Late Additions...like Portal
I wish 2007 hadn't ended so swiftly (damn you calendar year!), for I have a few more games to add to my "awesome" list.
I finally finished Portal...for some reason the 2 hour game took me a while. Needless to say, I think it deserves the praise it's getting from the gaming community. It's so unique and different, not to mention the team at Valve made a great action game of sorts that doesn't involve violence. I think that's a really big win for the industry. I want 3 games to come from Portal.
Obviously, Portal 2 in the real world (which the ending of the first alludes to). More Portal is good.
Then I want an action game that involves a Portal gun. Not Half Life, but something new. Really, I just want a grenade, a Portal gun and a rocket launcher.
Lastly, I want multiplayer...in two forms if possible. Cooperative, because having two portal guns with a potential four portals sounds like a lot of fun. Although puzzle design only gets more difficult when you add more people. Then, I want a competitive mode. I think it'd be incredibly cool to combine CTF with portal guns, or perhaps a game mode where you use portals offensively to send opponents into a holding cell or something. I have no idea how this would happen, but Valve can figure it out. They always do.
I'd like to replay it soon with commentary on. I really want to hear what the designers and Erik Wolpaw have to say about it.
(posted by grant at 1/07/2008)
