I absolutely love how this mod handles horror (at least, in terms of atmosphere). It's the same Portal you know, but just a little...off. Everything feels wrong, and it's honestly amazing how a change in lighting and atmosphere can change a game, especially Portal.
Yea i agree, even the absence of glados makes it crepier but combined with other stuff it is good. Only critisism i have is that you start to expectvthe jump scare teleports towards the end (maybe there should be a differant bit for the escape part)
Yea true. The only place towards the end i felt scared in was that black room with the monitor (i expected something to walk from the dark so that was why i ketp looking around)
some "player teleportation" was actually a bit off (i hope there was something actually more real, same goes to dream sequences) and storyline couldve been better. still good!
@@CrackThrough yea but if you read the arg type story it explains that this is supposed to be a found game like a cursed version of portal developed by deaddev game (fictional company) and thsn the guy that uploaded the mod fixed it to a playable state. Also there is more arg stuff in the game and files but it looks like noone solved that yet
I once dreamt (or maybe it did happen) where I was playing on Xbox, did the little loop thing, fell for quite some time and then ended up in a still alive test.
Time, Chell? Is it really that time again? It seems as if, you've only finished your tests. You've done a great amount of testing in a small time-span.. You've done so well, in fact, I think I've found intresting offers for your services. Ordinarily, I wouldn't contemplate them, but these are extraordinary times, hm? Rather than giving you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you, if, and when you test again. I do apologise for what must seems like an arbitrary imposition, test subject Chell. But i trust, it'll all make sense in the course of.. Well, I'm really not at liberty to say. In the meantime.. This is where I get off. _Poot your suggestions in replies or something, Idk-_
@@TrueSeekerVR all aperture technology can survive up to 4000° kelvin, and im sure the incinerator cant be that hot, because otherwise chell will die if she even got close to it
Wow, it's an interesting mod. Nice work. I just started a Portal 2 campaign on my channel this week and I love seeing how other people play and create content relating to the Portal series.
anyone else notice the song playing in the weird room was from everywhere at the end of time by the caretaker, possibly the most unsettling album of all time
I think this isn't more scary, I think it's more _tragic._ 1) It keeps switching perspectives, from Chell's to Doug's, and showing the horror he went through. 2) In the GLaDOS bossfight, look carefully and you can see Caroline. And, her voice might be corrupting because she's trying to remember Caroline, but with the effects on her mind, she loses her stability.
I know. Underrated comment. In fact, once I think about it, when you look through the timeline of Aperture Science, it was really tragic, with rouge AI and a corrupted business, I see the point your trying to make.
Theory! It's all about Caretaker! It's all about the burning memories! It's ALL about dementia! The title of the game, Error! It all makes sense now!!!
I really like horror concepts like this, they don't scare you with typical jumpscaring monsters nor monsters coming after you, no, theyre reaching far more deeper than that, they appeal into your oldest form of fear, the fear of the unknown, they scare you by giving you the feelings of isolation the dread of mystery. That's some goodshit psychological horror right there
To be honest… yeah. One of my friends wanted a chair to fly at the player and that idea spiraled into the chair becoming a huge point in both the story and ARG
@@jbthekeeper2509 That's what I was thinking too. The whole sorta... weird, non-linear fluidness of how time/space work in this game (the random teleporting and seemingly non-euclidean locations) seem to be similar to descriptions of entangled, jumbled-up memories dementia patients are believed to experience. Especially how GLaDOs speaks in such a strange/broken manner, everything is so dark, the g-man looking shadow is impossible to determine exactly WHO it is, making it seem like a placeholder.... reminds me of that bojack horseman episode about dementia. I really feel like it's possible that the main character is an aperture test subject who is reliving twisted versions of their memories due to dementia. Or maybe it's just a spooky mod using spooky music. But who knows?
The Caretaker songs I heard throughout the video was 'It's Just a Burning Memory', 'Burning Despair Does Ache' and 'Stage 5 Advanced Plaque Entanglements' I think there was stage 6 in the GLaDOS bossfight.
This mod really fucked with me when I played it. I had played Portal a million times before, but in this I had no idea what could be around the corner... no fun
I believe that, but I like to think this is a nightmare she had during her extended relaxation between 1 and 2, it’s her brain trying to process all the psychological torture they went through, and changing some of the memories becuase when it comes to torture often times the worst of it is wayyy after the event, and it’s the brain remembering it. The PTSD can cause a lot of pain, way more than any white room or empty facility.
I know I may be a little late, and it may have already been pointed out, but at 0:34, you can see Chel looking at the camera through the portal, instead of looking at the (orange) portal in front of her. You can see at 0:29, how she should be looking (straight forwards), but instead, Chel is looking at the camera. A small, but creepy detail that I really like.
I never noticed this and i now got abit creeped out, i got the same feeling as you would get looking at an old photo from your childhood and spotting something creepy and out of place
I think it's the noise that makes this mod scary the most. Sure, the corpses, the creepy people following you, the lighting can be scary... but the corrupted noises all around you can be terrifying.
The fact that Gladdy isn’t there, or that she is but she’s just.. dead. Is horrifying. And ironically enough, Glad’ was meant to be the main villain and the pot-stirring antagonist that makes things more interesting and that you feel like you have a reason to finish the game, to murder her. But without her, the whole game makes you feel uncomfortable as all heck. It gives me the same idea as what happened in portal 2, GLaDOS was the villain and after a while, she became your friendly pal to help or give humerus dialogue at moments. Same as here, she was bad, but she was funny and made everything feel less uncomfortable and lonely. So the decision to remove her from the ear is incredible. If the mod maker intended it or not, the glados removal was really well thought out.
Yea it is realy polished and playtested which is rare with this kind of maps (i replayed later and tried to glitch it and i was unsucessefull all of the base portal 1 glitches are fixed)
yeh definitely; even if you had someone speaking those little captions it would intrusive and annoying, but having them instead pop up on the screen helps to fill in the gaps and understand the player's reaction without being intrusive. Niiiiiiice
Please note that the song playing at 7:57 is Everything At the End of Time, which is a part of an album that is six hours long. The album focuses on all the stages of dementia to the very end where the person dies. This could mean that the player we play as, or the person Adam, could have dementia. Or it could be an Easter Egg and I’ve been overthinking all of this.
You - gets orange and blue portal gun GlaDOS - glu gluuu You - walks through the dark hallway with broken signs and hides behind chair GlaDOS - Neurotoxin
6:00 That explosion exists in the default game. It prevents you from getting softlocked, if you somehow managed to get the cube stuck behind that door.
Actually, I think that this is from Doug's perspective... which explains the flashbacks of Aperture, and the YOLO rule that Chell just seems to ignore throughout both games. Also, that was probably Doug's Companion Cube as well. Edit: 10:39 Adam = Doug Joshua = Henry
There is a whole backstory and arg to this mod but it looks like noone is really solving it since the mod just didnt reach the right ppl for solving if, but ppl did found some weird images in the files tho
it genuinely could be tho. like, gman can definitely do that shit. im sure he would be able to do all this stuff that you see in the mod. and you know what? i think he'd do it. he would definitely bring this kind of psychological torture on someone. i dont know why, but i am certain that gman could, and would do this kind of stuff.
It always amazes me how much lighting, music, atmosphere can change something so much....... im a wuss so i had to watch it on the lowest possible volume :< but man this looks great. Also i dont think ive ever missed glados’s voice that much before
1:57 that's a sound effect that plays in normal portal randomly throughout test chambers as a sort of ambiance effect I believe (If you're referring to that mechanical "fizzling" or "whizzing" sound effect). It is even used in Portal Stories: Mel as the "chime" that plays when Mel falls asleep in that Short Term Relaxation Vault towards the start of the game.
I like how this isn’t necessarily a horror story as much as it is a story that’s unsettling because it’s different than what we’re used to- because this time, we’re not alone.
Newer observations I made: 1) The Companion Cube isn't an actual companion cube, it's a Weighted Storage Cube with hearts drawn on it. 2) The first song in the dream sequences is A1 It's Just a Burning Memory, the second is either from stages 2 or 3, and the last is K1 Advanced Plaque Entanglements, all from the album Everywhere at the End of Time by The Caretaker 3) This could be from Doug's perspective, having flashbacks most likely caused by his PTSD (which would've developed during the events of Portal)
Alrighty, well... coming from someone who played this before the full version was out, I have to say I'm happy to watch someone *else* finish it. Good lord I could NOT.
Yknow once you take away Glados’s voice this game suddenly gets a completely different tone, it goes from happy and thoughtful to scary and thoughtful i think it has to do with the loneliness and confusion “why am i alone? What are these ‘dream sequences’? Who are these mysterious people?” Plus sometimes you can hear Glados’s voice but heavily edited but just enough to where you can hear “kill you” being the first voice you have ever heard followed up by “neurotoxin” later on. Glados really does feel more like a threat now and someone actually scary
I kept thinking back of fan renditions of Glados' chasis that looks like a human torso hanging upside down. Seeing it flail and struggle is really unnerving. Especially if you take Caroline in mind.
I think a big part of portals fear factor is the isolation and seeing other people in the game kinda kills it for me. Also that dialogue talking about the Morality core being corrupted really shattered my immersion because there's no way that scientists, even Aperture ones, would talk like that. But other than that, the mod's atmosphere was absolutely impeccable.
Portal 1 was already creepy IMO, I know portal 2 had the rattman speaking in the walls, but portal 1 was so empty its was uncomfortable. And this made it creepier
Ok since nobody would timestamp these EATEOT songs I'll do it 7:55 A1 - It's just a burning memory 8:20 F4 - Burning Despair Does Ache 8:39 K1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements 11:10 H1 - Post-awareness Confusions (Hell sirens segment)
this reminds me of the test footage for portal 2, where GLaDOS was crazy and could crawl around, I imagined this took place between portal 1 and 2, everything is just starting to break down and neurotoxin is leaking into the air slowly, driving anyone who is still alive insane, but not immediately killing them, parts of GLaDOS' mind are still active, but not completely, she's barely aware of anything, this concept is just terrifying
Theory: the dead test subject in that one room is you, the creepy guy uses G-man animations, and in the game he tries to both cause and stop certain events. The ones with smoke are really neurotoxin, as all the things GLaDOS says involve neurotoxin. This implies you are having an out-of-body experience of sorts, you died and now your ghost roams the halls, and the last remaining living person, ratman, attempts to save you/your ghost, perhaps by laying you to rest? Or perhaps you are in a test subjects body that you stole, and the sequences as Adam are memories. This explains why you can’t die, you’re already dead so the ghost simply saves you by leaving the body and joining a new one. Still, the person saving you is ratman or G-man, and you are simply waiting to pass on, which happens when you get neurotoxin(how you would have originally died) as you see one of the corpse subjects in the end sequence.
only like 6 minutes in so far but the way this jumps around non-linearly and exaggerrates the usettling vibe portal 1 had already makes this feel like you're playing through Chell's nightmares
I love this type of horror. Relying on theme and atmosphere and the feeling of uncertainty, rather than just having a big bad man scream at you every now and again.
It would be cool if they made something like this for Portal 2 as well, but if I didn't hear GLaDOS roasting me about being fat every chamber I'd be way more scared.
This is great! I feel that the ending might have been even creepier though if the personnel changed to 3 not 0, to show that there's still something there...
I played this mod myself. Amazing! The maker obviously knew that the player would get used to the horror by the end, and took a slightly more hopeful/actiony note, while still being a bit scary
In the flashbacks/dreams there is an album that plays (caretaker) and the album is all about memory loss the album starts with relaxed retro music and gets more and more corrupted as it goes
Interesting note! the song that plays in the observing room at around 8:25 belongs to the artist The Caretaker! and is part of a series of albums depicting Alzheimer's and Parkinson's'. The complete experience is around 6 hours of terrifying music, slowly devolving into base tones. I highly recommend it! the project is called, "Everywhere at the End of Time" this sample is played as the first song in the album.
a horror game where the person following you around actually helps you is a good change
Yea a pleasent change
Half life.
boris
what if it was rattman
@@hagonistheman7880 What about saving you from an explosion? That and deliberately making things so you can win.
The worst part of this is that this is probably similar to what Rattman experienced when GlaDOS flooded the enrichment center with deadly neurotoxin.
Probably
Also that rattman was also going insane pretty quick.
It's a good thing they installed that core to make her stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin
That what i thought
Only 1 core was on her and it was the morality core
Portal used to be scary because you were alone, with this mod it's scary because you're NOT alone.
well you aren’t alone until the end, GlaDOS becomes sentient.
@@LordRevanSith well yah, but for some reason whenever i replay portal i just get a feeling like someone is watching me. (much creppier than portal 2)
@@morcovas8430 during Portal for me, I have a feeling of loneliness and abandonment, but the boss sets off an energy of fear, and confusion
Yep
I absolutely love how this mod handles horror (at least, in terms of atmosphere). It's the same Portal you know, but just a little...off. Everything feels wrong, and it's honestly amazing how a change in lighting and atmosphere can change a game, especially Portal.
Yea i agree, even the absence of glados makes it crepier but combined with other stuff it is good. Only critisism i have is that you start to expectvthe jump scare teleports towards the end (maybe there should be a differant bit for the escape part)
Yea true. The only place towards the end i felt scared in was that black room with the monitor (i expected something to walk from the dark so that was why i ketp looking around)
some "player teleportation" was actually a bit off (i hope there was something actually more real, same goes to dream sequences) and storyline couldve been better. still good!
for the story it would been better if glados was already dead and other "thing" was controlling everything there
@@CrackThrough yea but if you read the arg type story it explains that this is supposed to be a found game like a cursed version of portal developed by deaddev game (fictional company) and thsn the guy that uploaded the mod fixed it to a playable state. Also there is more arg stuff in the game and files but it looks like noone solved that yet
This is basically how younger me saw portal the first time
exactly! Once you got out of the test chambers and crawl on rusty sewage pipes and whatnot, it became super scary for a 14y/o me
SAMEEEE the music creeped me out
The music and the writing on the wall creeped me out, but the scariest..when the radio gets disintegrated. By the grill thing.
I played the original portal when I was 9 and i think i got mentally scarred
I once dreamt (or maybe it did happen) where I was playing on Xbox, did the little loop thing, fell for quite some time and then ended up in a still alive test.
my first instinct seeing a not dead person in a valve game: GMAN
tf2: am I a joke to you
Time, Chell? Is it really that time again?
It seems as if, you've only finished your tests.
You've done a great amount of testing in a small time-span..
You've done so well, in fact, I think I've found intresting offers for your services.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't contemplate them, but these are extraordinary times, hm?
Rather than giving you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you, if, and when you test again.
I do apologise for what must seems like an arbitrary imposition, test subject Chell.
But i trust, it'll all make sense in the course of.. Well, I'm really not at liberty to say.
In the meantime.. This is where I get off.
_Poot your suggestions in replies or something, Idk-_
@@FormerWarAnimator hatty hattington??
@@josephleebob3828 yes moment
oh hey, is my fren
@@FormerWarAnimator fast reply
It wasn’t the bodies that scared me. It was the loud noises, darkness, unexpected things and the atmosphere that scared me.
That’s the point
That the point my dood
Same here my dude
Same
Your just describing a horror game my dude
Never have I ever wanted to hear glados voice so much in a portal game
I'm not sure if her voice would make the experience better tbh
same
“Oh. Looks like you have a friend there in the room with you. I didn’t know you had those.”
Ngl I love glados
@@potatomonika8796 I’m pretty sure it’s just the fact it’s something familiar we all know, even if they want us dead. Just to feel safer.
this is what android hell looks like
There's a place you may have heard of...
...It's a tale we like to tell!
@@mercury9641 ؟
Probably
@@omarpikm2101 and its name is android hell! Where the robots come to suffer, chell.......
The player: scared
GlaDOS: *N e r o t o x i n*
*n e r o t o x i n*
That scared the hell out of me
*n e r o t o x i n*
@@pico3540 *n e r o t o x i n*
@@kayleighmoore6951 *n e r o t o x i n*
This is what Chell sees when she inhales too much neurotoxin
"Tonight on Portal Gear; what happens when you taste deadly neurotoxin?"
* N E R O T O K I N*
more like too much repultion gel
That did seem to be the idea.
Neko toxin
its the companion cube trying to get revenge for getting thrown into the incinerator
Lol maybe
How Can It? It's already dead?
@@TrueSeekerVR all aperture technology can survive up to 4000° kelvin, and im sure the incinerator cant be that hot, because otherwise chell will die if she even got close to it
im pretty sure the cube at the very end of portal 2 is the same one u incinerated
@@TrueSeekerVR the spirit of the companion cube is haunting u
"I WILL LOOK DOWN JUST IN CASE"
"UHHH CHAIR PROTECT ME"
I felt that
I forgot to say that in the video but this was blind playthrough
thx everyone for 100k views :)
Wow, it's an interesting mod. Nice work. I just started a Portal 2 campaign on my channel this week and I love seeing how other people play and create content relating to the Portal series.
Nice. I will make sure to check it out :)
@@JukoYT Thank you very much! I'm definitely going to keep looking through your videos as well. I see quite a few that look interesting. :)
@@JukoYT good job mate
nice video
@@mr.second3427 thx
When i first heard the footsteps i thought it was ratman creeping around
Me too
*S n e e k*
Your pfp looks like a nice emote for the cores in portal 2
@@agentburningbutters3655 not sure if, that's a complement or a insult
@@Axalotl8 Its an unsunplument
"Mom can we have Portal 1?"
"No we already have Portal 1 at home."
*Portal 1 at home:*
Hahaha i likedyour comment.
This portal is better
The mom got the portal game from the old office basement in her job
Or the piratebay
Or replay the demo
anyone else notice the song playing in the weird room was from everywhere at the end of time by the caretaker, possibly the most unsettling album of all time
Yesss i csme looking through the comments for this lol, think it played in the glados chamber a bit after too
that particular song is basically a recurring motif through that album. I also loved how the creator used the later stages
stop man delete this comment im trying to forget the song
@@ajemajh me too...
I love that the song changed to one from a later stage. Brilliant.
I think this isn't more scary, I think it's more _tragic._
1) It keeps switching perspectives, from Chell's to Doug's, and showing the horror he went through.
2) In the GLaDOS bossfight, look carefully and you can see Caroline. And, her voice might be corrupting because she's trying to remember Caroline, but with the effects on her mind, she loses her stability.
I know. Underrated comment. In fact, once I think about it, when you look through the timeline of Aperture Science, it was really tragic, with rouge AI and a corrupted business, I see the point your trying to make.
Theory! It's all about Caretaker! It's all about the burning memories! It's ALL about dementia! The title of the game, Error! It all makes sense now!!!
@@thatgarryman9400 what?
I believe you NA rating from Geometry dash
@@ahmed4363 Yup!
I really like horror concepts like this, they don't scare you with typical jumpscaring monsters nor monsters coming after you, no, theyre reaching far more deeper than that, they appeal into your oldest form of fear, the fear of the unknown, they scare you by giving you the feelings of isolation the dread of mystery. That's some goodshit psychological horror right there
I love Horrorgames that do this.
No jumpscares, but so creepy it makes you get goosebumps. And more
It takes perfect advantage of source creepiness.
2:24
''Here you can see a bottomless pit which, as you can see, is bottomless.''
-Grunkle Stan
throughout our great land there are many deep pits none more bottomless than the bottomless pit
Aperture science moved the bottomless pit to the aperture facility
no way Wendy's probably in there too
Chell goes insane: the game
You mean Chell's Mind : The Game?
schizophrenic test subject.
Dementia test subject
Lobotomy edition
im convinced the chair was a joke but the dev said " *SCREW IT* " and made it a big thing in the story
To be honest… yeah. One of my friends wanted a chair to fly at the player and that idea spiraled into the chair becoming a huge point in both the story and ARG
@@StereoCoda the WHAT
@@thatpersonyt247 DEAD DEV GAMES ARCHIVE
Game: *Saved*
Me: Shit
7:56 didn't expect a Caretaker/Everywhere at the End of Time reference in this mod. Of course, I'm certainly not complaining.
This probably makes it worse since that was all about dementia, maybe this is supposed to represent dimentia?
@@jbthekeeper2509 That's what I was thinking too. The whole sorta... weird, non-linear fluidness of how time/space work in this game (the random teleporting and seemingly non-euclidean locations) seem to be similar to descriptions of entangled, jumbled-up memories dementia patients are believed to experience. Especially how GLaDOs speaks in such a strange/broken manner, everything is so dark, the g-man looking shadow is impossible to determine exactly WHO it is, making it seem like a placeholder.... reminds me of that bojack horseman episode about dementia. I really feel like it's possible that the main character is an aperture test subject who is reliving twisted versions of their memories due to dementia.
Or maybe it's just a spooky mod using spooky music. But who knows?
The Caretaker songs I heard throughout the video was 'It's Just a Burning Memory', 'Burning Despair Does Ache' and 'Stage 5 Advanced Plaque Entanglements' I think there was stage 6 in the GLaDOS bossfight.
5:59 Was this supposed to be a reference to the Fail-Safe Door by Reepblue?
Same
This mod really fucked with me when I played it. I had played Portal a million times before, but in this I had no idea what could be around the corner... no fun
Every copy of Portal 1 is personalized.
4:03 "I'll keep one eye on you so you dont move"
*instantly looks away
i like to imagine this is actually chell's ptsd,where she finally snaps.
Surely it makes more sense for this to be Rattman's schizophrenia?
Chell's escape attempt N°92837
I believe that, but I like to think this is a nightmare she had during her extended relaxation between 1 and 2, it’s her brain trying to process all the psychological torture they went through, and changing some of the memories becuase when it comes to torture often times the worst of it is wayyy after the event, and it’s the brain remembering it. The PTSD can cause a lot of pain, way more than any white room or empty facility.
How dare caretaker everywhere at the end of time be used against me again.
dementia but epicc 🔥🔥
Oh my god it was so much of a relief to see you have fullbright on lmao.
I know I may be a little late, and it may have already been pointed out, but at 0:34, you can see Chel looking at the camera through the portal, instead of looking at the (orange) portal in front of her.
You can see at 0:29, how she should be looking (straight forwards), but instead, Chel is looking at the camera.
A small, but creepy detail that I really like.
I never noticed this and i now got abit creeped out, i got the same feeling as you would get looking at an old photo from your childhood and spotting something creepy and out of place
can't watch this video on fullscreen cause i'm such a little baby: the mod
I couldn’t even watch the full video.
Any jumpscares?
Nope, only some loud sounds
crying baby mann
@@mixialuci co
I think it's the noise that makes this mod scary the most. Sure, the corpses, the creepy people following you, the lighting can be scary... but the corrupted noises all around you can be terrifying.
here before the algorithm randomly blows this up in 6 years
Yea hopefully it does
k
me too
@@JukoYT it did! 23K views
Yea but thankfully i didnt have to wait 6 years for this lol
The fact that Gladdy isn’t there, or that she is but she’s just.. dead. Is horrifying. And ironically enough, Glad’ was meant to be the main villain and the pot-stirring antagonist that makes things more interesting and that you feel like you have a reason to finish the game, to murder her.
But without her, the whole game makes you feel uncomfortable as all heck.
It gives me the same idea as what happened in portal 2, GLaDOS was the villain and after a while, she became your friendly pal to help or give humerus dialogue at moments.
Same as here, she was bad, but she was funny and made everything feel less uncomfortable and lonely.
So the decision to remove her from the ear is incredible.
If the mod maker intended it or not, the glados removal was really well thought out.
That's acutally a very good/well made map for being one of the first, if not *the* first of It's genre for Portal.
Yea it is realy polished and playtested which is rare with this kind of maps (i replayed later and tried to glitch it and i was unsucessefull all of the base portal 1 glitches are fixed)
@@JukoYT That's pretty sick!
I like this kind of "commentary"
I am glad you enjoyed the video :)
yeh definitely; even if you had someone speaking those little captions it would intrusive and annoying, but having them instead pop up on the screen helps to fill in the gaps and understand the player's reaction without being intrusive. Niiiiiiice
He sounds exactly like Chell!!!
It was kinda expensive getting chells voice actor, hopefully it turned out good :)
I was caught off guard by the fact that "it's just a burning memory" was in the game
Please note that the song playing at 7:57 is Everything At the End of Time, which is a part of an album that is six hours long. The album focuses on all the stages of dementia to the very end where the person dies.
This could mean that the player we play as, or the person Adam, could have dementia. Or it could be an Easter Egg and I’ve been overthinking all of this.
it’s rattmann’s schizophrenia
Portal 1 test chambers with red ambient lighting is one hell of an aesthetic. It'd be pretty cool if the regular game was like that.
You - gets orange and blue portal gun
GlaDOS - glu gluuu
You - walks through the dark hallway with broken signs and hides behind chair
GlaDOS - Neurotoxin
4:56 The split second of glados is even more terrifying than no glados
6:00 That explosion exists in the default game. It prevents you from getting softlocked, if you somehow managed to get the cube stuck behind that door.
Actually, I think that this is from Doug's perspective... which explains the flashbacks of Aperture, and the YOLO rule that Chell just seems to ignore throughout both games. Also, that was probably Doug's Companion Cube as well.
Edit: 10:39
Adam = Doug
Joshua = Henry
Doug Rattman was an unreliable schizophrenic who refused to take his medication.
I have no idea who those names belong to in accordance to the game, but 3 out of 4 of them are my close family members and that’s creepy af
Me: calm at the rest of the video
Also me: got jump scared when he tried to fix the radio
4:56
Glados said, "killed you." Probably meaning we're already dead, this is purgatory, and Chell probably did something to deserve this.
There is a whole backstory and arg to this mod but it looks like noone is really solving it since the mod just didnt reach the right ppl for solving if, but ppl did found some weird images in the files tho
You're not a good person. You know that, right? Good people don't end up here.
And beforehand glados said neurotoxin in chamber 14 and piecing that together is "neurotoxin killed you"
"Something"? Ha. Ha. How clueless are you?
plot twist:
the dude is the G-Man
"Quite a nasty piece you managed, i am impressed."
erectin' a statue of a G-Man
it genuinely could be tho.
like, gman can definitely do that shit. im sure he would be able to do all this stuff that you see in the mod.
and you know what? i think he'd do it. he would definitely bring this kind of psychological torture on someone.
i dont know why, but i am certain that gman could, and would do this kind of stuff.
"There is no platform, how am i meant to escape?"
i got bad news for you.
It always amazes me how much lighting, music, atmosphere can change something so much....... im a wuss so i had to watch it on the lowest possible volume :< but man this looks great. Also i dont think ive ever missed glados’s voice that much before
1:57 that's a sound effect that plays in normal portal randomly throughout test chambers as a sort of ambiance effect I believe (If you're referring to that mechanical "fizzling" or "whizzing" sound effect). It is even used in Portal Stories: Mel as the "chime" that plays when Mel falls asleep in that Short Term Relaxation Vault towards the start of the game.
This sound was originaly supposed to be used in ravenholm in hl2
@@JukoYT Interesting!
@@JukoYT Close, but not exactly. According to the filenames of the sound effects, it's noise generated by the Headcrab Canisters.
The original Portal 1 has that, sort of, air rushing sound in the rooms. It fits really well with this map.
Never have i been more happy to see an ad so i had a break from this video holy crap this is unsettling as hell
Nobody:
Me:
Okay GLaDOS, this isn’t funny anymore... PleaSE STOP!!!
Plot twist: Glados was pranking the player the whole time
STOP PUTTING NOBODY BEFORE YOUR JOKES AAAAAAAAA
Also we do not need the me to know its you
This madlad really hearted every comment, now that's dedication.
Thx it is getting harder ever since this video started getting more attention
The commentary words were so cute. “I’ll look down just in case” 😭🥺
I like how this isn’t necessarily a horror story as much as it is a story that’s unsettling because it’s different than what we’re used to- because this time, we’re not alone.
Newer observations I made:
1) The Companion Cube isn't an actual companion cube, it's a Weighted Storage Cube with hearts drawn on it.
2) The first song in the dream sequences is A1 It's Just a Burning Memory, the second is either from stages 2 or 3, and the last is K1 Advanced Plaque Entanglements, all from the album Everywhere at the End of Time by The Caretaker
3) This could be from Doug's perspective, having flashbacks most likely caused by his PTSD (which would've developed during the events of Portal)
you: *picks up orange portal gun*
glados: you >:(
@ForkyYT scary :(
Alrighty, well... coming from someone who played this before the full version was out, I have to say I'm happy to watch someone *else* finish it. Good lord I could NOT.
Yknow once you take away Glados’s voice this game suddenly gets a completely different tone, it goes from happy and thoughtful to scary and thoughtful i think it has to do with the loneliness and confusion “why am i alone? What are these ‘dream sequences’? Who are these mysterious people?” Plus sometimes you can hear Glados’s voice but heavily edited but just enough to where you can hear “kill you” being the first voice you have ever heard followed up by “neurotoxin” later on. Glados really does feel more like a threat now and someone actually scary
I kept thinking back of fan renditions of Glados' chasis that looks like a human torso hanging upside down. Seeing it flail and struggle is really unnerving. Especially if you take Caroline in mind.
I think a big part of portals fear factor is the isolation and seeing other people in the game kinda kills it for me. Also that dialogue talking about the Morality core being corrupted really shattered my immersion because there's no way that scientists, even Aperture ones, would talk like that.
But other than that, the mod's atmosphere was absolutely impeccable.
He:
is comfy
Is spooky
But most importantly...
He protecc
Portal 1 was already creepy IMO, I know portal 2 had the rattman speaking in the walls, but portal 1 was so empty its was uncomfortable. And this made it creepier
8:10 Hey... isn't that a slowed down version of Heartaches? The same one in everywhere at the end of time?
*slaps roof of mod* this bad boy can hold so much *Caretaker*
I love having my eardrums detonated
7:55 Everywhere At The End of TIme moment
Ok since nobody would timestamp these EATEOT songs I'll do it
7:55 A1 - It's just a burning memory
8:20 F4 - Burning Despair Does Ache
8:39 K1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements
11:10 H1 - Post-awareness Confusions (Hell sirens segment)
this reminds me of the test footage for portal 2, where GLaDOS was crazy and could crawl around, I imagined this took place between portal 1 and 2, everything is just starting to break down and neurotoxin is leaking into the air slowly, driving anyone who is still alive insane, but not immediately killing them, parts of GLaDOS' mind are still active, but not completely, she's barely aware of anything, this concept is just terrifying
Honestly portal 1.5 would be a fun horror game
It really would, I've loved that concept since seeing the cut stuff from portal 2 and this just brought that uneasy feeling back
It kind of looks like Ratman impossible but he’s in hiding and what happens GLaDOS had to be something bad because she wouldn’t let this happen
Portal is creepy enough, with this, its nightmare fuel
but hey, at least the ending was cool
Theory: the dead test subject in that one room is you, the creepy guy uses G-man animations, and in the game he tries to both cause and stop certain events. The ones with smoke are really neurotoxin, as all the things GLaDOS says involve neurotoxin. This implies you are having an out-of-body experience of sorts, you died and now your ghost roams the halls, and the last remaining living person, ratman, attempts to save you/your ghost, perhaps by laying you to rest? Or perhaps you are in a test subjects body that you stole, and the sequences as Adam are memories. This explains why you can’t die, you’re already dead so the ghost simply saves you by leaving the body and joining a new one. Still, the person saving you is ratman or G-man, and you are simply waiting to pass on, which happens when you get neurotoxin(how you would have originally died) as you see one of the corpse subjects in the end sequence.
I only now realized how creepy is Portal is without GLaDOS
What chell sees instead of what is actually happening
Me halfway through: I WANT MY MURDER ROBOT BACK!
ok that first level really set shit up for disaster
only like 6 minutes in so far but the way this jumps around non-linearly and exaggerrates the usettling vibe portal 1 had already makes this feel like you're playing through Chell's nightmares
Worse than havig a psycho A.I talking to you the entire way, its having nobody talking at all
Yea true
chell:gets dual portal device
glados:ù̶̡̬͓̮̩͔͚̏̍͜ͅ
Damn. I loved the use of everywhere at the end of time in the flashbacks to convey the inevitable disaster of glados
I love this type of horror. Relying on theme and atmosphere and the feeling of uncertainty, rather than just having a big bad man scream at you every now and again.
bro the part where you hear an elevator opening out of sight was so fucking terrifying holy shit
Glados: kill you
Me: *OH SO NOW YOU TALK*
This mod made me notice how creepy portal is without GlaDOS's slightly funny dialogue.
It would be cool if they made something like this for Portal 2 as well, but if I didn't hear GLaDOS roasting me about being fat every chamber I'd be way more scared.
This is great! I feel that the ending might have been even creepier though if the personnel changed to 3 not 0, to show that there's still something there...
Yea
"Of course! What's the worst thing that can happen?" Laughting my ass off
I played this mod myself. Amazing! The maker obviously knew that the player would get used to the horror by the end, and took a slightly more hopeful/actiony note, while still being a bit scary
In the flashbacks/dreams there is an album that plays (caretaker) and the album is all about memory loss the album starts with relaxed retro music and gets more and more corrupted as it goes
The fact they added Everywhere at the End of Time was really cool
The first Portal game was already very scary, but this is just horrifying.
Still scarier than any modern horror game.
tbh most chilling thing was the music at 7:55, that song, oh god that song
Ok
@@tearindrop673 Ok
I LOVE when TH-cam recommends me this quality of content.
Great mod + Great commentary = Awesome video
*Subscribes*
Thx :)
Did you just stuff that Aperture Science Thing We Don't Know What It Does into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator?
GLaDOS is now testing your sanity instead of skills
Interesting note! the song that plays in the observing room at around 8:25 belongs to the artist The Caretaker! and is part of a series of albums depicting Alzheimer's and Parkinson's'. The complete experience is around 6 hours of terrifying music, slowly devolving into base tones. I highly recommend it! the project is called, "Everywhere at the End of Time" this sample is played as the first song in the album.
Fuck that's creepy. And no actual encounter/jumpscare entity except the chair!
Very well done mod.
Anyone listening to the soundtrack:
It seems we are at the end of time.
7:56 the music of everywhere at the end of time make's it even darker-
You know you're in for a good time when The Caretaker's songs start to play....
What would have finished this off to sell more on horror would have been the G-man coming in and talking to you about a business opportunity.