've listed. A game from 5 years ago is generally laughable compared to today's standards. I may do a couple of play-throughs for achievements, or to beat a game on a harder difficulty or whatever, but once I'm done with a game, I'm pretty much done.

For some 'simple' games like Tetris, yeah, you can go back and replay them any time you feel like it. But something that takes 8 hours and tells a story? No thanks.

I'd replay something like Punch Out or Zelda III, but never in a million years am I going to bother to play through Deus Ex or anything that feels outdated. The more of a 'story' a game has and the more it's about showing off the newest technology, the less of a point there is in ever replaying it. To me that's the vast majority of games.

I very rarely re-watch movies. When I do it's usually something I recently watched and didn't quite 'get', or could be seen in a different light knowing the plot twists ahead... Or maybe something that I saw as a kid that I didn't necessarily get. Aside from that maybe if I'm trying to convince someone to watch a movie, I'll have to offer to watch it with them.

Books... ugh. Too much work. I really don't see the point in re-reading books. They are so time consuming, why wouldn't you just read something new?

Music to me is a very different thing. If a song is great you immediately want to listen to it over and over. You sing it in the shower or in the car... You listen to it while you're doing your job, or working out.... If you started acting out the "You talking to me?" scene from Taxi Driver in the shower or pantomime Chell traveling through portals you probably have a mental illness.

As for Portal 2 specifically, there's just such little replay value once you've solved the puzzles, I can't see the point of keeping it at all. Aside from 'look at my bookshelf of video games', which seems to be the reason I keep all these damned games.

 

[6079SmithW]

I replay games, re-read books, and re-watch episodes/movies a lot. I'm always years behind the times on gaming because I would own very few games of a system and constantly replay them. I've replayed each of my games dozens of times. I'm trying to catch up now because there's so many cool games for the 360 coming out.

I find it helpful to replay or re-read/re-watch something because there are a lot of things you can miss the first time. It also helps for books at least to wait a few years but with games I find them instantly re-playable.

I guess I can understand reselling games you haven't played in years but I always get a few years of re-playability from my newer games.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Portal 2 has a lot of stuff you can pick up on that you didn't necessarily pick up on the first time, whether it's the funny lines or references you missed or hidden background details. Not to mention it's just plain fun to see if you can work out other ways of solving the puzzles.

You're right a lot of games don't age well but there are plenty that do. And there's the same thing of getting all you can out of it, or giving yourself time to forget and then reexperience it as there is with any other form of entertainment.

 

[gh4chiefs]

Another reason I play them and beat them and move on is that I don't really finish a game fast. I take my time the first time through, and I don't play for hours on end. So for one of the longer games like Killzone 3, it took me several weeks of playing off and on to beat it. So by then, I'm tired of it and ready for a new game. It just makes no sense whatsoever for me to play it again, when I've got very limited time to game, and there are so many other games to play.

 

[backstept]

I buy most of my games on Steam now . . . can't return 'em