Portal Gets A New Ending

awesome

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" @ThatFrood said:

" This, along with the news that Steam is coming to mac osx? Those Valve people are crazy. Crazy like a fox. "

Exactly. They're not Crazy Insane.  Btw, why wasn't there a warning that the video was a spoiler? wtf! "

quote from article: " Watch out for "spoilers," if you "catch" my "drift." "  =\ "

" I forgot I never actually finished Portal.  "

I forgot I never actually finished Portal. 

" Oh i thought they would retcon the whole silly part of the game that came after completing the  test chambers, because the first part of the game was a really solid and fresh kind of puzzle game  and the whole "something is terrible wrong"-feeling I got when I first encountered the broken walls and messages of "cake is a lie" was more of a really nice bonus. But the part after the test chambers just felt out of place and broke the whole atmosphere of the game for me and is a part of why i never feel like replaying the game again. I hoped that Valve understood it really just was meaningless and desperate way to fill out the game time so they decided to retcon that part, but i guess they never did and it is a bit too late to do anything about it anyway. "

" @ThatFrood said:

" This, along with the news that Steam is coming to mac osx? Those Valve people are crazy. Crazy like a fox. "

Exactly. They're not Crazy Insane.  Btw, why wasn't there a warning that the video was a spoiler? wtf! "

" This, along with the news that Steam is coming to mac osx? Those Valve people are crazy. Crazy like a fox. "

Ive said all along that Episode 3 and Portal would be merged, why else would they put them in the same universe?

You've got to love Valve, they are incredibly successful with Steam which gives them free reigns to do this kind of stuff, could you imagine any other developer/publisher doing something like this?
 
Also in regards to previous posts, I hope they keep Source for HL2:EP3 and Portal 2, Source is amazing well optimized and it looks fantastic, why change that?

" Oh i thought they would retcon the whole silly part of the game that came after completing the  test chambers, because the first part of the game was a really solid and fresh kind of puzzle game  and the whole "something is terrible wrong"-feeling I got when I first encountered the broken walls and messages of "cake is a lie" was more of a really nice bonus. But the part after the test chambers just felt out of place and broke the whole atmosphere of the game for me and is a part of why i never feel like replaying the game again. I hoped that Valve understood it really just was meaningless and desperate way to fill out the game time so they decided to retcon that part, but i guess they never did and it is a bit too late to do anything about it anyway. "

Valve sure know how to do viral marketing. I'm already excited for whatever valve are hinting at with this stuff, and I don't even know what it is!!

Oh i thought they would retcon the whole silly part of the game that came after completing the 
test chambers, because the first part of the game was a really solid and fresh kind of puzzle game  and the whole "something is terrible wrong"-feeling I got when I first encountered the broken walls and messages of "cake is a lie" was more of a really nice bonus. But the part after the test chambers just felt out of place and broke the whole atmosphere of the game for me and is a part of why i never feel like replaying the game again. I hoped that Valve understood it really just was meaningless and desperate way to fill out the game time so they decided to retcon that part, but i guess they never did and it is a bit too late to do anything about it anyway.

" @theMuse said:

" This video reminded me just how aged the source engine is. TF2 doesn't show it, but any of the other source engine based games do. "

 Well Source is like 7 years old. Designed to be released in 2003, delayed due to that hacker who stole the Code. Frigging when you look at Half-Life and then Half-Life 2 that was a 6 year gap and man Half-Life looked so old. I think Source has done amazingly well to still look up to date. You can be playing Left 4 Dead and the character faces and animation still look better than most games today. The physics inside the game are still better than most other games around. Like you'll be playing an UE3 game and frigging all their worlds feel very static, rag dolls still have no weight to them.   I love Source but it does need to be replaced with a newer engine and I'm hoping they'll use HL3 to launch it on. "

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABEEEEEEE

The what in the what position?

I wonder where the party is...

 I WANT PORTAL 2 AND EPISODE 3

The cake was never a lie.  She's getting some cake.  All you need is faith

This is why I love Valve.

" This video reminded me just how aged the source engine is. TF2 doesn't show it, but any of the other source engine based games do. "

This video reminded me just how aged the source engine is. TF2 doesn't show it, but any of the other source engine based games do.

wonder if you can use GMod to see a different view and see whats actually dragging the player...

Half Life 2: Episode 3: Chapter 1: Portal 2

HL and Portal are (two of) my favorite games, so I guess I'd be happy with either a sequel for Portal or Episode 3, but if I had to choose.... goddammit, I want Episode 3!!!
In the Freeman with trust! :)

Here's an update of the forums up to page 35 of the thread:
 
 From what I've understood, the 32 characters are in fact a sort of mash code for an old dial-up modem BBS phone number. Apparently someone has connected through a dial-up network, but is being constantly disconnected due to everyone phoning in. BTW - The location of the phone number is around the same place that Valve was founded. Since it is BBS and therefore 'old technology,' it seems to be on the right track considering that all the sounds are named as 'dyno.' 
 
 
Also, Valve seems to be making fun of everyone. There is a gnome with a cake (the gnome from Left 4 Dead perhaps?), a mousetrap (perhaps referring to a lab rat), and also a pig in a gyroscope (which I believe means 'When pigs fly' - as to when they expect us to figure the puzzle out).

From there, I recently discovered that the thread was expanding faster than I was reading, so I decided to stop reading.

Valve is pretty insane.

 
 

played portal on the orange box and loved it. I want to buy it separately on arcade.

" Wait, did they just change the ending to reward those who found all the BBS clues? So if people failed to find all those clues would Valve had just left Portal's ending as it was?  Maybe there are clues lying around somewhere for ep3 and no one's found them yet. Maybe that's why ep3 is taking so long, Valve have been waiting patiently for years for people to find their esoteric clues :( "

Wait, did they just change the ending to reward those who found all the BBS clues? So if people failed to find all those clues would Valve had just left Portal's ending as it was?
 
Maybe there are clues lying around somewhere for ep3 and no one's found them yet. Maybe that's why ep3 is taking so long, Valve have been waiting patiently for years for people to find their esoteric clues :(

I found this same xfire video just after the update on a forum... BLEW MAH FREAKING MIND!!!

An Xfire-embedded video on GiantBomb. I didn't think it could ever happen.

" Sooo... to those of us that already beat Portal back when it came out.. we just get to be confused by not knowing about the "new" "canonical" ending that they patched in unless we watch it online?  They can't just make a fancy intro move in said sequel that clears it all up?  sigh  Taking advantage of patching to go just a tad bit in the wrong direction me thinks.  Features, maps, new chapters, bug fixes.  That all makes sense for a patch.  Flat out changing the story is lame sauce.  Not that it's a huge big deal or anything, it just seems kind of lame. "  

Jeff, this is perhaps the best-written news story of all time. By the way.

" maybe Episode 3 is the Portal sequel"
MIND BLOWN

That is indeed wild.
I'll be interested to see if Portal 2 is as short as the first one. Something tells me the first one was intended to be more of a tech demo, and the sequel will be more fleshed out.

Sooo... to those of us that already beat Portal back when it came out.. we just get to be confused by not knowing about the "new" "canonical" ending that they patched in unless we watch it online?  They can't just make a fancy intro move in said sequel that clears it all up?
 
sigh
 
Taking advantage of patching to go just a tad bit in the wrong direction me thinks.  Features, maps, new chapters, bug fixes.  That all makes sense for a patch.  Flat out changing the story is lame sauce.
 
Not that it's a huge big deal or anything, it just seems kind of lame.

This is crazy!

" is the difference interesting enough to warrant replaying the game to see it, or should I just watch the video? "

Came here expecting to rage...but really, they haven't changed anything. 
Replace *fade to credits* with this, and that's all you really need to do.

Who gives a shit

There is no video......

The tone of Half Life and Portal are so radically different, that I honestly think that you might be stupid if you're sure that Ep. 3 and Portal 2 are the same game.