For many fashionable gamers, the worst factor about a video game classic like Portal is that you may by no means play it once more for the primary time. Irrespective of how a lot time has handed since your final playthrough, those self same outdated check chambers will really feel a bit too acquainted should you revisit them immediately.
Through the years, neighborhood mods like Portal Stories: Mel and Portal: Revolution have tried to repair this downside with in depth work on utterly new ranges and puzzles. Now, although, a a lot easier mod is seeking to recapture that “first time” feeling just by including random gameplay modifiers to Portal‘s acquainted puzzle rooms.
The Portal Randomized demo recently posted on ModDB prompts considered one of eight gameplay modifiers once you enter one of many sport’s first two check chambers. The outcomes, whereas nonetheless somewhat tough across the edges, present how a lot further longevity may be wrung from easy tweaks to current gameplay.
Not all the Portal Randomized modifiers are on the spot winners. One which provides intermittent darkness, as an example, virtually forces you to face nonetheless for just a few seconds till the lights flip again on (too slowly for my consolation). And modifiers like variable gravity or variable motion velocity have a fairly trivial impact on how the sport performs out, not less than within the simplistic early check chambers within the demo.