▲ 280 ▼ Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale? (store.steampowered.com) submitted 1 year ago by Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works 205 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 child) Talos Principle is $5 Talos Principle 2 is $15 Highly recommend both games! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] eRac@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) Both combined is $15.58. That doesn't include the excellent expansions for either game though. They are the only portal-likes (chamber-based player movement puzzlers) that I'd place on the same level as the Portal games. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago Imo they're better. Portal was more groundbreaking because of when the first one came out, what valve was doing at the time, because everybody played it, and because of its connection with other games at the time. But now, it's just a very good game that (re)introduced portals as a concept into pop culture and repopulatized and proved that AAA puzzle games were possible. Talos, on the other hand, is a philosophical indie sleeper, and more of a social experiment. I don't like comparing it to portal, because most people see portal as an insurmountable peak with an impenetrable meme forcefield. And yeah, portal is great. But the Talos games are something very different and stands all on its own. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eRac@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) Both combined is $15.58. That doesn't include the excellent expansions for either game though. They are the only portal-likes (chamber-based player movement puzzlers) that I'd place on the same level as the Portal games. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago Imo they're better. Portal was more groundbreaking because of when the first one came out, what valve was doing at the time, because everybody played it, and because of its connection with other games at the time. But now, it's just a very good game that (re)introduced portals as a concept into pop culture and repopulatized and proved that AAA puzzle games were possible. Talos, on the other hand, is a philosophical indie sleeper, and more of a social experiment. I don't like comparing it to portal, because most people see portal as an insurmountable peak with an impenetrable meme forcefield. And yeah, portal is great. But the Talos games are something very different and stands all on its own. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago Imo they're better. Portal was more groundbreaking because of when the first one came out, what valve was doing at the time, because everybody played it, and because of its connection with other games at the time. But now, it's just a very good game that (re)introduced portals as a concept into pop culture and repopulatized and proved that AAA puzzle games were possible. Talos, on the other hand, is a philosophical indie sleeper, and more of a social experiment. I don't like comparing it to portal, because most people see portal as an insurmountable peak with an impenetrable meme forcefield. And yeah, portal is great. But the Talos games are something very different and stands all on its own. permalink fedilink source parent