Comments on: “Portal”: Best Multiplayer Game In Years…? http://www.vgconvos.com/2009/02/05/portal-best-multiplayer-game-in-years/ Conversations from three friends that grew up playing games and love talking about them. Engaging topics and Top 10 lists every episode. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:00:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JMarr http://www.vgconvos.com/2009/02/05/portal-best-multiplayer-game-in-years/comment-page-1/#comment-469 JMarr Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:06:40 +0000 http://www.vgconvos.com/?p=219#comment-469 I played through the game in just a handful of sittings, and my girlfriend was there watching and suggesting solutions for all but one of those sittings. And the time she wasn't there, I defnitely got that lonely feeling. Conversely, I just fnishd playing through Dead Space and I enjoyed that game the most when I was playing alone. In that case, having other people around seemed to prevent becoming totally immersed in the game and I just didn't feel the tension buidling the same way I did when playing alone. Next up in my GameFly queue is Left 4 Dead (which I've heard nothing but good things about) and it will be interesting to see what an action/survival game built for co-operative play feels like compared to something like Dead Space or the Resident Evil series. I played through the game in just a handful of sittings, and my girlfriend was there watching and suggesting solutions for all but one of those sittings. And the time she wasn’t there, I defnitely got that lonely feeling.

Conversely, I just fnishd playing through Dead Space and I enjoyed that game the most when I was playing alone. In that case, having other people around seemed to prevent becoming totally immersed in the game and I just didn’t feel the tension buidling the same way I did when playing alone.

Next up in my GameFly queue is Left 4 Dead (which I’ve heard nothing but good things about) and it will be interesting to see what an action/survival game built for co-operative play feels like compared to something like Dead Space or the Resident Evil series.

]]> By: andrew http://www.vgconvos.com/2009/02/05/portal-best-multiplayer-game-in-years/comment-page-1/#comment-467 andrew Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:09:33 +0000 http://www.vgconvos.com/?p=219#comment-467 Yeah, I had very similar experience when I played the last level. Patrick had been guiding most of the game At the last stage, it was me, Patrick, my friend Holly and her boyfriend John. I kept asking if anyone else wanted to play, but they just wanted to watch me and hear my constant, "Holy crap!" reactions to the game. Yeah, I had very similar experience when I played the last level. Patrick had been guiding most of the game At the last stage, it was me, Patrick, my friend Holly and her boyfriend John. I kept asking if anyone else wanted to play, but they just wanted to watch me and hear my constant, “Holy crap!” reactions to the game.

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