So I vanished for a few days. School does that since I’ll drop everything if I’m determined to get an assignment finished. In this case, it’s one that is due next Thursday. I could have waited, but the paper was required to be at least twenty pages long. And it was on a subject that’s way over done, so putting your own spin on it can be a pain in the butt. It’s something I’ve been working on so I figured I’d just go ahead and get it finished. In other words, I want to be as lazy as possible before finals in two weeks.
My biggest motivation is I hate working last minute on something that is due and this way; I could have someone look it over and point out mistakes. In that area I’m quite pleased. There were very few grammatical errors. Sometimes, that’s all too rare for me. English is EVIL. [Insert protest by grammar and English Nazi’s inhabiting theOtaku HERE]
Anyway, since I finished that yesterday and ended up taking a nap during the evening, I am finding myself unable to sleep this morning. So I revisited Portal. I am terrible about starting a game and doing something else and never finishing it. I blame school for this. I’ll drop something to do required assignments and then never get back to it. Portal was one of those things.
It had been a few months so I just started over. It’s not a very long game after all. I’m already on level fourteen. The game itself is a lot of fun. I’m not always a fan of puzzle games but Portal makes you think outside the box a little. However, by far, the best part is all the sayings by GLaDOS, an AI that gives you interesting advice as you progress through the game. For example:
- [In a room flooded with toxic acid] "Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an "unsatisfactory" mark on your official testing record, followed by death. Good luck!"
- "The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it."
The whole game is loaded with stuff like that and it always makes me laugh. =P What’s really fun though is outthinking the expected path the system sets for you. There is the straightforward means to clear a level and then there are tricks you can employ that make it easier to accomplish. Figuring out how to do that is what makes it so much fun.
Anyway, at this rate, I’m likely to finish it up this weekend. Then I might consider playing some of the other games that come with The Orange Box, or I’ll do some more on my second run through of Tales of the Abyss. I might even watch more of .hack//sign… who knows?
Oh and the title of my post . . . IS A LIE! *laughs*
