Portal 1 is highly recommended as a "first video game" to play. It's one of the few video games out there that teach you how to play a video game in a fun and comprehensive way and is also fun in its own right from start to finish. It's also not a super long game, making it much more palatable as a first experience. Not sure if you'll see this comment, but regardless of what you end up playing first, I hope you have fun and can get into gaming! I love watching your reactions!
Portal 1 is really good as a "first video game" because it teaches a lot of the general gaming skills people usually pick up over years of playing games. Like recognizing patterns and prompts in the environment. A lot of games use tropes that arent really explained but are kind of a "shorthand" that gets picked up through playing a lot of games. And Portal does a good job at pointing out when its introducing a new "trope" and what the "trope" is.
Yes, I recommend it too! Portal 1 is really quite short. Someone who has experience with first person games plays through it in about 3 or 4 hours. So add like 1 or 2 hours learning and it's still just 6 hours maximum. Portal 2 is about 8.5 hours. Still short compared with most games. Oh and Portal 1 is quite old now I guess. Meaning you don't need a beefy PC to play it! Even Portal 2 is sorta old now. If you recently bought a PC with a somewhat good graphics card your machine should be way more powerful than it needs to be.
I can't choose a single favorite quote... Spoilers! Portal 1: "You're a bad person, you know that right? Good people don't end up here" (mainly due to the tone this is said in) "Two plus two is . . . ten. In base four, I'm fine!" (a lot of great quotes at the end) Portal 2: "You're the moron they built to make me an idiot!" "The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson: Where Caroline lives in my brain. [Beeeeeep] [Caroline deleted] Goodbye, Caroline."
“I mean, have I *LIED* to you?…. I mean, in this room?” This next chamber requires explanation, let me give you the fast version…. There, now if you need a reminder, just remember what I said in slow motion…
It is a puzzle game. In the first game and the single player part of the second you play as Chell, the human women. In the second game there is a 2 player mode that has you do another set of puzzles as the 2 robots, Atlas and P-Body. GLaDos is the creepy Robot voice, she runs the facility at the time you play in it. And Cave Johnson was the founder of Apature Science, the company that GLaDos now runs. Would highly recommend you play them, as they are really quality games, though the first person jumping through portals can be disorienting for some people.
@@Murzilka95 I mean it is super good and Ellen did a superb job as Glados, but it is also in my opinion, kinda creepy, and that is part of what makes it good in my mind
FINALLY !!! Edit: you're actually playing as the woman in the "boots" trailer at 7:13. She's mute the entire time and she's one of the best video game protagonists
I always hoped Chell would encounter Gordon Freeman since they are part of the same universe, they are both highly capable individuals, and the portal gun and gravity gun are also 2 of the most unique weapons ever.
@@Cookieboy70 the conversation would go like: Chell: "..." Gordon: "..." Chell: _"..."_ Gordon: *"..."* And then they would walk away awkwardly in two different directions.
The confusion was pretty much because it was all about Portal 2, with no Portal 1 context. Playing as the bots is for Portal 2's co-op mode where you and a friend try to get through the puzzles together. Which I wager would be a fun experience to do along side of you. In any case, just remember: The cake is a lie! :) Enjoy your day!
Portal 2 made me laugh so much I got cramps, amazing game. As for what the game is Portal 1 is singleplayer only, with a story set in the labs as a test subject. 2 continues that story, but it has a separate co-op experience where you play as the robots.
I'd say Portal is a good way to learn how to play first person games. Both games are narratively driven puzzles games that I'm sure you'll enjoy by yourself and with a friend.
Yeah ... Portal cannot be properly explained by trailer, it has to be experienced. It's a kafkaesk nightmare, using nothing more than a simple puzzle mechanic, the voice of an insane A.I. and the environment to tell its story. It's absolutely brilliant, maybe the best computer game ever made. The sequel is also quite good.
@@xvnz no, they can only count to Alyx. Also if you haven't already, check out the Chalkeaters song "Count to three". It's AWESOME.... AND they got ELLEN FREAKING MCCLAIN to reprise as Glados for the song.
I’d actually say Portal is a pretty good choice for a first video gaming experience. It was for a lot of us as kids. It has a pretty simple gameplay concept and a very engaging story. Glados is a top 10 antagonist.
It's a puzzle based game. You use portals to get through the levels. In the 1st game you are a human woman named Chell. In the 2nd game, you return as chell to figure out what has happened to the world and testing facility. There is also a co-op mode where you play as the robots, Atlas and P-Body.
Without spoiling Portal 1: play through and complete the test chambers as Chell using the portal gun to create portals which get you from A to B Portal 2: same idea but bigger and better. In the multiplayer you and another player play as the robots. You should play them
The reason for your confusion is that most of these clips are for Portal 2 not Portal 1, and the advertisements for Portal 2 mostly demonstrate the Cooperative game mode, and not the main story, in the main story you play as that woman completing tests against your will, as the mean robot lady you heard (GLaDOS) guides you through them. I will leave the rest of the details out incase you ever wish to play these games, as I don't want to spoil them. Also I definitely recommend playing them, and it is a very popular and good choice for a first game.
GlaDOS is an iconic villain in gaming history. (The creepy woman-AI). She's hilarious and creepy. Also; Contorted lines of cables creep, And cross suspended beams - A silent form you see in sleep; A shape you fear in dreams. It curves and bows in tarnished steel, And hangs, inert, below - But something stirs inside, you feel. A light begins to glow. The shadows shift their silhouette, And circuits fire anew. You hear the voice you can’t forget. She whispers: “Oh… it’s *you*.” - Poemforyoursprog, "Without saying it's name, what is your favorite video game?" (53k upvotes). watch?v=Tpk5bsohlmw (2 minutes, the scene in question. Don't expect you to watch necessarily Hannah :p )
I just got back into gaming after about 10 years MIA. My 10 year old daughter and I played Portal last year and we had a blast trying to figure out all the puzzles. I would definitely recommend trying it out. The comedy and story is pretty good also. And now I own a Valve Steam Deck and we play it on it.
It's just a comedic type of puzzle game, it's a test for your brain mainly with a sotry to boot, the first portal has barely any story, while the second one is more story-centric, and they are both complete classics in gaming because of their quality
The Portal series of games are legitimately one of the very best video game series ever made. Fantastic puzzles, amazing humor, incredibly memorable characters and story, wonderful aesthetic, and wonderful music. And it actually is one of the BEST series for both beginning and veteran players. It genuinely changes gaming forever after being released.
You actually had a pretty good read on things I think. Portal is a puzzle solving game where you play as a human test subject use portals to get around the environment and escape test chambers. Portal 2 is very similar but its a lot longer and has a bit more of a story as well as a multiplayer mode where you and a friend can play as those two robots to solve puzzles together. They are both super funny and entertaining so if you end up looking for something to play I'd highly recommend giving them a try.
A puzzle game where the robot lady insults you while you solve her puzzles as a human with a portal gun. Proving Glados you are better than her words. >:3 It's an interesting story, and there's a rewarding experience that comes from playing it to completion.
Brief explanation about the game: You play as Chell, a test subject for a secret underground laboratory called Aperture Science. The laboratory was founded many years before the events of the games by an entrepreneur called Cave Johnson but the entire facility is now run by an Artificial Intelligence called Glados (she's the creepy robot woman that you can hear speaking in some of the trailers). Glados puts you (Chell) through a bunch of puzzles and tests, at first they're very easy and safe and Glados even seems somewhat friendly but the test become more and more complicated and deadly until she's basically just trying to kill you. After completing increasingly lethal traps and puzzles you manage to reach the main chamber of the laboratory and you "kill" Glados by shutting her down. At the very beginning of the second game Glados is woken up once again because of various reasons. It turns out she's not just a very smart computer, she's basically alive and it was very painful for her to be forcibly shut down at the end of the first game. So she's kinda mad (to put it mildly) with you. So yeah, here's some context as to why she calls you a monster in one of the trailers. The second game's story becomes much, much more complicated after this but I'll stop here because I'm trying to keep this short lol
Unfortunate that all the videos were for portal 2, not portal 1. Since you have never played portal 1, they don't explain anything. Portal 1 is a fantastic game and I recommend it as your first game.
In Portal, you play as Chelle, the girl in the boots. You're forced to run a gauntlet of increasingly sadistic test rooms using the portal guns, and the sociopathic AI that you hear is the antagonist. In Portal 2, there are two campaigns. The first is a follow up to the original, where you play Chelle again in a single-player mode. The other is the cooperative two player mode, where you play as one of the two robots. Cave Johnson only exists in archive recordings, and is absolutely hilarious. The AI is called GlaDOS, and absolutely hates humanity beyond anything else. There's a lot of gallows humor here, but the games are quite fun if you're into puzzles.
The reason the robot voice (glados) calls you a monster is because this is an advertisement for Portal 2, and you "kill" Glados at the end of the first game, so she calls you a monster for doing so. Cave Johnson is the founder of Aperture Science, and is, in fact, voiced by JK Simmons.
I don't think there were any Portal 1 videos in here. All of these were Portal 2, except maybe for the first one, which may have just been an announcement for Portal 2.
The reason Portal 1 is so highly recommended as a first game is because it's fun without severe consequences while teaching how to platform well and the kind of thinking gamers need.
10:59 In the Singleplayer Campaign, you are the girl from the "Boots" Trailer. In the cooperatove campaign of Portal 2 that you play together with a friend, you are one of the robots and your friend is the other robot. There isalso the "Perpetual Testing Initiative, that lets you design Test Chambers (as seen in theMultiverse Trailer) and solve them, as well as solve those made by others. The Portal Gun is absolutely necessary. The Tagline is "Thinking with Portals" after all.
11:29 I would really recommend playing Portal and Portal 2 at some point (Not necessarily as your first game, i'd recommend getting at least some experience with threedimensional first person games in general before that) :) I'd like to see what you think about her once you get to know her better.
Portal is one of the all-time greats as far as video games are concerned. To give a quick summary of the scenario without spoiling things: Your task is moving through a number of scientific test chambers which are essentially just big old puzzle rooms. There are various switches, buttons, weighted cubes and other functions and items that will allow you to unlock and reach the exit door at the end of each testing chamber. Your goal is to reach and complete the final chamber because there will be cake. Your main tool is the portal gun, a device that lets you place down two connected portals (one blue, one orange) which allow you to traverse the testing chambers by placing one portal at your own position and one where you want to go. As you progress through the game you find increasingly more applications for your portals which are neccessary to further progress. To give one example: By placing one portal on the ceiling and the other on the ground directly below, you can enter an infinite falling loop in order to build up momentum. If you then move the ceiling portal from the ceiling to an angled or horizontal surface whilst still falling, you can launch yourself across the room to get past obstacles. Whilst you play through the game, your actions are commented on by GlaDOS, an artificial Intelligence who is the one behind the robot voice narrating the trailer. She's absolutely hilarious. There is also Portal 2, which is by all definitions a worthy and beloved sequel. A lot of the gameplay stays the same with some new additions, though I cannot really comment on the writing or plot because that's all spoilers for the first game. It does however come with the addition of a 2 player co-op mode in which you and another player take control of two little robots rather than the human test subject (a woman named Chel) you play in the main story.
GlaDos is very passive aggressive especially in the second game but has a rather tragic backstory in terms of what the game implies heavily went into the creation of GlaDos. As others said for a first game Portal and then Portal 2 are actually really good options since it centers around solving puzzles. Plus they are just fun even if they can be creepy at times but they aren't actually horror games at all.
Portal 2 has different modes, the single player mode you're human and in the co-op you're the robots. I did the co-op with a friend and it was a ton of fun working together to solve the puzzles.
To answer a few questions. There's two portal games: Portal 1 and Portal 2. In the first game, you play as a lady called Chell, a human lady to be precise. it's the girl you see walking around as well as the one who used the high fall boots. In the second game, there's two campaigns (I.E two different stories) to play. In one of them, you play by yourself and complete the game alone. Going through the story and the characters to see where the game takes you. Here you play as Chell once again. Then there's a co-op story to play through, where you play with your friend (or a random stranger) as the two robots you saw. So you are quite correct with the fact that you play as both the robots, as well as the girl. As for Portal being a "First game to play". It's very beginner friendly. Some people might even say that Portal 1 is just a tutorial for Portal 2. Portal 1 is also quite short when it comes to how long it takes you to play it, as it can be completed in like 2 hours (totally depending on how well one plays of course).
In Portal 1 you play as a character called Chell, she's mute and only makes a sound if a cube falls on her (a little fun fact for everyone. Yes, Chell has a voice). In Portal 2 you once again play as Chell in the main campaign. The robots are a separate campaign in the same game. Then there's the custom puzzle maker where you can make maps for other to play and play other people created maps. In there you play as one of those flat cartoon people.
GlaDOS isn't creepy. She's legendary! And ** trust** her when she makes references to cake. ;-) Her personality evolves over the time of Portal and Portal 2, and she's pretty hilarious, and well... no spoilers on GlaDOS from here. And speaking of Chell, unravel her secret. It's pretty cool. So is GlaDOS's secret/backstory/mystery.
That was a very strange playlist. Not a single video felt like a proper trailer for the original Portal game. Just searching "Portal Trailer" on UA-cam brought up the much more explanatory Teaser Trailer. On the other hand, you DID experience _why_ people love Portal: the writing. It is witty as hell and very often laugh-out-loud funny. The original Portal has long been hailed as the best intro to First-Person games. It only takes a few hours to complete, which also makes it beginner-friendly.
Hey Hannah! awesome videos, I've been binging on your videos for the last couple of hours. your fascination and energy towards video games are just downright contagious and fun to watch. Portal and Portal 2 are both first person puzzle games in which the protagonist (Chell) is a human who wakes up in an abandoned Apature science facility, Chell just wants to escape and her freedom but the antagonist (GlaDos) is a robot who has taken control over the facility and wants nothing more than to just run "tests" and give you more puzzles. The series is usually filled with clever dialogue and snarky remarks from antagonist which can be quite funny at times. the game is usually recommended to newer players because the learning curve for gaming controls and movements are quite simple but gradually get more challenging as the levels progress, this can be very helpful because there are plenty of video games in which the producers assumes that the player has plenty of experience in playing video games. I hope that shed more light on the subject, love the videos :)
Portal 2 is one of the best stories in gaming imho and THE best in terms of comedy, Portal 1 is pretty light on story but it is good. Either of them is a great intro into the gameplay side of things for a new gamer. They masterfully teach you things, most of which are applicable to gaming in general(especially with how trend setting Valve is), without you even noticing it
In both games, you use the portal gun to navigate test chambers and complete puzzles. It can get pretty tricky at times, but I think Portal 1 is a great way to learn the conventions of FPS games, and if you complete it, it will probably explain the robot lady's attitude. Portal 1 only has Single-Player mode, but Portal 2 has Single-Player and Multiplayer Co-op. You're the robots in Co-op mode, but you're the woman with the boots in Single-Player mode. There is also a mode where you can build your own test chambers and play chambers made by other players.
Thinking with portals is the philosophy of this game. Use physics and portals together to escape the test chamber. Basically a bunch of escape rooms in one giant escape room, and you must solve the puzzles with portals and anything else at your disposal to reach the exit. Really fun game, I’ve been replaying portal 2 and it’s still as much fun as it was when it first came out.
I'm terrible at games, and Portal and Portal 2 are my "comfort food." You basically saw trailer for three different games there. You have a single player mode, where you play "Chell" a human. Then there is the cooperative mode where you play as one of the robots while another person plays the others. Then there is the design portion where you can create your own puzzles and upload them for other people to play. Portal lasts about 2-3 hours for most people and literally half the game is a tutorial on how to play it, but it doesn't feel like it. You solve puzzles and it eases you in to each new concept. Once you know the basics, the game changes and you use everything you've just learned to get to the end. Portal 2 picks up with the same character after "some" time has passed. It's a much longer game and it has a similar tutorial stage to it, but it also has a story-line and character development. And the voice talents of J.K. Simmons and Stephen Merchant. Some of the dialog in Portal 2 is hilarious. It's a master class in passive aggression.
Fun fact: In the game, almost everything that is technological is a sentient robot, from the radios, the turrets, even the moving wall panels and forcefields are alive
It's basically a puzzle game and it's hilarious yet ominous at the same time, you basically play as female human, and she's being tested on by a robot called GLaDOS (the mean lady you referred to), and you need to pass many test chambers and they get more difficult as you progress through, and that companion cube that you use in your missions (the one with a heart symbol on it) has a dead human being inside of it, the one that failed the test before you. Portal COOP you play as two robots, with your friend and you try to solve harder puzzles because they're made for 2 players, unlike Portal 1 and 2 where it's just a single player game.
In co-op mode, you and a friend play as the robots. In single player mode, you play as Chell, a female test subject. The content of the game is essentially solving puzzles using portal logic, and it's accompanied by a narrative that takes place in the Half Life universe. GLaDOS is the psychotic AI that you hear in most of the trailers, and she runs the facility. Her motives and the purpose of your "tests" would be a spoiler. Portal would actually be a very good game to start with, because it'll let you learn basic controls and movement in a pretty casual environment (which will translate to all first person perspective games). The puzzles also require you to figure out where you need to go, and how you're going to get there (which are also extremely important skills to have in any game).
You actually nailed the core gameplay. Yes, you are trying to get through the test chambers, using the portal devices to get around. The tests are run by the scary voice woman, and the va did such a good job that character in now iconic in gaming. In the main games you play as a human, but portal 2 added a 2 player mode where you play as the robots.
I have had a rough weekend of work. and Hearing your heart melt when p-body & Atlas hugged melted my heart and i can now proceed to have a great weekend!
portal 1 is probably the best game you could pick to play first, you can play it at your own pace, and it guides you just enough for you to figure it out yourself
The creepy lady is named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is an evil AI. Fun fact: Guillermo del Toro is a fan of the games, for Pacific Rim he hired GLaDOS's voice actress Ellen McLain to perform as Gipsy Danger's AI which sounds exactly like GLaDOS.
Ok, so explanations of what you've witnessed. 1. The first Portal had no advertisements. It was a small mod of the game Half-Life and included with that game in a package called "The Orange Box." Unprecedently, though, Portal gained a massive fanbase. A few years after release, it became free on Steam, hence the first trailer you watched. 2. The first trailer you saw for Portal 2 was the only real look at the main story of the game. I know you're not gonna be able to piece together what it's about, and that's ok. It's actually a sequel to the first game and would be spoilers, anyway. That said, good on them for not spoiling anything in their trailer. 3. The trailers for Turrets, Panels, and Boots were made to not only advertise the game, but also "explain" some of the game mechanics, such as turrets never running out of bullets and the fact that you will ALWAYS land on your feet when playing. Also, yes that is JK Simmons, he does play Cave Johnson in the game, and the writing in both games is hilarious; I've never laughed more at being insulted. 4. The Robots you saw, Atlas and P-Body, are the two you get to play as in Portal 2's Coop Mode. New to sequel, Coop allowed two players to work together with their combined total of 4 portals to try and solve puzzles. Two people working together in the tests was going to result in failures, and they didn't want you both to have to restart the whole map every time when one of your characters died, so they made the characters robots that could be rebuilt on the spot instead of humans. 5. The multiverse trailer came out after the game and was an advertisement for the PC version, showing the ability to create user-submitted test chambers (the puzzle-based rooms you're trying to make it through in the game), which is still a functioning feature to this day. 6. The last trailer you watched was recent, showing that both Portal 1 and 2 were being brought to Switch, their first time on a Nintendo console. So yeah, you play as a human woman in the first game and the single-player mode of the 2nd, you play as two robots in the 2nd game's two-player mode, and you can make your own test chambers in the PC version. I agree with what someone else said; the first game would be a great first game to play, as it does a very excellent job about teaching you as you go, and it's a shorter game, taking anywhere from 2-4 hours for a newcomer to get through.
portal 1 sets things up with the questions of "who am i" "what is this place" "why am i doing these tests". whereas portal 2 answers a LOT of those questions and does a LOT of world building. so yeah portal and portal 2 are really good introductions to gaming
Portal 1. You are a test subject that has to solve a set of test chamber puzzles to complete the game. You are guided by an AI that talks to you as you progress through the game. Portal 2 is a follow up game which has single player campaign and co-op campaign (as the two robots), so each player would see the other robot. These games are way way ahead of their time and the dialogue is hilarious.
Portal has so well written dialogues, no other game made me laugh out loud so often. Apart from that the game itself is actual fun and quite clever. You need to get to the exit of the test rooms with the help of the stuff in the room and your "Portal Gun" - with it you can "shoot" two openings onto walls, the ceiling and the floor and then walk or jump through them from one to the other. So, for example, you can shoot one onto a wall above a ledge you can't reach any way else and one onto the floor - and when you jump into the hole in the floor you'll exit out of the one high up on the wall.
Portal 1 is probably a lot more accessible than Portal 2, which is what most of these trailers were about. They were highlighting the new co-op feature with the robot minions, whereas the single player mode has a human person with an interesting story. The creepy robot lady features in both and I think she grows on any player as you spend more time hearing her talk and learn more about her own background.
These games are actually pretty good games to learn how to play FPS games. The structure of the levels are built up in such a way that the entire game is one big tutorial. You learn a new skill per level and then eventually you get levels that require multiple of the skills you've just learned at the same time. Also just to mention it. These games have no horror elements, so they aren't scary in any way. It's just puzzle games with an excellent story and some good humor.
Most of these trailers are for Portal 2, and make more sense if you've already played Portal. They introduce new features like the two-player co-op, which is the thing with the robots (it's a whole separate story from the one player mode, with different levels and everything, basically a whole extra game within the game), and the "perpetual testing initiative", which is the mode where people can make their own levels. The main (single-player) game is where you're playing as the human test subject Chell, trying to get through (and perhaps out of) the Aperture Science facility, while being bullied by GlaDOS the passive-aggressive malfunctioning computer that runs the place. The game is very much its own tutorial. You learn how to play it piece by piece as you go through the tests, which gradually introduce new elements. It's not as daunting as it seems from these trailers, since these are for the second game and assume you're already familiar with the basics.
As many people said in other comments: Portal is an awesome "first game", I'd also recomend to start there! Bet you wouldn't regret it, has the same humor as the trailers and is good to learn how videogame classic 3D movement works in a chill way.
Really needed to know the mechanics of the portal device first. An offshoot of that game Half Life 2, Aperture Laboratories discovered a gun that creates shortcuts in the fabric of spacetime....shoot a destination on a surface....shoot an entrance on another....pass through instantly. And of course they had to create a test lab for subjects to find their way through seemingly impossible obstacles with it!
Portal 2 is sort of a three in one type of game. “Single player” as a human named Chell “Co-op” as 2 robots with a friend (names Atlas and P-body) And “perpetual testing initiative” where you build and share your own tests
I love portal! And always love watching people play it for the first time! (Just saying, no ulterior motive I promise) It's been explained already but you are a test subject and need to pass tests (or puzzles) designed for the portal device. So it's you, the portal device and a robotic voice guiding you through the tests (the lovely robot lady voice from the trailers) It's a fantastic game, and teaches you how to play in an excellent way, there's no tutorial but they introduce one mechanic at a time and when you master it, they add another and at the end you will have to combine all you have learned to advance. Also it's really funny 10/10 would recommend playing
Portal and portal 2 are probably the best games to play as a non gamer, it's a puzzle game that introduces you to common game mechanics and no need to hurry since it's a puzzle game.
Portal is one of the best narrative puzzle games ever made. It doesn't matter if it's not your first game, but definitely play it at some point. Edit: They're also quite short. Less than 10 hours between the both of them, so you don't even need to invest that much time.
Yes that is the same Valve that made Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, Half Life, Counterstrike, and Day of Defeat! Portal takes place in the same universe as Half Life. Aperture Science is a rival company to Black Mesa, who developed the gravity gun featured in Half Life. They come up with the portal gun as a competitor. You play a human guinea pig meant to test the capabilities of the portal gun. Unfortunately, Aperture Science is overrun by a rogue AI named Glados, the creepy robot voice who taunts you. She goes full AM from "I Have No Mouth and I must Scream" on all the humans she encounters, which involves tormenting you through a series of puzzles and tests after she killed everyone else.
Portal is such an excellent game. It's actually been a subject of study as a piece of feminist literature; the relationship between GLaDOS and Chell in particular has a lot to say about the relationship between mothers and their daughters, and the hidden spaces that women have to live in within a patriarchal world. The contortions and pains and difficulties, and just so much. It's got endless depth. And the gameplay is smooth as butter, and really rewarding. It's a puzzle game, but it's so much more too. Really encourage you to give it a go!
GLaDOS is just an AI that went rouge and poor Chell was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Right??? hehe... not! They are both survivors, that's for sure! But, seriously, since their backstories are out, it's good to know that neither one of them realizes the relationship through all of Portal, and (if I'm not mistaken) 90ish percent of Portal 2. In fact, I don't think the relationship is ever spelled out to either GLaDOS or Chell throughout the entire series. Portal/Portal 2 are games that have a lot of messaging under the surface that people casually playing don't tend to notice. Don't forget Ratman. Where does he fit into all of this? And Cave Johnson (yes, that is J.K. Simmons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Simmons). Cave has a very interesting relationship with... no spoiler!
Portal 1 is a short puzzler that introduces GLaDOS - the female voice you were hearing... Lots of lore to her and to Cave Johnson and his Aperture Science labs. You play as Chell, a human test subject who uses the portals and portal gun to get to the exits of the test chambers, and eventually take on GLaDOS. Portal 2 sees you back as Chell, but with a few other characters involved and a much deeper storyline and lore to how GLaDOS came to be, and the rise and fall of Cave Johnson and Aperture. Portal 2 is amazing. The two robots, P-Body and Atlas are the characters you play if you're doing the Co-op version to play with a friend in multiplayer. You should definitely play these games if you get a chance. As old as they are, they're still brilliant.
The best game to start gaming with is one you can play with friends. They can help explain and demonstrate how the game works so you don't spend your entire time playing trying to figure out the basic functions. I'd actually suggest starting with something simple from Nintendo, like MarioKart, or any number of Nintendo Wii Sports games like bowling or tennis. I've played on the Nintendo Wii with my technophobic grandmother without an issue, provided we played something she had played in real life, like tennis. Then all we had to do was explain what character she was controlling, the basic controls and let her play. We obviously had to set up the matches for her, but the gameplay itself is simple enough that only the most basic explanation is required to allow a new player to have a go. The entire family had a great time.
All of these videos were from portal 2. As for the point of the game you kinda got it right, the simplest way to describe the game it's a puzzle game where you use portals to solve tests. There is also a storyline but I don't really wanna spoil the story, just remember the cake is a lie. During the singlelplayer story mode you play the girl (Chell), the two robots are the playable characters in the 2 player coop mode.
Portal 1 and 2 are story-puzzle games, but there are other modes too, in cooperative mode you play with someone else and solve the puzzles together and the other mode is you make a puzzle and post it for other people to solve it. I would love a "Portal lore reaction" video it's one of my favorite games and seeing you reacting to the trailers was fun 🤗
just to clarify, there are two types of story mode on portal 2, single player where you play as a human person trying to escape this hell of a place full of robots and tests, and a cooperative mode where you and a friend can play together as these two goofy robots :)
As someone who has played through both Portal and Portal 2 twice, and watched lots of streamers play through those as well, I didn't have much of a clue what was going on anyway.
Yes, you solve puzzle rooms with the help of the portal gun as you guessed. You play as the girl you saw, except when playing coop, then it's the two robots.
Portal 1 and 2 are amazing puzzle games- basically in Portal 1and 2, you play as a human named Chell trying to escape the Aperture facility being run by GLaDos: the creepy AI lady with the yellow eye. She was created to run infinite tests in the facility, but let's just say the facility had not accounted for her being "unsatisfied" when their budget for test subjects ran dry. Portal 2 also has a Co-Op (two player) mode, where you play as the two robots.
If you're looking to become a "new gamer" Portal is a great gateway for that. The gameplay is fun and simple and the characters are great. The second game even has co-operative play so you'd be able to play with a friend. Def recommend it.
It’s actually pretty decent as an intro to first person shooters. It’s pretty much just puzzle problem solving without being forced to go at the games pace. A lot of fps games either expect a certain amount of skill from the player or have you going against real people so portal just being a go at your own pace puzzle game is really good. Also portal 1 and 2 follows Chell a human solving puzzles as you try and escape Glados a 2001 space oddysey-esque robot who was originally for testing that became more sinister. The two robots are from the co-op campaign exclusive to 2 where you and one other person work together to solve puzzles set after portal 2s main story. Honestly as a first game I’d seriously recommend it since there isn’t anything that’s too difficult to understand easily like in other games
So the woman at 7:13, that's the character that you play in single-player story mode for both games. Portal 2 has a two-player mode where you're the robots.
The Portal games are so well done. I'd find myself waiting to move on to the next test because I want to hear everything GLaDOS and Cave Johnson are saying.
There needs to be alot more context than what's given here. You've got the gameplay concept down, but the story is important too. The basics of Portal 1 is that, the outside world has pretty much ended, you play as a mute woman(Chell) who woke up in this science institute run by an insane AI lady(GLaDOS). The people who ran the institute has all perished, so Glados just kept continuing the last human command(which was to test science, lots of science, in complete disregard of human life) You, the player, had no choice but to cooperate with Glados as her test subject, progressing through all the insane test chambers shown in the trailer one by one, until you manage to outsmart Glados in the end and "kill" her, but you get knocked out in the chaos and was ultimately dragged back inside(Glados survived). That was the ending of Portal 1. Portal 2 basically had more of the same, except you get more dialogue and backstory into who originally built the company(Cave Johnson, as you've heard in the trailers, voiced by J. K. Simmons.) and how Glados came to be. And you ultimately do manage to escape for real in the end. (Glados lets you go becuase you're more trouble to her than you're worth, but she also survives) The 2 robots are for multiplayer. My understanding is basically that once Chell escaped(or let go) in the end, Glados continues to test, but this time using robots so they can't rebel like Chell did.
You're playing as the woman in single-player, but there are also cooperative multiplayer levels for two players, where you play as the two robots. The Game is basically you using your portal gun to solve a series of riddle/challenge rooms. But you can also build those "test-chambers" and share them with other people.
Portal 1 is an amazing game, and highly recommended for beginners as it's easy to pick up how to play. The first Portal has you play as Chell in Aperture Science, running through tests with a robot called GLaDOS who is in charge of the facility. It's only a few hours long, but has an incredible story and is hilarious. Portal 2 has you pick up almost immediately where you left off in Portal 1, playing as Chell a few years after the events of the first game. It has a longer runtime, and answers some of the questions you may have had about the first game due to being more plot-oriented.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Shame, it´s really fanstaticly written and an alltime classic. I know you´d love the dialogue^^. But what will the first be then?
GLaDOS: "Sorry about the mess. I've really let the place go since you killed me. By the way, thanks for that." Announcer: *beep* "Sarcasm Self-Test completed" *beep*
The fact that Indie Rock giants The National contributed a specifically written track to this game, "Exile Vilify", speaks volumes about the quality of this franchise. The story behind the Ratman character that is connected to the song is also compelling. Trying to avoid spoilers here, but the song is great as is Portal 2. One of my favorite games ever.
Portal 1 is a good first game. It's not hard to get a handle of and teaches you how to play in a very fun way. It can get a bit creepy at times but overall is hilarious you will laugh playing both games.
Portal 1 may be the single best video game to start on. It's literally a tutorial on how to play video games wrapped up in a creepy dark and also hilarious story. Portal 2 is even better. But seriously, Portal 1 would make an excellent starting game.
as most people in the comment saids its a puzzle game, however it also have a creation tool so you can build you own levels after you beat the ones the developer made with is the "Story mode" its one of my favorite games it mostly test you mind instead of you reflexes (tho some tests need to be a little bit fast, but its mostly like puzzles to solve)
It's a puzzle game where you try to get through test chambers with various obstacles. The core game mechanic is the Portal Gun, a device that can place a blue and an orange portal on most surfaces within line of sight. The blue and the orange portal are connected. If you go through one or throw something into it, you or the thing come out of the other one. You can also see through them as if they were windows or holes in the wall, which is really trippy at first. It's a really cool experience because you face challenges that would be impossible to overcome in reality or even in most games, which makes solving the puzzles feel very rewarding. At its core, the game is all about logic but contrary to some similar games, it has excellent storytelling (especially the second game) and appeals not just to puzzle nerds. In the main story, you play as Chell, the woman in the "Boots" trailer. The two robots are the protagonists of the cooperative multiplayer mode. Because having two Portal Guns completely changes the game, it's an entirely separate story with different puzzles that can only be solved by working together. Building your own test chambers and sharing them with others is a feature that was added later to keep the game interesting after completing the main story.
Portal 1 is highly recommended as a "first video game" to play. It's one of the few video games out there that teach you how to play a video game in a fun and comprehensive way and is also fun in its own right from start to finish. It's also not a super long game, making it much more palatable as a first experience. Not sure if you'll see this comment, but regardless of what you end up playing first, I hope you have fun and can get into gaming! I love watching your reactions!
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Portal 1 is really good as a "first video game" because it teaches a lot of the general gaming skills people usually pick up over years of playing games. Like recognizing patterns and prompts in the environment.
A lot of games use tropes that arent really explained but are kind of a "shorthand" that gets picked up through playing a lot of games. And Portal does a good job at pointing out when its introducing a new "trope" and what the "trope" is.
All the yes!
Yes, I recommend it too! Portal 1 is really quite short. Someone who has experience with first person games plays through it in about 3 or 4 hours. So add like 1 or 2 hours learning and it's still just 6 hours maximum. Portal 2 is about 8.5 hours. Still short compared with most games.
Oh and Portal 1 is quite old now I guess. Meaning you don't need a beefy PC to play it! Even Portal 2 is sorta old now. If you recently bought a PC with a somewhat good graphics card your machine should be way more powerful than it needs to be.
except then you get disappointed by other games
Favorite GlaD0s quote. "The test results are back. They say "You are a horrible person"...A horrible person...we weren't even testing for that"
I'm more of a fan of
"Look at you, flying through the air. Majestically. Like an eagle - piloting a blimp"
"Look, we both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind. For science. You monster."
I can't choose a single favorite quote...
Spoilers!
Portal 1:
"You're a bad person, you know that right? Good people don't end up here" (mainly due to the tone this is said in)
"Two plus two is . . . ten. In base four, I'm fine!" (a lot of great quotes at the end)
Portal 2:
"You're the moron they built to make me an idiot!"
"The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson: Where Caroline lives in my brain. [Beeeeeep] [Caroline deleted] Goodbye, Caroline."
@@Autoskip That always kills me. Even reading it now made me burst in laughter. "Piloting a blimp" is so good!
“I mean, have I *LIED* to you?…. I mean, in this room?”
This next chamber requires explanation, let me give you the fast version….
There, now if you need a reminder, just remember what I said in slow motion…
5:30
That is indeed J.K. Simmons ^^
Well spotted 👍
The voice acting is phenomenal in these games, and is what provides a lot of the personality.
He's so great
@@HannaHsOverInvested Just wait until you hear Cave Johnson's lemons rant.
@@araisikewai That was a quite sad and heart-touching story btw
@@araisikewai WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?!
@@araisikewai I'm more a fan of 'Praying Mantis' speech and most multiverse Caves DLC announcements that do similar world building.
It is a puzzle game. In the first game and the single player part of the second you play as Chell, the human women. In the second game there is a 2 player mode that has you do another set of puzzles as the 2 robots, Atlas and P-Body. GLaDos is the creepy Robot voice, she runs the facility at the time you play in it. And Cave Johnson was the founder of Apature Science, the company that GLaDos now runs. Would highly recommend you play them, as they are really quality games, though the first person jumping through portals can be disorienting for some people.
Creepy?.. Man, Glados's voice is soooo good!
@@Murzilka95 I mean it is super good and Ellen did a superb job as Glados, but it is also in my opinion, kinda creepy, and that is part of what makes it good in my mind
Yes
Chell is also described as "a dangerous, mute lunatic" by GLaDOS... and I think that's fair
Moreover (spoiler territory) GLaDos is the wife of Cave Johnsen embedded into that said robot. If I recall correctly that is.
FINALLY !!!
Edit: you're actually playing as the woman in the "boots" trailer at 7:13. She's mute the entire time and she's one of the best video game protagonists
To be precise, you play as her in single-player and as the pair of robots in coop mode.
I always hoped Chell would encounter Gordon Freeman since they are part of the same universe, they are both highly capable individuals, and the portal gun and gravity gun are also 2 of the most unique weapons ever.
@@Cookieboy70 the conversation would go like:
Chell: "..."
Gordon: "..."
Chell: _"..."_
Gordon: *"..."*
And then they would walk away awkwardly in two different directions.
That happens sometimes you might possibly have a minor case of severe brain damage. lol
Ahh
The confusion was pretty much because it was all about Portal 2, with no Portal 1 context. Playing as the bots is for Portal 2's co-op mode where you and a friend try to get through the puzzles together. Which I wager would be a fun experience to do along side of you. In any case, just remember: The cake is a lie! :) Enjoy your day!
Yes to understand the references and memes of this you'll have to play or watch portal 1
She clearly wasn't thinking with portals.
@@England91 Damn holy shit I forgot the cake is a lie meme
@@LOONAbd The Cake Is a Pie
Portal 2 made me laugh so much I got cramps, amazing game. As for what the game is Portal 1 is singleplayer only, with a story set in the labs as a test subject. 2 continues that story, but it has a separate co-op experience where you play as the robots.
I'd say Portal is a good way to learn how to play first person games. Both games are narratively driven puzzles games that I'm sure you'll enjoy by yourself and with a friend.
Yeah ... Portal cannot be properly explained by trailer, it has to be experienced. It's a kafkaesk nightmare, using nothing more than a simple puzzle mechanic, the voice of an insane A.I. and the environment to tell its story. It's absolutely brilliant, maybe the best computer game ever made.
The sequel is also quite good.
Valve are just great at making games.
Half-Life
Portal
Team Fortress
Etc
@@erikpng if only they could count to three
@@xvnz no, they can only count to Alyx.
Also if you haven't already, check out the Chalkeaters song "Count to three". It's AWESOME....
AND they got ELLEN FREAKING MCCLAIN to reprise as Glados for the song.
I’d actually say Portal is a pretty good choice for a first video gaming experience. It was for a lot of us as kids. It has a pretty simple gameplay concept and a very engaging story. Glados is a top 10 antagonist.
It's a puzzle based game. You use portals to get through the levels. In the 1st game you are a human woman named Chell. In the 2nd game, you return as chell to figure out what has happened to the world and testing facility. There is also a co-op mode where you play as the robots, Atlas and P-Body.
Without spoiling
Portal 1: play through and complete the test chambers as Chell using the portal gun to create portals which get you from A to B
Portal 2: same idea but bigger and better. In the multiplayer you and another player play as the robots.
You should play them
The reason for your confusion is that most of these clips are for Portal 2 not Portal 1, and the advertisements for Portal 2 mostly demonstrate the Cooperative game mode, and not the main story, in the main story you play as that woman completing tests against your will, as the mean robot lady you heard (GLaDOS) guides you through them. I will leave the rest of the details out incase you ever wish to play these games, as I don't want to spoil them. Also I definitely recommend playing them, and it is a very popular and good choice for a first game.
GlaDOS is an iconic villain in gaming history. (The creepy woman-AI). She's hilarious and creepy.
Also;
Contorted lines of cables creep,
And cross suspended beams -
A silent form you see in sleep;
A shape you fear in dreams.
It curves and bows in tarnished steel,
And hangs, inert, below -
But something stirs inside, you feel.
A light begins to glow.
The shadows shift their silhouette,
And circuits fire anew.
You hear the voice you can’t forget.
She whispers: “Oh… it’s *you*.”
- Poemforyoursprog, "Without saying it's name, what is your favorite video game?" (53k upvotes).
watch?v=Tpk5bsohlmw
(2 minutes, the scene in question. Don't expect you to watch necessarily Hannah :p )
Finding mention of Sprog outside of reddit? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
I just got back into gaming after about 10 years MIA. My 10 year old daughter and I played Portal last year and we had a blast trying to figure out all the puzzles. I would definitely recommend trying it out. The comedy and story is pretty good also.
And now I own a Valve Steam Deck and we play it on it.
It's just a comedic type of puzzle game, it's a test for your brain mainly with a sotry to boot, the first portal has barely any story, while the second one is more story-centric, and they are both complete classics in gaming because of their quality
The Portal series of games are legitimately one of the very best video game series ever made. Fantastic puzzles, amazing humor, incredibly memorable characters and story, wonderful aesthetic, and wonderful music.
And it actually is one of the BEST series for both beginning and veteran players.
It genuinely changes gaming forever after being released.
You actually had a pretty good read on things I think. Portal is a puzzle solving game where you play as a human test subject use portals to get around the environment and escape test chambers. Portal 2 is very similar but its a lot longer and has a bit more of a story as well as a multiplayer mode where you and a friend can play as those two robots to solve puzzles together. They are both super funny and entertaining so if you end up looking for something to play I'd highly recommend giving them a try.
You will not understand this game until you identify the following quote: "The cake is a lie"
A puzzle game where the robot lady insults you while you solve her puzzles as a human with a portal gun.
Proving Glados you are better than her words. >:3 It's an interesting story, and there's a rewarding experience that comes from playing it to completion.
Brief explanation about the game: You play as Chell, a test subject for a secret underground laboratory called Aperture Science. The laboratory was founded many years before the events of the games by an entrepreneur called Cave Johnson but the entire facility is now run by an Artificial Intelligence called Glados (she's the creepy robot woman that you can hear speaking in some of the trailers).
Glados puts you (Chell) through a bunch of puzzles and tests, at first they're very easy and safe and Glados even seems somewhat friendly but the test become more and more complicated and deadly until she's basically just trying to kill you. After completing increasingly lethal traps and puzzles you manage to reach the main chamber of the laboratory and you "kill" Glados by shutting her down.
At the very beginning of the second game Glados is woken up once again because of various reasons. It turns out she's not just a very smart computer, she's basically alive and it was very painful for her to be forcibly shut down at the end of the first game. So she's kinda mad (to put it mildly) with you. So yeah, here's some context as to why she calls you a monster in one of the trailers.
The second game's story becomes much, much more complicated after this but I'll stop here because I'm trying to keep this short lol
Unfortunate that all the videos were for portal 2, not portal 1. Since you have never played portal 1, they don't explain anything. Portal 1 is a fantastic game and I recommend it as your first game.
In Portal, you play as Chelle, the girl in the boots. You're forced to run a gauntlet of increasingly sadistic test rooms using the portal guns, and the sociopathic AI that you hear is the antagonist.
In Portal 2, there are two campaigns. The first is a follow up to the original, where you play Chelle again in a single-player mode. The other is the cooperative two player mode, where you play as one of the two robots.
Cave Johnson only exists in archive recordings, and is absolutely hilarious. The AI is called GlaDOS, and absolutely hates humanity beyond anything else.
There's a lot of gallows humor here, but the games are quite fun if you're into puzzles.
The reason the robot voice (glados) calls you a monster is because this is an advertisement for Portal 2, and you "kill" Glados at the end of the first game, so she calls you a monster for doing so.
Cave Johnson is the founder of Aperture Science, and is, in fact, voiced by JK Simmons.
I don't think there were any Portal 1 videos in here. All of these were Portal 2, except maybe for the first one, which may have just been an announcement for Portal 2.
The reason Portal 1 is so highly recommended as a first game is because it's fun without severe consequences while teaching how to platform well and the kind of thinking gamers need.
The cake is a lie!
2:51 Your face of "What I've just watched right now?!" is hilarious!
5:32 That is J.K. Simmons (note: his character, Cave Johnson doesn't appear in the first game)
10:59 In the Singleplayer Campaign, you are the girl from the "Boots" Trailer. In the cooperatove campaign of Portal 2 that you play together with a friend, you are one of the robots and your friend is the other robot. There isalso the "Perpetual Testing Initiative, that lets you design Test Chambers (as seen in theMultiverse Trailer) and solve them, as well as solve those made by others.
The Portal Gun is absolutely necessary. The Tagline is "Thinking with Portals" after all.
11:29 I would really recommend playing Portal and Portal 2 at some point (Not necessarily as your first game, i'd recommend getting at least some experience with threedimensional first person games in general before that) :)
I'd like to see what you think about her once you get to know her better.
Portal is one of the all-time greats as far as video games are concerned. To give a quick summary of the scenario without spoiling things:
Your task is moving through a number of scientific test chambers which are essentially just big old puzzle rooms. There are various switches, buttons, weighted cubes and other functions and items that will allow you to unlock and reach the exit door at the end of each testing chamber. Your goal is to reach and complete the final chamber because there will be cake.
Your main tool is the portal gun, a device that lets you place down two connected portals (one blue, one orange) which allow you to traverse the testing chambers by placing one portal at your own position and one where you want to go. As you progress through the game you find increasingly more applications for your portals which are neccessary to further progress. To give one example: By placing one portal on the ceiling and the other on the ground directly below, you can enter an infinite falling loop in order to build up momentum. If you then move the ceiling portal from the ceiling to an angled or horizontal surface whilst still falling, you can launch yourself across the room to get past obstacles.
Whilst you play through the game, your actions are commented on by GlaDOS, an artificial Intelligence who is the one behind the robot voice narrating the trailer. She's absolutely hilarious.
There is also Portal 2, which is by all definitions a worthy and beloved sequel. A lot of the gameplay stays the same with some new additions, though I cannot really comment on the writing or plot because that's all spoilers for the first game. It does however come with the addition of a 2 player co-op mode in which you and another player take control of two little robots rather than the human test subject (a woman named Chel) you play in the main story.
The humor and script is so good! And the puzzles are a good balance of fun and challenging.
GlaDos is very passive aggressive especially in the second game but has a rather tragic backstory in terms of what the game implies heavily went into the creation of GlaDos.
As others said for a first game Portal and then Portal 2 are actually really good options since it centers around solving puzzles. Plus they are just fun even if they can be creepy at times but they aren't actually horror games at all.
Portal 2 has different modes, the single player mode you're human and in the co-op you're the robots. I did the co-op with a friend and it was a ton of fun working together to solve the puzzles.
To answer a few questions.
There's two portal games: Portal 1 and Portal 2. In the first game, you play as a lady called Chell, a human lady to be precise. it's the girl you see walking around as well as the one who used the high fall boots.
In the second game, there's two campaigns (I.E two different stories) to play. In one of them, you play by yourself and complete the game alone. Going through the story and the characters to see where the game takes you. Here you play as Chell once again.
Then there's a co-op story to play through, where you play with your friend (or a random stranger) as the two robots you saw.
So you are quite correct with the fact that you play as both the robots, as well as the girl.
As for Portal being a "First game to play". It's very beginner friendly. Some people might even say that Portal 1 is just a tutorial for Portal 2. Portal 1 is also quite short when it comes to how long it takes you to play it, as it can be completed in like 2 hours (totally depending on how well one plays of course).
I doubt there's a person alive who played Portal one and two, and didn't love them. The tests, the characters, the humor, just everything.
In Portal 1 you play as a character called Chell, she's mute and only makes a sound if a cube falls on her (a little fun fact for everyone. Yes, Chell has a voice).
In Portal 2 you once again play as Chell in the main campaign. The robots are a separate campaign in the same game. Then there's the custom puzzle maker where you can make maps for other to play and play other people created maps. In there you play as one of those flat cartoon people.
GlaDOS isn't creepy. She's legendary! And ** trust** her when she makes references to cake. ;-) Her personality evolves over the time of Portal and Portal 2, and she's pretty hilarious, and well... no spoilers on GlaDOS from here.
And speaking of Chell, unravel her secret. It's pretty cool. So is GlaDOS's secret/backstory/mystery.
That was a very strange playlist. Not a single video felt like a proper trailer for the original Portal game. Just searching "Portal Trailer" on UA-cam brought up the much more explanatory Teaser Trailer. On the other hand, you DID experience _why_ people love Portal: the writing. It is witty as hell and very often laugh-out-loud funny. The original Portal has long been hailed as the best intro to First-Person games. It only takes a few hours to complete, which also makes it beginner-friendly.
Co op makes you two robots atlas the sphere head and p body the slim one
You become chell in single player
Hey Hannah! awesome videos, I've been binging on your videos for the last couple of hours. your fascination and energy towards video games are just downright contagious and fun to watch. Portal and Portal 2 are both first person puzzle games in which the protagonist (Chell) is a human who wakes up in an abandoned Apature science facility, Chell just wants to escape and her freedom but the antagonist (GlaDos) is a robot who has taken control over the facility and wants nothing more than to just run "tests" and give you more puzzles. The series is usually filled with clever dialogue and snarky remarks from antagonist which can be quite funny at times. the game is usually recommended to newer players because the learning curve for gaming controls and movements are quite simple but gradually get more challenging as the levels progress, this can be very helpful because there are plenty of video games in which the producers assumes that the player has plenty of experience in playing video games. I hope that shed more light on the subject, love the videos :)
Portal 2 is one of the best stories in gaming imho and THE best in terms of comedy, Portal 1 is pretty light on story but it is good. Either of them is a great intro into the gameplay side of things for a new gamer. They masterfully teach you things, most of which are applicable to gaming in general(especially with how trend setting Valve is), without you even noticing it
Um, why did youtube add that number to my nickname lol
In both games, you use the portal gun to navigate test chambers and complete puzzles. It can get pretty tricky at times, but I think Portal 1 is a great way to learn the conventions of FPS games, and if you complete it, it will probably explain the robot lady's attitude. Portal 1 only has Single-Player mode, but Portal 2 has Single-Player and Multiplayer Co-op. You're the robots in Co-op mode, but you're the woman with the boots in Single-Player mode. There is also a mode where you can build your own test chambers and play chambers made by other players.
Thinking with portals is the philosophy of this game. Use physics and portals together to escape the test chamber. Basically a bunch of escape rooms in one giant escape room, and you must solve the puzzles with portals and anything else at your disposal to reach the exit. Really fun game, I’ve been replaying portal 2 and it’s still as much fun as it was when it first came out.
I'm terrible at games, and Portal and Portal 2 are my "comfort food." You basically saw trailer for three different games there. You have a single player mode, where you play "Chell" a human. Then there is the cooperative mode where you play as one of the robots while another person plays the others. Then there is the design portion where you can create your own puzzles and upload them for other people to play.
Portal lasts about 2-3 hours for most people and literally half the game is a tutorial on how to play it, but it doesn't feel like it. You solve puzzles and it eases you in to each new concept. Once you know the basics, the game changes and you use everything you've just learned to get to the end.
Portal 2 picks up with the same character after "some" time has passed. It's a much longer game and it has a similar tutorial stage to it, but it also has a story-line and character development. And the voice talents of J.K. Simmons and Stephen Merchant. Some of the dialog in Portal 2 is hilarious. It's a master class in passive aggression.
Fun fact: In the game, almost everything that is technological is a sentient robot, from the radios, the turrets, even the moving wall panels and forcefields are alive
It's basically a puzzle game and it's hilarious yet ominous at the same time, you basically play as female human, and she's being tested on by a robot called GLaDOS (the mean lady you referred to), and you need to pass many test chambers and they get more difficult as you progress through, and that companion cube that you use in your missions (the one with a heart symbol on it) has a dead human being inside of it, the one that failed the test before you. Portal COOP you play as two robots, with your friend and you try to solve harder puzzles because they're made for 2 players, unlike Portal 1 and 2 where it's just a single player game.
In co-op mode, you and a friend play as the robots. In single player mode, you play as Chell, a female test subject. The content of the game is essentially solving puzzles using portal logic, and it's accompanied by a narrative that takes place in the Half Life universe. GLaDOS is the psychotic AI that you hear in most of the trailers, and she runs the facility. Her motives and the purpose of your "tests" would be a spoiler.
Portal would actually be a very good game to start with, because it'll let you learn basic controls and movement in a pretty casual environment (which will translate to all first person perspective games). The puzzles also require you to figure out where you need to go, and how you're going to get there (which are also extremely important skills to have in any game).
You actually nailed the core gameplay. Yes, you are trying to get through the test chambers, using the portal devices to get around. The tests are run by the scary voice woman, and the va did such a good job that character in now iconic in gaming.
In the main games you play as a human, but portal 2 added a 2 player mode where you play as the robots.
I have had a rough weekend of work. and Hearing your heart melt when p-body & Atlas hugged melted my heart and i can now proceed to have a great weekend!
portal 1 is probably the best game you could pick to play first, you can play it at your own pace, and it guides you just enough for you to figure it out yourself
The creepy lady is named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is an evil AI. Fun fact: Guillermo del Toro is a fan of the games, for Pacific Rim he hired GLaDOS's voice actress Ellen McLain to perform as Gipsy Danger's AI which sounds exactly like GLaDOS.
Ok, so explanations of what you've witnessed.
1. The first Portal had no advertisements. It was a small mod of the game Half-Life and included with that game in a package called "The Orange Box." Unprecedently, though, Portal gained a massive fanbase. A few years after release, it became free on Steam, hence the first trailer you watched.
2. The first trailer you saw for Portal 2 was the only real look at the main story of the game. I know you're not gonna be able to piece together what it's about, and that's ok. It's actually a sequel to the first game and would be spoilers, anyway. That said, good on them for not spoiling anything in their trailer.
3. The trailers for Turrets, Panels, and Boots were made to not only advertise the game, but also "explain" some of the game mechanics, such as turrets never running out of bullets and the fact that you will ALWAYS land on your feet when playing. Also, yes that is JK Simmons, he does play Cave Johnson in the game, and the writing in both games is hilarious; I've never laughed more at being insulted.
4. The Robots you saw, Atlas and P-Body, are the two you get to play as in Portal 2's Coop Mode. New to sequel, Coop allowed two players to work together with their combined total of 4 portals to try and solve puzzles. Two people working together in the tests was going to result in failures, and they didn't want you both to have to restart the whole map every time when one of your characters died, so they made the characters robots that could be rebuilt on the spot instead of humans.
5. The multiverse trailer came out after the game and was an advertisement for the PC version, showing the ability to create user-submitted test chambers (the puzzle-based rooms you're trying to make it through in the game), which is still a functioning feature to this day.
6. The last trailer you watched was recent, showing that both Portal 1 and 2 were being brought to Switch, their first time on a Nintendo console.
So yeah, you play as a human woman in the first game and the single-player mode of the 2nd, you play as two robots in the 2nd game's two-player mode, and you can make your own test chambers in the PC version. I agree with what someone else said; the first game would be a great first game to play, as it does a very excellent job about teaching you as you go, and it's a shorter game, taking anywhere from 2-4 hours for a newcomer to get through.
portal 1 sets things up with the questions of "who am i" "what is this place" "why am i doing these tests". whereas portal 2 answers a LOT of those questions and does a LOT of world building. so yeah portal and portal 2 are really good introductions to gaming
Can't believe no one has said that the cake is a lie.
Legendary games :D You gotta try them!!
Thanks for watching!
Portal 1. You are a test subject that has to solve a set of test chamber puzzles to complete the game. You are guided by an AI that talks to you as you progress through the game.
Portal 2 is a follow up game which has single player campaign and co-op campaign (as the two robots), so each player would see the other robot.
These games are way way ahead of their time and the dialogue is hilarious.
Portal has so well written dialogues, no other game made me laugh out loud so often. Apart from that the game itself is actual fun and quite clever. You need to get to the exit of the test rooms with the help of the stuff in the room and your "Portal Gun" - with it you can "shoot" two openings onto walls, the ceiling and the floor and then walk or jump through them from one to the other. So, for example, you can shoot one onto a wall above a ledge you can't reach any way else and one onto the floor - and when you jump into the hole in the floor you'll exit out of the one high up on the wall.
Portal 1 is probably a lot more accessible than Portal 2, which is what most of these trailers were about. They were highlighting the new co-op feature with the robot minions, whereas the single player mode has a human person with an interesting story. The creepy robot lady features in both and I think she grows on any player as you spend more time hearing her talk and learn more about her own background.
These games are actually pretty good games to learn how to play FPS games. The structure of the levels are built up in such a way that the entire game is one big tutorial. You learn a new skill per level and then eventually you get levels that require multiple of the skills you've just learned at the same time.
Also just to mention it. These games have no horror elements, so they aren't scary in any way. It's just puzzle games with an excellent story and some good humor.
Well they do get a little creepy but yeah never scary.
Most of these trailers are for Portal 2, and make more sense if you've already played Portal. They introduce new features like the two-player co-op, which is the thing with the robots (it's a whole separate story from the one player mode, with different levels and everything, basically a whole extra game within the game), and the "perpetual testing initiative", which is the mode where people can make their own levels.
The main (single-player) game is where you're playing as the human test subject Chell, trying to get through (and perhaps out of) the Aperture Science facility, while being bullied by GlaDOS the passive-aggressive malfunctioning computer that runs the place. The game is very much its own tutorial. You learn how to play it piece by piece as you go through the tests, which gradually introduce new elements. It's not as daunting as it seems from these trailers, since these are for the second game and assume you're already familiar with the basics.
As many people said in other comments: Portal is an awesome "first game", I'd also recomend to start there!
Bet you wouldn't regret it, has the same humor as the trailers and is good to learn how videogame classic 3D movement works in a chill way.
Really needed to know the mechanics of the portal device first.
An offshoot of that game Half Life 2, Aperture Laboratories discovered a gun that creates shortcuts in the fabric of spacetime....shoot a destination on a surface....shoot an entrance on another....pass through instantly.
And of course they had to create a test lab for subjects to find their way through seemingly impossible obstacles with it!
Portal 2 is sort of a three in one type of game.
“Single player” as a human named Chell
“Co-op” as 2 robots with a friend (names Atlas and P-body)
And “perpetual testing initiative” where you build and share your own tests
I love portal! And always love watching people play it for the first time! (Just saying, no ulterior motive I promise)
It's been explained already but you are a test subject and need to pass tests (or puzzles) designed for the portal device. So it's you, the portal device and a robotic voice guiding you through the tests (the lovely robot lady voice from the trailers)
It's a fantastic game, and teaches you how to play in an excellent way, there's no tutorial but they introduce one mechanic at a time and when you master it, they add another and at the end you will have to combine all you have learned to advance.
Also it's really funny 10/10 would recommend playing
Portal and portal 2 are probably the best games to play as a non gamer, it's a puzzle game that introduces you to common game mechanics and no need to hurry since it's a puzzle game.
A personal turret sounds like something many Americans would unironically buy
Portal is one of the best narrative puzzle games ever made. It doesn't matter if it's not your first game, but definitely play it at some point.
Edit: They're also quite short. Less than 10 hours between the both of them, so you don't even need to invest that much time.
Yes that is the same Valve that made Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, Half Life, Counterstrike, and Day of Defeat! Portal takes place in the same universe as Half Life. Aperture Science is a rival company to Black Mesa, who developed the gravity gun featured in Half Life. They come up with the portal gun as a competitor.
You play a human guinea pig meant to test the capabilities of the portal gun. Unfortunately, Aperture Science is overrun by a rogue AI named Glados, the creepy robot voice who taunts you. She goes full AM from "I Have No Mouth and I must Scream" on all the humans she encounters, which involves tormenting you through a series of puzzles and tests after she killed everyone else.
Portal is such an excellent game. It's actually been a subject of study as a piece of feminist literature; the relationship between GLaDOS and Chell in particular has a lot to say about the relationship between mothers and their daughters, and the hidden spaces that women have to live in within a patriarchal world. The contortions and pains and difficulties, and just so much. It's got endless depth. And the gameplay is smooth as butter, and really rewarding. It's a puzzle game, but it's so much more too. Really encourage you to give it a go!
GLaDOS is just an AI that went rouge and poor Chell was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Right??? hehe... not! They are both survivors, that's for sure! But, seriously, since their backstories are out, it's good to know that neither one of them realizes the relationship through all of Portal, and (if I'm not mistaken) 90ish percent of Portal 2. In fact, I don't think the relationship is ever spelled out to either GLaDOS or Chell throughout the entire series. Portal/Portal 2 are games that have a lot of messaging under the surface that people casually playing don't tend to notice.
Don't forget Ratman. Where does he fit into all of this? And Cave Johnson (yes, that is J.K. Simmons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Simmons). Cave has a very interesting relationship with... no spoiler!
Portal 1 is a short puzzler that introduces GLaDOS - the female voice you were hearing... Lots of lore to her and to Cave Johnson and his Aperture Science labs. You play as Chell, a human test subject who uses the portals and portal gun to get to the exits of the test chambers, and eventually take on GLaDOS. Portal 2 sees you back as Chell, but with a few other characters involved and a much deeper storyline and lore to how GLaDOS came to be, and the rise and fall of Cave Johnson and Aperture. Portal 2 is amazing. The two robots, P-Body and Atlas are the characters you play if you're doing the Co-op version to play with a friend in multiplayer. You should definitely play these games if you get a chance. As old as they are, they're still brilliant.
The best game to start gaming with is one you can play with friends. They can help explain and demonstrate how the game works so you don't spend your entire time playing trying to figure out the basic functions. I'd actually suggest starting with something simple from Nintendo, like MarioKart, or any number of Nintendo Wii Sports games like bowling or tennis. I've played on the Nintendo Wii with my technophobic grandmother without an issue, provided we played something she had played in real life, like tennis. Then all we had to do was explain what character she was controlling, the basic controls and let her play. We obviously had to set up the matches for her, but the gameplay itself is simple enough that only the most basic explanation is required to allow a new player to have a go. The entire family had a great time.
All of these videos were from portal 2. As for the point of the game you kinda got it right, the simplest way to describe the game it's a puzzle game where you use portals to solve tests. There is also a storyline but I don't really wanna spoil the story, just remember the cake is a lie. During the singlelplayer story mode you play the girl (Chell), the two robots are the playable characters in the 2 player coop mode.
GlaDOS's quote " You will be baked and then their will be Cake"
Portal 1 and 2 are story-puzzle games, but there are other modes too, in cooperative mode you play with someone else and solve the puzzles together and the other mode is you make a puzzle and post it for other people to solve it. I would love a "Portal lore reaction" video it's one of my favorite games and seeing you reacting to the trailers was fun 🤗
just to clarify, there are two types of story mode on portal 2, single player where you play as a human person trying to escape this hell of a place full of robots and tests, and a cooperative mode where you and a friend can play together as these two goofy robots :)
As someone who has played through both Portal and Portal 2 twice, and watched lots of streamers play through those as well, I didn't have much of a clue what was going on anyway.
Yes, you solve puzzle rooms with the help of the portal gun as you guessed. You play as the girl you saw, except when playing coop, then it's the two robots.
I love watching non-gamers starting to play games, so I'm subbing for that.
Weird to watch so much of Portal 2 and the co-op of it.
You need to listen to a full compilation of all of cave Johnson’s quotes 😂😂😂
"Portal" has a story?
The mean lady is the wiry computer, GLADOS, you saw hanging around at the start. And she controls the whole place!
I still consider Portal to be the best game I've ever played. When you finally figure out the solution, you feel like a genius
Portal 1 and 2 are amazing puzzle games- basically in Portal 1and 2, you play as a human named Chell trying to escape the Aperture facility being run by GLaDos: the creepy AI lady with the yellow eye. She was created to run infinite tests in the facility, but let's just say the facility had not accounted for her being "unsatisfied" when their budget for test subjects ran dry.
Portal 2 also has a Co-Op (two player) mode, where you play as the two robots.
If you're looking to become a "new gamer" Portal is a great gateway for that. The gameplay is fun and simple and the characters are great. The second game even has co-operative play so you'd be able to play with a friend. Def recommend it.
It’s actually pretty decent as an intro to first person shooters. It’s pretty much just puzzle problem solving without being forced to go at the games pace. A lot of fps games either expect a certain amount of skill from the player or have you going against real people so portal just being a go at your own pace puzzle game is really good. Also portal 1 and 2 follows Chell a human solving puzzles as you try and escape Glados a 2001 space oddysey-esque robot who was originally for testing that became more sinister. The two robots are from the co-op campaign exclusive to 2 where you and one other person work together to solve puzzles set after portal 2s main story. Honestly as a first game I’d seriously recommend it since there isn’t anything that’s too difficult to understand easily like in other games
So the woman at 7:13, that's the character that you play in single-player story mode for both games. Portal 2 has a two-player mode where you're the robots.
This was a triumph,
The Portal games are so well done. I'd find myself waiting to move on to the next test because I want to hear everything GLaDOS and Cave Johnson are saying.
There needs to be alot more context than what's given here. You've got the gameplay concept down, but the story is important too.
The basics of Portal 1 is that, the outside world has pretty much ended, you play as a mute woman(Chell) who woke up in this science institute run by an insane AI lady(GLaDOS). The people who ran the institute has all perished, so Glados just kept continuing the last human command(which was to test science, lots of science, in complete disregard of human life)
You, the player, had no choice but to cooperate with Glados as her test subject, progressing through all the insane test chambers shown in the trailer one by one, until you manage to outsmart Glados in the end and "kill" her, but you get knocked out in the chaos and was ultimately dragged back inside(Glados survived). That was the ending of Portal 1.
Portal 2 basically had more of the same, except you get more dialogue and backstory into who originally built the company(Cave Johnson, as you've heard in the trailers, voiced by J. K. Simmons.) and how Glados came to be. And you ultimately do manage to escape for real in the end. (Glados lets you go becuase you're more trouble to her than you're worth, but she also survives)
The 2 robots are for multiplayer. My understanding is basically that once Chell escaped(or let go) in the end, Glados continues to test, but this time using robots so they can't rebel like Chell did.
These 2 games, Portal 1 and 2 are iconic. Only piece of advice I have, actually 2, don't over think anything and just have fun with it.
You're playing as the woman in single-player, but there are also cooperative multiplayer levels for two players, where you play as the two robots.
The Game is basically you using your portal gun to solve a series of riddle/challenge rooms.
But you can also build those "test-chambers" and share them with other people.
Portal 1 is an amazing game, and highly recommended for beginners as it's easy to pick up how to play. The first Portal has you play as Chell in Aperture Science, running through tests with a robot called GLaDOS who is in charge of the facility. It's only a few hours long, but has an incredible story and is hilarious. Portal 2 has you pick up almost immediately where you left off in Portal 1, playing as Chell a few years after the events of the first game. It has a longer runtime, and answers some of the questions you may have had about the first game due to being more plot-oriented.
WHAT? This is the perfect first game for you. It will fit you skill level and humor just perfect. You should really reconsider....
Maybe my second, but not my first.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Shame, it´s really fanstaticly written and an alltime classic. I know you´d love the dialogue^^. But what will the first be then?
GLaDOS: "Sorry about the mess. I've really let the place go since you killed me. By the way, thanks for that."
Announcer: *beep* "Sarcasm Self-Test completed" *beep*
The fact that Indie Rock giants The National contributed a specifically written track to this game, "Exile Vilify", speaks volumes about the quality of this franchise. The story behind the Ratman character that is connected to the song is also compelling. Trying to avoid spoilers here, but the song is great as is Portal 2. One of my favorite games ever.
Portal 1 is a good first game. It's not hard to get a handle of and teaches you how to play in a very fun way. It can get a bit creepy at times but overall is hilarious you will laugh playing both games.
Portal 1 may be the single best video game to start on. It's literally a tutorial on how to play video games wrapped up in a creepy dark and also hilarious story. Portal 2 is even better. But seriously, Portal 1 would make an excellent starting game.
as most people in the comment saids its a puzzle game, however it also have a creation tool so you can build you own levels after you beat the ones the developer made with is the "Story mode" its one of my favorite games it mostly test you mind instead of you reflexes (tho some tests need to be a little bit fast, but its mostly like puzzles to solve)
G.L.A.D.O.S. is a fantastic villainess.
The woman that was being insulting is actually the big robot AI looking thing named GLaDOS and yes, she is quite the mean robot
It's a puzzle game where you try to get through test chambers with various obstacles. The core game mechanic is the Portal Gun, a device that can place a blue and an orange portal on most surfaces within line of sight. The blue and the orange portal are connected. If you go through one or throw something into it, you or the thing come out of the other one. You can also see through them as if they were windows or holes in the wall, which is really trippy at first. It's a really cool experience because you face challenges that would be impossible to overcome in reality or even in most games, which makes solving the puzzles feel very rewarding.
At its core, the game is all about logic but contrary to some similar games, it has excellent storytelling (especially the second game) and appeals not just to puzzle nerds.
In the main story, you play as Chell, the woman in the "Boots" trailer. The two robots are the protagonists of the cooperative multiplayer mode. Because having two Portal Guns completely changes the game, it's an entirely separate story with different puzzles that can only be solved by working together.
Building your own test chambers and sharing them with others is a feature that was added later to keep the game interesting after completing the main story.