Portal 2 Discussion - Spoilers

Most definitely a good game good game, it would be nice to see a sequel, to see a sequel nice

Looking over the list again now I forgot how good the achievement list is for this game, some co-op stuff required a bit of effort/planning (professor portal) but entirely worth it for the quality and charm of both modes' playthroughs

Didn’t live up to the hype back in the day for me. Completed it but wasn’t very enjoyable for me personally. Just an okay game.

Took me many years before I finally finished to Coop of it which was also really good, basically it's own game.

One of my favorite parts was the beginning asking player 1 to choose their favorite animal and player 2 to choose their favorite element from the periodic table. Idk, it was small but really liked that joke. Though the person I was playing with didn't know what the periodic table was so like...how has the education system failed that bad?

Going through The Orange Box at the moment so good timing!

Gave solo co-op, 2 controller method another go and i'm pretty sure its impossible

Team building course 3, i think, with the 4 buttons. I don't think there is enough time before the buttons deactivate themselves

I did get 3 extra achievements with the portals and gestures though

Great game, not sure how i missed it when doing a top 10 list.

lokisapocalypse said:That and Half-Life 3.

FYI: It is mentioned in the parody song "The Wii Didn't Start the Fire" toward the end of the song.

Guitar LInc0ln said:Yes; agreed! These are the kinds of games we so rarely see anymore. Such intrinsic fun, creativity, humor, etc. A journey you can take from beginning to end, with some extra stuff on the side, but where you can feel you truly finished it. All while enjoying the time you spent doing so. On top of the financial backing of a major publisher/studio to allow them any freedom they needed.

It makes me so sad that big publishers are too risk-averse to fund games like these more than once in a blue moon anymore. They've been so obsessed with chasing the dream of live-service games. Reaching for infinite growth and profits, neither of which is physically possible of course. Even Sony, once a bastion of single-player quality experiences, fell down that rabbit hole. Thankfully they are crawling out fairly quick after seeing the error of that pivot (and some huge failures on that gamble.)

In Valve's case... I think it's more an issue of focusing on being a distribution platform. They have heartily won that battle on the PC side, and they do indeed continue to grow and make more profit each year. They also have a few successful live-service types of games, of course (Counterstrike, and to some degree DOTA2.) But I see them as at least likely to spend money on a unique, quality single-player title sometime in the future. Half-Life: Alyx was a nice surprise along those lines. More of this please. Maybe non-VR next time haha.

This game is such a blast. The coop course is excellent as well

Brute Forsy said:You get nothing for a pair (of robots); not in this game

Still one of my all time favourites from the 360 era. As others have said, this one took everything from the already brilliant first game and improved upon it all. Better puzzles, more exploration, more humour and more story. The addition of the co-op mode was great too, and was such fun playing with friends. I wish they'd do a third game but that's not Valve's cup of tea lol.

Portal 2 was a great time with my coop partner! Haven’t dove into single player yet but probably will here shortly. Nice little rewards of feeling smort when you get the levels figured out! Having to do complete course 4 without either of you dying was an added stress, certainly utilized more video guides for that course just for safety of not having to do everything over! One tip tho…don’t go pee between level 8 and 9 because my coop partner did and thankfully I spawned further left where you immediately start getting shot by the drones unless to walk right! Needed my brown pants in panic there!

Side note/request - if there’s anyone out there I can get the viral achievement from please message me for that, it would be appreciated! I’ll pay you back with free hugs and maybe even the dancing emote if you play your cards right!

this game is amazing. The storyline, voice acting especially, humorous aspects... everything in this game is top quality. One of the best 360 puzzle games easily.

shout out to John Acey for helping me with the co-op achievements on TA. He used to host great sessions helping a lot of people with it and i still remember the sessions nearly 10 years later.

I remember how fun this game was back in the day. I'm definitely going to buy it soon