This video had a bit of a resurgence in the past few days, and a lot of people have been suggesting i try out some of the portal 2 mods. I have downloaded the 3 biggest portal mods (revolution, mel and reloaded) and will probably stream my first playthrough/thoughts on my twitch over the next week or so, if you're interested here's the link: www.twitch.tv/kaaylive
Great mods! Excellent pick. They are all amazing. Aperture Tag is also a great mod if you want something a bit different. Doesn't use a portal gun and has two endings
And don't forget that there are literally thousands of player-created levels in the workshop. Those can range from moronically simple to devilishly, impossibly difficult.
All three mods are really worth your time. I appreciated mel the most as it came out but Revolution is clearly the mod that had the most effort put into. It really feels like a full game to me, with incredible voice acting, refreshing new mechanics and a great story. Reloaded is kind of a brain buster but the puzzles are very rewarding once you wrapped your head around
@@Ytinasniiableexactly. It's a super important distinction. To use anime to further illustrate. If you go back and watch Dragon Ball Z now, you'll probably see it's filled with overused tropes and powerscaling and tons of other overused Shonen battle mechanics. But it's the anime that established 90% of those as tropes. It walked so things like Fairy Tail, and My Hero Academia, One Piece, and Bleach, and Naruto could run. Without DBZ, none of those would have turned out the same way. Its the same for Portal and Portal 2. Yeah, the memes and self referential humor are a bit overdone, now, but without Portal, we would never have had it in the first place.
I know. Their humor is so on point. Like I can imagine exactly what they were thinking when making certain jokes. “Hey, we need to think of something really impressive to put behind this giant vault” “let’s brainstorm some ideas around the table” “what if we just put a tiny regular-sized door behind behind it?” “BRILLIANT” “and let’s make the opening sequence as dramatic as possible just for the lights to turn on and reveal an anticlimactic wall with a tiny door on it”
What I remember being reminded of at the time was Douglas Adams. It felt to me like it captured the vibe of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy more than "And Another Thing..." did. And I don't think it's aged poorly. I think some *people* have just aged poorly.
@@tpd1864blakethere is a commentary mode, where you play the game and click on some bubbles with creators voice lines. That's basically what they say about that joke.
Was about to comment something similar. I don't know how old the people are who tweeted this and obviously Portal (as every piece of media at any time in history) was influenced by the world of that time, but the influence Portal had on the internet culture of the 2010er years can't be understated.
And it’s not even “le epic random” humor either. Literally the closest I can think of is that there’s maybe one too many PotatOS gags, it might’ve been funnier if none of the characters ever acknowledged it. But that’s like two jokes in a 5 hour game. I guarantee even the weakest lines are ten times funnier than whatever these Twitter users have ever come up with.
I wonder if the people complaining about the humour dont quite realise that a lot of the jokes that feel like meme reference humour to them are actually the original jokes that people then meme'd. Yes, "the cake is a lie" is a dated meme that feels very early-2010s. But it's from Portal in the first place!!! It's hardly a detriment to the game that it was funny enough to become a quintessential part of that era's pop culture.
Yeah, I swear people act like the first Portal is some completely dark experience with no jokes whatsoever compared to the second when in reality it has humorous moments all throughout it. Portal 2 only amplified that existing aspect of the game.
Fun fact: When Portal was being playtested, there were only 14 test chambers, and so the most common question on the game was about the full game, because people thought it was just a tutorial. So, they added GLaDOS, 5 more tests, and a whole ass escape sequence.
I mean it's fair if you like half lifes story more but claiming it's the worst and not just you like it least is dumb and the didn't age well is just objectively not true considering how many videos of people playing it and having a blast there are from the last 5 years. It holds up so well in gameplay, story, soundtrack and even looks.
Exactly what im talking about, these people like the fake take you had, are absolutely ridiculous, im glad its mostly bait and no one thinks like the fake comment you just made @@nuclearmissionjam3592
The Turret saying "Im different" at 6:40 gives you some lore dumps about the old aperture if you wait long enough. It tells you about Caroline and Cave Johnson
I think those two people are Half Life fans and if you didn’t know, both games exist in the same universe. It’s admittedly really jarring how goofy Wheatley exists in the same universe where the world ended by the Xen aliens and the combine
@@GamingPiratesTwitch but if aperture was a tad more serious it would lead to humanity being eliminated back in like 1950s because of the portal technology...
People get a lot of attention for being pointlessly contrary. Hence people say and do awful shit and they get a lot of internet clout from idiots. See people like Logan and Jake Paul, absolute dickheads who make money by being dickheads.
Just a reminder that Twitter/X recently added direct financial rewards for users that "drive engagement". That's why the bait posts have gotten so much worse lately. I rarely consider any bad take as being sincere anymore.
My two biggest complaints about both games are: - There's no 3rd installment - They are too short. I want more puzzles, more Aperture Science insanity, more Portal humor, just more.
Sadly portals are probably good because they are short. And yet I know people getting bored at the last two Wheatley chambers. For me the moment of boredom was the wall with blue gel with a lot of turrets, like why would Valve place this absolutely uninteresting part where you just try to aim to get all the turrets off?
I actually beg to differ. Though its not official, Portal Reloaded is the closest we might ever get to Portal 3. Its a free mod on steam, and it is absolutely phenomenal. I cannot recommend it enough. The puzzles are brilliant, the humor is great, and its the Aperture Science insanity cranked up to 11. Treat yourself and play it. P.S. Portal Stories: Mel is another fantastic mod that I highly recommend.
The second does help prevent it getting into the over run category. And having the user made stages options is a great help. I am shocked that didn't become DLC or a second game cost wise.
yeah, but there are mods that feel almost as good as the originals. the community is still going strong with portal stories mel, portal reloaded and portal revolution
FINALLY someone who agrees that the games need to be played back to back. my friends kept BEGGING me to just play portal 2 first and i refused hardcore. i can’t imagine going into portal 2 without knowing who glados is for her revival scene. + portal 1 ended up actually being my favorite of the two. i really enjoy the older aesthetic of it, and the escape sequence just felt so real, like you’re really breaking out. (though portal 2 glados is so well designed and iconic) i highly recommend giving msushi a watch, he’s made a lot of really interesting portal speedrun content. super entertaining and well paced!
i actually did listen and played portal 2 first, i was very confused about the story. i of course later played portal 1 and then portal 2 again to get all the details i didnt understand before.
As someone who was gifted Portal 2 (by someone who hadn't played it), I still found it super enjoyable. However, I agree that it definitely was less exciting having this robot woman I didn't know wake up and address me. I knew nothing about the first game.
I mean here’s the thing, I didn’t play Portal 1 before Portal 2. I have absolutely no idea why. And yet… I adored portal 2. I somehow didn’t question anything that was happening that was a reference to the original game. I was obsessed with portal 2 with no other context and I’ve replayed it more than almost any of my single player games on steam.
@@KaayLiveNah dude, don't bring HL fans into this. I adore Half-Life, it's my favorite series. But it's just not the same without Portal. It's also a stupidly good series.
Try performing the Wheatley skip skip skip, where you shoot through the literal pixel in a wall (not even in the door it's literally a wall!). The moment you're lucky to shoot through is worth all the hate you have to Wheatley for wasting 2 minutes in the "secret panel" cutscene.
Saying Portal 2 didn’t age well because of the humor is like saying Ferris Bueller’s Days off or The Goonies didn’t age well because they’re wearing 80s fashion styles
I'll preface this by saying that I'll be 52 years old in April, and I have been playing computer games for about 45 years now, since my family first got an Atari 2600. The Portal series of games, both the one's created by Valve, and the ones not created by valve, (portal stories Mel, portal reloaded, portal revolutions) are all awesome games for my mind, and they remain my favorite games to replay from time to time.
they also have aged incredebly well. my 11 year old brother just got his first computer, and has gotten completely obsessed with the series immediately. cant wait to show his the non valve creations soon
i think the only blemish it has is the section where the rocket turret is introduced and you have to use it to bomb open a cube pipeline, it's not very well communicated to the player, overall it's still the best Portal game tho
@@GBlockbreakerI actually think that's one of the best parts of the game; you either figure out the right solution, or you figure out that you can pick up random stuff and pile it under the vent. Either way you have to think outside the box(no pun intended), and get a satisfying conclusion.
yeah and like it can take like up to five hours _at most_ to beat Portal, you dont even need to dedicate a full day to doing so and five hours is being SUPER generuous, Portal is one of the most classic examples of Valve Design where the entire game is a wordless tutorial guiding you through the use of various elements and then compounding and expanding on them. it's easy... but that's _good._
@@GBlockbreaker Nah, you missed the underlying point of that section. This is the mechanism you later use to "kill" GLaDOS. The game is teaching you the final "killer move" that you need to dispense with her. The mechanism that you have to realise exists, to know what to do. So, though that bit with the vent is a blocker for so many people, it's there to make you learn the vital "killer move" mechanic to complete the game. And it lets you work it out for yourself. It doesn't steal that reward from you. So, when you utilise it to kill GLaDOS later, you OWN that victory. It's actually exceedingly well-designed. People like to say that Portal is the perfect game. And I say that INCLUDES this really very deliberate blocker. It's not random. It's not a mistake. It's 100% by design. Yes, it can stall you there. But it teaches you the rocket mechanic for the final boss, so that, when you meet GLaDOS, with a rocket turret and a portal gun - and the clever way that GLaDOS dropping her morality core and getting you to incinerate it is, of course, showing you the means of her defeat - it does not need to spell it out to you. Portal is the perfect game, in terms of being a masterclass of game design. Like, nothing is out of place. Even the bit that, because it's initially frustrating, that you think is out of place... isn't. Once you realise that what it's teaching you there is the final killer move that completes the game. I think it's exceptionally clever. Because, yes, there could have been a hint. But they didn't steal the revelation from you, knowing that you're going to use it later. So when you defeat GLaDOS, it really was YOU who defeated her. It is a potential blocker. But I think it was 100% designed to be so. It was ensuring that you had the realisation that wins the game. No hints, no tutorials. That victory MUST be yours alone. (It'd be interesting to mod the game, make that bit spell it out then give it to a player who's never played before. And let us see - does being spoon-fed the solution actually steal the emotion from that final victory? I reckon that, on some level, it would. I spent forever but I finally worked it out without looking it up on the Internet. And that did, for me, make the final victory sweeter. I think they 100% intended that. But then, ah, maybe you feel different because, perhaps, you actually looked it up in a TH-cam video instead?)
I love Wheatley so much that sometimes I'd load up TF2 and set up a private match with only bots, and play as Spy with the Ap-Sap, aka the Wheatley sapper that constantly sprouts his voicelines. I tell you, there's nothing like dying and then just hearing Wheatley going, "Aw bless him, he's trying! Useless."
Knowing "the cake is a lie" takes away a major aspect of portal 1. That reveal was supposed to be a slow one - with you not knowing the guiding voice is evil from the moment cake is mentioned but more figuring it out over time as more and more hazards are introduced.
To be fair, "you will be baked, and then there will be cake" does leave very little to the imagination. At a certain point, the game just sort of gives up on trying to keep the twist hidden.
@@FeepingCreatureBut at the same time, GLaDOS' speech has glitched multiple times by this point, so there is still room for the player to wonder whether it was a bug or what she intended to say.
Thing is, portal 2 came out in 2011. And they said it was similar to the humor of 2012. Which means portal 2 did the same as portal 1. influence the internet. Which shows how good the humor actually is. I’m always kinda sad kinda enraged when people say it’s mostly fat and orphan jokes (which make sense that they happen, GLaDOS tries to hurt you emotionally and Wheatley tries to do testing her way), which is just not true. 95% of the humor is situational humor, Wheatleys goofiness and other jokes. The only places where fat and orphan jokes come up is in chapter 2,3,4 and 8. and even then relatively sparingly. The reason we mostly remember those jokes, is because they were mostly the best ones of the game
I was there when literally the entire Internet was obsessed with Portal and Portal 2. The Internet would not be the same without Portal's humor being peppered across it, like little stars cast from a supernova nebula.
Great video, 100% agree. Would just like to add onto that, after Portal 2, Portal 2 Co-op is also a lot of fun, and it's probably the closest to a sequel we'll get. If there's still an itch for more Portal story and humor, Portal Revolution is an insanely well-made fan game taking place between Portal 1 and 2, where a maintenance bot tries to keep the facility from falling apart in GLaDOS' absence. Fun, funny, and it fits perfectly beside the official releases. And if what you are craving is challenging puzzles then the also amazing fan game portal reloaded has got you covered, very little story, very little humor, but insanely creative puzzles, thoroughly exploring its unique mechanic of time travel portals. We might never get another official portal game again, but the fans are so passionate and dedicated, I don't think we'll lack new portal content any time soon
honestly fantastic breakdown. portal1 and 2 were among one of the first games i'd ever picked out for myself and got to play, so seeing people still getting to appreciate it again for the first time even 10 years later makes me happy knowing that the object of such important memories are still making people smile today.
It's true for every social platform. twitter and reddit tell that YT commenters are most dumb idiots in existence, YT say twitch viewers have 2 brain cells and so on. But platform you, YOU using definitely have the smartest people. A paradox.
Thank you. I've been starting to feel like the only one who maintains that playing the first game is a crucial part of the experience. In addition to it just being a great game. Plus one would miss out on _Still Alive!_
Absolutely fantastic take, hearing you react for the first time made me smile. I saw someone else say that it’s not that portal 2 was a product of 2012 humor, but rather 2012 humor was heavily influenced by portal due to how huge it was at the time.
I honestly have only two complaints about the entire portal series, one for each game: - I think the rocket turret should have gotten one or two more puzzle usages before the boss fight (it gets so little time to shine) - I think they should have found a way to do the neurotoxin generator scene without using moving portals (for consistency with the rest of the series)
I also just played portal for the first time about two weeks ago, it’s holds up really well and I often go back to it for more puzzle maps. Overall fantastic game
No question to play 1 first, like it’s not even that big of a time commitment to leave to chance. But yeah as others have said, this game is so rooted in gaming culture it’s genuinely difficult to experience it cold, in its time. I’m really happy I was able to, definitely a special game. But since im ancient, it’s super cool to see new generations being able to experience it again, colder than we’ve been able to recently!
All the Doug Rattman lore. GLadOS & Wheatleys epic bitchyness plus the GLadOS and Chell connection. All the Cave history. And the brilliant final fight and the last Turret chorus. Portal 2 is Legend for all the above - and more. I have not seen Mel or Revolution yet so am planning a special watch. And try to watch APERTURE DESK JOB - wonderful stuff 🎉🎉
Funny, those fat jokes were some of The funniest parts for me, but really, oh my god, fuck, that entire game, once Cave Johnson comes into it, oh my god, I was just glued to the game back in 2012. 1 of The best games I ever experienced back then. Oh I miss that, 12, somehow that doesn't seem that long ago, but, when I think of everything else that was 12 years ago, it feels like a whole lifetime ago
@minimotherogue probably not, just cause I was playing in voice chat with some friends, but I have the vods of me playing portal stories: Mel on my twitch
My biggest problems with 2 is that there are so many early puzzles that are just "find the ONE spot you can put a portal on" like it's where's Waldo. Portal 1 had sooo many ways to solve each puzzle.
Since you enjoyed Portal 1 & 2 so much, I would recommend checking out Portal Reloaded. It's the spiritual successor to Portal 2, and the closest thing to Portal 3 that has ever been released, and its FANTASTIC. Its a mod for Portal 2, and its available on steam for free. It's got the same style of humor, and the puzzles are some of the best in the business. Portal Stories: Mel is another fantastic mod, and its basically the pre-sequel, set between Portal 1 and 2. Its also for free on steam. I think you'd enjoy it as well, though it has a bit more of a dark tone than the others. Still a fantastic mod, and I highly recommend. I don't know if you're still reading comments on this video, but I really hope you see this, because playing these two mods is an absolute treat.
I just completed my first play through of both games and had a great time. I was laughing and gasping and generally reacting to the gaming experience I was having. I adore the humor, it always got me to giggle and I loved hanging around to hear the voice actors eventually run out of dialogue
An extra thing that I loved in portal 2 was the fact that the boss fight is the opposite of the one from the first game. In the first game, you're taking cores off to defeat glados. In the second, you're putting them on to help her.
Wow that video took me way back, and had me remember the whole game, damn what a joy it was. Even though I only played portal 2 (yes shame on me) because I knew everything about the first one when the 2 released, I cannot see another portal game coming, for the same reason I don't see another half-life coming, because valve is so well-versed in exploiting mechanics at just the right amount, you don't get too much, but you get well enough, I recently played half-life alyx and boy was it a huge joy to play, how well they put to use the vr setting, with nearly every item being interactable, so much stuff hidden in tricky spots that you have to move your hands, your body, your head to squeeze and get the thing, the incredible level design, boy was it a marvel. I'd like a "Portal: Somebody" much like HLA if they found a way to reinvent the thing, but now that we know basically everything about aperture science, there is few room but that humor, the fresh feeling of every level, that would be so great.
Why has this got so little views?! Man I loved this video and you literally share every thought with me and many others. So glad to see this nostalgia after 10+ years. 10/10 game series, my absolute favourite. You smashed this video btw, keep it up - subbed
I finished portal 2 again today, a thing that I only today realized. Cave Johnson was talking about moon rocks, so if all white surfaces are probably partly made out of moon magic or whatever. Which gives the ending more sense why you could make a portal on the moon and a proper reason on why you should shoot at the moon and not only instinctively doing that.
These people with these awful takes are the same people saying Baldur's Gate 3 is bad because of turn based combat point and click gameplay, while the game is one of the masterpieces of the new decade.
Thank god! Someone who loves wheatlet! What a godsend , i was afraid , that i am the only person on this wreched network who find him funny , idearing , and just amazing. I ve seen people saying that GLaDOS apreciates main character , but wheatly? No no one likes him. He wasnt evill you know. Well , originaly. GLaDOS took us down with herself. Cunning. Verrry cunning. Still , i love them both. Every single mwmber of the cast , is funny , lovable , and marvelously petty! Love it!
i played portal two first mostly by chance, and i will admit i never finished portal 1. it just didn't grab me the same way. i can see where people come from with it,portal 2 stands very on its own and i enjoyed the whole thing. even with all this, i very much agree with you and have always been a little baffled by the advice of playing portal 2 first or alone. i really do think id have enjoyed the whole thing more if i did it in order. in many ways i feel like i didn't enjoy portal nearly as much as i could have because of the way i played it
Just reacting to the title, will watch the whole thing later tonight: I actually replayed Portal 2 myself for the first time in at least a decade, and I think we still need more games like it. Curious that no one dared make a game with portals in it considering how well understood the programming tricks are by now.
One of the BEST things about these games is the slow escalation. Portal 1 is funny from the first minute but it holds back its full craziness because 100% crazy from the start would be boring. Going in blind it doessn't even seem like it's gonna have a story. That's part of the reason people loved it when it came out. It looks like a tech demo and it s l o w l y descends into madness. Portal 2 builds on that and continues to take you in unexpected directions but it already acts like a story because you already found out that it is one in portal 1. It wouldn't be half as funny without knowing how low key it all started.
My experience with portal was a lucky one because i played it either just before or just after they announced the sequel. But inhad previouslt watched my friend beat the game (i only saw the glados fight cuz thats when i happened to go over his house while he was finishing up) And the end of 1 where you get dragged away thats not in the orignal ending. Originally it was all the same, minus the dragging. They dropped an update to change it to segway into how that start of 2 happens. I only played a few weeks after i had just finished watching my friend have the ending. Not even a month had passed. And i was caught super off guard by that one tiny change because i wasnt expecting it and was SO confused. But i loved the detail that they went to the effort to kake one tiny change, that doesnt change any ofnthe story or gameplay, simply to prepare for a sequel
I just played Portal and Portal 2 for the first time this week. I finished both of them and I absolutely loved both of them. I finished the first game in 2 1/2 hours and it took me nearly 9 hours to finish the second one LMAO
My hot take is a lot of nerd 2012 humor was inspired by portal not the other way round. Like maybe portal feels to a certain extent like a product of its time but that's because people quoted the games incessantly which made 2012 nerd humor inspired by portal.
I use this analogy a fair bit when it comes to explaining games like this and if you should play the earlier ones. Its like watching better call saul without watching breaking bad. Phenomenal show on its own but its even better when you know the history.
I was never a part of the gaming/internet culture in question at the time I played portal 2 for the first time, and had never played the first game either; it became one of my favorite games purely on its own merit, hah.
Portal 2 holds up pretty well I'd say! But I do think in hindsight the first game is the most perfect version of it. It felt so fresh at the time, such a perfect little thing, a lovely little game by a huge studio at a time when it just wasn't the done thing for a huge studio to make a lovely little game (and I guess it still isn't). Portal 2 is full of incredible moments and it's amazing to see the first game taken to its logical extreme, but... well, it's a bit like when the band you like that played in small clubs starts playing in stadiums. The spectacle of the stadium is cool, but there's something about the down-to-earthness of a small venue that somehow feels like the more pure version.
Some people are blinded by time and refuse to accept timelessness and a story that can reach any audience no matter their age. Same thing as calling Avatar a “kid’s show” just because it released on nickelodeon
You should play them both again with developer commentary mode on. You seem like a person who would really enjoy hearing what they had to say. The developers had a *lot* of fun making these games and that really comes through in the commentaries
People saying the Portal series doesn't hold up is a _wildly_ hot take imo lol I'd be incredibly curious to see what games these people would compare it against these days
Have you played 'SUPERLIMINAL'? It is an indie game that has the feel of thinking outside the box with your perspective like Portal 1 and 2 does but it uses zero portals! A different game dynamic that feels fresh but scratches the Portal itch for fun brain twisting trippy AF puzzles!
Portal 2 is just the perfect formula. Everything works. It's never too short or too long. Just so good. You just wanna keep playing. Add to that the quality of the music, sound design, voice acting & animation/lighting and * chef's kiss *. Weathley being annoying is the purpose. He's not GLaDOS with her dark, sarcastic humor. He's an idiot that talk all the damn time.
Twitter user: Yeah guys, good thing we’re all so above the humor of the Portal games now. (stares at top text/bottom text Hazbin Hotel memes for 12 hours on end)
I had... probably one of the weirdest experiences with this series, having first played some Little Big Planet (user-created) level series based on the first game, then Portal 2, then Portal 1. I can confirm that 2 is much better having played 1 first. Thankfully, it turns out that the LBP series was a good enough substitute that 2 wasn't lost on me at all.
My biggest complaint with portal one is that sometimes when you fly through the air with a cube in front of you, the cube messes up your momentum as if you were bumping into it. It was a little annoying and did get in the way sometimes. But it was completely fixed in portal 2.
This video had a bit of a resurgence in the past few days, and a lot of people have been suggesting i try out some of the portal 2 mods. I have downloaded the 3 biggest portal mods (revolution, mel and reloaded) and will probably stream my first playthrough/thoughts on my twitch over the next week or so, if you're interested here's the link: www.twitch.tv/kaaylive
Great mods! Excellent pick. They are all amazing.
Aperture Tag is also a great mod if you want something a bit different. Doesn't use a portal gun and has two endings
All excellent, and i think you'll really enjoy Mel.
Reloaded broke my brain lol
And don't forget that there are literally thousands of player-created levels in the workshop. Those can range from moronically simple to devilishly, impossibly difficult.
Play mind escape lmao
All three mods are really worth your time. I appreciated mel the most as it came out but Revolution is clearly the mod that had the most effort put into. It really feels like a full game to me, with incredible voice acting, refreshing new mechanics and a great story. Reloaded is kind of a brain buster but the puzzles are very rewarding once you wrapped your head around
10:36 The humor of portal 2 wasn't a product of it's time, the humor of it's time was a product of portal 2
This is very important
@@Ytinasniiableexactly. It's a super important distinction.
To use anime to further illustrate.
If you go back and watch Dragon Ball Z now, you'll probably see it's filled with overused tropes and powerscaling and tons of other overused Shonen battle mechanics.
But it's the anime that established 90% of those as tropes. It walked so things like Fairy Tail, and My Hero Academia, One Piece, and Bleach, and Naruto could run.
Without DBZ, none of those would have turned out the same way.
Its the same for Portal and Portal 2. Yeah, the memes and self referential humor are a bit overdone, now, but without Portal, we would never have had it in the first place.
I know. Their humor is so on point. Like I can imagine exactly what they were thinking when making certain jokes.
“Hey, we need to think of something really impressive to put behind this giant vault” “let’s brainstorm some ideas around the table” “what if we just put a tiny regular-sized door behind behind it?” “BRILLIANT” “and let’s make the opening sequence as dramatic as possible just for the lights to turn on and reveal an anticlimactic wall with a tiny door on it”
What I remember being reminded of at the time was Douglas Adams. It felt to me like it captured the vibe of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy more than "And Another Thing..." did. And I don't think it's aged poorly. I think some *people* have just aged poorly.
@@tpd1864blakethere is a commentary mode, where you play the game and click on some bubbles with creators voice lines. That's basically what they say about that joke.
10:34 The humor of the time is a product of Portal 2. Not the other way around
How did i read this perfectly read this at that time in the video
me too XD i literally hit the timestamp and it took me back 2 seconds lmfao@@lemondude2
Was about to comment something similar. I don't know how old the people are who tweeted this and obviously Portal (as every piece of media at any time in history) was influenced by the world of that time, but the influence Portal had on the internet culture of the 2010er years can't be understated.
And it’s not even “le epic random” humor either. Literally the closest I can think of is that there’s maybe one too many PotatOS gags, it might’ve been funnier if none of the characters ever acknowledged it. But that’s like two jokes in a 5 hour game.
I guarantee even the weakest lines are ten times funnier than whatever these Twitter users have ever come up with.
I wonder if the people complaining about the humour dont quite realise that a lot of the jokes that feel like meme reference humour to them are actually the original jokes that people then meme'd. Yes, "the cake is a lie" is a dated meme that feels very early-2010s. But it's from Portal in the first place!!! It's hardly a detriment to the game that it was funny enough to become a quintessential part of that era's pop culture.
Yeah, that is so spot on!
Yeah, I swear people act like the first Portal is some completely dark experience with no jokes whatsoever compared to the second when in reality it has humorous moments all throughout it. Portal 2 only amplified that existing aspect of the game.
Portal was the source of many memes. Half Life and Team Fortress 2 were likewise the source of many memes.
@@SerunaXIhehe source
Fun fact: When Portal was being playtested, there were only 14 test chambers, and so the most common question on the game was about the full game, because people thought it was just a tutorial. So, they added GLaDOS, 5 more tests, and a whole ass escape sequence.
Wasn't the escape sequence ALWAYS planned though?
"portal 2 is the weakest valve single player game" and "didn't age well" is THE most screaming "I DONT KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT" take.
I mean it's fair if you like half lifes story more but claiming it's the worst and not just you like it least is dumb and the didn't age well is just objectively not true considering how many videos of people playing it and having a blast there are from the last 5 years. It holds up so well in gameplay, story, soundtrack and even looks.
It’s a Valve game, it’s practically impossible for it to not age well.
Also even if it were the worst Valve singleplayer story, that bar is extremely high.
Exactly what im talking about, these people like the fake take you had, are absolutely ridiculous, im glad its mostly bait and no one thinks like the fake comment you just made @@nuclearmissionjam3592
@@nuclearmissionjam3592 if opposing force is your worst singleplayer campaign then idk i think your entire catalog might just be peak
The Turret saying "Im different" at 6:40 gives you some lore dumps about the old aperture if you wait long enough. It tells you about Caroline and Cave Johnson
It also foretells about glados being picked on by the bird when it relates her to Prometheus
Those two tweets have to be the worst two takes I've seen about Portal
I think those two people are Half Life fans and if you didn’t know, both games exist in the same universe. It’s admittedly really jarring how goofy Wheatley exists in the same universe where the world ended by the Xen aliens and the combine
@@GamingPiratesTwitch but if aperture was a tad more serious it would lead to humanity being eliminated back in like 1950s because of the portal technology...
@@Sergonizer I’m surprised they didn’t. Cave Johnson mentioned time travel would erase time forward and backward
People get a lot of attention for being pointlessly contrary. Hence people say and do awful shit and they get a lot of internet clout from idiots. See people like Logan and Jake Paul, absolute dickheads who make money by being dickheads.
Just a reminder that Twitter/X recently added direct financial rewards for users that "drive engagement". That's why the bait posts have gotten so much worse lately. I rarely consider any bad take as being sincere anymore.
as a massive portal fan, I had one thought the entire way through this video:
*YOU GET IT.*
The two people writing those tweets were probably too young to understand that Portal is what DEFINED humor for that era. Not the other way around.
My two biggest complaints about both games are:
- There's no 3rd installment
- They are too short. I want more puzzles, more Aperture Science insanity, more Portal humor, just more.
Sadly portals are probably good because they are short. And yet I know people getting bored at the last two Wheatley chambers. For me the moment of boredom was the wall with blue gel with a lot of turrets, like why would Valve place this absolutely uninteresting part where you just try to aim to get all the turrets off?
I actually beg to differ. Though its not official, Portal Reloaded is the closest we might ever get to Portal 3. Its a free mod on steam, and it is absolutely phenomenal. I cannot recommend it enough.
The puzzles are brilliant, the humor is great, and its the Aperture Science insanity cranked up to 11. Treat yourself and play it.
P.S.
Portal Stories: Mel is another fantastic mod that I highly recommend.
@@Sergonizer 👀🙄
The second does help prevent it getting into the over run category. And having the user made stages options is a great help. I am shocked that didn't become DLC or a second game cost wise.
yeah, but there are mods that feel almost as good as the originals. the community is still going strong with portal stories mel, portal reloaded and portal revolution
FINALLY someone who agrees that the games need to be played back to back. my friends kept BEGGING me to just play portal 2 first and i refused hardcore. i can’t imagine going into portal 2 without knowing who glados is for her revival scene. + portal 1 ended up actually being my favorite of the two. i really enjoy the older aesthetic of it, and the escape sequence just felt so real, like you’re really breaking out. (though portal 2 glados is so well designed and iconic) i highly recommend giving msushi a watch, he’s made a lot of really interesting portal speedrun content. super entertaining and well paced!
Who told you to just skip Portal 1??? I feel like regardless of the story, Portal 1 has a lot to offer in terms of puzzles and such
i actually did listen and played portal 2 first, i was very confused about the story. i of course later played portal 1 and then portal 2 again to get all the details i didnt understand before.
As someone who was gifted Portal 2 (by someone who hadn't played it), I still found it super enjoyable. However, I agree that it definitely was less exciting having this robot woman I didn't know wake up and address me. I knew nothing about the first game.
You have to get better friends.
I mean here’s the thing, I didn’t play Portal 1 before Portal 2. I have absolutely no idea why. And yet… I adored portal 2. I somehow didn’t question anything that was happening that was a reference to the original game. I was obsessed with portal 2 with no other context and I’ve replayed it more than almost any of my single player games on steam.
the only people that find wheatley annoying are speedrunners because they hate every tiny bit of cutscenes
And half life fans apparently
@@KaayLiveNah dude, don't bring HL fans into this. I adore Half-Life, it's my favorite series. But it's just not the same without Portal. It's also a stupidly good series.
Try performing the Wheatley skip skip skip, where you shoot through the literal pixel in a wall (not even in the door it's literally a wall!). The moment you're lucky to shoot through is worth all the hate you have to Wheatley for wasting 2 minutes in the "secret panel" cutscene.
@@Sergonizer I do in every speedrun.
lol I only say half life fans cause those two tweets are from half life super fans
Saying Portal 2 didn’t age well because of the humor is like saying Ferris Bueller’s Days off or The Goonies didn’t age well because they’re wearing 80s fashion styles
More like saying those didn't age well because they're wearing clothes.
I'll preface this by saying that I'll be 52 years old in April, and I have been playing computer games for about 45 years now, since my family first got an Atari 2600. The Portal series of games, both the one's created by Valve, and the ones not created by valve, (portal stories Mel, portal reloaded, portal revolutions) are all awesome games for my mind, and they remain my favorite games to replay from time to time.
King shit. Thanks for sharing.
they also have aged incredebly well. my 11 year old brother just got his first computer, and has gotten completely obsessed with the series immediately. cant wait to show his the non valve creations soon
anyone who says you can skip Portal is DUMB, the game is literally almost perfect
i think the only blemish it has is the section where the rocket turret is introduced and you have to use it to bomb open a cube pipeline, it's not very well communicated to the player, overall it's still the best Portal game tho
I genuinely had no idea these people existed! The mind boggles at such idiocy.
@@GBlockbreakerI actually think that's one of the best parts of the game; you either figure out the right solution, or you figure out that you can pick up random stuff and pile it under the vent. Either way you have to think outside the box(no pun intended), and get a satisfying conclusion.
yeah and like it can take like up to five hours _at most_ to beat Portal, you dont even need to dedicate a full day to doing so
and five hours is being SUPER generuous, Portal is one of the most classic examples of Valve Design where the entire game is a wordless tutorial guiding you through the use of various elements and then compounding and expanding on them. it's easy... but that's _good._
@@GBlockbreaker Nah, you missed the underlying point of that section.
This is the mechanism you later use to "kill" GLaDOS.
The game is teaching you the final "killer move" that you need to dispense with her. The mechanism that you have to realise exists, to know what to do.
So, though that bit with the vent is a blocker for so many people, it's there to make you learn the vital "killer move" mechanic to complete the game.
And it lets you work it out for yourself. It doesn't steal that reward from you. So, when you utilise it to kill GLaDOS later, you OWN that victory.
It's actually exceedingly well-designed.
People like to say that Portal is the perfect game. And I say that INCLUDES this really very deliberate blocker.
It's not random. It's not a mistake. It's 100% by design.
Yes, it can stall you there. But it teaches you the rocket mechanic for the final boss, so that, when you meet GLaDOS, with a rocket turret and a portal gun - and the clever way that GLaDOS dropping her morality core and getting you to incinerate it is, of course, showing you the means of her defeat - it does not need to spell it out to you.
Portal is the perfect game, in terms of being a masterclass of game design. Like, nothing is out of place.
Even the bit that, because it's initially frustrating, that you think is out of place... isn't. Once you realise that what it's teaching you there is the final killer move that completes the game.
I think it's exceptionally clever. Because, yes, there could have been a hint. But they didn't steal the revelation from you, knowing that you're going to use it later. So when you defeat GLaDOS, it really was YOU who defeated her.
It is a potential blocker. But I think it was 100% designed to be so. It was ensuring that you had the realisation that wins the game. No hints, no tutorials. That victory MUST be yours alone.
(It'd be interesting to mod the game, make that bit spell it out then give it to a player who's never played before. And let us see - does being spoon-fed the solution actually steal the emotion from that final victory? I reckon that, on some level, it would. I spent forever but I finally worked it out without looking it up on the Internet. And that did, for me, make the final victory sweeter. I think they 100% intended that. But then, ah, maybe you feel different because, perhaps, you actually looked it up in a TH-cam video instead?)
I love Wheatley so much that sometimes I'd load up TF2 and set up a private match with only bots, and play as Spy with the Ap-Sap, aka the Wheatley sapper that constantly sprouts his voicelines.
I tell you, there's nothing like dying and then just hearing Wheatley going, "Aw bless him, he's trying! Useless."
Knowing "the cake is a lie" takes away a major aspect of portal 1. That reveal was supposed to be a slow one - with you not knowing the guiding voice is evil from the moment cake is mentioned but more figuring it out over time as more and more hazards are introduced.
To be fair, "you will be baked, and then there will be cake" does leave very little to the imagination. At a certain point, the game just sort of gives up on trying to keep the twist hidden.
@@FeepingCreatureBut at the same time, GLaDOS' speech has glitched multiple times by this point, so there is still room for the player to wonder whether it was a bug or what she intended to say.
@@FeepingCreature But that happens after the room that says the cake is a lie
I can’t believe you killed the oracle turret just as she was delivering her famous Prometheus line. 😢
portal wasn’t a product of the humor of its time, the humor of its time is a product of portal
Half of my favorite moments of portal are my monkey brain’s neurons activating and realizing the obvious solution to the puzzle
Thing is, portal 2 came out in 2011. And they said it was similar to the humor of 2012. Which means portal 2 did the same as portal 1. influence the internet. Which shows how good the humor actually is. I’m always kinda sad kinda enraged when people say it’s mostly fat and orphan jokes (which make sense that they happen, GLaDOS tries to hurt you emotionally and Wheatley tries to do testing her way), which is just not true. 95% of the humor is situational humor, Wheatleys goofiness and other jokes. The only places where fat and orphan jokes come up is in chapter 2,3,4 and 8. and even then relatively sparingly. The reason we mostly remember those jokes, is because they were mostly the best ones of the game
I was there when literally the entire Internet was obsessed with Portal and Portal 2. The Internet would not be the same without Portal's humor being peppered across it, like little stars cast from a supernova nebula.
and the humor holds up just as well today, idk what they're on about saying it's aged poorly.
Great video, 100% agree. Would just like to add onto that, after Portal 2, Portal 2 Co-op is also a lot of fun, and it's probably the closest to a sequel we'll get. If there's still an itch for more Portal story and humor, Portal Revolution is an insanely well-made fan game taking place between Portal 1 and 2, where a maintenance bot tries to keep the facility from falling apart in GLaDOS' absence. Fun, funny, and it fits perfectly beside the official releases. And if what you are craving is challenging puzzles then the also amazing fan game portal reloaded has got you covered, very little story, very little humor, but insanely creative puzzles, thoroughly exploring its unique mechanic of time travel portals. We might never get another official portal game again, but the fans are so passionate and dedicated, I don't think we'll lack new portal content any time soon
honestly fantastic breakdown. portal1 and 2 were among one of the first games i'd ever picked out for myself and got to play, so seeing people still getting to appreciate it again for the first time even 10 years later makes me happy knowing that the object of such important memories are still making people smile today.
glad to hear they held up lol, twitter SUCKS.
I agree
It's true for every social platform. twitter and reddit tell that YT commenters are most dumb idiots in existence, YT say twitch viewers have 2 brain cells and so on. But platform you, YOU using definitely have the smartest people. A paradox.
@@mapron1 I'm just using every platform and seeing dumbasses everywhere, peak way to spend time
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@@mapron1 Twitter definitely concentrates the stupidity more than other platforms tho
You know a video's going to be interesting when the first thing said is *"I was scrolling Twitter a few weeks ago-" *
Thank you. I've been starting to feel like the only one who maintains that playing the first game is a crucial part of the experience. In addition to it just being a great game. Plus one would miss out on _Still Alive!_
Wheatley is by far one of my favorite characters in gaming. He is such a goofball.
Absolutely fantastic take, hearing you react for the first time made me smile.
I saw someone else say that it’s not that portal 2 was a product of 2012 humor, but rather 2012 humor was heavily influenced by portal due to how huge it was at the time.
Oh, of course, the "fun" police.
Or alternatively the "My hero is a badass that would never crack a joke" police
well, Chell never cracks a joke
I honestly have only two complaints about the entire portal series, one for each game:
- I think the rocket turret should have gotten one or two more puzzle usages before the boss fight (it gets so little time to shine)
- I think they should have found a way to do the neurotoxin generator scene without using moving portals (for consistency with the rest of the series)
I also just played portal for the first time about two weeks ago, it’s holds up really well and I often go back to it for more puzzle maps. Overall fantastic game
Portal and Portal 2 helped *create* the internet humor of the time.
No question to play 1 first, like it’s not even that big of a time commitment to leave to chance.
But yeah as others have said, this game is so rooted in gaming culture it’s genuinely difficult to experience it cold, in its time. I’m really happy I was able to, definitely a special game.
But since im ancient, it’s super cool to see new generations being able to experience it again, colder than we’ve been able to recently!
All the Doug Rattman lore. GLadOS & Wheatleys epic bitchyness plus the GLadOS and Chell connection. All the Cave history. And the brilliant final fight and the last Turret chorus. Portal 2 is Legend for all the above - and more.
I have not seen Mel or Revolution yet so am planning a special watch. And try to watch APERTURE DESK JOB - wonderful stuff 🎉🎉
Funny, those fat jokes were some of The funniest parts for me, but really, oh my god, fuck, that entire game, once Cave Johnson comes into it, oh my god, I was just glued to the game back in 2012.
1 of The best games I ever experienced back then.
Oh I miss that, 12, somehow that doesn't seem that long ago, but, when I think of everything else that was 12 years ago, it feels like a whole lifetime ago
I think portal 2 is still definetly holds up to this day. Its good to know, its not just the nostalgy talking.
portal 2 is my comfort game ive put nearly 100 hours into replaying it at least once a year :'3
It’s criminal how short this video is, it’s so good I was kind of expecting (and hoping) it would be much longer
I’m currently playing through some of the portal mods and will probably make a similar video on my thoughts sometime in the coming weeks :D
@@KaayLive (wow fast reply) do you think you would ever publish the full “vod” of portal 1 and 2 somewhere?
@minimotherogue probably not, just cause I was playing in voice chat with some friends, but I have the vods of me playing portal stories: Mel on my twitch
My biggest problems with 2 is that there are so many early puzzles that are just "find the ONE spot you can put a portal on" like it's where's Waldo. Portal 1 had sooo many ways to solve each puzzle.
it's very obvious tho, it's white
Great video, Portal 2 is probably my favourite game of all time, the pacing, the difficulty, the humour, it's all so good!
Since you enjoyed Portal 1 & 2 so much, I would recommend checking out Portal Reloaded. It's the spiritual successor to Portal 2, and the closest thing to Portal 3 that has ever been released, and its FANTASTIC. Its a mod for Portal 2, and its available on steam for free. It's got the same style of humor, and the puzzles are some of the best in the business.
Portal Stories: Mel is another fantastic mod, and its basically the pre-sequel, set between Portal 1 and 2. Its also for free on steam. I think you'd enjoy it as well, though it has a bit more of a dark tone than the others. Still a fantastic mod, and I highly recommend.
I don't know if you're still reading comments on this video, but I really hope you see this, because playing these two mods is an absolute treat.
I just completed my first play through of both games and had a great time. I was laughing and gasping and generally reacting to the gaming experience I was having. I adore the humor, it always got me to giggle and I loved hanging around to hear the voice actors eventually run out of dialogue
An extra thing that I loved in portal 2 was the fact that the boss fight is the opposite of the one from the first game. In the first game, you're taking cores off to defeat glados. In the second, you're putting them on to help her.
It's less that Portal is full of internet humor, and more Portal directly influenced internet humor.
the turret opera is my favorite thing ever
the quality of your content definitely deserve more than 2.5k subs
Wow that video took me way back, and had me remember the whole game, damn what a joy it was. Even though I only played portal 2 (yes shame on me) because I knew everything about the first one when the 2 released, I cannot see another portal game coming, for the same reason I don't see another half-life coming, because valve is so well-versed in exploiting mechanics at just the right amount, you don't get too much, but you get well enough, I recently played half-life alyx and boy was it a huge joy to play, how well they put to use the vr setting, with nearly every item being interactable, so much stuff hidden in tricky spots that you have to move your hands, your body, your head to squeeze and get the thing, the incredible level design, boy was it a marvel. I'd like a "Portal: Somebody" much like HLA if they found a way to reinvent the thing, but now that we know basically everything about aperture science, there is few room but that humor, the fresh feeling of every level, that would be so great.
Good take. "Closest thing to a perfect game"
Very good commentary! Keep it up man
Why has this got so little views?!
Man I loved this video and you literally share every thought with me and many others.
So glad to see this nostalgia after 10+ years.
10/10 game series, my absolute favourite. You smashed this video btw, keep it up - subbed
My favorite genre of TH-cam videos recently are people discovering portal for the first time and waxing poetic about how delightful it is
I finished portal 2 again today, a thing that I only today realized. Cave Johnson was talking about moon rocks, so if all white surfaces are probably partly made out of moon magic or whatever.
Which gives the ending more sense why you could make a portal on the moon and a proper reason on why you should shoot at the moon and not only instinctively doing that.
and the conversion gel being made of crushed up moon rocks
A couple months ago I played both portal games (portal 2 for the first time, portal 1 for the second) and yeah, they hold up pretty well
i DOWNLOADED the portal 2 trailer specifically because of the "Its been a looong time, how have you been?" because it had been, and damn it was good.
It's always fun to see people play masterpieces like portal 2 for the first time!
Portal 2 came out in 2011. Portal 2 didn't lean into 2012 humor, 2012 humor leaned into portal 2.
These people with these awful takes are the same people saying Baldur's Gate 3 is bad because of turn based combat point and click gameplay, while the game is one of the masterpieces of the new decade.
Thank god!
Someone who loves wheatlet! What a godsend , i was afraid , that i am the only person on this wreched network who find him funny , idearing , and just amazing.
I ve seen people saying that GLaDOS apreciates main character , but wheatly? No no one likes him. He wasnt evill you know.
Well , originaly.
GLaDOS took us down with herself. Cunning. Verrry cunning.
Still , i love them both. Every single mwmber of the cast , is funny , lovable , and marvelously petty!
Love it!
I'm so glad you didn't end up hating the games! Where can I watch your streams of the games?
I didn’t stream them unfortunately, but if I play the many fan mods that I’ve been recommended I might stream them
i played portal two first mostly by chance, and i will admit i never finished portal 1. it just didn't grab me the same way. i can see where people come from with it,portal 2 stands very on its own and i enjoyed the whole thing. even with all this, i very much agree with you and have always been a little baffled by the advice of playing portal 2 first or alone. i really do think id have enjoyed the whole thing more if i did it in order. in many ways i feel like i didn't enjoy portal nearly as much as i could have because of the way i played it
I played portal 2 in the summer of 2023 and LOVED it so I’d say it still holds up
Both of the Portal games deserve a spot in the list of greatest games ever. The are both masterpieces.
Just reacting to the title, will watch the whole thing later tonight:
I actually replayed Portal 2 myself for the first time in at least a decade, and I think we still need more games like it. Curious that no one dared make a game with portals in it considering how well understood the programming tricks are by now.
One of the BEST things about these games is the slow escalation. Portal 1 is funny from the first minute but it holds back its full craziness because 100% crazy from the start would be boring. Going in blind it doessn't even seem like it's gonna have a story. That's part of the reason people loved it when it came out. It looks like a tech demo and it s l o w l y descends into madness. Portal 2 builds on that and continues to take you in unexpected directions but it already acts like a story because you already found out that it is one in portal 1. It wouldn't be half as funny without knowing how low key it all started.
Portal: Revolution recently on released on Steam as a free community mod that fills the story gaps between Portal 1 and Portal 2. It's pretty fun too!
>hear that tweet in the background
>"oh god that's a terrible take!"
>tab into the video
>it's someone I follow
And this is without even going into the multiplayer. What a phenomenal game!
Portal’s humor shaped internet culture, not the other way around.
Alright you convinced me. I'm going to force my friend to play the first one as well haha
Wheatley's turn to the dark side was surprising for me too. And yeah, nothing beats chapter 6.
My experience with portal was a lucky one because i played it either just before or just after they announced the sequel. But inhad previouslt watched my friend beat the game (i only saw the glados fight cuz thats when i happened to go over his house while he was finishing up)
And the end of 1 where you get dragged away thats not in the orignal ending. Originally it was all the same, minus the dragging. They dropped an update to change it to segway into how that start of 2 happens.
I only played a few weeks after i had just finished watching my friend have the ending. Not even a month had passed. And i was caught super off guard by that one tiny change because i wasnt expecting it and was SO confused. But i loved the detail that they went to the effort to kake one tiny change, that doesnt change any ofnthe story or gameplay, simply to prepare for a sequel
Im glad you like wheatly. I love the ball and im happy to see a population of wheatly enjoyers 🤣
I just played Portal and Portal 2 for the first time this week. I finished both of them and I absolutely loved both of them. I finished the first game in 2 1/2 hours and it took me nearly 9 hours to finish the second one LMAO
My hot take is a lot of nerd 2012 humor was inspired by portal not the other way round. Like maybe portal feels to a certain extent like a product of its time but that's because people quoted the games incessantly which made 2012 nerd humor inspired by portal.
IMO it's the greatest sequel ever made. It does everything you expect a sequel to do and does it with such polish and style it's kind of amazing.
I use this analogy a fair bit when it comes to explaining games like this and if you should play the earlier ones. Its like watching better call saul without watching breaking bad. Phenomenal show on its own but its even better when you know the history.
I was never a part of the gaming/internet culture in question at the time I played portal 2 for the first time, and had never played the first game either; it became one of my favorite games purely on its own merit, hah.
Portal 2 holds up pretty well I'd say! But I do think in hindsight the first game is the most perfect version of it. It felt so fresh at the time, such a perfect little thing, a lovely little game by a huge studio at a time when it just wasn't the done thing for a huge studio to make a lovely little game (and I guess it still isn't). Portal 2 is full of incredible moments and it's amazing to see the first game taken to its logical extreme, but... well, it's a bit like when the band you like that played in small clubs starts playing in stadiums. The spectacle of the stadium is cool, but there's something about the down-to-earthness of a small venue that somehow feels like the more pure version.
Yes. Yes it does hold up.
Some people are blinded by time and refuse to accept timelessness and a story that can reach any audience no matter their age. Same thing as calling Avatar a “kid’s show” just because it released on nickelodeon
3:55 - and that critique was mostly observed and fixed for portal 2.
mostly because there are around 3 times where you get stuck in lore.
You should play them both again with developer commentary mode on. You seem like a person who would really enjoy hearing what they had to say. The developers had a *lot* of fun making these games and that really comes through in the commentaries
Portal wasn’t recycling the humor. It was setting the template.
who could possibly imagine that the 2011 game that helped shape early 2010s humor would look like said 2010s humor
People saying the Portal series doesn't hold up is a _wildly_ hot take imo lol I'd be incredibly curious to see what games these people would compare it against these days
Have you played 'SUPERLIMINAL'? It is an indie game that has the feel of thinking outside the box with your perspective like Portal 1 and 2 does but it uses zero portals! A different game dynamic that feels fresh but scratches the Portal itch for fun brain twisting trippy AF puzzles!
I actually got given it by a friend who got it in a humble bundle and have been meaning to play it
Portal 2 is just the perfect formula. Everything works. It's never too short or too long. Just so good. You just wanna keep playing.
Add to that the quality of the music, sound design, voice acting & animation/lighting and * chef's kiss *.
Weathley being annoying is the purpose. He's not GLaDOS with her dark, sarcastic humor. He's an idiot that talk all the damn time.
I didn't try Portal 2 until 2018 and it was the best thing I ever played. The game is timeless
portal 1 and 2 are timeless.
I will never let my friends paly both games back to back, there will always be a mandatory 5 year waiting period.
Twitter user: Yeah guys, good thing we’re all so above the humor of the Portal games now.
(stares at top text/bottom text Hazbin Hotel memes for 12 hours on end)
alrighty... time to play those games AGAIN
Couldn't agree more.
I had... probably one of the weirdest experiences with this series, having first played some Little Big Planet (user-created) level series based on the first game, then Portal 2, then Portal 1.
I can confirm that 2 is much better having played 1 first. Thankfully, it turns out that the LBP series was a good enough substitute that 2 wasn't lost on me at all.
This game will still hold up in the year 20XX when MegaMan is fighting reploids.
My biggest complaint with portal one is that sometimes when you fly through the air with a cube in front of you, the cube messes up your momentum as if you were bumping into it. It was a little annoying and did get in the way sometimes. But it was completely fixed in portal 2.
Absolutely 100%
Funny stumbling upon this video out of nowhere
Recognize your voice from Rulzinator!
Great video :)
lol that’s awesome
I just saw both portals for the first time last week