Note that the ending changed since we all first played it!
how?
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Re: Get Portal for free
#72I'm officially disappointed in Portal, and glad I got it for free. Everybody in the trade press said it was this extraordinary thing: a short but sweet puzzler. Sadly, the game/dev's roots as a FPS house really shows here. Not all of us (especially us older people) have the reflexes anymore to do some of the real time tricks required to solve the last couple of stages. sigh
Funnily enough, the game developers are not from Valve if that is what you are implying by "FPS house" since they are team that attended Digipen and made a similar game called Narbacular Drop (also a fps). You should check it out.
It know this is late, but...
I really wanted to try Drop first, but that's probably never going to be ported to the Mac. (I have Parallels, but no Windows license to install it with.) I want to play "Devil's Tuning Fork" for a similar reason.
I now better understand the love Portal got. The final level (including the boss sequence) made up for most of the frustrations of the last couple of test chambers. According to Portal's commentary track, the developers realized that real time and complicated puzzles needs separation, and this game design made the last level much more enjoyable.