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Yeah, there's a lot of portal puzzle indie games. by Last 04/11/2013, 3:31pm PDT
I'm sure you're already sneering since they are only INDIES, so let's move on to the part where you think the awesome fun new game mechanic was mediocre.

Wikipedia wrote:


At the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards, Portal won Game of the Year, along with the Innovation Award and Best Game Design.
IGN honored Portal with several awards, for Best Puzzle Game for PC and Xbox 360, Most Innovative Design for PC, and Best End Credit Song (for "Still Alive") for Xbox 360, along with overall honors for Most Innovative Design.
In its Best of 2007, GameSpot honored The Orange Box with 4 awards in recognition of Portal, giving out honors for Best Puzzle Game, Best New Character(s) (for GLaDOS), Funniest Game, and Best Original Game Mechanic (for the portal gun).
Portal was awarded Game of the Year (PC), Best Narrative (PC), and Best Innovation (PC and console) honors by 1UP.com in its 2007 editorial awards.
Portal was awarded the Game of the Year award in 2007 by Joystiq, Good Game, and Shacknews.
Most Original Game award by X-Play.
In Official Xbox Magazine's 2007 Game of the Year Awards, Portal won Best New Character (for GLaDOS), Best Original Song (for "Still Alive"), and Innovation of the Year.
The A.V. Club called it the Best Game of 2007.
The webcomic Penny Arcade awarded Portal Best Soundtrack, Best Writing, and Best New Game Mechanic in its satirical 2007 We're Right Awards.
Eurogamer gave Portal first place in its Top 50 Games of 2007 rankings.
GamesRadar named it the best game of all time.
In November 2012, Time named it one of the 100 greatest video games of all time.
Wired considered Portal to be one of the most influential games of the first decade of the 21st century.


Now you're fagging out because psh game journalism sucks, but this isn't meant to change your mind. It's to underline for the rest of us how dumb you are.
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Yahtzee says System Shock 1 was inferior to SS2. NT by Mischief Maker 04/10/2013, 4:59pm PDT NEW
    Hey probably thinks the holocaust deathtoll was over exaggerated too. NT by who cares? 04/10/2013, 6:00pm PDT NEW
    He also thinks Borderlands sucks but Portal was great by WITTGENSTEIN 04/10/2013, 6:47pm PDT NEW
        Portal was revolutionary, you're not making any sense. NT by Last 04/10/2013, 6:54pm PDT NEW
            What revolution in gaming did it start? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/10/2013, 8:01pm PDT NEW
                This Revolution! by Mischief Maker 04/10/2013, 10:24pm PDT NEW
                    It took vanilla FPS ingredients and invenged a radically new genre by Last 04/11/2013, 5:50am PDT NEW
                        Without GladOS it wouldn't have been fun enough to sit through IMO. NT by Fullofkittens 04/11/2013, 6:20am PDT NEW
                            Portal without Humour would be Doom without Violence, Rock Band without Music, by Gran Turismo without Cars. 04/11/2013, 1:13pm PDT NEW
                                Our worst poster not liking it doesnt mean anything NT by Sick Boy 04/11/2013, 1:38pm PDT NEW
                        Aside from Portal/Portal 2 can you think of any other titles in this new genre? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/11/2013, 2:49pm PDT NEW
                            Yeah, there's a lot of portal puzzle indie games. by Last 04/11/2013, 3:31pm PDT NEW
                                You're pants-shitting at windmills, but I'll humor you. by WITTGENSTEIN 04/11/2013, 4:23pm PDT NEW
                                    Imagine if you had unlimited money. Every game would be a 10/10! by Jerry Whorebach 04/11/2013, 4:39pm PDT NEW
                                        When did we start disliking Borderlands on Caltrops? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/11/2013, 4:58pm PDT NEW
                                            "We" by Sick Boy 04/11/2013, 5:18pm PDT NEW
                                            You really do shit on everything by Long Time Lurker 04/12/2013, 12:22pm PDT NEW
                                    Every game is more fun with friends, idiot. NT by Worm 04/11/2013, 4:50pm PDT NEW
                                        Portal lacks a multiplayer mode, 0/10? NT by Now you're just being a jackass. 04/11/2013, 4:59pm PDT NEW
                                            Actually the point is that of course Borderlands was a lot of fun with friends! by Worm 04/11/2013, 5:34pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: You're pants-shitting at windmills, but I'll humor you. by Sick Boy 04/11/2013, 5:20pm PDT NEW
                                    You didn't play Portal 2 because Portal 1 was too short. by An Officer And A Djentleman 04/11/2013, 6:38pm PDT NEW
                                    Games it spawned? by Cannibal 04/12/2013, 12:20pm PDT NEW
                                        And Wittencunt... NT by suspiciously quiet 04/13/2013, 3:50pm PDT NEW
                            Narbacular Drop NT by Sick Boy 04/11/2013, 4:07pm PDT NEW
                                Was made before Portal and by the same people. Doesn't count. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/11/2013, 4:26pm PDT NEW
                                    Was it? It was? Really? Was it? It was? It was? Really? Really? It was? It was? NT by Sick Boy 04/11/2013, 5:16pm PDT NEW
        If Portal is what qualifies as high brow I'd had to see your low brow. NT by I guess it'd look like Borderlands 04/10/2013, 7:02pm PDT NEW
        I had to google the term "gameplay elements". by Jerry Whorebach 04/10/2013, 10:48pm PDT NEW
            That's Borderlands 2. by laudablepuss 04/11/2013, 1:28pm PDT NEW
        Really? We're doing "Portal was mediocre" now? by An Officer And A Djentleman 04/11/2013, 3:12pm PDT NEW
            No? You're just stupid and can't read. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/11/2013, 3:23pm PDT NEW
                Re: No? You're just stupid and can't read. by Sick Boy 04/11/2013, 4:08pm PDT NEW
                Shut up, asshole NT by Mysterio 11/08/2023, 7:20pm PST NEW
            Lame: pussy, food, oxygen NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/11/2013, 4:12pm PDT NEW
    I think we're long past the point where we accept Yahtzee as an entertainer NT by and not a reliable critic 04/10/2013, 11:52pm PDT NEW
        Agreed NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/11/2013, 7:33am PDT NEW
        so when's he going to get entertaining again? try this instead by jeep 04/16/2013, 9:39pm PDT NEW
            or this by jeep 04/16/2013, 9:50pm PDT NEW
                These were hilarious NT by Cannibal Dave 04/17/2013, 10:21am PDT NEW
                THIS by Entropy Stew 04/17/2013, 12:17pm PDT NEW
                    the very minor issue with this by jeep 04/18/2013, 9:57pm PDT NEW
                They are funnier but Yahtzee is still worth watching by fabio 04/17/2013, 1:14pm PDT NEW
                    Other paid reviewers are more serious than Yahtzee??? NT by MM 04/17/2013, 1:28pm PDT NEW
                    eh his reviews aren't that useful either by jeep 04/18/2013, 10:01pm PDT NEW
                round two by jeep 04/18/2013, 10:10pm PDT NEW
                    They are all worth watching, especially XCOM, FarCry 2, Crysis, COD Modern Warfa NT by just watch them all - Arbit 04/18/2013, 10:50pm PDT NEW
                        Yeah by Vested Id 04/19/2013, 1:38pm PDT NEW
                            I think those "Fate of" videos are just Let's Plays by Mischief Maker 04/19/2013, 6:34pm PDT NEW
    Yahtzee finally quit the Escapist. NT by Mysterio 11/06/2023, 9:32pm PST NEW
        Refusing to do the ad reads finally caught up with him? by oof 11/07/2023, 1:49am PST NEW
            I can't stop laughing by john 11/07/2023, 9:40am PST NEW
            I don't know many people who'd solidarity-quit with their boss en masse NT by So he must be a good egg 11/07/2023, 11:03am PST NEW
            Bro Team out of fash? by Bro 11/07/2023, 11:15am PST NEW
                The censored ZP on Youtube thing was getting old fast too by Miss you Broteam 11/07/2023, 11:26am PST NEW
                    What does "Bro Team Pill" mean? Is it from something NT by john 11/07/2023, 12:57pm PST NEW
                        Rhymes with "Protein Pill" NT by Bro 11/07/2023, 12:58pm PST NEW
                            feel like pure shit just want them back by Miss you Broteam 11/08/2023, 6:31am PST NEW
                                That is objectively terrible. NT by Mechapaw 11/08/2023, 10:45am PST NEW
                                    okay? Go snort Yahtzee's taint. Maybe he'll let you change his baby's diapers. NT by Mysterio 11/08/2023, 12:43pm PST NEW
                                        Will that make the video bettwr by Mechapaw 11/08/2023, 6:26pm PST NEW
                                        okay? Go snort Yahtzee's taint. Maybe he'll let you change his baby's diapers. by Kirahu Nagasawa 07/01/2025, 8:58pm PDT NEW
                                Only a handful of great ones with the end Broducers slate by Bro 11/08/2023, 11:14am PST NEW
                            So stupid nonsense then, got it. NT by Mechapaw 11/08/2023, 11:12am PST NEW
                                How dare he NT by Right hand holds the orange 11/08/2023, 11:24am PST NEW
        Escapist doing gambling slop. by Kirahu Nagasawa 07/01/2025, 8:54pm PDT NEW
 
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