Topic: Portal Companion Collection

I've been looking forward to this for ages but I'm busy as a metaphor explaining ideas for the next few weeks annoyingly. I could have used this coming out a few weeks ago as I had loads of travel time to kill recently.

@Rambler Don't worry, after a few hours of non-stop testosterone pumping rage and action where you're chainsawing demons in half and blasting evil in it's evil face you become desensitized to the gore in Doom. The bigger problem is trying to let the aggression go after playing!

Well, some games are, frankly, gratuitously violent, @Rambler .... I like some MKXI occasionally, primarily for the fatalities & other gruesome moves
Narc sounds familiar, was it PS2? In the era when a fair number of games were best known for being OTT?
& Perhaps your tastes have changed since then? Along with more experience of better games?

Oh, well, I'm pretty sure I heard of it as a PS2 era game, so I guess that was remade, @Rambler .... I generally prefer fantasy violence to 'realistic' but then MK isn't realistic, lol
I never got into the GTA games, although I do want to play The Last of Us if that does come to Steam at some point
But I'm sure the vast majority of people playing games can distinguish between them & real life. Or I should casually walk into people's houses uninvited & help myself to stuff like in RPGs!
I certainly wouldn't even want to do the things I do in video games in real life, if you magically made me really able to & I'm pretty sure that's the case for most people
Or they at least know they won't be likely to succeed fighting real life police, if nothing else

Yeah, I only play it offline against the computer, @Rambler .... Dunno about Portal, I'm sure someone does, though

Anyone here playing these games for the first time?

I just wanna see those glowing reactions from new players 😀

@JaxonH Portal's always been the series for me that I've adored as an outsider looking in. Maybe now I'll finally give it an actual go once my other priorities come out because I love the world they've built up and the pure idea of 'shoot a portal, then walk through said portal', it's just so simple yet so incredibly fascinating. I've been saving up for Splatoon 3 in September so a lot of the stuff I get in the interim has to be something that'll last me a looong time. I'm thinking Capcom Fighting Collection personally (maybe in that bundle deal with all those SF games?) but Portal's definitely one I'm interested in grabbing down the line!

I still can't believe that these games are on Switch though. I know they're on PS3 and whatnot, but the last place I would've expected a Valve game would be on a Nintendo console. And for it to be such a great conversion? All the bloody better.

I wonder if the Half-Life stuff will get on Switch eventually. lol

I've never played Portal. I've been thinking of getting it for family beach vacation, thinking my brother, nieces and I will take turns with rooms/objectives. (Outside beach time & pool get the priority, but we also play my switch at night. I take that switch! And my bike!)

This is my first time playing portal 2. But I’ve seen playthroughs before, so its not a totally new experience.

I have to admit I love playing dumb and hanging around to hear wheatley run out of dialogue.

@JaxonH I'm not playing for the first time, but it almost FEELS like it. I bought both Portal games on Steam years ago. Beat the first one, wasn't impressed. Played Portal 2 a little less than halfway through and got bored of it.
However, I think that my impression had more to do with the fact that I can't stand playing games on PC with mouse & keyboard. Decided to buy the collection on Switch and I am LOVING it. Beat Portal 1 and thought it was terrific, and I'm a little more than halfway through on 2 and it's phenomenal.

@sketchturner
Controls can make or break an experience.

Did you toggle on the gyro aiming in the Settings? That makes it feel absolutely superb when aiming.

@JaxonH No, I'm playing in handheld and I feel like motion controls would be weird. If I were playing with the Pro Controller on the TV I'm sure I'd like it, but moving around the screen I'm looking at seems odd. Am I wrong about that?

You don't need to move the console a lot, I mostly use it to adjust my aim.

Though yeah if you do end up moving a lot (for whatever reason you may have to), then the camera will spin around and you'll need to adjust it.

@sketchturner
Actually, I (and many others) feel it's even more natural when playing handheld and tilting the system, like a window you're looking into a different world. It doesn't take much, just slight tilts. You're not actually replacing the right analog, after all. You still use right analog to turn the camera. You just use slight tilt motions to fine tune your shot, something a tiny analog stick is very poor at.

Turn it on and try it out. I found the default sensitivity to be pretty much spot on, so you shouldn't need to fiddle with anything after.

This collection missed the opportunity to use the PS Move levels from the PS3 version of Portal 2. An entire bonus section of the game that was fully motion controlled with new features... isn't on a console with motion control as a selling point?

@iLikeUrAttitude is there a physical release of portal companion for switch ?

@Ninfan not yet I don't think.

@Weapon_Wheel I played them in airplane mode with zero issues. You should be fine.

@Weapon_Wheel One you (hopefully) won't regret. These games are masterpieces.

@Weapon_Wheel Yes what Kermit said! One was already amazing and two somehow just goes from 100 to 1,000