You'll never be this good at games
Feel inferior by watching 10 of the godliest gamers in action
Portal, Chamber 15, 28 seconds
The depth of Portal's gameplay - combining twitch gaming, observational skills, planning and spatial awareness - creates a dizzying gulf between the casual player and the expert master, the difference that really puts a game into hardcore territory.
Here you'll see some truly advanced thinking with Portals, as the player zips in and out of the physics-bending warp holes at mindboggling pace, using beardy principles like velocity and momentum to crack this chamber with seemingly no effort at all.
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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of 12DOVE. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.
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