Forum Overview :: BioShock Infinite :: You're pants-shitting at windmills, but I'll humor you.

[quote name="WITTGENSTEIN"]Let's review my initial premise: That Yahtzee gave Portal a 10/10 and a severe knob-polishing while he shat on Borderlands. I thought Borderlands was pretty good, mainly for the writing. I also thought Portal was pretty good, <i>mainly for the writing</i>. Neither game was worth 50$. Portal for its length, Borderlands because while it had decent writing, the writing wasn't that good. But that wasn't why Yahtzee shit on it, he shit on it because it's boring to play by yourself (which it is) and he has no friends (because he's a self-loathing Australian). So if you're a british expatriate living in Australia who lives by themselves and you're a professional asshole for a living, okay, maybe Borderlands isn't for you. If you get more than one person involved, it goes up to an 8/10 in my opinion. Portal gets a 10/10 because for 10$ it was a great value (as a percentage of the Orange Box, it was about 20% of the cost price, based on the value of TF2 and Half Life 2/HL2 Episode One ala carte). If it was a 50$ game though I would feel seriously shorted, and that's part of the reason why I didn't play Portal 2. So, then you said that Portal was revolutionary. Interesting word to use. When I think of revolutionary, I think of titles like Doom/Wolfenstein 3D, Command & Conquer (or Dune 2) from Westwood, Ultima Online, etc. Stuff that started a genre and which we can point to a lot of AAA titles and say "It started with [X]". So then I ask you what other titles this has spawned in the same vein, and you regurgitate a list of accolades Portal received at me and say "oh a bunch of portal puzzle indie games". Are we on the same page yet, or do you need more Preparation H? [/quote]