"soundtrack beyond one song at the credits" -- Again, if you think Still Alive is the only music in Portal it demonstrates extreme ignorance toward actual content of the game. Portal has an evocative soundscape throughout.
Soundscape doesn't cut it. I demand palpable melodies, not just vague ambient sounds.
Metroid Prime did it right, and struck a balance.
Good for you, but you have no business bashing a videogame from 2008 for not working on it. Do you and Turtlekid1 ram PS3 discs into your GameCubes and wail with futile rage when it doesn't work?
No, because PS3 games were never advertised to work in GameCubes, whereas my computer technically meets (and in some cases, exceeds) the system requirements for
Portal. Yet even with the lowest graphics settings possible, the lag makes it nigh-unplayable. Either those aren't the real system requirements for the game or most PC gamers are so used to frame-lag that they just didn't notice.
bashing
I have never said that
Portal is a bad game.
Portal is a decent game. It's got great writing, a good premise and gameplay concept, and one of the best darn antagonists to come out of a work of fiction. It's just rather overrated.