[SP] Sequential: Part 1 0.1
It's not unreasonable. It's also not unreasonable for a mapper to try to cater to a more experienced crowd. It depends on what they're trying to do. You know, where does it stop? I know that the 20th time I ran into a new map to see ye olde prism tipping training puzzle sitting beside ye olde cube tossing training puzzle sitting beside ye olde fling crouch training puzzle I'd be pretty much puking over ye olde keyboarde. Maybe I'm alone there. I have a weak stomach.
No you're right, it absolutely depends on who the map is designed for. If a map is designed for more experienced players then that is totally fine. I just try and point out things like this in general so that the mapper can make their map reach a broader audience. The only reason I think it's worth teaching is, again, because it is never done in the retail game, and people who are playing the map who aren't hardcore gamers might not really understand what you are supposed to do.
But yeah, if a map isn't worried about leaving that subset of players confused then there's nothing stopping you from going into cube-flip puzzles hung ho.
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CraigChrist, it can be done perfectly well without relying on luck.
Yeah I know, I was just giving an example.. I's really not hard to execute it. It just looks, I don't know, like thats not what you should be able to do in Portal. For me at least...
I saw a video of a guy doing some insane tricks with a cube and half of it just looks like bugs... jumping of a cube in midair.. I would hate a map where the solution would be something like that.
That's probably just me, I just like it clean.
Nevertheless I think this was the first custom map I played, and for me it was the proof that there will be great custom content for Portal 2. And I totally support original ideas like this one (just a bit cleaner 
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A lot of Portal 1 maps require you to know various bugs/glitches, and spoiler, they really fucking sucked to play. I hope there aren't maps that require usage of glitches.
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I didn't really like the laser puzzle much as I thought it was a bit too fiddly. It was a bit like in a couple of Portal 1 maps that involved cube flinging and the cubes would often not go straight through the portals.
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But at this point, would your expert audience notice any significative difference between regular and vertical flipping? Because if they aren't fazed, you have both alienated the others and unimpressed these.
Consider a fan like me, used to this stuff from HL2. I don't consider it any special... indifferent to me whether I should turn the cubes up or right. And puzzle wise, Portal 2 gives you already the full spectrum of actions performable with the cubes. Still want that ray to go up? Use a portal, or moving parts, or even better do that same puzzle on the horizontal plane as intended.
Imho you have to leave the frame of mind that these forced mechanics add another layer of complexity: they just make you do the same stuff, in a different glitched way that fewer know. Remember how smooth the puzzles in coop are: our goal should be to be as interesting as those, not to do less with more self-imposed hardships.
I started playing custom maps and record me playing them. It's neither a perfect run nor do I have to have solved the map in the way it's meant to solve it. I play the maps "blind", that means I've never been in them before and play them for the very first time. I also give a little feedback for the map in the video description.
Maybe you are interested in the fact, that I played your map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN7gVYG708I
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I love this map - when is part 2 coming?
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Too short, the puzzles were easy to do but not easy to see, but mainly, just not any fun. You have good ideas about puzzle making, but I think you need to consider how the player will feel about the puzzle when they're done. I felt disappointed, so just a 3/5 from me.
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