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'PvP: Portal vs. Passage'

Nick Montfort, a professor at MIT and GrandTextAuto contributor, has declared (with a some analysis) Passage is a superior game to Portal. Now, if the goal of games at large was to make people think, I might agree. But I think stating that "there are really two big ideas in these two games: The passage of a person through life and the idea that takes control by default in the other, supposedly message-free game, the passage of SKUs through retail stores is going a little far. But like most provocative statements, I suspect it was intended to spur discussion as much as draw attention to a little game like Passage, and the comments section doesn't disappoint: More »

1:30 PM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Maggie Greene
6,376 views, 56 comments

Latest by n/a: @joelface: Seriously. Maybe I was a little biased in my judgment of the Passage haters, but I had an emotional response. Much like psychedelics, you might have an epiphany, you might think it sucks, it all depends on your mindset. When people more »