Why you SHOULD play Portal: Forbidden Testing Tracks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2023
- Thanks so much to everyone for watching. I really enjoyed making this video and hope that it spreads the word of this overhated mod. The developer is a great guy who actually got to see the video ahead of time and thought that it was constructive, so I hope you all find it enjoyable to watch.
Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/16...
Walkthrough: • Portal - Forbidden Tes... - เกม
It's better to fail at something than to never try.
So I have respect for people who actually finish the projects they've been working on even if it's not great.
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@@SpringySpring04
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The "custom" models are just pieces of Atlas & P-body's limbs
Great video. It's nice to see people being positive about this mod. I was super harsh about it when I first played it and I really shouldn't have been.
Btw, at 8:53 that button is a skip button. You're supposed to run through that whole sequence yourself
The weird Gman analogue horror thing at the end was certainly an odd choice. Even if that effect is supposed to be a problem with Rachel's perception just like the backrooms, the Gman himself still must be real because why would she hallucinate that character? I think the dev had some interesting ideas here, but either failed to communicate them properly or wanted to be too game theory mysterious about it.
The final boss is the morality core that you pulled out of the incinerator earlier in the game
The person who called it "Hunt Down the Chell" was actually the person who introduced me to this mod. It's definitely not that bad, but I didn't enjoy it.
Somehow, I got a completely different ending where GLaDOS decides that blowing up the facility was a fakeout before killing you with turrets. I tried to get the G-Man ending and searched for a secret route, but I couldn't find anything.
The story at the end went by so quickly that I couldn't understand anything, but SAIC specifically says that the boss is the morality core so I have no idea how you missed it.
I will say, I have selective hearing, so probably wasn't paying attention to the core thing. But I never saw anything about a fake out ending. That does sound pretty interesting.
The secret route is on the first space level with wheatley, after the starting room stops moving and you portal out of it you can then place a portal in the long outside area. Once you go through the portal you need to head to the back of the area (close to where the starting room was before it started moving) and on one of the sides there's some sheets of paper on the ground with lore. Staring at the paper for 10 seconds will replace the normal path with the g-man path, so once you beat the game you'll instead get the g-man ending.
honestly this mod just seems unfinished if anything
he mod maker clearly isnt bad at what they do its just a very ambitious project
with some help some polishing
and making it a little more obvious what is happening in he story or at least having a more natural buildup with all the strange things
if this got some community support rather than being ragged on so much
While I think it's overly hated for being a free mod and not a paid product, this mod is still the least fun I've had playing a source mod, and *definitely* should have been uploaded to ModdDB instead of Steam.
The use of AI voices, them ripping the "portal doors" from P2 workshop maps, plus originally titling the mod under the "Portal Stories" series, puts this mod in a really weird spot that doesn't fit the standards set by other Steam-uploaded mods like Rexaura.
But even outside of those problems, the mod shows a serious lack of any playtesting or general player direction, with sections that feel impossible to do "as intended", which is horrible for a Portal mod. With mods for games like Half-Life, you have a solid foundation that can keep the game enjoyable, gunfights in Half-Life are still fun, even if the mod overall isn't, but with Portal, the enjoyment the player can get out of the mod can't come from anything other than solid level design or fun original mechanics, both of which FTT seriously lacks.
I think the biggest problem for this mod is the ai voices because i would have preferred a bad voice actor doing the work instead of an ai . The test chambers were confusing and the new mechanics that were added were either used once and never again or werent polished enough . The new tools and guns are reskinned things that already existed from other mods such as the paint gun being the same exact thing from aperture tag but only the model being different. Most test chambers just existed for no reason . I started the mod and every time i got into a chamber thinking i was gonna finally pass it i just got a detour or the test was impossible to pass unless i looked it up. Most of the bad textures and the story were a big turn off for people as well. I think the negative reviews are earned and not just done for no reason . The mod has a lot of flaws and a lot of unoriginal content that i have seen in plenty of other mods . And all of it combined makes this mess of a mod . The fact that the developer took 3/4 years to make this and having 5 to 6 years experience doesnt really speak well. The mod isnt polished at all. A lot of Visual and texture problems came on and off and the story is just abysmal . I do hope the developers learns a lot from this but i suggest he takes a lot of steps back and just start from 0 . I also suggest he removes the mod from the steam page because even if he make a new mod thats decent people will remember the dev with his first mod that he uploaded and his new work might be unseen or straight up hated even if its good.
Portal 2: Overcharged
18:22 all the weapon models except for the portal gun are not one model, instead they are random gibs (the pieces of things you see flying off them when they get destroyed) taped and grouped together with map logic. That's why it's z-fighting and also slightly behind your actual view.
hey, really good video
a suggestion I’d make is put some background music on
sometimes the video feels “empty” when you’re just talking
no hate of course, I really enjoyed it and I think you’re doing a great job
got yourself a sub and a like:)
youtube must be getting better at recommending lesser known content, cause this is a good video
man kinda sounds like Nile Red for games
my problem with it is that is on steam, like steam, y know, the platform where Portal Stories Mel and Reloaded(and soon Revolution) and also oh Idk the original Portal games are on? yeah that one. that's my main problem with it.
the fact that MULTIPLE tests or interstitial bits rely on perfectly executing advanced source-specific movement techniques rather than smartly using your tools really killed the latter half of the mod, it peaked at the g-man jumpscare and then the rest was gruelling to play, though i should have expected it because of the skip button incident
Another thing that people should know about this mod is, If you look closely at some of the Particle effects, some of them seem to come from an old Portal mod, known as "Factum Solus" Like the Yellow glow that appears around a weapon is the "Trunnel" Particle effect. aswell as the Orblauncher firing effect.
The fact that you can reward people for reviews made them so much worse man. People already wrote jokes, but the addition of Steam Gold just let the flood gates open. "Hunt down the chell" feels like a guy trying desperately to get a stupid fucking updoot over a kinda iffy mod.
i completely agree
This was a pretty good video and I'm glad TH-cam recommended it to me! You definitely have a lot of potential and I'd love to see you continue to grow! You've definitely earned a sub :)
There's a few things I think were missing from your video that I'll list, these are just things I feel you could add to help make your videos better but in the end are my opinion and you don't need to apply them if you don't feel the need to!
-During segments of you doing voice overs with gameplay, having any sort of music in the background that fits the theming of the video would greatly help as just listening to your voice could put some people off
-A bit more breaks between your sentences, and redoing takes where you might have stuttered or restarted a sentence would also help
-When going from voice over to in game sound, having the audio fade in even just slightly would make it less jarring when it does happen, right now it was a tiny bit too loud going from just your voice to the gameplay!
Overall a very nice video and I hope to see you continue to grow!
Thank you for the input! With my editor I use it comes with some free music that I have used in the past but because the rules are always weird around audio for background I was planning to maybe make a video in the future where I learn to make it myself. But I do agree, the audio stuff and lack of takes is usually the weak points of the videos
@@stressedskeleton6838 despite the weak points the video itself is pretty good! So good job :)
So from what you've shown, it looks like the modder had... a lot of interesting ideas, but no means to properly playtest. And also nobody to provide honest feedback.
Whilst I feel like comparing this mod to Hunt Down The Freeman is wrong considering this is free and that game cost money. I do think you were very generous with some of your points. Here's a few things for the dev to keep in mind when working on future projects.
Introduce mechanics before using them in puzzles. For example that spark that pushes you forwards in mid air confused a lot of people. As it's a mechanic that's not from classic portal and never explained most players wandered around the test having no idea you could jump on them for ages. To fix this include a section where only one of the sparks is in a room and force the player to use it to progress. If playtester's still don't understand it then include some dialog from your core friend that explains how it works.
When writing a story about the player losing there mind, make it much more clear that's what's going on. Adding secrets and Easter eggs may be fine as a bonus or for lore but players shouldn't need to search every noon and cranny to try and get a basic understanding of the core narrative. Try including scenes that makes it more obvious that the character is going mad. For example, perhaps before you head into one of those strange sections like the endless staircase or one of the backroom offices everything appears normal, then when the door opens revealing this otherworldly geometry there's an ominous musical stinger that gives the player a feeling of dread. As if something is very clearly wrong. After the player starts going through this area for a few seconds or mins you could have the core cut in with a voice line and teleport the player outside of the otherworldly area back to the start. He could give you some dialog about how you were acting strange. Then when you open the door to the area again, everything seems normal. That would plant the seed in the players mind that our character isn't in a good state mentally and would force us to think about what's real and what's not.
this mod has too many idea's. some of the hammer work looks good tho.
Bit late to the party and i personally think my perception of the mods has been warped with the astounding quality of Reloaded, Revolution and imho the best of the best portal stories mel i judged this game to harshly (i finished it today)
But i definitely agree that the core should be used more and some of the puzzles/puzzle elements should be explained by the Core Guestimating
But please dev if you read the reviews on steam (I'll update mine soon) please please add subtitles because i could barely hear the core and give more exposure to those elements its really sad that they all just poof away so fast
(And if possible use the paint gun model from aperture tag)
Looking at this it seems to be a ton of good solid ideas but they tried to condense it down to a single campaign and connect it together.
Honestly some of the ideas could be cool on their own as a short level set.
Now that I've seen the interview, I feel bad for saying such mean things on Steam, I'll give the mod another chance with a fresh perspective
It's ok to not like the mod, the developer said it is early and would be changed up to be better soon. If you really didn't enjoy it, wait for them to polish it up and then you can judge it again where it hopefully improves!
@@stressedskeleton6838 Can't polish a turd.
0:44 testicles *stapled* to the wall. Not slapped to the wall
i don't remember gman at ending, all i remember was turrets shooting after self destruction
Someone else mentioned that there was a turret fake out ending but I never saw footage of it and didn’t get it myself. So looks like I missed a little bit
@@stressedskeleton6838 The turret fake out ending was only added in a later update to the game which is probably why you missed it. Before the update the g-man ending was always the ending everyone would get but after the update it was made a secret ending only obtainable by finding / reading some sheets of paper in a certain level.
I like that guy. I like that he's making the mod not because of cash but because pasion.
And if I had to guess, he creates the game like a work of art; the journey haven't started with a good reception, the art he makes may not look the best, it might not appeal to everyone but with his skills and time, the art will show large improvement, potential, more enjoyment and appeal.
I cheer for that guy and his mod.
the mod was clearly made by a child. 12 at the oldest, thats not an empty criticism but a genuine explanation. Looking at the mod through that lens it starts to make a lot more sense, this mod shouldn't have made it to steam.
It's not the worst, but it's FAR from ever being a game that I would recommend to people getting into portal, you kinda need the background of half life to even understand the gman bits.
I cant be the only one who thinks SAIC sounds like ngeruma, right??
I have no idea how amateurish mods make it onto steam, they seem a lot better fit for somewhere like moddb where less people will assume itll be valve quality, and the modder will actually get constructive criticism rather than being bullied
You pay 100€ and valve verifies the thing and it can be uploaded to steam
you said you linked the playthrough, but unless its in a buried comment, I think you forgot.
I was so hyped to play it when it came out but was only able to get it working today and I gotta say it was a massive disappointment most of the levels were insanely hard and some even impossible and the plot is all over the place and the ending was really unsatisfying but the soundtrack hit hard ngl I liked the parts that interconnected with portal 2 but the rest was kinda mid tbh
This video belongs on my list of greatest video essays.
Ima just say: Visible no draw.
1:49 you shouldn't title the video "why you should play this game" if the video is going to spoil everything about the game and recommends playing through the game first, that either defeats the purpose of the video or is a weird clickbait title that misrepresents what the video is about (and I am not going to watch this to find out which as I do want to play this myself)
Geniuenly dont know why people hate on it. Yes, it's not a perfect fan game. It is 2 hours worth of a fun portal game though, and it's completely free. If you own portal 2, a pc and know how to play portal 2 then you should just get it
this video is great and all and i do hope to see P:FTT improve in the future as it has a solid base for a good mod but please compare it to BONELAB and not BONEWORKS
This is the least convincing video I've ever seen.
Neat vid 👌
This mod looks like it definitely deserves the bad reviews
Hola
nice video could use more furry vore though
I just thought this mod was funny, it's nowhere near the worst thing ever and it's really hard to imagine someone getting genuinely angry at this silly little free mod, I was laughing hysterically at the massive QUEBEC 7 sign
Portal 2 sloppy testing tracks
Portal: forbidden quality control