10 Video Game Mistakes Left In To Troll You
2. The Five Second Rule - Portal
It doesn't matter how elaborately or intricately you design your game's levels, if a player can break them for a slightly easier albeit much duller ride , they'll not hesitate to do so.
And so it goes for Portal. As seemingly watertight as the design of Valve's classic first-person puzzler is, there is - rather appropriately for a game based around Einstein-panicking shortcuts - one level which can be entirely skipped with a bit of lateral thinking.
With laser-like precision and flawless timing, Chamber 14 can be completed in mere seconds, bypassing the puzzles altogether. You'd imagine forgoing all that lovely brain-melting content wasn't in Valve's plans, and indeed, it wasn't, until they discovered the exploit themselves when playtesting the game. Reasoning that only the most skilled Portaleers would manage it, they left it in - and set the time attack medal devilishly low just for those smarty-pants who figured the trick out.