Ok, so last Christmas I got the Orange Box, mainly for Portal and HL2.
When I played Portal, I was confronted with some pretty good puzzles and a pretty funny game.
Then I completed it.
"Ok" I said, "that was alright".
I played it a couple of times after that, but once you've gone through it once, it isn't really challenging anymore, and the jokes don't have that much of an effect.
Sure it's a pretty and well made game, but there's nothing really to do other than complete it and then uninstall it.
Sure there are some time trails and blah blah blah, but it's still the same levels, just a bit harder.
Not something I'd exactly keep the game for.
If it wasn't bundled with the Orange Box, I'd have sold it by now to get something a bit more.. well.. fun.
Sure it was fun to start with, 'Oh haha, "the cake is a lie"'.
But then 2 weeks later, 'Hey dude, the cake is a lie, LOL!!!' 'Shut up.'
Then again, that's really me complaining about the players of Portal who can't let go of something so simple, which isn't even that funny.
Back to portal.
So sure the levels are well made and it's well scripted, but there's no replayability and, like most puzzle games, once you've completed it, it's not challenging anymore.
