{"id":196,"date":"2009-01-31T21:50:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-01-31T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T21:50:13","slug":"beat-portal-amazing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/beat-portal-amazing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Portal: Amazing Game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At&nbsp;Christmas I was pleasantly surprised to receive <a href=\"http:\/\/orange.half-life2.com\/\" target=\"_new\">The Orange Box<\/a> from Dad (thanks!). This game deal of the century includes Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episodes 1 &amp; 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very fond of the Half-Life series, of which I previously purchased Half-Life Anthology (HL1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, and Team Fortress Classic). I&#8217;ve also borrowed and completed Half-Life 2. The story and world of Half-Life are well-developed and very immersive. I look forward to replaying HL2 and then tackling eps 1 &amp; 2 (assuming my computer can handle them).<\/p>\n<p>At this point I could get into Team Fortress Classic and 2, which high-speed Internet have made possible. I play TF2 quite often now (my Steam ID is <em>kryptech<\/em> if you want to add me).<\/p>\n<p>Now on the main news. I just completed the final mission of Portal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Whoa.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>What a game! First off the idea with the portal physics is unique and mind-bending. The puzzles get increasingly challenging without ever becoming maddening or tedious. I got stuck a couple times but always managed to figure it out before I dispaired. Then there is the test chamber guidance voice &#8211;&nbsp;fairly unhelpful, humourous, and vaguely sinister (at least at first). After zipping through most of the levels fairly quickly things toughen up and get a lot longer. And the end, what shall I say about that? Well, I&#8217;ll just conclude by assuring you that you will not anticipate how the final test plays out. Awesome ending.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the credits were the best I&#8217;ve ever seen in terms of creativity and humour.<\/p>\n<p>Go! Buy Portal now.&nbsp;Better yet, get The Orange Box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At&nbsp;Christmas I was pleasantly surprised to receive The Orange Box from Dad (thanks!). This game deal of the century includes Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episodes 1 &amp; 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. I&#8217;m very fond of the Half-Life series, of which I previously purchased Half-Life Anthology (HL1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, and Team Fortress &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/beat-portal-amazing-game\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}