10 Video Games That Made Us Look Like Idiots

The Portal games are some of the most creative and intelligent puzzlers on the market, and though they're generally not too difficult for the average player to get through, they do occasionally make us feel like real dolts.

The "problem," inevitably, is that Portal takes real-world physics and experiments with them in a totally unique way, allowing players to maintain momentum as they slingshot themselves through portals to scale otherwise unreachable areas.

And such a singular, uncharted approach to physics practically invites players to overthink the puzzles laid before them.

And so, who among us hasn't found themselves stumped on one of the series' levels for way too long, only to eventually discover that the solution was way simpler than they expected?

That's both the beauty and the curse of the Portal games, really, that they're so elegantly designed as to completely tie players in knots of confusion.