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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Gamers Zone => Topic started by: Phantom on June 20, 2013, 01:17:47 PM

Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Phantom on June 20, 2013, 01:17:47 PM
Would you consider Portal to be a first-person shooter? I mean, it's most definitely first-person, and you do shoot, but then again, you're shooting portals, not bullets, and you aren't shooting at something, necessarily. I'd probably classify it as a puzzle game, but if I had to add a second category . . . I don't know. What do you think?
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Mumbling on June 20, 2013, 01:23:08 PM
I would put it down as a puzzle game as well, you don't shoot yourself. Sure turrets can shoot lasers but that's it :p
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Phantom on June 20, 2013, 01:28:53 PM
Turrets shoot bullets, the lasers are for tracking . . .  :lol
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Justin1993 on June 20, 2013, 01:33:29 PM
I think I would call it a first person puzzle-platform game. In a shooter, you typically have opponents and a mission to complete while eliminating opponents.
Edit: Then again, maybe it could be considered a shooter since GlaDOS is an opponent that you have to beat, with the mission being to escape.
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Phantom on June 20, 2013, 01:39:19 PM
Yeah. You do use your ASHPD to defeat her and the turrets, but it's a little less direct than something like, I dunno, a shotgun or whatever.
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Mumbling on June 20, 2013, 03:31:05 PM
I derped a little :p What I meant to say what that there are turrets and lasers, but otherwise I wouldn't see it as a shooter game :p
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Blais_13 on June 20, 2013, 04:21:06 PM
According to the wiki it's a Puzzle-platform game.I think you need to shoot targets and
 eliminate  them that way in an fps.In portal you shoot portals to places and the portals take care of the enemy,not the shoot itself.
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Phantom on June 20, 2013, 04:30:53 PM
Platforming? I suppose that isn't too much of a stretch . . .
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Blais_13 on June 20, 2013, 04:43:14 PM
I dunno,I have never played with that game though I  saw videos.I just looked it up in the wiki becose I wanted to look smart :p
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Phantom on June 20, 2013, 04:52:02 PM
Quote from: Blais_13,Jun 20 2013 on  03:43 PM
I dunno,I have never played with that game though I  saw videos.I just looked it up in the wiki becose I wanted to look smart :p
 :lol
Title: Interesting question . . .
Post by: Campion1 on June 20, 2013, 05:22:42 PM
No. Any other questions?