Honestly, not really. You’ll miss out on some of the backstory but nothing that would impact your enjoyment. You could watch a play through to get the details, it’s pretty short.
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Do I need to pay portal 1 before 2?
Whenever I try and run portal 1 it hard crashes, and I have not spend the effort to debug it.
Railcar8095@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Portal 1 is in many ways better. Even without the second, its worth playing.
its very light on story if you want to skip anyway
igmelonh@feddit.online 18 hours ago
To add on to what silverchase said, I played 2 first and got the gist of what happened. I do recommend playing Portal 1 if you can get it working, but you won’t be lost without it.
HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
played 2 first as well, due to it just being way funnier than 1 imo
58008@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t think it’s necessary, even from a story perspective (the game does a great job of filling in the blanks for you). It’s definitely worth playing Portal 1 though, it’s a fantastic game with perfect design even nearly 20 years later. I mean apart from engine and graphics tech, I don’t think the game could be improved upon much. Same is true for Portal 2.
Another thing about Portal 1’s story is that it’s barely there at all. Almost all of it is incidental to the puzzles, and the story that is there is either passive exposition from the antagonist, or some very minimal environmental stuff. With that in mind, you could easily get yourself up to speed on the story going into Portal 2 just by glancing at a one or two paragraph summary, maybe with a couple of screenshots (you could probably convey everything in the story in one sentence if you’re creative with the punctuation). Portal 2’s story is much more fleshed out and interesting, though.
Portal 1 is so old and undemanding that you could probably run it smoothly inside a VM even on a meagre PC. I don’t know what OS you’re running, but I presume it’s not Windows?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Yeah Linux, I did get it to work, it’s pretty cool
I’m impressed with some of the vfx, the fresnel style effect they put on the observation office windows is chefs kiss perfect. They do some other frame buffer stuff when the portal gun impacts that’s just very clever.
gnutrino@programming.dev 17 hours ago
Iirc adding
-vulkanto the game options worked for me, might be worth a shot.panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
This did get the game to launch, then I had to disable vsync because it was causing bizarre frame insertions several frames later.
Thank you!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I’m running on Linux and it compiles vulkan shaders, but I’ll give this a try and check out protondb
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Oh, the game mostly works, but I got to a test that they told me is impossible.
fancyl@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If I remember correctly, that’s Glados trolling you. None of the puzzles are impossible to complete as long as the game is running properly.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
You’re not yet thinking with portals ;)
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 11 hours ago
It’s like 40 min long, it’s worth it but maybe not if you have to debug
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I finished it, maybe it’s 40 minutes long if you’re much better at video games than me lol
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I would. They are both short games so it’s a no brainer honestly.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Have you tried an older system? I got one to run well on a little 2gb netbook with an atom processor. But also never had a problem on any other system.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
You’ll miss out on the plot of 1 that sets up for 2, but for gameplay, you would be fine. But if 1 crashes, you better hope 2 works well.