Machina said:
#4 - Portal (PC/360/PS3)
The best game of the generation for me, which is quite impressive given how much I tend to dislike most puzzle games. The dialogue is as close to perfect as any game will ever come I think - the story and character development is just... superb. I love how you spend the first half of the game in these test chambers with GLaDOS goading/encouraging you, wondering what it's all about - wondering what's going on behind those glass bricks - and then in the second half you actually get to go behind the scenes, gaining glimpses of the past and starting to fit it all into the Half Life world. All of which happens as GLaDOS as a character develops, from a seemingly impartial computer AI programme into an incredibly complex psychopath. It's truly fantastic character development, and absolutely hilarious - real comedy in gaming is pretty rare, but a whole game that has you laughing out loud is unheard of.
And that's without even mentioning the gameplay and how innovative that part of the game is. 99.9% of other games don't even come close to Portal. It's kind of bitter sweet, to play a game as close to perfection on a personal level that you know another game that makes an impression on you like this isn't going to come along for years, if at all.
Actually, after writing all that just now I was tempted to switch this from 4th to 1st. Decisions, decisions...
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That brief reading almost had very well tempted to get and play the game.
Then I remembered how I asked you to play Catherine and you refused...
"of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson
