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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I dunno. Frankly they’re both absolutely pantheon, legendary games that deliver a near-perfect gaming experience, but I feel like Portal 1 delivered a kind of tighter package where Portal 2 meanders just a little bit, and while Wheatley is still brilliant I’m not sure I he hit the same way or struck the same tone as GlaDOS. But we’re talking about like nanometers of difference in quality here either way as both games are goddamn stellar.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m on the fence about which is better. Portal 2 is an improvement, but also has its flaws.

  Part of the reason I would argue Portal 1 was better is because it was so unexpected. I went in expecting “interesting puzzle game” which it is, but I did not expect to also get “excellent humor with strange horror vibes and incredibly good personality.”

  If someone didn’t know what a Glados was I think the first one is better. I also recognize that many people who have never played Portal are well aware of Glados.

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  • duchess@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I guess something Portal 2 lacked was the element of surprise.

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• nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I felt that Portal 2’s difficulty curve was a little off but was perfect other than that. It was too easy for most of the game and then ramped up to what I consider to be a good difficulty level later on.

  The two player portion was fantastic though.

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  • duchess@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Difficulty balance is especially hard for puzzle games, I guess. You can get a good estimate with lots of testing (ha!) with many participants, but even then you or me personally can be outliers.

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• Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Portal felt like a very long, pretty well-done tech demo, but Portal 2 is where it’s at.

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