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.
Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. 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.
Legendary Zelda dev "wasn't too pleased" about working on A Link to the Past as it robbed his enjoyment of playing the finished game: "I still really don't want to play that game"
Making an open-world game like GTA 6 bug-free is "a lot different" than something like The Witcher 3, says former Rockstar dev