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
@TmOnlineMapper
7 ай бұрын
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
@j0hnn13K
7 ай бұрын
All excellent, and i think you'll really enjoy Mel. Reloaded broke my brain lol
@nazfrde
7 ай бұрын
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.
@raffertymetcalfe
7 ай бұрын
Play mind escape lmao
@Robeight
6 ай бұрын
Played ALYX?
@Backfisch5927
7 ай бұрын
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
@Ytinasniiable
7 ай бұрын
This is very important
@mrmxypltk
7 ай бұрын
@@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.
@tpd1864blake
7 ай бұрын
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”
@Swenglish
6 ай бұрын
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.
@morosov4595
6 ай бұрын
@@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.
@damdamfino
7 ай бұрын
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
@vibaj16
5 ай бұрын
More like saying those didn't age well because they're wearing clothes.
@bnnymew
8 ай бұрын
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!
@tanakisoup
8 ай бұрын
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
@yeetlaps5527
7 ай бұрын
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.
@destinyhntr
7 ай бұрын
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.
@ccthomas
7 ай бұрын
You have to get better friends.
@teejaykaye
6 ай бұрын
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.
@champagnesupernova1839
7 ай бұрын
as a massive portal fan, I had one thought the entire way through this video: *YOU GET IT.*
@BowelSyndrome
7 ай бұрын
You know a video's going to be interesting when the first thing said is *"I was scrolling Twitter a few weeks ago-" *
@LachlanEaston
7 ай бұрын
Portal and Portal 2 helped *create* the internet humor of the time.
@dreamwalking
7 ай бұрын
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!_
@arrivalofdoom7449
7 ай бұрын
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 🎉🎉
@champagnesupernova1839
7 ай бұрын
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)
@Qwizzyx
7 ай бұрын
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.
@vibaj16
5 ай бұрын
it's very obvious tho, it's white
@Evan345gdf
7 ай бұрын
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.
@Tehblood
7 ай бұрын
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.
@legendary_nova7556
7 ай бұрын
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
@imthischair
6 ай бұрын
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!
@Malisteen
6 ай бұрын
Portal 2 came out in 2011. Portal 2 didn't lean into 2012 humor, 2012 humor leaned into portal 2.
@MarKreationsStudios
8 ай бұрын
I'm so glad you didn't end up hating the games! Where can I watch your streams of the games?
@KaayLive
8 ай бұрын
I didn’t stream them unfortunately, but if I play the many fan mods that I’ve been recommended I might stream them
@ArimarJ
8 ай бұрын
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.
@derbydriver
6 ай бұрын
It’s called narcissism. Narcissism, in this case, when someone thinks that because a certain brand of humor isn’t resonating with them, that it’s the HUMOR that is flawed, not that they’re just not being receptive to it because they don’t possess those particular comedic sensibilities. It’s no longer good enough to say “it’s not for me”. Now, it’s “I didn’t like it, so therefore it is fundamentally flawed. I have immaculate taste, so anything that falls short of impressing me cannot possibly be good.”
@Pain74312
6 ай бұрын
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
@fishblades
7 ай бұрын
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.
@lukapetrovic412
7 ай бұрын
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
@h0ll0w0ne
6 ай бұрын
This game will still hold up in the year 20XX when MegaMan is fighting reploids.
@w00tyd00d
6 ай бұрын
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
@regeman100
7 ай бұрын
twitter yet again proves that not everyone should have public opinions
@Atlessa
3 ай бұрын
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.
@dylanbuddy9012
6 ай бұрын
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.
@grantharriman284
7 ай бұрын
What do you mean "EVEN the turrets were funny?" The turrets are the best part bar none.
@Lallapalalable
7 ай бұрын
I didn't try Portal 2 until 2018 and it was the best thing I ever played. The game is timeless
@guy_autordie
6 ай бұрын
Wheatly become mad by being in glados place. I think nobody saw it coming at the time. And glados explained it later on. It's really a great writing part.
@manlyminotaur99gaming8
7 ай бұрын
You are indeed *able* to skip Portal 1 and go straight to Portal 2, but then you’d miss out on half the fun and story
@Randommmmm204
7 ай бұрын
I've always seen Portal as the prologue to Portal 2 just because it's so short. But it needs to be played in order to fully appreciate Portal 2. And Portal 2 is easily my favorite game of all time. The gameplay itself is nothing special, but it's varied and challenging enough that it doesn't get boring plus you don't need any "skill" to play so literally anyone who knows how to use a mouse and keyboard can play it. What makes it so good to me are the characters, dialougue, voice acting and story. Everything is just so full of personality and charisma. Everyone wants Portal 3 but to be honest, I don't know how they'd do it. One of the most important parts was Chell trying to escape and Glados either trying to keep her in, trying to kill her or calling her fat. Or an orphan. But she's gone now and only the robots are left. They can't really develop the story anymore cause the robots aren't trying to escape, they just want to test which is exactly what Glados wants. Only way to make a Portal 3 is to create a whole new storyline and I don't think people would be too happy with that. Or maybe I'm just not creative enough to be a writer and there should really be a Portal 3.
@Zippy1kanobi
7 ай бұрын
I played portal 2 in the summer of 2023 and LOVED it so I’d say it still holds up
@Darker_Waters
2 ай бұрын
The fat jokes and no parents jokes were not overdone at all. The writers also played that out perfectly by having wheatley trying to copy glados by calling chell fatty-no-parents in a desperate attempt at proving he's not stupid, which only proves that he is stupid because he lacks the intelligence to formulate the insults in an underhanded and sarcastic way.
@BYakimets
7 ай бұрын
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
@agumanu
6 ай бұрын
While watching this video i'm making my gf play both portal games, most of my friends told me to make her skip to portal 2 directly and after i watched this video, im gonna surely send it to them
@TNR_Dragon
7 ай бұрын
Is it just me, or did the turret he saved in the video start doing the cave Johnson lemon rant before it got killed by the barrier?
@credaaaooo824
7 ай бұрын
Portal is the single best franchise by Valve and i'll gladly die on this hill. Half-Life and Counter Strike are good (trust me i have thousands of hours on cs) but Portal is simply unmatched Also the fact that Portal 1 came out in 2007 is absolutely mind blowing to me, considering how both graphics and gameplay stack-up compared to other games of its time and even some games that came out a full decade later LITERALLY a generation defining title. Saying Portal is bad or didn't age well only makes me think you were born after 2010 and really don't know how to appreciate older titles for what they are and what resources were available at the time also to think that GladOS isn't one of the best built characters in gaming is just delusional. Valve really made the game's protagonist a character that you don't get to play as even for a split second
@Lord_Mafus
6 ай бұрын
alrighty... time to play those games AGAIN
@Calixen
7 ай бұрын
say it like it is! portal 2 is a great game and must play portal 1 before! The worst part of Portal 2 is that you can only play it the first time once lol when I saw the moon I was like omg, things like clicked and I doubted it would work, almost felt as desperate as the ingame character to be hopeful of a solution lol the game absolutely blew my mind, and bonus dialogue is always a plus!
@Hazel-Olivia
8 ай бұрын
have you ever heard of the indi fan games: Portal Stories Mel, Portal Reloaded, Portal Revolution, they are free to download on steam if you own a copy of Portal2, the third one on the list is brand new, I commpleted it 15min ago, took me 5.6h in game. would love to hear what you think
@only-jr
8 ай бұрын
Love to share what I thought about Revolution but I don't want to spoil anything...
@BleachWizz
7 ай бұрын
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.
@darkfoxxbunyip
7 ай бұрын
Wheatley is annoying? Say it ain't so! Next thing you're gonna tell me that Glados is evil, and that the turrets want to kill you!
@theender664
7 ай бұрын
0:22 and yet i just seen a blind playthrough and that person enjoyed this game veeery much i think it didn't age any bit more so... i don't see any "leaning in to gaming culture of 2010" i would need examples
@thepooz7205
6 ай бұрын
I refused to let my gf play Portal 2 without first playing Portal. IMO Portal is a perfect game, and Portal 2 is better. I can’t think of any other contenders for the best co-op game of all time.
@orionblackstorm7926
7 ай бұрын
What seperates portal 2 from toher triple a games? It was a small group of developers hired by Valve to make their game with funds, even L4D was a mod of Counter Strike. Valve's most famous games were pretty damn close to being indie games.
@nneykobar_hali
7 ай бұрын
Portals are like good triple A. Its basicly indy with triple A powers. Love valve for this. Like really.
@anothervagabond
7 ай бұрын
I actually agree that Portal 2 isn't the best story out there... like, it's serviceable and all, but the core of the game is the gameplay and the humor, not the story. As for the humor being "so 2012", it's like people saying that Lord of the Rings is just cliche fantasy. LotR seems like "cliche fantasy" because it's what *created* fantasy, it was the driving force behind what became popular. In the same way, Portal's humor seems cliche today because in its time Portal is what *started* that style of humor. Portal wasn't "leaning into" the internet culture of the time, it was *creating* it.
@serpentinious7745
6 ай бұрын
Portal 2 didn't "lean into" internet culture. Portal 2 *defined* internet culture. There's a difference.
@m4rt_
6 ай бұрын
2:50 Not to brag, but I solve the impossible chamber (chamber 09) in like 10 seconds (not counting walking to the elevator and waiting in the elevator) ... though I am a speedrunner.
@ZeallustImmortal
7 ай бұрын
The only thing I can think of that is "le epic random" is the fact that theres a potato in the game. Thats it.
@KrzysGold
2 ай бұрын
7:02 i litteraly loaded the last save because i didnt expect the fizzler
@ProbablyWhiterun
7 ай бұрын
holy shit this part happened to me too i also recorded it too 6:46
@TrueThanny
6 ай бұрын
Anyone who says _Portal 2_ was a bad game is doing you a big favor. They're saving you any time you might have wasted by listening to them about any topic whatsoever. You can write their opinions off for the rest of your life.
@vacantile
7 ай бұрын
Have you played any Portal mods? The stories for them aren’t the best but the puzzles are great
@LoveOlsson98
7 ай бұрын
I guess I could understand the argument of Portal 2 being the worst single player campaign Valve has ever made, even if I personally don't agree. But that's solely because all the Valve single player games I can think of are HL and portal, and they're all phenomenal, so you gotta pick one of em to put on the bottom of the list I guess.
@Leslie-Risse
5 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more.
@denifnaf5874
6 ай бұрын
Wtf did purple colonel tweet?
@Yesletsgo144
7 ай бұрын
I think you should play portal stories Mel portal revolution (my personal fav portal addition) and portal reloaded and if you want to make maps use beemod for easy maps but hammer for harder ones
@lewischerry3552
5 ай бұрын
You CAN play 2 without 1 but you’d be doing yourself a massive disservice
@newbiesama
3 ай бұрын
Wait.this game has culture humor? Name one!
@orclev
6 ай бұрын
Anyone who suggests that you can skip Portal 1 is an idiot and has no clue what they're talking about. To this day, Portal 1 is still one of the greatest video games ever made. It's nearly perfect in every way. The writing, level design, mechanics, story telling, everything is just executed flawlessly. Portal 2 in contrast isn't a bad game, far from it, it's a quite good game, it's just _not_ Portal 1 which is the yardstick it was held against. It's a bad game in comparison to Portal 1, which makes it a good, possibly even great game by virtually any other metric.
@cavejohnson4054
5 ай бұрын
le epic, that just happened game review
@KaayLive
5 ай бұрын
Cheers Cave Johnson
@orvilleredenpiller338
7 ай бұрын
Oh no it’s “le epic 2012” as if that wasn’t the Internet at it’s objective literal peak. 🙄
@orvilleredenpiller338
7 ай бұрын
“People find Wheatley annoying” I find people disingenuous.
@tyrant-den884
6 ай бұрын
Honestly, found Portal 2 to be a deeply depressing.
@GDFear
7 ай бұрын
10:34 The humor of the time is a product of Portal 2. Not the other way around
@lemondude2
7 ай бұрын
How did i read this perfectly read this at that time in the video
@hbauer92
7 ай бұрын
me too XD i literally hit the timestamp and it took me back 2 seconds lmfao@@lemondude2
@tetsi0815
6 ай бұрын
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.
@zeltzamer4010
6 ай бұрын
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.
@WingedAsarath
8 ай бұрын
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.
@zenithquasar9623
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, that is so spot on!
@caldercockatoo2234
7 ай бұрын
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.
@SerunaXI
7 ай бұрын
Portal was the source of many memes. Half Life and Team Fortress 2 were likewise the source of many memes.
@ZeallustImmortal
7 ай бұрын
@@SerunaXIhehe source
@RiachoWii
8 ай бұрын
Those two tweets have to be the worst two takes I've seen about Portal
@GamingPiratesTwitch
8 ай бұрын
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
@Sergonizer
8 ай бұрын
@@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...
@GamingPiratesTwitch
7 ай бұрын
@@Sergonizer I’m surprised they didn’t. Cave Johnson mentioned time travel would erase time forward and backward
@gordonfreeman5179
7 ай бұрын
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.
@soliopy
7 ай бұрын
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.
@TheManOfManyNames.
7 ай бұрын
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.
@DrPeeper
3 ай бұрын
Wasn't the escape sequence ALWAYS planned though?
@the-guy-beyond-the-socket
7 ай бұрын
"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.
@LukasJampen
7 ай бұрын
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.
@caldercockatoo2234
7 ай бұрын
It’s a Valve game, it’s practically impossible for it to not age well.
@ZeallustImmortal
7 ай бұрын
Also even if it were the worst Valve singleplayer story, that bar is extremely high.
@SpecterNeverSpectator
6 ай бұрын
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
@SenyiKimmo
6 ай бұрын
@@nuclearmissionjam3592 if opposing force is your worst singleplayer campaign then idk i think your entire catalog might just be peak
@mynamejot8623
7 ай бұрын
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.
@TmOnlineMapper
7 ай бұрын
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.
@Sergonizer
7 ай бұрын
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?
@darkstorm5280
7 ай бұрын
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.
@BaileyChap
7 ай бұрын
@@Sergonizer 👀🙄
@teresar6348
7 ай бұрын
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.
@Leader7353
7 ай бұрын
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
@MrFrog222
8 ай бұрын
the only people that find wheatley annoying are speedrunners because they hate every tiny bit of cutscenes
@KaayLive
8 ай бұрын
And half life fans apparently
@kadrix732
7 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Sergonizer
7 ай бұрын
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.
@MrFrog222
7 ай бұрын
@@Sergonizer I do in every speedrun.
@KaayLive
7 ай бұрын
lol I only say half life fans cause those two tweets are from half life super fans
@guaranteedtopwn
7 ай бұрын
anyone who says you can skip Portal is DUMB, the game is literally almost perfect
@GBlockbreaker
7 ай бұрын
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
@korganrocks3995
7 ай бұрын
I genuinely had no idea these people existed! The mind boggles at such idiocy.
@korganrocks3995
7 ай бұрын
@@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.
@SenyiKimmo
6 ай бұрын
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._
@klaxoncow
6 ай бұрын
@@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 KZitem video instead?)
@MrFreonize
6 ай бұрын
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
@jaredelliott5778
5 ай бұрын
It also foretells about glados being picked on by the bird when it relates her to Prometheus
@Alex_dlc
7 ай бұрын
I can’t believe you killed the oracle turret just as she was delivering her famous Prometheus line. 😢
@HSG4meR
7 ай бұрын
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.
@Meteorite_Shower
7 ай бұрын
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."
@Rulzinator
8 ай бұрын
glad to hear they held up lol, twitter SUCKS.
@emerald5567
8 ай бұрын
I agree
@mapron1
7 ай бұрын
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.
@Sergonizer
7 ай бұрын
@@mapron1 I'm just using every platform and seeing dumbasses everywhere, peak way to spend time
@mapron1
7 ай бұрын
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@vibaj16
5 ай бұрын
@@mapron1 Twitter definitely concentrates the stupidity more than other platforms tho
@PizzaMineKing
7 ай бұрын
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.
@FeepingCreature
6 ай бұрын
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.
@bouboulroz
6 ай бұрын
@@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.
@vibaj16
5 ай бұрын
@@FeepingCreature But that happens after the room that says the cake is a lie
@goshdarnwizard
8 ай бұрын
Half of my favorite moments of portal are my monkey brain’s neurons activating and realizing the obvious solution to the puzzle
@Kyropinesis
6 ай бұрын
portal wasn’t a product of the humor of its time, the humor of its time is a product of portal
@davidosborne1306
6 ай бұрын
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.
@Drekromancer
6 ай бұрын
King shit. Thanks for sharing.
@Uraqt_1337
7 ай бұрын
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
@SobiTheRobot
7 ай бұрын
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.
@vibaj16
5 ай бұрын
and the humor holds up just as well today, idk what they're on about saying it's aged poorly.
@Crow-T-German-Robot
7 ай бұрын
Oh, of course, the "fun" police. Or alternatively the "My hero is a badass that would never crack a joke" police
@vibaj16
5 ай бұрын
well, Chell never cracks a joke
@eneee
8 ай бұрын
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.
@PokeshifterPyra
7 ай бұрын
Wheatley is by far one of my favorite characters in gaming. He is such a goofball.
@esraeloh8681
7 ай бұрын
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
@lovelyspoon5413
6 ай бұрын
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
@darkstorm5280
7 ай бұрын
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.
@TrystantheMutant510
7 ай бұрын
It's less that Portal is full of internet humor, and more Portal directly influenced internet humor.
@szabolcstiger2290
6 ай бұрын
I think portal 2 is still definetly holds up to this day. Its good to know, its not just the nostalgy talking.
@SebastianWeinberg
7 ай бұрын
Even though _Portal 2_ is better at onboarding new players, I could _never_ recommend skipping the first game. The second game is infinitely improved by having experienced the first. In my experience, the people who endlessly whine about "quippy dialogue" and humorous banter are almost universally joyless bastards who want everyone else to stop having fun and enjoying things, and are not worth listening to - _especially_ if they trot out _"that_ just happened" or are calling it "Whedon dialogue" or "Marvel writing". Nothing discredits an opinion faster than those red flags. Imagine: 2011 gave us _Portal 2_ *and* _Skyrim._ One an immaculate jewel of perfection, and the other a huge smorgasbord of fun that's so overflowing with tasty treats that you forgive it for being sloppily laid out on a wobbly table that's prone to collapsing.
@milobowhay2218
6 ай бұрын
portal 2 is my comfort game ive put nearly 100 hours into replaying it at least once a year :'3
@only-jr
8 ай бұрын
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
@Defensive_Wounds
7 ай бұрын
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!
@KaayLive
7 ай бұрын
I actually got given it by a friend who got it in a humble bundle and have been meaning to play it
@Gurtopolis
7 ай бұрын
as someone who LOVES portal, I disagree with the humor part because like, first point, portal defined the humor of its time, and second, it isnt even that random, "did you know guilty people are easily startled *loud ass train* oh sorry, i didnt mean to play that" isnt random, its meant to be glados manipulating you and being funny, she is constantly trying to make you feel like shes the victim for you defending herself, they arent doing that for random = funny. and the most considered random line of "conbustable lemons" ISNT RANDOM EITHER, this is meant to insinuate that he is deteriorating that hes arguing about lemons WITH HIMSELF. ALONE. its to show hes lost himself and his mind while trying to escape death. but in the moment its funny because it is happening in a place you wouldnt expect this to happen yet it isnt wholly random because this joke has purpose storywise. and the point of it being weak storywise isn't QUITE wrong. the story is amazing and more easily digestible while super interesting to think about, glados with every line trying to make you feel bad for what is her own fault. and thats why its so loved, but id say tf2 still has so much more lore it takes work to find it, and im not giving hl2 anything since portal is in the same universe so it basically shares that storyline with hl2. portal as a series can either be taken as "really funny puzzle game thats really silly" or what it is, funny on the outside, but it's core storyline is really depressing, chell is at her breaking point and she became a test subject where her own dad died, because she was hoping they would kill her too, she changes her mind and trys to save her skin and is berated and verbally abused for it by the person who was going to kill her, and belittled by the one who killed her dad, and by the end she still believes you're the one in the wrong, and shuts you out in a world long past its expiration date. and thats CHELLS LORE, ALONE and it was only found A DECADE AND 1-2 YEARS AFTER PORTAL 2'S RELEASE. not to mention glados's storyline and how tragic it is, forced to live forever and watch the world crumble. just because one man couldn't do it himself.
@Sorenzo
6 ай бұрын
Saying Portal 2 wasn't the best valve game is just saying every other Valve game was extremely good 😂 I still think Half-Life 2 is one of the best games ever, and that's despite it having multiple long sections that felt more like tech demos... Portal 2's story wasn't as compellingly simplistic as Portal 1, but it's not exactly a serious story-driven game. Also old school internet culture was objectively funnier, fight me.
@demoncushion9600
7 ай бұрын
I'd agree. Portal is the weakest singleplayer game VALVE has released. Compared to Half Life, and.... Half life 2... and Half Life 2 part 2. You get my point. Portal 2 might be the worst singleplayer game, but when your only competitor is Half Life, can you blame Portal for coming in second?
@tech_of_steel20official
6 ай бұрын
I'm just a bit in and I saw you haven't played RDR2 yet so for some motivation for you to do so I have to say RDR2 is one of the greatest games I have played in the past 5 years. If it were a movie I would say it's a cinematic masterpiece. Sure there's a main gameplay loop of robbing but it's not done so compacted together that it gets boring and overstays it's welcome, and the story you may have heard, is REALLY good; I haven't played that many games to be able to say so, but I'm almost sure I will never see another game with that good of a story, but if there's anyone I expect to top it, it's gonna be Rockstar.
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