Thus endeth the review.
Well, kinda. I guess I should elaborate a bit.
Portal is excellent. Its a fantastic concept, well executed, and at a beautiful dificulty curve. Then its over, with a wonderful feeling of satisfaction.
Although I've not played the bonus challenge maps, I have played through the commentary, which took about an hour, because the second time through you know all the puzzle solutions, but it was an interesting listen.
And all this after deciding to buy the game about midday, downloading it over my (not particularly nippy) connection, and solving it before midnight. Now for user created maps!
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Showing posts with label Portal. Show all posts
Monday, 22 October 2007
Delicious Cake
Finished Portal. Finished Portal with commentary. Now 2:45 am. Need sleep.
Review tomorrow!
Review tomorrow!
Sunday, 21 October 2007
Downloading....
Blizzard seems to have done a lot of right things with its games (startling revelation, I know!). The fact that they've got me wanting to play it again after just not having played it for a while, and some reasonable looking patch notes is kinda a testament to that. Unfortunately, they have their own set of failings.
Yes, I know I said I wouldn't precisely one post ago, but I set up the client downloading, and, lo, a day later, vanilla WoW was installed on my machine.
Problem being, my account is activated for The Burning Crusade. This means (apparently) I can't play unless I have all the TBC data downloaded. 'Not a problem!' thought I, naively, 'I got the vanilla client from the "Download The Burning Crusade" page, I'll just head over there again'
Only then I hit a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error, and have done since then.
Blizzard, I'm not wanting to, but am compelled to give you more money to play your damn game! And here you are not letting me sell my soul to you. Noble, sure, but not great marketting. I'm reminded of every time there's a PTR when the character copy page goes down, or every patch day when the entire website goes the way of the dodo.
Seriously, new infrastructure pls.
Also, interestingly, you can view other clients on the torrenting patcher thingy. I got maybe 3% of my data from other clients. Perhaps there is something slightly wrong with this distribution method.
Anyway, In the absence of Blizzard to the throw money at, I decided to purchase Portal instead. Its now downloading smoothly, and once its down, I'll be able to play it straight away. Differences indeed.
Yes, I know I said I wouldn't precisely one post ago, but I set up the client downloading, and, lo, a day later, vanilla WoW was installed on my machine.
Problem being, my account is activated for The Burning Crusade. This means (apparently) I can't play unless I have all the TBC data downloaded. 'Not a problem!' thought I, naively, 'I got the vanilla client from the "Download The Burning Crusade" page, I'll just head over there again'
Only then I hit a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error, and have done since then.
Blizzard, I'm not wanting to, but am compelled to give you more money to play your damn game! And here you are not letting me sell my soul to you. Noble, sure, but not great marketting. I'm reminded of every time there's a PTR when the character copy page goes down, or every patch day when the entire website goes the way of the dodo.
Seriously, new infrastructure pls.
Also, interestingly, you can view other clients on the torrenting patcher thingy. I got maybe 3% of my data from other clients. Perhaps there is something slightly wrong with this distribution method.
Anyway, In the absence of Blizzard to the throw money at, I decided to purchase Portal instead. Its now downloading smoothly, and once its down, I'll be able to play it straight away. Differences indeed.
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