Picture this. It's 2006. You think you know video games, you've been playing them for a while, you've even started doing some basic 3D stuff yourself. And then the first Portal trailer drops, more than a year before the game's release, and everyone loses their mind. You can see infinitely through portals! Objects move through them! WHAT SORCERY IS THIS! No one had seen anything like this.
Even if it was short, and the concept has been since refined by so many other games, Portal was the first, and it was iconic. It wasn't as carroonish as Portal 2, and ended being almost unsettling at times, in a good way. It introduced GLaDOS, the cake, the companion cube, it brought us Still Alive. It was the first game like this, and it absolutely nailed it, and transformed the game industry overnight. I still replay it every now and then: i genuinely think it holds up better than Portal 2.
Now you're thinking with portals.
Even if it was short, and the concept has been since refined by so many other games, Portal was the first, and it was iconic. It wasn't as carroonish as Portal 2, and ended being almost unsettling at times, in a good way. It introduced GLaDOS, the cake, the companion cube, it brought us Still Alive. It was the first game like this, and it absolutely nailed it, and transformed the game industry overnight. I still replay it every now and then: i genuinely think it holds up better than Portal 2.
Now you're thinking with portals.