The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► hello and again welcome to the [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► comparable podcast number 229 we hope [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► your brief detention in the relaxation [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► vault has been a pleasant one [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► it is January 2015 quit now and k will [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► be served immediately [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► this was a triumph i'm making a note [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► here huge success [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► it's hard to overstate my satisfaction [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► that your science we do what we must [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► because we can have all of us except the [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► ones who are dead but there's no you [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► just keep trying until you need to the [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► uncomfortable podcast I'm your host [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► Jason L it's time for us to take another [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► trip into the world of video games and [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► I've got an excellent panel here to talk [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► about a couple of games that we've been [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► claiming we're going to talk about for I [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► don't know a couple years now and we [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► finally got around to it so this is not [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► on the cutting edge of gaming but it is [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► a couple of old favorites that people [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► kept asking when you're going to talk [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► about portal and portal 2 and the answer [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► is now right now you are so if you're [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► just tuning in randomly to this podcast [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► hoping in vain that finally we might [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► cover portal you are really lucky person [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► and haven't read your podcast app [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► because this is our portal episode let [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► me introduce my panel was going to talk [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► about Porter with me in the standing in [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► the blue portal Tony sindelar hello [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► I think we can put our differences [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► behind us for science you monster [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► I I appreciate that standing in the [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► orange portal [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► oh that's like the back side of Tony [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► step out of the way Tony it sorry John [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► siracusa hello Jason [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► the only thing you've managed to break [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► so far as my heart we have returning [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► this is like a little last of us episode [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► reunion standing on the orange gel it's [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► tiffany Arment hello hi i am beyond [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► excited you have no idea [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► well maybe twitter has an idea yeah [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► you've been yeah you've been going out [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► it's very excited i like this game like [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► I like Star Wars like people like Star [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► what I'll also excited and bouncing up [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► and down on the blue gel its Brianna Wu [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► hello what's crackalackin portals i had [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► i know i had a whole portal quote ready [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► but these two guys stole it thanks [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► well i'm just going to default back to [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► crackling already took the obvious one I [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► took obscure I was nice i'm glad nobody [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► said the cake is a lie that's a little [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► too you know it's getting weird sounds [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► solid cast without saying that but Jason [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► blows and immediately got to do it yeah [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► that's gonna get out the way you clear [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► it just clear the room and then yeah [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► we're desperate everybody gets the [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► harmon yep exactly have a theory of [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► comedy got here you need me to the chaos [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► anyway do not look into the operational [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► end of the device i first discovered [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► these games completely backward in the [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► sense of I had not heard of this game [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► until india not co put [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► still alive on his holiday playlist [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► which is not holiday feet what year was [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► this case about 2008 something like that [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► not that bad then [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► no but I didn't play the game for [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► another couple here is probably i don't [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► know i played this game it's been awhile [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► i I didn't play this last week or [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► anything [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► and.and you who are all much better at [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► games and i am correct me but it sounds [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► like this was a small part of a game [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► package and and it's not that long a [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► game the original portal but it became a [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► phenomenon because then i kept on [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► hearing people talk about portal and and [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► and then I had to play it so it seems [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► like what was this kind of an accidental [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► hit that it was meant to just be playing [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► because I spend it was so the original [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► version of it for those who aren't [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► familiar was packaged with this thing [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► called the orange box which was valid [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► collection of you know half-life 2 and [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► some half-life two expansions that never [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► got finished and the new version of team [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► fortress and then they have this portal [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► game that was kind of talked on there [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► and was sold as the orange box for you [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► know the last generation of consoles and [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► you know it's kind of contact on there [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► and I it seems like probably they were [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► not prepared for it to be as huge a [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► success i mean i think everything valve [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► makes it is pretty good and you know [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► they have a pretty consistent hit [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► delivery system but but yeah portal kind [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► of really took off it was really [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► exciting i remember playing it on a [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► friends xbox 360 in a dark time before i [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► had an xbox 360 and it was you know one [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► of those friends was like you need to [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► play this game come to my house and play [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► it in one sitting and i did that and [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► then I went and bought an xbox 360 and [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► my own copy of portal not that long [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► after that you played on the console i [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► watch out for the pc first and i didn't [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► get looking at with the UH the wikipedia [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► page says they both came out the same [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► time windows and xbox i would recommend [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► not playing this on a console really [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► like any first-person shooter it is much [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► easier i would probably buy it via Steam [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► right now is how i would do it if you [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► have a Mac or a windows computer or a [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► linux computer you could just do that if [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► you don't want to concentrate we should [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► establish what devices we played this on [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► then I played I played both of them on [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► my mac that that's what I did these the [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► I didn't use a console for either of [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► i also did Mac for both and all I played [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► on everything ok [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► yeah fair enough i had win they'll beat [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► us everything i'm not trying to win i'm [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► just saying like about anything you [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► don't like people people have complained [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► about like the controls on console you [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► have been like okay well let's evaluate [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► this so I beat no it's not a long game [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► like it's a it's an afternoon Nina stop [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► beating them on console and also pc i [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► played on the 360 and I play a lot of [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► pipe laid a lot of first-person shooters [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► on the 360 I don't really have any [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► trouble with the controls it for me my [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► the first person shooters that I've [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► always played you know when I was when I [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► look start playing them where I'm on the [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► macbook marathon marathon to the whole [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► marathon series and and and unreal [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► tournament and some other stuff like [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► that and so when when portal came out [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► and and then many years later i bought [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► it i want to play it on the mac because [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► I felt like I actually had the muscle [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► memory from that and I struggle with [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► first-person shooters on consoles [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► because I learn how to play them on the [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► keyboard and pointing demise and so it [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► was a great nostalgia trip for me [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► because I had that all immediately [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► snapped back the whole you know wasd [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► move kind of thing man i was that was so [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► that was great so on one level portal [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► was just a a wonderful just hit a [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► nostalgic because i hadn't played a [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► first-person game on my back in a long [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► time and not that many on consoles at [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► that moment I think it's also as far as [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► a first person goes it's pretty [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► forgiving right i mean there's obviously [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► some stuff that's timing involved but [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► not a lot and it's not a lot of that [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► kind of twitch reaction it's not like [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► playing counter-strike or something like [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► that word [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► it's you know it's all about the [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► milliseconds of clicking or anything [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► like that it's it's pretty forgiving and [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► fact if you overthink it as i did when i [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► was playing it for a lot of the sections [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► where you're flipping through portals [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► and and you doing lots of momentum moves [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► if you just don't touch the mouse it [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► will realign your viewpoint in like [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► based on the new based on the current [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► new gravity but if you're a first person [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► shooter player you don't expect your [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► viewpoint or especially on a pc you [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► don't expect your viewpoint to ever be [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► realigned unless you move them out so [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► the first time i played one of the [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► board's important woman to take [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► platforms i always constantly as soon as [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► I came out of a portal I was readjusted [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► in my view to be facing the right [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► direction and at the same time the game [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► was trying to readjust my view [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► yeah and it was like why is this so hard [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► until I said oh just don't touch the [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► mouse and just realize you to the new [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► girl [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► 30 and you're fine and yeah it's very [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► easy to overthink it even i even i did [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► that because I remember that that was [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► the case with something like marathon [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► you would have to reorient and and I [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► would go through a portal and be like [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► wait a second wait a second if I do [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► nothing i'm looking in the right [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► direction [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► yeah it's made to its the bar is low but [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► if there is there is still a bar because [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► as I've tried to get other people to [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► play this game thought oh this is a [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► great game you can play it in like an [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► hour to part of one that is and and it's [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► fun and it's got a narrative and it's [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► very interesting and we'll talk about [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► all the good quality so I'd say out you [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► you may not be a gamer but try this game [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► and then just to watch people really [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► fail to orient themselves in a [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► first-person shooter because even though [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► it seems natural for us it is a fairly [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► alien concept [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► no matter what maybe it's probably [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► easier on the console but I think even [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► then people just look at the screen and [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► a bunch of thumb sticks and or you know [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► look at the screen and a mouse and a [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► keyboard and just don't understand how [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► to navigate that world that's it [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► everyone real big barrier to enjoying [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► this game because you do need some basic [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► ability to conceptualize the space and [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► move through it [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► yeah I mean I think anyone who's watched [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► somebody try to play a first-person [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► shooter for the first time maybe whether [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► it's a you know a child or that person's [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► parent or something like that it's [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► there's not all that kind of natural [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► take to it i mean i think we kind of [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► take for granted if you can you kind of [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► grew up on it that there's no you don't [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► just instantly jump in and are able to [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► navigate 3d world with you know wasd and [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► a mouse right let's learn skill for me [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► portal was kind of an easy transition on [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► the mac from playing half-life I mean [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► because it was just all yeah and it was [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► exactly the same like the controls are [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► all the same and the world's extremely [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► similar and yeah so that from for me it [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► was kind of just that how it happened I [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► can't even imagine playing it on a [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► console i can't do it i have to say I'll [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► you know i was i was really impressed by [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► how much better the console controls [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► were between portal one in portal to you [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► can tell they took a lot of time [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► particularly with the light momentum [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► puzzle algorithm and I i have to say [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► like I thought I I understand where [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► people are coming from with it being [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► walking on for portal one but I thought [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► portal 2i played on console and just [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► enjoyed it greatly [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► honestly like portal is such an easy [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► game to begin with I didn't think it was [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► that hard even on you know 360 or you [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► yeah we're plated yeah the guy i try to [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► explain this bill I think you're right [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► that there's this fundamental literacy [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► about about first-person shooters and [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► moving into 3d World and using abstract [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► controls to control you know your [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► perspective and that we can take for [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► granted as being something that that you [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► know well of course it's a shooter it's [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► fine it makes sense beyond that though [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► one of the things I really like about it [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► is as somebody who's not you know you [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► like I struggled with the last of us it [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► is easier this is true but i also love [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► that it was as people always say the [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► first person puzzler i love that it used [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► the the skills i had built up such as [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► they were the literacy of first-person [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► shooters to solve puzzles i'm really [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► interested in like how games teach [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► things and portal does a great job of [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► teaching you how to play Portal alright [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► it builds really incremental II um I [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► mean the puzzles are all really nicely [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► designed and you know they're not too [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► hard and you still get that kind of [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► satisfying aha moment but it does a [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► really good job especially I think [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► portal to it doesn't even better job let [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► things unfold and they still they keep [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► adding new mechanics to a portal to all [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► throughout portal 2 and there's so many [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► games where it's like the mechanics are [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► front-loaded right we're going to teach [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► you everything you need to know how to [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► play the game in the first two hours and [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► then you're gonna do that over and over [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► again for 6 to 10 more hours right [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► portal to keep adding to that he keeps [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► teaching your new things and new ways [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► that things are going to intercept it [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► and it doesn't equate the way thats you [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► know really fun to play a little bit [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► like school though because if you miss a [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► lesson again having watched people and [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► try to get people to play this game and [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► appreciate if you miss a lesson like [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► you're absent today or you don't pay [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► attention because of your 4runner 12 [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► teachers particular concept and if you [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► never really get that concept and just [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► fumbled through level or forget that [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► concept you can be just sitting there [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► and stuck not on the navigating 3d world [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► but like that's the other aspect of this [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► game like so 3d worlds one thing if [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► you're good first-person jersey have no [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► problem with the second aspect of this [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► game is do you have any aptitude for [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► enthusiasm for puzzles and figuring out [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► how to do that [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► puzzles realize on you remembering the [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► very simple you know steps that are laid [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► out before this is out portals but they [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► don't even give it a second portal for [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► all the second part works as a memento [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► marks in portals there's a few [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► strategies you can do that through [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► elements in is the buttons work this out [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► the turrets were you know all three [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► things like Tony said portal to just has [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► a million of those throughout the whole [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► game but even portal one if you forget a [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► single one of those and like the first [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► couple levels it can be you can be like [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► that adventure game where you just back [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► in the old days we'd said you'd spend [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► months stuck like in a room 100 venture [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► game because there was no internet and [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► you can figure it out and when you did [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► you just felt like a dunce it i don't [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► think that will happen to anybody who is [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► remotely good at puzzles but a [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► surprising number of people who are good [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► at first person shooters have no [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► interest in puzzles whatsoever when I [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► think this game is as a weird mix of [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► like I mean there are some very specific [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► type of puzzle in that they're all these [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► kind of spatial reasoning puzzles right [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► now so i mean i think a lot of people [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► who are familiar with first-person [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► shooters build up some spatial reasoning [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► abilities and their ability to kind of [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► navigate 3d space but you know there's [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► some people who that's gonna probably [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► not really resonate with they're not [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► going to enjoy that the big conceptual [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► hurdle is the fact that you have a [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► portal gun and that is the elbow they I [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► mean you would think that like that is [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► the most obvious thing about the game [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► like the hammer discount like is then [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► the name is the main mechanic of your [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► game and yet i will see people looking [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► at a puzzle and not being able to figure [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► out how to get from point A to point B [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► it's like her you have a part of like [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► what you learn which walls you can put [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► it on which ones you can't like if you [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► can see it at this line of sight you can [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► get there how can you get there but [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► bored there and then like they'll be [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► they'll be stuck for an hour on it even [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► after playing the game a second time I'd [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► have definitely come into those rooms [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► where I was like oh crap how am I [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► supposed to do this and then I like [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► women have reported like he did you [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► forget for a second in certain levels [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► that you have the ability to do that [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► even though that's like the basis of the [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► gamepad magic thing that goes against [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► the laws of physics yeah but you're like [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► okay I'm in this room going to solve [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► this puzzle it's getting complicated now [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► especially later in the game and then [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► office and you're like oh right i could [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► just do this and back up in here and [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► then it's done and that was the easiest [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► thing ever and i just thought about it [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► too much [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► so if you like just like John said [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► earlier if you think about it too much [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► it's over you know you you're trapped [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► I'll never forget when I kind of you [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► know like stumped for like 30 seconds on [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► like the second puzzle and portable one [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► and it's like you can shoot one portal [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► and I see the portal far away and shoot [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► a portal next to me to get there and now [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► it's like well I'm already next to the [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► fixed portal i'm stuck right and it's [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► like wait wait wait [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► oh I can shoot another reporter way and [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► then step back into the portal I just [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► get in and you know everything just [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► built from that so seamlessly it's great [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► it's also really nice how even on a [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► second playthrough or even a third [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► playthrough for some people it is still [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► you can still make challenges for [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► yourself you have already solved the [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► puzzle and you kind of know the basic [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► physics of everything and how everything [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► works and how the puzzles are our work [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► but you can kind of challenge yourself [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► to be like okay have few steps going to [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► take how few portals can I throw it [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► makes it really it makes it fun again [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► but so is ok I feel like we're kind of [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► missing the forest for the trees a [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► little bit in this discussion [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► I mean you know portal is portal is a [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► breath of fresh air in an industry that [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► is almost completely lacking in [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► innovation at times and you know this [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► comes from half-life which is a game [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► that you know is a first-person shooter [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► but has just enough of the twist on it [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► to make it an interesting and [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► significant game you know like the the [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► physics mods for for half-life two are [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► actually some of the most important [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► mechanics have ever been introduced into [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► the game industry and i think that you [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► know like the reason people are really [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► passionate about portal is it was this [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► amazing mix of an innovative different [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► mechanic that is just unlike anything [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► ever get a game this ever come before [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► it's not a game that's about mindlessly [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► destroying things yeah which practically [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► every game in this industry is about [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► including my own and you know and it [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► also has this wicked sense of humor and [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► we're we're we're living in this [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► industry where you know we just kind of [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► all not a wink at the lie you know like [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► we're all drowning and BS all day long [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► and we know it we here in commercials [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► and you know in the systems of authority [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► around us and we're just living in like [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► a very insincere society and here's a [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► name that comes along and does this [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► wickedly brilliant satire about it and [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► it was just such a fresh experience and [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► I think it's like like we don't love [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► portal because like the pc controls are [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► better than the console like we love it [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► because it's so innovative well you know [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► I i'll be honest one of the reasons why [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► i am not attracted to a lot of games [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► they come out and I do have many [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► consoles and I you know and I i do like [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► games but and this is how i felt a [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► little bit about the last of this is [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► like I get bored with shooting bullets [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► at stuff especially if it's people like [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► stuff like my favorite things in Halo [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► are like driving the vehicles around and [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► all that and there's there's and I mean [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► really talk about both games anyway [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► there is a point in Portal 2 we're just [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► not only do I enjoy the fact i should [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► close this point I'm not only do I enjoy [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► the fact that i I've got a gun in this [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► game but I don't I don't I create with [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► that I don't destroy with it and i use [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► my intelligence and and I get away from [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► that fire firing bullets and and having [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► the splash of a dead body of an alien [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► hitting the floor or some other kind of [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► enemy but then late in in Portal 2 there [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► are several there are several levels [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► where you're basically painting with the [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► level the 3d level you open portals on [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► drips of goo and then open them up [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► somewhere else and they're kind of [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► shooting out and just kind of splashing [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► everywhere and you're doing a tactically [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► and yet i found find myself really [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► enjoying just the effort of painting [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► these two these beautiful 3d levels with [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► these drops of goo just for fun just [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► because it was enjoyable and and that [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► I'd ever Mary sunshine you might like it [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► yeah about so I i'm totally with you [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► there that I I totally get the first [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► person shooter metaphor and I've enjoyed [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► playing shooters and yet you know is [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► I've gotten older I've gotten gotten it [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► just seems kind of old to me and portal [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► was that breath of fresh air of like oh [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► I can use these skills and have a good [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► time and yeah there's some peril and [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► there's something shooting at me but [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► it's not i'm just outwitting them in it [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► in it I really appreciate that's the [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► thing that made me play there are not [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► that many [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► games that I played you know all the way [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► through in the last 10 years and the [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► portal games were not hard to play all [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► the way thru like I really wanted to [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► play them all the way through i like how [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► in Portal to portal 2 you're constantly [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► berated for being a murderer even though [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► it's do a relatively nonviolent game [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► compared to show the number of murders [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► are committed many other that's right we [TS]

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00:21:34 ◼   ► satire were her exact words since the [TS]

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00:21:37 ◼   ► title sure but it just the way that even [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► in portable one to start the way the the [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► story came in to play and how everyone [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► say you guys are saying that it teaches [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► you how to play the game very well [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► without feeling like it's teaching you [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► how to play the game but it also kind of [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► brings in the story without you [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► realizing that there's a story coming [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► you know all of a sudden Gladys's you [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► know her you hear her voice you don't [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► know anything about her but she'll start [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► you know saying things about like oh [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► you're going to be missed you know and [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► you're like wait when it [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► what did you know you're like hold on a [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► second and then the music changes and it [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► starts you know feeling a little bit [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► ominous and you're like what am i [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► walking into here you know it's person [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► look you feel like it's just this puzzle [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► game you're playing this person and [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► you're walking through and i'm going to [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► solve some puzzles puzzles with this [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► cool gun but then it very very [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► seamlessly and and slowly becomes you [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► know this this intense thing that you [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► and then you start finding the dens and [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► you start seeing what's going on and she [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► starts talking to you in a weird way and [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► I just I find that so intriguing and [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► like you say it's so funny and the width [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► that they use and the language that you [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► use you just can't help but enjoy it and [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► keep going but also have a little bit of [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► fear which is great the way they tell [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► that story so brilliant because you know [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► you're talking about her voice and like [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► for the first part of the game if you [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► listen to the way that they edited [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► Gladys's voice they would have her like [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► read three lines and they would pull [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► individual words out of it and make it [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► sound very disjointed and [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► computer like and if you listen to that [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► effect as you go deeper and deeper into [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► the game they start rolling that back [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► and taking it away [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► so what you have like when like you're [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► talking about this sinister earnest like [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► start coming out then they would not do [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► that affected she'd be so it was lesson [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► to lesson to lesson so she becomes more [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► and more human now and more and more of [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► a villain until you get to like the [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► final level where she's doing actual [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► evil soliloquies towards you and it's [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► just so awesome I mean we all agree that [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► Gladys is one of the greatest villains [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► and a video game right it's such a great [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► character might get it yeah we already [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► saw the first two lines for my notes you [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► got the clever gameplay mechanic mix [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► with narrative which was my over [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► everything and then and then that my [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► very first note was the super robotic [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► voice in the beginning of portal one [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► that's slowly is where you really see it [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► if you go play portal what portal two [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► back-to-back because portal 2 she's all [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► smooth silky evil the whole time right [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► versus portal 1 [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► well then remember the Aperture Science [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► bring-your-daughter-to-work day is the [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► perfect time to have protested you know [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► it that the game portals is from was [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► basically like an idea for a gameplay [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► mechanic this poll portals mechanic and [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► you can make a game with just a mechanic [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► what makes it special is the head [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► mechanic lots of games have cool [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► mechanically you could say something [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► like Three's has I interesting [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► mechanically you know combine these [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► tiles and the slide is interesting way [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► that's a mechanic you can make a great [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► game like that but putting narrative on [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► top of it is you know it's like [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► chocolate and peanut butter combined [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► here and it's not like if you just have [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► a narrative you have been a bad game [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► it's not like you just have a great game [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► blipping how to get back and make great [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► games either way but portable such an [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► oddity because it was like look you know [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► it's it was made by a few people with a [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► small you know tie-in type game it's [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► never going to be this grand narrative [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► like like a big huge triple a narrative [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► game and it's never the gameplay [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► mechanic was like yeah alright i guess [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► it's kind of interesting but the [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► combination of the two is way more than [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► the sum of the parts land I i think i [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► think also what kind of game it is plays [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► into it brilliantly in that the way the [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► way it starts you know you you almost [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► expect it's like oh I get it [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► they've got a clever mechanic and they [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► have a series of puzzles and it's [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► literally going to be I mean and you [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► were led to believe that's what [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► everybody thought is I'm gonna leave [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► in part of all this is one of 16 right [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► no yeah I guess we're just gonna do some [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► things and then you get to that moment [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► where it all falls apart and you flee [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► and you're going down the side the [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► passageways outside the things that is [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► such that is one of my favorite moments [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► in any game I've ever played because [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► you're like what is happening now how it [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► out you know i'm going to want you to [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► feel that fleeing a general adrenaline [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► yeah it's really like my god i really do [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► have to get out of here like I have no [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► usage and even at that point you you [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► know that she's probably going to kill [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► you at that point like this the great [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► thing about you know sort of the the [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► mute protagonist and half life on this [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► game as well by time you get up to [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► whatever that level is when the the fire [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► is there and everything and they're [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► going to incinerate you I you're so mad [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► Gladys but she's just been needling you [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► and the only the only way you have to [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► take revenge on this voice that's been [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► in your ear that you're pretty sure now [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► wants you dead is through your actions [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► in the game because you can't yell back [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► and there's no like there's no [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► interaction is no dialogue [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► it's like you you feel like you're in [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► this conflict with what is essentially a [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► voiceover like again it's a small game [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► and economical way to do it is just make [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► the game with the mechanic and just a [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► voiceover like what do you mean just [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► added that it is that your whole [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► narrative is just going to be voiceover [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► how taking and pull it off it's it's [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► very economical and the trick is have [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► really really good writing and really [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► really good voice acting and then all of [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► a sudden this entire world and star [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► conflict in your head with what is [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► essentially a voice happening while you [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► play puzzles like her voice she doesn't [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► even affect the game just dropped you in [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► and then you mean you play out each room [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► and you know talk to you in the elevator [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► right and you know but during the [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► loading screen results you in the [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► elevator and out of that doesn't like [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► reading it's like reading a book this [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► entire world has spun out in your mind [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► like the entire game is taking place in [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► your mind while like your hands are [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► solving a puzzle just like I'm gonna get [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► her whenever you know checking your like [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► escape haha free you know [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► yeah I usually find games with the [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► silent protagonist like kind of [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► frustrating and feel like it's kind of [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► from a certain area of video games but [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► it works so well in this I mean it to me [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► it's weird and half life when you go [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► places they're like scientists talking [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► to you and you just sit there and don't [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► respond [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► um but it works really well in portal [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► with with with glasses the main [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► character with the other characters that [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► they added portal 2 and it's all women [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► that's true that [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► don't even talk about like [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► bring-your-daughter-to-work day [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► self-esteem fun for girls clad is said [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► in the beginning of portal 1 like how do [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► you show who the character is the first [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► person shooter and the very first as [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► soon as you wake up in portal one you [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► are forced to see your player character [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► which almost never happens in any other [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► game unless you shove a mirror in the [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► face because going through the portal [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► you see yourself entering you know to me [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► like it's it's a clever way to without [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► without putting a mirror right in front [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► of you or without having like a readout [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► over the screen saying who you are [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► whatever it's totally clear that you are [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► this woman and for the rest of the game [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► you'll be seeing yourself going through [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► portals you know I wanted to say one [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► thing about the silence which is just [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► you can read it as being I'm not gonna [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► I'm not gonna feed the trolls right I'm [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► not going to give Gladys the [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► satisfaction of talking to her I'm just [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► gonna ignore and roll my eyes and she's [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► just she can hold the whole conversation [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► by herself [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► I don't need to participate instead of [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► it being that why am i i'm not saying [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► anything and they can't even then poke [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► fun at it and portal 2 window when they [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► ask you to say stuff and you you hit a [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► button that makes you jump in it [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► yeah maybe you have brain damage or [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► maybe you don't want to talk to any of [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► these annoying robot think she calls you [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► a mutant monster at some point later [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► later and then I think some kind of some [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► kind of crazy mute or whatever but and [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► then you showed up you dangerous [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► mute lunatic yeah like you're playing [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► the entire game and you're all your [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► actions are your only revenge and even [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► though everything like you know how it [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► works is the game like when you get [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► through a certain sequence certain audio [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► is triggered but it seems like [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► especially because the amount of time [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► you spend solving a puzzle is variable [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► depending on whether you get stuck or [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► not [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► and very often you'll spend a long [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► period of time without hearing anything [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► say because you don't trigger any other [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► events like putting a portal behind the [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► security cameras and hearing the little [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► voice tell you have to do that or [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► whatever you struggle to a puzzle and in [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► your moment of triumph immediately her [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► voice comes in and cut you down again [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► and then you just hate her even more [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► it'll calm even her just parading you [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► when you're in the elevators is kind of [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► its like that's a really nice take on [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► like where this is here so we can have a [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► loading screen right but we're going to [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► you know we're going to amuse you [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► well you know between puzzles so I I [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► have to say I've heard [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► a criticism I hear a lot from people are [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► people that they don't like games that [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► basically plays movies like they hate [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► metal gear for instance because they [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► they don't watch a story they want to [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► play a story and they're they're really [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► big fans of like the first person like [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► you exist in this world and you just see [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► it and story happens around you i [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► usually don't like that i think in [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► Portal I think that this game could not [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► have worked if you had heard shell [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► talking in the reason i think that is it [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► Jason coming back to your comment about [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► like you know how you felt when the [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► world started you know like Gladys tries [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► to kill you and you leap out the [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► incinerator and like you've broken the [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► fourth wall and suddenly you're behind [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► the the scenes of aperture science and [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► yeah you're seeing all these mechanics [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► and like that just broken down scaffold [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► tree and going from room to room and [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► that experience is so much about what [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► you the player are feeling and like do [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► you remember when you incinerate your [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► companion cube that was freakin horrible [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► that her you kill your faithful [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► companion cube and then they they twist [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► the knife by saying you were the races [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► her time you use a nice your face little [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► companion cube by quickly than any test [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► subject on record [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► congratulations you do they always say [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► that no matter what you know pretty sure [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► yeah but from the me if it was so much [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► about what you yourself felt from that [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► like maybe you're a monster and you felt [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► nothing [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► considering your companion cube and I [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► think if you had like shells speaking [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► right throughout the whole game i think [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► it would just be here exactly because [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► the Wonder portal is exploring and [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► figuring it out in your own thoughts in [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► your own journey in your head is the [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► reward of portal so I think this is like [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► the rare edge case like it's really true [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► this this criticism please and I don't [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► think there are any cutscenes and portal [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► 1 like with the exception of maybe the [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► very ending of the game like it there [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► are loading screens in which you are you [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► know elevator and entertained by voices [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► but you make everything happen and so it [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► is a right is a conversation between [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► voiceover audio and your actions that is [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► the conversation obviously your actions [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► always gonna be the same [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► always going to complete his room and go [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► to the next room and get it feels like a [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► conversation even though you are [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► essentially being led through a linear [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► thing of cards and triggering a linear [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► series of events that's what good [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► writing can do can make you forget like [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► a book like the book's gonna unfold the [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► way it's going to unfold but you feel [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► like it's a living breathing thing when [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► you're reading because whatever you've [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► got in your head as the platform is like [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► going out over that fire and then you're [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► running through the back hallways like [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► whatever you have in your head is gonna [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► be a lot more meaningful than like a [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► voice actor saying like I gotta get out [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► of here right i mean that no yeah and [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► then we've got right to the music use [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► that they have you are really really [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► good really led to everything in the [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► game for free in addition to the hell i [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► love it just a little radio plain [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► annoying on [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► oh yeah I do [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► i also like somebody who tends to not do [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► the obsessive exploring of every single [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► crevice of every single 3d area of a [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► game I like that in Portal the original [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► when you go behind-the-scenes I felt [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► really motivated to do that partially [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► because the game was leaving me there [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► but also partially because of the story [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► the story made me feel like as Chelle I [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► need to figure out what the hell is [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► going on here and then you get rewarded [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► by the scenes scrawled things on the [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► walls and stuff like that but I liked [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► how it made me feel like oh well of [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► course I need to do this thing that you [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► know most gamers would probably be doing [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► anyway which is trying to figure out [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► what's going on by looking down all [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► these weird different locations behind [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► the scenes in this game and they put [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► arrows on the wall to like as I organic [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► way to integrate like this is applied a [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► place where some people might get stuck [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► so you've been seeing how long on the [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► wall already anyway so if we put a [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► scroll Darrow it there's a gameplay [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► reason for there to be essentially hint [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► in the game reminding people who might [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► not be sure [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► oh by the way you should go this way [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► because there are places in the game [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► especially when you're going through the [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► mechanicals where again if you're if [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► you're level first-person shooter [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► awareness is not good you could get [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► yourself turned around I quite [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► understand especially since uh since the [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► Gladys is going you're not even going [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► the right way like all the time [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► yeah i can imagine people believing that [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► began to get lost in that type of thing [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► and you've got the you know the arrows [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► pointing you towards the to continue the [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► game i want to talk about some of the [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► other characters in the game and this [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► may not be what you expect me to say but [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► I maybe we can talk about the turrets [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► yeah because they are just won the [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► Turner care gasps I don't hate you can [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► keep and I'm delightful because they [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► talk and they say very strange things [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► and when you when you are going to shoot [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► you so you have to do bad things to them [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► and then it's very sad because they yelp [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► and they say sad things facebook weekend [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► I love that I love that the turrets and [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► they look you know interesting and [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► almost you know like a more like a [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► person than a or or a person robot I [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► love coming across that the special ones [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► and especially in portal to where they [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► have like the end the ones in the den [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► that sing the little song here he did [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► you come across that one [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► the background you hear this music and [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► you're like what is that and you like go [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► through and you find one of the rat dens [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► and you're in there and then all of a [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► sudden you find this area where there's [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► three or four of them just singing a [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► little song to themselves like in this [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► little warehouse and it's adorable and [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► then the one that you find on the [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► platform right that like tells you all [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► kinds of a life-affirming slightly [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► religious jargon because you saved it [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► from being incinerated you Robin you [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► don't talking about I do from looking [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► screaming vocals for keeping the merge [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► to me he was cast into the balance of [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► here and pick things that affected the [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► defective ones are add more than the [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► regular one yeah it's like I different [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► save me o beautiful one I feel really [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► bad for the Franken the Franken cubes [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► that are the turrets the get go to [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► solution and they're all messed up and [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► like it's got to stick their little legs [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► i try to square the trial on the ground [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► until you can almost they tuck their [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► legs and the cubes the robot that turns [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► the turn into cubes horrible idea [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► it's a phone oh right right off the bat [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► and on the very first the very first [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► level of portal one they try to give the [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► giant whatever the Aperture Science [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► whatever giant red button they try to [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► give that like a personality which [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► obviously the buttons don't have a [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► person I by giving by giving ridiculous [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► aperture science names each one of these [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► things you start to get a picture what [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► this company is like they're not just [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► about shower curtains anymore they do [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► all sorts of things science so you have [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► the original script portal 2 was going [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► to have you and rich it ends up being [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► very much Wheatley whatley how to [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► pronounce weaving really yeah weekly so [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► it was like you spend a lifetime with [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► weekly but the original version of it [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► was going to have different levels with [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► like the the space fear and the radius [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► fear was the third one [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► I'm [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► montresor learning adventures fear [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► adventures fear for food courts here or [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► is it adventure two or more facts fear [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► the spac the facts fear yes shredded [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► carrots don't like the situation in [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► which a cat in a box must be considered [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► for all intents and purposes [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► simultaneously alive and in short entry [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► created this counts as a justification [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► for killing cats [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► yeah oh my god i wish i did just had so [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► much personality like especially the [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► space fear so I want i will whole [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► spin-off game with Justin spear oh this [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► is base means be made minute we need it [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► but I like the adventure one because he [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► was a nice [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► he was a nice match for cave johnson [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► came down so we got longer be the [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► adventure core do you hear that make [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► something just exploded [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► man we are in a lot of danger this is [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► like Christmas [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► no it's better than Christmas should be [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► its own holiday explosion all right [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► let's talk about let's talk my cave [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► johnson and another in the fifties worry [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► we're getting a portal to hear but it's [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► all kind of gets all goes together man I [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► i loved i love that whole section of the [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► game and we can talk about that too how [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► we we start portal 2 and it's pretty [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► familiar [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► although we've got wheelie as our [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► companion and then we've got at the end [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► it's pretty familiar although its kind [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► of skewed and and it's undercutting sort [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► of what we expect but it also is what we [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► expect portal and they did that great [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► thing of building that familiarity by [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► having you play the first couple [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► Taylor's from portal again except now [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► they're all your message i did an [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► overgrown and probably they do like [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► three flips because you start the game [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► and you're like wow okay because glass [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► in this game or not because i got this [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► court thing and hit the you know [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► Wheatley is has enough personality can [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► be like I wouldn't be offended by [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► playing a game with we have here is my [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► domain because he's charismatic in a [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► different way we are none of that's 192 [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► twist of like all glad she's still here [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► big surprise but anyway she is that's [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► number two and number three is all you [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► thought you were it was going to be [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► another game where you just you versus [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► glass actually this whole thing you know [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► and then you fall down the big shaft and [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► then there's the cave johnson and it all [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► comes together so they they they kind of [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► do it [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► I don't say do it too many times but [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► they do I think just enough twists where [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► it's kind of like two three or four [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► games in one and each one gives you a [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► different look just when you think [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► you're getting a little bit tired [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► alright so I'm just gonna go through a [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► series of levels Julio Gladys back or [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► item I just going to go through a series [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► of levels are no actually I'm not and [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► that cave johnson has its own [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► progression and then it all comes [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► together in the end it so it's a [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► surprisingly rich structure for what is [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► not very long games only long compared [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► to portal 2 but you can get through to [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► get part of one rather they find a lot [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► of ways to reinvent that formula right i [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► love that I love the cave johnson [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► section for lots of reasons I love that [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► it's such a change in terms of the [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► palette and the and the set design and [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► everything and we've got and and the the [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► cut the loading screens change so that [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► you know you end up with the history of [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► logos of aperture science through [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► history through the decades which is [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► fantastic got seventies aperture science [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► logo is a thing of beauty and horror but [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► beauty and then we get the story cave [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► johnson played wonderfully by JK Simmons [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► and I really enjoy hearing his and [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► stretch it strains credulity a little [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► bit that it's like guess we'll take this [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► recording when he will occasionally have [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► a side and mark them at people [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► we'll just load that one in that part [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► we're not going to edit it or anything [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► you're not part of the control group by [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► the way you get the jail last four [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► son-of-a-gun got blue paint all joking [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► aside that did happen broke every bone [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► in his legs tragic but informative or so [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► I'm told [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► the lab boys just informed me that I [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► should not have mentioned the control [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► group they're telling me I gotta stop [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► making these pre-recorded messages that [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► gave me an idea make more pre-recorded [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► messages I pay the bills or i can talk [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► about the control group all damn day but [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► still it's it's telling his story and [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► it's also giving you that kind of [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► amusing like Oh apertures been around [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► for awhile how did it get started what [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► you know why is it the way it is now and [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► while you're going through the kind of [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► decrepit you know the underbelly of what [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► was aperture back at the beginning and I [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► just I love that section JK Simmons is a [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► riot and I was really happy the entire [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► time I was playing in their third like [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► the retro portal section is a just was [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► really enjoyable as my favorite part of [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► the game every packs i go to i hope i [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► can find like some exploding lemons to [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► behind and keep their my desk like that [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► would be awesome [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► alright I've been thinking when life [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► gives you lemons you make lemonade make [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► life take the [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► image back get mad I want your damn [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► lemons what am I supposed to do with [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► these demands to see life's manager make [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► life through the day and thought it [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► could give came Johnson lemons do you [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► know who i am i'm the man is gonna burn [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► your house down with the lemons [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► combustible lemon that burns your house [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► down [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► we're like we're like have my people GS [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► accident throw throw 11 ZAPPIN just to [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► just to psych the know now that the [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► whole monologue was great and finding [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► out plateaus his backstory and it [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► doesn't let us say explicitly who she is [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► but it sure doesn't into it but it [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► doesn't the very at the very end it does [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► because at the very end [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► she says that uh Carolyn has made me so [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► for those who had just I don't know why [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► they're listening if they haven't played [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► the game but but but [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► k Johnson's assistant who he says in the [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► end he's like she needs to run the [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► company and you should put her in the [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► computer instead of me if I die before [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► you can put me in the computer [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► Carol Carolyn Carolyn Caroline at the [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► end GLaDOS says you know being Carolyn [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► taught me a valuable lesson [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► I thought you were my greatest enemy [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► when all along you were my best friend [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► the surge of emotion shot through me [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► when I see if your life taught me and [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► even more valuable lesson where Carolyn [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► lives in my brain [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► goodbye Carolyn [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► that's a that's a nice moment and then [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► of course in the song in a once you're [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► gone it says that too so she's she's [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► always Carolyn is always a there but it [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► takes awhile for to dawn on you of [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► what's of what's happening i think i [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► mean you can read ahead maybe a little [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► bit and figure it out but that's a [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► really nice thing to as he's dying from [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► moon dust poisoning i thought it was [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► nice that the net the narrative that [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► takes place in Portal 2 with a review [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► all these things like it was one of the [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► few games where I didn't have to after [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► completing portal to go to a site and [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► look up like what you know to what [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► happened to look up and look up what the [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► real story because there was i was [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► interested enough in the game to like [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► look at every little thing is not too [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► many things to look at right so you see [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► the science fair you see the potato you [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► see the names and stuff like that and [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► just through sort of the emotional arc [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► or not so much the like the little [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► little hints they give you but just the [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► emotional are being made it very clear [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► to me what the relationship between [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► Caroline GLaDOS and she'll was at least [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► as far as I was concerned and then I was [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► just looking up to see if the end the [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► actual evidence on the wiki pages and [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► all the fan sites confirmed what I would [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► I in my heart believe to be true with a [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► connection between them and neither did [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► didn't it either agree with it or the [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► very least didn't disapprove it so I [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► definitely have my headcanon for this [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► game and I think that cameras probably [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► pretty coat close to what the real [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► Canada's you know I just like i like the [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► realization and and the best part of it [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► is that i love that that all happens [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► while GLaDOS is with you stuck to a [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► potato field because she's like not [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► unite oh my god i figured out the origin [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► of GLaDOS it's like no she's right there [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► going like home that sounds familiar [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► I don't know and that adds a whole other [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► layer to it that she the potato Gladys's [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► is you know stuck on your on your portal [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► gun while you're learning her origin [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► story that's and it's retroactive [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► continuity like the line i said at the [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► opening of the show I chose it because [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► that's a line from portal one but it [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► makes it clear as far back at portal one [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► that there is an emotional relationship [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► between Chell and GLaDOS which doesn't [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► make sense in the context of the part of [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► one universe because you don't have any [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► of the backstory but once we heard it [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► important to sort of in in perhaps you [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► know fun coincidental retroactive [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► continuity you're like oh that the stuff [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► she said in part 1 Tony's makes sense [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► because why would [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► why would shall be breaking glados's [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► heart by defeating her like there's [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► obviously a relationship between these [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► two personalities or entities and by the [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► end of portal 2 there is you know [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► there's a present relationship in the [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► past relationship is revealed and it all [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► starts to make sense and you know the [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► beautiful ending of portal 2 that will [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► get to just sort of nails at all home & [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► wraps the series thus far up into a nice [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► little bow have you did you see the did [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► anyone find the secret [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► portrait of a cave and Carolyn together [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► I don't know where that is i had i [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► hadn't come across that I knew about it [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► from reading about the game but not i [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► didn't find it in real life so it turns [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► out of the UFC there's like one of the [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► giant rooms there's a place where you [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► can pull up to it there's just like this [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► little side office with their and you [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► get a little bit of extra dialogue from [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► from Gladys when you're in there about [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► like this being more and more familiar [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► and I don't think it's a coincidence of [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► what a karen looks like so yeah yeah I [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► think you hop on a on a on a box and [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► there's like a door that you can you can [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► open from up on a box or something but [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► because i did see that there's more [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► dialogue there [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► I like also kind of all the little jokes [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► along the way about I mean after having [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► played all the half-life games with with [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► you know spending how many hours [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► exploring all the like a sprawling Black [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► Mesa kind of bland corporate complexes [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► it slick but all the like repeated [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► little jokes about how aperture sciences [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► you know basically black mesas you know [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► little runner-up secondly one out of [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► Mike yet on the slides in the games room [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► like how do you know him with black mesa [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► yep that's all their other plaques and [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► you know and they're just it's they have [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► so much more character to them compared [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► to you know and some of that is the [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► technology that was available in terms [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► of their level design but you know [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► aperture science click more fun place to [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► work for ya if you read the backstory [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► that is on the wiki pages and perhaps [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► not as well expressing the game the idea [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► was like they're they had heard about [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► something that black mesa was making [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► they said I forget what it was like [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► drainage ditches or do something to eat [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► grains they said we should make one like [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► that but also give it AI and that was [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► needed a class project was like we could [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► take something that it should never have [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► artificial intelligence can we also make [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► artificial intelligence that we should [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► remember ordered us some of the chatroom [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► should look it up but it like the [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► absurdity of the idea like that the way [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► we compete is to do these crazy things [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► fits perfect [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► with Kay Johnson once you once you meet [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► the man through his recordings that yes [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► that is essentially what they would do [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► and it is really terrible idea as [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► everyone would find out once the [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► neurotoxin started flowing I want to [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► talk about Wheatley briefly just to give [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► people in all yeah I so I have loved my [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► first podcast that i have really love [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► with the Ricky Gervais show and one of [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► the things that I really love about [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► everybody talks karl Pilkington was kind [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► of a breakout character being himself [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► very strange person I always loved [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► Stephen Merchant in the region based [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► show because what I loved about him was [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► he didn't talk a lot but whenever he [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► would say something it was just insane [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► and insanely funny and I just I always [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► liked I always enjoyed Stephen Merchant [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► so to have him be a character and having [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► me this bumbling helpful but not very [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► helpful turned you know turn to the [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► villain of the story for awhile bumbling [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► still but villain [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► i I just I that infused so much humor [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► into into the whole story and I just I [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► thought it was a great bit of casting [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► and when we were talking a couple [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► episodes ago I think we mentioned I i [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► think it was maybe even the last episode [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► we mentioned destiny and that wizard [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► came from the moon and things like that [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► i just i want to appreciate a really [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► nice bit of casting that having stephen [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► merchant is weakly I really enjoyed him [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► alway always one hour then I'll come [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► back and assuming like to locate your [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► dead body for burial [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► alright brilliant go team see you in an [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► hour hopefully if you're not dead [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► I thought he was really into playing and [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► I hate him he is intentionally annoying [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► right i found out of sight right but but [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► but then you see him breaking down but [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► he's entertaining don't you think [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► oh yeah I thought I guess what I'm [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► saying is my my gut reaction to him like [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► good performances are nuanced and you [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► can you can watch them again and [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► understand subtleties my got reaction to [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► Wheatley was black she felt like you [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► just seemed really annoying and then [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► like as you go through the game and you [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► like learn about his psychology and how [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► like you know it feels like he can never [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► you know get beyond this one single task [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► and then you see him [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► fail and like have a very human response [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► to not being able to live up to a job [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► and you see him breaking apart and this [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► darkness like come over him i thought [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► it's just a wonderful performance was [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► not your bullet-riddled building for my [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► other room he wouldn't know there's the [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► crop targets were like yeah well no [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► matter because I'm still holding all the [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► cards I guess what they're all full [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► houses never actually played cards [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► meaning to learn [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► I mean he's meant to be i mean that [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► character is meant to be bumbling an [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► annoying at the beginning so that it has [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► a bit has a place to go and it and it [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► does it but i do love I do love that [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► character of my ego big dreams that they [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► cannot live up to who [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► that's right that's a nice higher i like [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► the idea but also that he like they do [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► again I they get away with a lot of [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► twists in this thing because in it like [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► but they don't do the the easy way which [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► is have someone who's with you in the [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► beginning who you later find out the [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► entire time was plotting to be the bad [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► guy and as it turns out the bad guys [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► actually the good guy that is not what [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► happens in Portal 2 he didn't intend to [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► be a good guy [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► it's just that when he got into that [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► chassis it's like a all this power [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► yeah and I'm very smart now so that was [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► not his plan from the beginning and the [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► good guys like oh actually Gladys is my [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► friend or whatever [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► no not really you know when she gets [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► back in that thing like that that's what [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► makes the ending point because you know [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► Caroline deleted right you you think you [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► think you know what's up with these AIS [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► but you don't because glad us is it's [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► never gonna be your super duper friend [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► and Wheatley really was trying to be a [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► good guy but just you you put them into [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► that robotic frame and give him all this [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► information and just things things go [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► wrong so how it's gonna corrupt yeah and [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► and it's it's a greater those few turns [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► again and like I like a two-hour game [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► they do those terms you normally get [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► those number of turns like a you know [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► hundred our final fantasy that game they [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► cram them into two hours it's just a [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► fairly good density of interesting and [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► somewhat unexpected plot twists all [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► which feel honest and sort of human [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► which is weird to say when you think I [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► I but can somebody make me a t-shirt [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► that says Gladys is never going to be [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► your super duper fresh and expansion [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► that that's a title that is what she may [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► not kill you would be like you're not [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► going to the house [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► let's not let's talk about we've been [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► talking a lot about upside and we should [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► talk about what the WHA RR maybe our [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► criticisms and negative feelings about [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► about portal are Breanna you wanna jump [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► in [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► yeah yeah I mean look this game is a [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► masterpiece if I our call correctly I [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► think it got a 10 back on gamespot when [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► it came out I may be remembering their [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► room but we we all agreed that this game [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► is a masterpiece [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► so yeah this is this is just nitpicking [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► um I think portal two is a much stronger [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► game from a narrative point of view I [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► think mechanically portal two is a [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► weaker game than portal 1 i'm a portal 1 [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► the mechanics of it basically came from [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► an indie game that you know valve saw [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► they saw the potential in it and you [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► know basically bought it and turn it [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► into part of the orange box and [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► basically expanded the idea and if you [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► look at portal to the new gel mechanic [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► is something very similar to that the [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► day they saw on in the game and they [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► kind of took that mechanic and put it on [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► there you have to say I thought those [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► puzzles are fun i enjoyed portal to but [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► I felt like that particularly did not [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► it didn't feels organic with it [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► I and I actually think the later half of [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► portal 2 is actually kind of weak [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► because i think most of the puzzles come [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► down to this this frustration factor we [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► find yourself with the portal gun and [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► you're going ok what is the part of this [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► room this covered in moondust paint so [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► you find yourself shooting portals [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► everywhere just waiting for something to [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► stick very often way way way way out in [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► the distance just like hoping to find [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► this one little tile and it's it was to [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► me was very reminiscent of this you guys [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► remember in the the eighties when you [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► play these are [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► you adventure games that would very much [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► be a pixel hunt here I to find the exact [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► with the hospital i can click on that [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► exactly and I i still think this was was [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► well done but I feel like it was it was [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► weaker let me double up on that uh one [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► of the things that struck me in and i [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► know this is again funny for me to say [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► this is somebody who doesn't play a lot [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► of games and doesn't mind that this was [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► easier and i totally get the conceit of [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► the fact that these are test levels so [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► the whole point of them is that there's [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► a solution but after a while I did find [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► myself being disappointed that every [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► time there's an angled wall you you drop [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► through a portal on to a portal on the [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► angled wall and will be flung exactly [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► where you need to go and I started and I [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► start to think i get i get why they [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► explain why this is because these are [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► test portals but it didn't it didn't [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► feel organic to be in it and it felt not [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► dangerous enough i like I wanted there [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► to be angled walls that didn't fling me [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► anywhere or flung they don't give you a [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► lot of falsely right or that were three [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► wide and you if you put it on the the [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► left side you would be safe but on the [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► right as i may be a little bit of [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► alignment but that everything the main [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► challenge that portal 2 has is can you [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► make a longer game especially for [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► players who have played portal one where [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► they don't get tired of doing the same [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► thing that's what gets into the tony was [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► saying is like throughout the whole [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► length of portal to the way they're [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► trying to stave off boredom or [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► repetition is by it's gradually adding [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► new mechanics and when you when you [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► gradually add this new mechanically [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► don't remove the old one so like the [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► angled walls with with you know putting [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► a portal on them [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► those are still there just because it [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► assumes you've learned that and it's a [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► given but hopefully on that level [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► there's something new like something you [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► know you're doing with the gel or [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► something new we're doing with those [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► little by little glowy walls yeah [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► whatever [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► I mean it's a little weird from a puzzle [TS]