I'd say Portal 2 is definitely more polished and has a soul to it. But man, I'm just so over-attached to the Portal 1's isolating atmosphere. The lonely feel of Source-engine was never creepy to me, but very soothing and relaxing. Works best for Gmod when I'm building something, and especially for Portal 1 when solving puzzles. Mostly community-made ones, which can take very... Very long time, just to solve one chamber. But I also might be biased in nostalgia for Portal 1's aesthetic.
@@Bumbaclaat360 oh i highly recommend INFRA for you, its a source engine puzzle game all about the urban decay feel (although its quite a difficult one)
Not biased. You're right. Portal 2 is awesome with no doubt. But portal 1 is great feeling of isolation, cold loneliness, keeps you wandering, what is going on, where is everyone, what is that robotic voice..
@@LukasK3000 Nah definitely biased Portal 1 makes me want to get done with it as soon as possible cause it creeps me the fuck out Portal 2 on the other hand has a nice warm feeling with a little glimpse of the outside world in all the early test chambers the parts I don't like is when it has the creepy feeling of the first game when the steril void of life test chambers come back and even then it's still nowhere near as bad cause you at least have Wheatley as comic relief to keep you happier.
I agree. And it's quite interesting to see a game push replay value so much considering its puzzle based. However the Workshop luckily changes that and gives you even more enormous replay value just not too much on the main story.
Portal 1 seems to be more in tone with Half-Life 2 and the overall creepiness of the Source Engine. But Portal 2 added a lot more color and charm to the characters and the puzzles, the amount of new lore kind of gave Portal its own name other than just being related to Half-Life.
Honestly I feel like the two games are a whole lot more similar than people think. Portal 1 wasn't just dark and lonely the whole time, it had plenty of comedy as well, albiet maybe a bit more toned down. Portal 2 may be more character and comedy driven, but it still has lots of atmospheric, dramatic, or even dark moments, even outside of old Aperture.
@@caldercockatoo2234 Where does this come from? No it doesn't, GlaDOS says dry sarcastic remarks, she's not a little jester like Wheatley is. The entire aesthetic is kiddiefied and the entire concept behind this scary science facility. They ruined some of the best fake tech design I think I've ever seen, its all so late 90s, early 00s which is just an aesthetic that never gets used.
Out of all of Valve’s franchises, Portal is the only one that I would argue doesn’t need another entry. The story is complete, and the main puzzle idea seems to have run its course over the two games.
Normally less is more but Portal 2 is one of the few rare exceptions. It added co-op, more humor, setpieces and charm. Portal 1 had a great atmosphere but I prefer everything else about portal 2. I don’t really like puzzle games but portal 1&2 are some of the greatest games I’ve ever played
I've always found that portal 1 as a bit more freedom. In portal 2, a large portion of the walls are black, and as such it limits you to only one solution to each chamber. While in portal 1, the walls are majority white, and I have a lot more fun playing through it and finding creative solutions to each chamber.
Portal 1 has a more ominous story, but Portal 2 between Wheatley and GladOS the story and voice acting banter is just so good. Also when you go and take the old tests and go all outside and see how huge the place is, it was just to me amazing when it came out. Portal 2 takes the cake (is a lie) for me
Fun fact: The original way to get in the vent and brake the fans was to destroy the glass pipe using the rocket turret to get some cubes, then use that same cube you used to get to to the vent to disable the fans.
When I played Portal in 2007 I realized that I was playing something special. Fast-forward 15 years from now and it's still my favourite game of all times. I remember first entering chamber 10 and "Self Esteem Fund'" started playing. It was one of those moments you experience once in a lifetime...
I buyed the "Snuggable Plush" companion cube on Valve Store after finishing Portal 1. After having to relocate, it ended up in a moving crate with some other plushs that I kept. I played Portal 2. Finished the game. And the first thing I did, obviously, was sort all of my crates and cardboards to find this plushie. Now, it's always close to my setup, with the Razer Sneki leaning on it. 10/10, would play both of them again, and again, and again.
I love Portal 1 more, because of isolation, loneliness and that RED GLOW that haunts you, revealing the inner gut of the facility. So I prefer Portal 1 for the atmosphere and Portal 2 for the story
I prefer the blue atmosphere of portal 2, it's more somber and depressing. And also the outside looks way more vast which makes you feel much more isolated. There's always giant structures looming over you that could fall at any moment
This might be a silly deciding factor. But I gotta give it to two for setting the bar for valve games/and for modern linear-narrative games as a whole 1 is remarkable in it’s original ideas, puzzles, and it’s compact but interesting story. It’s an A+ proof of concept 2 arguably delivered on the full potential of portal as a game. More and better puzzles, more and better story, multiplayer, player creation. Also for what it’s worth, Portal 2 was basically the “final edition” of the source engine, and I think that P2 exhibited source at it’s absolutely best for gameplay, visual experience, and cinematic/narrative functionality. This feels a bit idealistic, but when HL2 and the episodes come to Switch, I really hope they get the “source 1.5” treatment
I think Portal 2 has a better story and it's obviously more polished and longer since it's a full game compared to Portal 1 which was more of an experiment, but i'd say Portal 1's puzzles were more challenging. In Portal 2 they really go out of their way to help you and don't make use of reaction time based mechanics Portal 1 used (multi-portal flinging, energy balls, etc).
Portal 2 uses multi-portal flinging two times (once at the end of chapter 6 and then near the end of chapter 7), while Portal 1 only uses it once in chamber 18.
@@leftory684 huh really? i remember it using it multiple times in the chambers with the glass walls and the energy ball thingies and the one where you have to use vertical momentum to go up a series of platforms
@@MLockGaming I think it depends. Portal 2 is hours longer than Portal 1, and it has so many test chambers that you'll definitely feel burnt out after finishing them, even if they are only moderately difficult
With the exception of the 1920-1950s portion of Portal 2, 1 beats 2. 1 felt more dystopian, puzzle focused and watched (but alone) while 2 always had to have someone talking to you whether it was Wheatley, or GladOS.
Portal 1 is my preferred game. It's concise and cuts out the fat. I don't like how the second game pauses for cinematics during the story. I like the feeling of constantly elevating in Portal 1, making progress makes me so eager to see what lies beyond. Portal 1 was a fresh concept and Portal 2 was a little more of the same. No that that is terrible, I just feel like the appeal wears out a bit by then.
The most suprising thing about Portal 2 is how well it held up. I still play the game regularly to this day and it still looks really good. It does not look 13 years old. Probably helps aswell that the setting of the game itself is far into the future making everything seem futuristic even for 2023 but again at the same time the game looks absolutely stunning.
After playing both games again recently because I had the itch to. Portal 1 kind of feels like an Uber polished tech demo that guided the development of 2 more than anything. It’s just so short with so few puzzle mechanics and less difficulty overall.
There is absolutely no way that Half Life 3 could ever live up to the hype and expectations set up for it. IMO already Half Life 2 has aged a lot more poorly than Half Life 1 has, because it relies so heavily on introducing a bunch of "new" mechanics that are kind of commonplace in today's gaming world. The question is whether Half Life 3 could possibly find enough new ways to considerably innovate in the current gaming world to hold itself up? I personally don't think we'll see many groundbreaking game mechanics in video games anymore.
I remember playing Portal 2, "finishing" it (by remembering how long 1 was) and then I realised I was just halfway through. That was a nice moment because I felt they addressed the only thing that I didn't like about Portal 1, that is its length. Also, the writing, while keeping the style of 1, I think its more developed. Both games are good, but overall I think 2 is a more well rounded experience. Y'all should play both.
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There are some promising upcoming Portal 2 mods: Portal: Revolution, which is planned to be released this year 2023, and Portal 2: Desolation, which is still a few years away and looks to be the most ambitious mod yet.
1:10 dude, that got me by surprise... I just couldn´t contain de laugh, what a great moment and opportunity to make that joke, also great video man! I enjoy a lot watching portal videos, I just recently replayed Portal 1&2 and I decided to take a look back to all the story :)
I think the most notable thing for portal 2 is that it changed that terrifying chell model into a much more cartoony one. Except the new mode of chell doesn’t have pupils, so it just blankly stares… (in gmod I mounted portal 2 and portal 1)
the difference i hate between 1 and 2 is removing the energy orb. i get the laser is just a better version of it, but the energy orb could have so much potential, like a have a massive map idea where you bring the energy orb through the entire chamber to bring it to a receiver at the very end. I just can't get over how they don't use the feature in portal 2.
Portal 1 pros: Best atmosphere, more mistery, entertaining and dificulty test chambers. Portal 2 pros: Extended lore, best test chambers, comedy, more content and characters
I always preferred the dilapidated, run-down look of most of the areas in Portal 2, especially in the underground section. But the cold and lonely atmosphere of Portal 1 is also very good.
originally loved portal 2, especially for its expansiveness and humour but more recently I’ve really started to appreciate portal 1 for its sterility and atmosphere of loneliness I think a big difference can especially be found in the two’s soundtrack listening to something like ‘self esteem fund’ you’ll notice it sounds completely different to anything from portal 2 anyway, really good and well-made video :)
2:57 You don't see funnels in the first part of the game tho, you see them after you exit old aperture so that they can be used together with the gel mechanic.
Portal 2 may arguably be the best game Valve put out since Half-Life 1. The development process went kind of smooth (Smoother than HL2, or Alyx, or even Portal 1 in that regard), new mechanics have been added, the lore has been enriched gracefully and it's generally a polished, solid experience. What bugs me more is how in HL:A there are (to my taste) way too many direct borrowings from P2, be it Vortigaunt murals that resemble Ratman's, sArCaStIc Hahn lady or Russell who's basically Wheatley but without the evil part.
The one main issue I have with portal 1 is the complete lack of challenge in the puzzles. It feels like each puzzle is simply going through the motions rather than something you have to really sit down and consider, before having a eureka moment. It does keep the pace of the game flowing but it also hurts to see that portal 1 missed the potential to have some more rewarding puzzles, without all of the extra mechanics in portal 2.
no theres one thats a little bit hard, that one with the plasma ball and the emancipation grills and you have to catch it and make it go in the specific spot while you strategically walk through the emancipation grill and quickly replace your portals. That one took me forever to figure out my first time
@@grooselegacy That’s a great example of one of the better puzzles in Portal, because it actually requires some logical thought and pre planning to complete! If you compare that to chamber 18, which is basically just killing 4/5 turrets in the same way and then putting a cube on a button, the difference is clear. One of them actually has a clear problem that you need to use some lateral thinking to solve, while the other feels like a simple task, made to take longer with unnecessary steps and a large room.
There’s 1 puzzle in portal 1 that stumped me for any amount of time. a few in portal 2, but 2 is also a bit longer. I recently tried portal stories: Mel and there were some really tough puzzles that engage you way more than anything in the base games, you should give it a go if difficulty is what you’re looking for. Voice acting is a bit shit though
The first portal game I played is infact Portal 2 and oh boy The first time I played I had so many wrong thoughts Like when Wheatley speaks, I thought Chell was talking and Wheatley's voice was the announcer's
@@AbdullahEkici34 Literally within the first few seconds of gameplay from both games you immediately realize that you're female because it's a side effect of how the game was designed. I'm not sure how OP didn't catch that.
Portal 2 is a great game, but I just love the simplicity and the creepy old Source vibes of the first one. Never been one to care for story or narrative too much so the first one takes the cake for me (pun intended).
In my opinion, portal 2 is the better game. I've recently completed 100% of both games, and I gotta give the most props to the sequel. that doesn't go without saying Portal 1 is an S tier game. the original game gave me a great introduction to the series, and by the time I completed it fully, I was satisfied and accomplished. I then went on to grind portal 2, and the amount of polish, easter eggs, and just overall feel of the game and dialogue really scratched an itch on my brain. btw, don't take this comment from the perspective of someone who has been playing forever and who is blinded by nostalgia, because I literally got these games like a week ago lol. I love how the story is much longer, the portals are way more visually pleasing, and the amount of new characters felt really fluid. The voice acting from Wheatly was amazing, it was the first thing I had noticed about the game lol. The levels were more difficult, had more variety, and didn't feel rushed or forced. I am now working on finishing the rest of the fan made portals. those being "Portal: Reloaded", "Portal: Revolution", "Portal Stories: Mel", as well as "Portal with RTX". I have very high expectations for all of them, and would love to see these games perform as flawlessly as the original series. Overall, 11/10
Portal is truly of the world’s greatest puzzle games with an amazing story and concept which remained popular throughout the years since it first was introduced
I think using the word horror may have been a stretch for what Portal does with its isolation. Its more just 'unnerving'. Horror can be unnerving, obviously but Portal i think has always had more of a tounge in cheek atmosphere alongside it, even as early as the first game. Portal 2 didnt introduce comedy, it was always there. Silly nitpick but, i thought it was worth saying lol
why doesn't this have more views? this has the kind of humor the internet loves (myself included it's hilarious) and it's well edited. this definitely deserves more views
I loved this video a lot. The editing, the comedy, etc. Though I would've loved if you mentioned some amazing looking portal 1 mods being announced early and then all devs just get lazy and die and they never release the damn game. Just like destroyed aperture
I like how portal 2 hints that Glados or rather the Caroline part of Glados was Chells mother who happened to be the former CEO of Aperature after Cave Johnston died of moon dust poisoning. It also seems she didn't want to be Glados but was pressured into it. The final Portal 2 turret song lyrics also hints at this as it's basically Caroline's voice saying goodbye dear. It all hints so none can be fully confirmed but I like this version as it explains a lot (not all).
my preference is with portal 1, not because of anything in the game but more because it's less game (it's shorter). since it's so short, it's a lot more replayable, kills a bit of time easily. i don't have to dedicate as much for a playthrough as with portal 2.
i bought both of the portal games 1,2 over 5 years ago and i have fully completed portal 1 with every achievement possible (14) but i still play portal 2 to this day because portal 2 has its own workshop where people can share and theres over half a million maps on the workshop and thats what makes me never quit the game, currently i have 2,522 hours on the game
4:20 oh my god, this is so relatable. In the beginning I actually tried to do it normally, succeeded on 2 or 3 of them, but after like 2 hours I just gave up with the rest.
Portal 1 just...feels better to me. The loneliness and dark tone, the claustrophobia of being completely alone with GLaDOS. Portal 2 added many new characters, a bigger back story, and much more humor. I personally preferred less humor, more isolation, more mystery of the back story, and the not knowing what the plot really was until the end....and then you still weren't 100% sure. Was the cake a lie? And GLaDOS being much more evil felt better. Portal 2 had the massive advantage of learning from what people liked or disliked from the first game. Sure, it's better looking, more polished and has more features, but that's to be expected in a sequel years later. But it also had a much bigger team, more money, and a lot of knowledge gained. Everyone loved Wheatly, and I did too, but I think his character too often felt like it was there just for comic relief and exposition. Portal 1 seemed very straight forward, but sometimes I think Portal 2 was trying to be too much with the overload of humor, story, new mechanics etc. Both are great games, nearly perfect games, but it boils down to personal taste. My personality is more Portal 1.
I like the atmosphere and vibe the first game has much better than the 2nd game I like both of them but I guess the first game feels more like it’s in the half life universe which I’m into
Well, actually, it is a puzzle, but it has a dark story that we didn't know when we were little, until Portal 2 came, this puzzle game has a bitter and scary story in the past. Don't forget powerful sales with great points .change my mind
The original. - I miss GladOS's colder, more robotic voice - I miss P1's HL2 influence. Everything that got redesigned went from implied Combine nightmare to just clinical tech out of some '50s concept art (again, looking at you, Glados) - I miss questioning whether I'm in a research facility or a padded cell - i miss the grime, beyond the art style P2 is in that weird late 360 era where games just looked... odd, imo, like it was obvious they were pushing consoles past their limit. A lot of assets (like the portal gun itself) looked better in the original. - In Portal 1, physics puzzles are actually physics-based. In P2, every time you jump a large gap, you can notice yourself get "sucked in" because you're really just getting dragged across. Which is lame as hell.
It depends on what you want out of Portal. Portal 1 was a great showcase for innovative new gameplay, plus a very Valve-style story to discover and beat with an entertaining villain. Portal 2 took Portal 1 as a seed and put 4x the lore behind it, providing 3 major arcs to play through, side character development, and introduced more mechanics to serve as room puzzles.
9:43 fun fact: the burnt companion cube is actually the same one that GladOS made you throw into the incinerator before progressing and the developers made sure they didn’t forget about it since they made portal 1 and gave it back to you incase you actually imprinted onto the companion cube. Quite a story. Am i right?
I feel like valve doesn't really know how to make sequels. Half Life 2 is a great game, but it's not a good sequel to HL1. It feels more like a spinoff or a reboot. Most of the events and enemies and characters from HL1 are gone. It's a similar story for both Portal 2 and Team Fortress 2. It's hard to call TF2 a sequel when it's predecessor has such a different gameplay and artstyle. Portal 2 feels out of place in the Half Life Universe because it takes itself a lot less seriously than the rest of the games. Left 4 Dead 2 is barely a sequel, it's more like an expansion pack.
Say whatever but I love Portal 3 The story was so good and the puzzles were perfectly designed I felt like a genius after solving each puzzle The story's plot twist and main villain adds so much excitement and the ending had me crying It's honestly underrated everyone keeps talking about Portal 1 and 2
couldn't point my finger on which of the two games i like more. tho portal 1 get's a bonus point on how well it aged. there wasn't that much detail in the worldbuilding but that made the game feel somewhat uncanny and that's totaly fitting the tone of the game. portal 2 on the other side was way more cinematic but still managed to make the facility "believable" and the feel of the old parts of the facility is truly amazing!
I think Portal 2 has better gameplay but Portal 1 has a better atmosphere. The music in Portal 1 feels desolate and lonely and I love that. For example "Self Esteem Fund" is a great track. The perfect Portal game for me would be the lonely atmosphere of Portal 1 with the amazing gameplay of Portal 2
I'd say Portal 2 is definitely more polished and has a soul to it. But man, I'm just so over-attached to the Portal 1's isolating atmosphere. The lonely feel of Source-engine was never creepy to me, but very soothing and relaxing. Works best for Gmod when I'm building something, and especially for Portal 1 when solving puzzles. Mostly community-made ones, which can take very... Very long time, just to solve one chamber. But I also might be biased in nostalgia for Portal 1's aesthetic.
I like portals 2 aesthetic i love mossy and destroyed buildings idk why
@@Bumbaclaat360 oh i highly recommend INFRA for you, its a source engine puzzle game all about the urban decay feel (although its quite a difficult one)
Not biased. You're right. Portal 2 is awesome with no doubt. But portal 1 is great feeling of isolation, cold loneliness, keeps you wandering, what is going on, where is everyone, what is that robotic voice..
Im also a big fan of portal 1's atmosphere. Its such a soothing and relaxing place to me not sure y
@@LukasK3000 Nah definitely biased Portal 1 makes me want to get done with it as soon as possible cause it creeps me the fuck out Portal 2 on the other hand has a nice warm feeling with a little glimpse of the outside world in all the early test chambers the parts I don't like is when it has the creepy feeling of the first game when the steril void of life test chambers come back and even then it's still nowhere near as bad cause you at least have Wheatley as comic relief to keep you happier.
One of the reasons I love portal is simply that I feel like it’s one of the very few puzzle games to actually have replay value.
I agree. And it's quite interesting to see a game push replay value so much considering its puzzle based. However the Workshop luckily changes that and gives you even more enormous replay value just not too much on the main story.
I've finished it 5 times
ICO too
Portal 1 seems to be more in tone with Half-Life 2 and the overall creepiness of the Source Engine. But Portal 2 added a lot more color and charm to the characters and the puzzles, the amount of new lore kind of gave Portal its own name other than just being related to Half-Life.
but portal 2 chapter 6 😶
@@01laki10 portal 2 chapter 3???????????????/ oh god valve counts to three for da first time !!!1!!!!111!!!!!!11
Honestly I feel like the two games are a whole lot more similar than people think. Portal 1 wasn't just dark and lonely the whole time, it had plenty of comedy as well, albiet maybe a bit more toned down. Portal 2 may be more character and comedy driven, but it still has lots of atmospheric, dramatic, or even dark moments, even outside of old Aperture.
Portal 1 was already very much its own thing from half life lol
@@caldercockatoo2234 Where does this come from? No it doesn't, GlaDOS says dry sarcastic remarks, she's not a little jester like Wheatley is. The entire aesthetic is kiddiefied and the entire concept behind this scary science facility. They ruined some of the best fake tech design I think I've ever seen, its all so late 90s, early 00s which is just an aesthetic that never gets used.
Out of all of Valve’s franchises, Portal is the only one that I would argue doesn’t need another entry. The story is complete, and the main puzzle idea seems to have run its course over the two games.
But where does Chell go from there? What happens to her?
@@FR4M3Sharma Ohio.
@@FR4M3Sharma She's free, we don't need to know about anything more that happens to her
We need a Half-Life and Portal cross-over. That would be the coolest thing ever.
Exaclty this. In reality, the thing we want is another game capable to make us feel the same things Portal made us feel through the games
Normally less is more but Portal 2 is one of the few rare exceptions. It added co-op, more humor, setpieces and charm. Portal 1 had a great atmosphere but I prefer everything else about portal 2.
I don’t really like puzzle games but portal 1&2 are some of the greatest games I’ve ever played
I've always found that portal 1 as a bit more freedom. In portal 2, a large portion of the walls are black, and as such it limits you to only one solution to each chamber. While in portal 1, the walls are majority white, and I have a lot more fun playing through it and finding creative solutions to each chamber.
believe me, there are WAY to many solutions to puzzles in portal 2, even if there are less
@@forbutinactiveWhat?
GLADOS is angrier in the second game so limits your options to try to kill you. And also, to stifle creativity which she seems to dislike a good bit.
i have to agree with you on Portal 2, it had such a great plot twist that really made Portal as a series become what it is today.
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The twist was good but ngl I could kinda see it coming
Portal 1 has a more ominous story, but Portal 2 between Wheatley and GladOS the story and voice acting banter is just so good. Also when you go and take the old tests and go all outside and see how huge the place is, it was just to me amazing when it came out. Portal 2 takes the cake (is a lie) for me
only valve could make a puzzle game be one of the greatest games ever made
valve is shit
it's the same as with Left 4 Dead compared to Back 4 Blood.
sure the main concept is good, but what makes it truly awesome is the valve touch.
@@lookstothetroon 🥶🥶🥶
terrible take, i guess puzzle games dont tend to have as much widespread appeal but writing off the whole genre like that is kinda terrrible
@@witch7410 yup
Fun fact: The original way to get in the vent and brake the fans was to destroy the glass pipe using the rocket turret to get some cubes, then use that same cube you used to get to to the vent to disable the fans.
im pretty sure everyone didnt know that and used the chairs
@@thelolfaceguy I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not
I tried chairs and used cubes after a while which did work.
@@theepicshifter1251 the chairs are pretty hard to do on xbox
@@BlackMesaS2 because it wasn't the intended route
Nothing beats Chapter 6: The Fall. The visual storytelling paired with amazing visuals is just perfection.
When I played Portal in 2007 I realized that I was playing something special. Fast-forward 15 years from now and it's still my favourite game of all times.
I remember first entering chamber 10 and "Self Esteem Fund'" started playing. It was one of those moments you experience once in a lifetime...
Real
I didn't. My play through looked like Epic Store Edition.
I buyed the "Snuggable Plush" companion cube on Valve Store after finishing Portal 1.
After having to relocate, it ended up in a moving crate with some other plushs that I kept. I played Portal 2. Finished the game. And the first thing I did, obviously, was sort all of my crates and cardboards to find this plushie.
Now, it's always close to my setup, with the Razer Sneki leaning on it.
10/10, would play both of them again, and again, and again.
Portal 2 for mechanics and workshop, Portal 1 for the tone and official puzzles
I love Portal 1 more, because of isolation, loneliness and that RED GLOW that haunts you, revealing the inner gut of the facility. So I prefer Portal 1 for the atmosphere and Portal 2 for the story
Me too but I would just be depressed if I had the first game atmosphere for as long as portal 2 is lol.
I prefer the blue atmosphere of portal 2, it's more somber and depressing. And also the outside looks way more vast which makes you feel much more isolated. There's always giant structures looming over you that could fall at any moment
i like portal 2 more
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Do you not know how ugly the graphics of Portal 1 were?
This might be a silly deciding factor.
But I gotta give it to two for setting the bar for valve games/and for modern linear-narrative games as a whole
1 is remarkable in it’s original ideas, puzzles, and it’s compact but interesting story. It’s an A+ proof of concept
2 arguably delivered on the full potential of portal as a game. More and better puzzles, more and better story, multiplayer, player creation.
Also for what it’s worth, Portal 2 was basically the “final edition” of the source engine, and I think that P2 exhibited source at it’s absolutely best for gameplay, visual experience, and cinematic/narrative functionality.
This feels a bit idealistic, but when HL2 and the episodes come to Switch, I really hope they get the “source 1.5” treatment
I think Portal 2 has a better story and it's obviously more polished and longer since it's a full game compared to Portal 1 which was more of an experiment, but i'd say Portal 1's puzzles were more challenging. In Portal 2 they really go out of their way to help you and don't make use of reaction time based mechanics Portal 1 used (multi-portal flinging, energy balls, etc).
Portal 2 uses multi-portal flinging two times (once at the end of chapter 6 and then near the end of chapter 7), while Portal 1 only uses it once in chamber 18.
@@leftory684 huh really? i remember it using it multiple times in the chambers with the glass walls and the energy ball thingies and the one where you have to use vertical momentum to go up a series of platforms
I felt like portal 2 was much harder for me. It took my a few walkthroughs for some sections
@@MLockGaming I think it depends. Portal 2 is hours longer than Portal 1, and it has so many test chambers that you'll definitely feel burnt out after finishing them, even if they are only moderately difficult
please replay the first portal - it is extremely easy
Petition to have portal 4
How about portal 4.3?
Nah I want portal 69
With the exception of the 1920-1950s portion of Portal 2, 1 beats 2. 1 felt more dystopian, puzzle focused and watched (but alone) while 2 always had to have someone talking to you whether it was Wheatley, or GladOS.
7:52 so he picks up your house and smashes it into a wall a few times.
perfect
Postal is the true portal 3 we all want
LamWarp, This is great! I liked it and subscribed!
Portal 1 is my preferred game. It's concise and cuts out the fat. I don't like how the second game pauses for cinematics during the story. I like the feeling of constantly elevating in Portal 1, making progress makes me so eager to see what lies beyond. Portal 1 was a fresh concept and Portal 2 was a little more of the same. No that that is terrible, I just feel like the appeal wears out a bit by then.
6:22 There's Chell and Shell. Noticing that makes me smile :)
The most suprising thing about Portal 2 is how well it held up. I still play the game regularly to this day and it still looks really good. It does not look 13 years old.
Probably helps aswell that the setting of the game itself is far into the future making everything seem futuristic even for 2023 but again at the same time the game looks absolutely stunning.
Keep going this way, man. Every new video is a favorites one.
9:43 thats accually the original companion cube from portal 1 as you can see the design differences between the cubes from portal 1 and 2
After playing both games again recently because I had the itch to. Portal 1 kind of feels like an Uber polished tech demo that guided the development of 2 more than anything. It’s just so short with so few puzzle mechanics and less difficulty overall.
Yeah, the thing that stuck the most playing the two back to back is how much it feels like a short tutorial to the sequel
The Day Half-life’s 3rd entry comes out is the day I live in peace
Edit: Honestly tho, Portal VR could be really cool
this game kinda feels like the same vibes as boneworks
they have a portal vr game just no portal gun, only hands (that's not a joke the gimmick is literally that).
There is absolutely no way that Half Life 3 could ever live up to the hype and expectations set up for it. IMO already Half Life 2 has aged a lot more poorly than Half Life 1 has, because it relies so heavily on introducing a bunch of "new" mechanics that are kind of commonplace in today's gaming world. The question is whether Half Life 3 could possibly find enough new ways to considerably innovate in the current gaming world to hold itself up? I personally don't think we'll see many groundbreaking game mechanics in video games anymore.
portal 3
I remember playing Portal 2, "finishing" it (by remembering how long 1 was) and then I realised I was just halfway through. That was a nice moment because I felt they addressed the only thing that I didn't like about Portal 1, that is its length.
Also, the writing, while keeping the style of 1, I think its more developed.
Both games are good, but overall I think 2 is a more well rounded experience.
Y'all should play both.
I was waiting for you to post a video to say how much I love your channel, I repeat your videos all the time
I hope you never stop posting and reach 1 million subs soon!
There are some promising upcoming Portal 2 mods: Portal: Revolution, which is planned to be released this year 2023, and Portal 2: Desolation, which is still a few years away and looks to be the most ambitious mod yet.
Your voice actually reminds me of how glados sometimes will deliver some lines. Good stuff
i really enjoyed this video. it was very well edited !!! :)
i dont know what they were thinking when they made that white gel
I love both of them. I wish we had a Portal 3 game :')
don't you get fired if valve makes Portal 3
*portal 2 epic edition
Portal 2 Episode One
1:10 dude, that got me by surprise... I just couldn´t contain de laugh, what a great moment and opportunity to make that joke, also great video man! I enjoy a lot watching portal videos, I just recently replayed Portal 1&2 and I decided to take a look back to all the story :)
I think the most notable thing for portal 2 is that it changed that terrifying chell model into a much more cartoony one.
Except the new mode of chell doesn’t have pupils, so it just blankly stares… (in gmod I mounted portal 2 and portal 1)
the difference i hate between 1 and 2 is removing the energy orb. i get the laser is just a better version of it, but the energy orb could have so much potential, like a have a massive map idea where you bring the energy orb through the entire chamber to bring it to a receiver at the very end. I just can't get over how they don't use the feature in portal 2.
Portal 1 pros: Best atmosphere, more mistery, entertaining and dificulty test chambers.
Portal 2 pros: Extended lore, best test chambers, comedy, more content and characters
I always preferred the dilapidated, run-down look of most of the areas in Portal 2, especially in the underground section. But the cold and lonely atmosphere of Portal 1 is also very good.
originally loved portal 2, especially for its expansiveness and humour
but more recently I’ve really started to appreciate portal 1 for its sterility and atmosphere of loneliness
I think a big difference can especially be found in the two’s soundtrack
listening to something like ‘self esteem fund’ you’ll notice it sounds completely different to anything from portal 2
anyway, really good and well-made video :)
2:57 You don't see funnels in the first part of the game tho, you see them after you exit old aperture so that they can be used together with the gel mechanic.
2:04 turret decides do BackShot instead of dying
Portal 2 may arguably be the best game Valve put out since Half-Life 1. The development process went kind of smooth (Smoother than HL2, or Alyx, or even Portal 1 in that regard), new mechanics have been added, the lore has been enriched gracefully and it's generally a polished, solid experience. What bugs me more is how in HL:A there are (to my taste) way too many direct borrowings from P2, be it Vortigaunt murals that resemble Ratman's, sArCaStIc Hahn lady or Russell who's basically Wheatley but without the evil part.
Those borrowings may be because the team of writers is the same as portal 2
Didn't Gabe Newell once said portal 2 is his favorite valve game?
i absolutely love when these portal video documentaries show up every few months or so for me to watch after school while eating
The one main issue I have with portal 1 is the complete lack of challenge in the puzzles. It feels like each puzzle is simply going through the motions rather than something you have to really sit down and consider, before having a eureka moment. It does keep the pace of the game flowing but it also hurts to see that portal 1 missed the potential to have some more rewarding puzzles, without all of the extra mechanics in portal 2.
no theres one thats a little bit hard, that one with the plasma ball and the emancipation grills and you have to catch it and make it go in the specific spot while you strategically walk through the emancipation grill and quickly replace your portals. That one took me forever to figure out my first time
Ok Megamind
@@grooselegacy That’s a great example of one of the better puzzles in Portal, because it actually requires some logical thought and pre planning to complete! If you compare that to chamber 18, which is basically just killing 4/5 turrets in the same way and then putting a cube on a button, the difference is clear. One of them actually has a clear problem that you need to use some lateral thinking to solve, while the other feels like a simple task, made to take longer with unnecessary steps and a large room.
idk i suck at puzzle games so i like that its easier
There’s 1 puzzle in portal 1 that stumped me for any amount of time. a few in portal 2, but 2 is also a bit longer. I recently tried portal stories: Mel and there were some really tough puzzles that engage you way more than anything in the base games, you should give it a go if difficulty is what you’re looking for. Voice acting is a bit shit though
The first portal game I played is infact Portal 2 and oh boy The first time I played I had so many wrong thoughts
Like when Wheatley speaks, I thought Chell was talking and Wheatley's voice was the announcer's
Chell is a boy, yes. Well, I think you had no idea about Chell
@@AbdullahEkici34 Literally within the first few seconds of gameplay from both games you immediately realize that you're female because it's a side effect of how the game was designed. I'm not sure how OP didn't catch that.
@@beaner1014 Actually yes, we can understand it from GLaDOS's speechs
i personally like portal 2 more because it has more features and puzzle mechanics, and i like the style the game has
Portal 2 was great but the war between the songs "still Alive" of portal 1 and "orchestra" from portal 2,
"Still Alive" is a clear winner.
**Spoils the entirety of both games** "You should definitely play both if you havent."
All of the computers at my school have Narbacular Drop installed, great video btw
Portal 2 is a great game, but I just love the simplicity and the creepy old Source vibes of the first one. Never been one to care for story or narrative too much so the first one takes the cake for me (pun intended).
In my opinion, portal 2 is the better game. I've recently completed 100% of both games, and I gotta give the most props to the sequel. that doesn't go without saying Portal 1 is an S tier game. the original game gave me a great introduction to the series, and by the time I completed it fully, I was satisfied and accomplished. I then went on to grind portal 2, and the amount of polish, easter eggs, and just overall feel of the game and dialogue really scratched an itch on my brain.
btw, don't take this comment from the perspective of someone who has been playing forever and who is blinded by nostalgia, because I literally got these games like a week ago lol. I love how the story is much longer, the portals are way more visually pleasing, and the amount of new characters felt really fluid. The voice acting from Wheatly was amazing, it was the first thing I had noticed about the game lol. The levels were more difficult, had more variety, and didn't feel rushed or forced.
I am now working on finishing the rest of the fan made portals. those being "Portal: Reloaded", "Portal: Revolution", "Portal Stories: Mel", as well as "Portal with RTX". I have very high expectations for all of them, and would love to see these games perform as flawlessly as the original series.
Overall, 11/10
Portal is truly of the world’s greatest puzzle games with an amazing story and concept which remained popular throughout the years since it first was introduced
im gonna need the source of that furry pic
@@1marcelfilms found it from a gif called “this is what you look like saying this shite”
and yes that’s actually what it’s called
3:26 "It's field tested."
Definitely got me there
I think using the word horror may have been a stretch for what Portal does with its isolation. Its more just 'unnerving'. Horror can be unnerving, obviously but Portal i think has always had more of a tounge in cheek atmosphere alongside it, even as early as the first game. Portal 2 didnt introduce comedy, it was always there. Silly nitpick but, i thought it was worth saying lol
why doesn't this have more views? this has the kind of humor the internet loves (myself included it's hilarious) and it's well edited. this definitely deserves more views
Portal 1 is more valve style. Better.
Amazing video and man when you mentioned Portal 2 ending it made me feel nostalgic... Oh well I might play Portal now :).
This is a hard question
Harder than a 50 question exam
I am satisfied with the video, with its very funny touch of humor, you have my subscription and my like :D
It is noteworthy that we have already received the Horror Portal. It's called "ERROR"
I loved this video a lot. The editing, the comedy, etc. Though I would've loved if you mentioned some amazing looking portal 1 mods being announced early and then all devs just get lazy and die and they never release the damn game. Just like destroyed aperture
nice video for those who don't know portal lore
but portal 2 is better for me
In the thumbnail, I couldn’t help but notice that on the portal 1 side, you used the portal 2 chell model
Just play both.
I like how portal 2 hints that Glados or rather the Caroline part of Glados was Chells mother who happened to be the former CEO of Aperature after Cave Johnston died of moon dust poisoning. It also seems she didn't want to be Glados but was pressured into it. The final Portal 2 turret song lyrics also hints at this as it's basically Caroline's voice saying goodbye dear. It all hints so none can be fully confirmed but I like this version as it explains a lot (not all).
my preference is with portal 1, not because of anything in the game but more because it's less game (it's shorter). since it's so short, it's a lot more replayable, kills a bit of time easily. i don't have to dedicate as much for a playthrough as with portal 2.
i bought both of the portal games 1,2 over 5 years ago and i have fully completed portal 1 with every achievement possible (14) but i still play portal 2 to this day because portal 2 has its own workshop where people can share and theres over half a million maps on the workshop and thats what makes me never quit the game, currently i have 2,522 hours on the game
actuially a dint play those games but they look great thx for making that video
4:20 oh my god, this is so relatable.
In the beginning I actually tried to do it normally, succeeded on 2 or 3 of them, but after like 2 hours I just gave up with the rest.
Portal 1 just...feels better to me. The loneliness and dark tone, the claustrophobia of being completely alone with GLaDOS. Portal 2 added many new characters, a bigger back story, and much more humor. I personally preferred less humor, more isolation, more mystery of the back story, and the not knowing what the plot really was until the end....and then you still weren't 100% sure. Was the cake a lie? And GLaDOS being much more evil felt better.
Portal 2 had the massive advantage of learning from what people liked or disliked from the first game. Sure, it's better looking, more polished and has more features, but that's to be expected in a sequel years later. But it also had a much bigger team, more money, and a lot of knowledge gained. Everyone loved Wheatly, and I did too, but I think his character too often felt like it was there just for comic relief and exposition. Portal 1 seemed very straight forward, but sometimes I think Portal 2 was trying to be too much with the overload of humor, story, new mechanics etc.
Both are great games, nearly perfect games, but it boils down to personal taste. My personality is more Portal 1.
1:46 THE JUMPSCARE DIDNT SCARE ME THE SCREAM DID 😭😭😭😭
I like the atmosphere and vibe the first game has much better than the 2nd game
I like both of them but I guess the first game feels more like it’s in the half life universe which I’m into
Well, actually, it is a puzzle, but it has a dark story that we didn't know when we were little, until Portal 2 came, this puzzle game has a bitter and scary story in the past. Don't forget powerful sales with great points .change my mind
Portal 1 Chell is looks more old, why?
I love your editing ^^ underrated
I love portal 1 and 2 both ❤️
Another great video from you man .. keep it like that :)
I just watched an 11 minute plot summary to be finished off with "idk what's better"
The original.
- I miss GladOS's colder, more robotic voice
- I miss P1's HL2 influence. Everything that got redesigned went from implied Combine nightmare to just clinical tech out of some '50s concept art (again, looking at you, Glados)
- I miss questioning whether I'm in a research facility or a padded cell
- i miss the grime, beyond the art style P2 is in that weird late 360 era where games just looked... odd, imo, like it was obvious they were pushing consoles past their limit. A lot of assets (like the portal gun itself) looked better in the original.
- In Portal 1, physics puzzles are actually physics-based. In P2, every time you jump a large gap, you can notice yourself get "sucked in" because you're really just getting dragged across. Which is lame as hell.
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Daily is impossible for me.
It depends on what you want out of Portal.
Portal 1 was a great showcase for innovative new gameplay, plus a very Valve-style story to discover and beat with an entertaining villain.
Portal 2 took Portal 1 as a seed and put 4x the lore behind it, providing 3 major arcs to play through, side character development, and introduced more mechanics to serve as room puzzles.
9:43 fun fact: the burnt companion cube is actually the same one that GladOS made you throw into the incinerator before progressing and the developers made sure they didn’t forget about it since they made portal 1 and gave it back to you incase you actually imprinted onto the companion cube. Quite a story. Am i right?
as someone who never even play or seen someone playthrough the game, i could say that both game had it's own good things and bad things.
i don't think they got bad things at all
Glados in Portal 2 is really funny, her personality reminds me of Shodan from the System Shock series.
portal 1 is better story wise but portal 2 is better gameplay wise thats my thoughts atleast
I think it's the other way around
@@FieryBlazer9 well i mean there is more stuff in portal 2
I remember expecting to encounter King Leopard Turret as a boss.
I feel like valve doesn't really know how to make sequels. Half Life 2 is a great game, but it's not a good sequel to HL1. It feels more like a spinoff or a reboot. Most of the events and enemies and characters from HL1 are gone. It's a similar story for both Portal 2 and Team Fortress 2. It's hard to call TF2 a sequel when it's predecessor has such a different gameplay and artstyle. Portal 2 feels out of place in the Half Life Universe because it takes itself a lot less seriously than the rest of the games. Left 4 Dead 2 is barely a sequel, it's more like an expansion pack.
The frickin bonnie jumpscare got me bro
Say whatever but I love Portal 3
The story was so good and the puzzles were perfectly designed
I felt like a genius after solving each puzzle
The story's plot twist and main villain adds so much excitement and the ending had me crying
It's honestly underrated everyone keeps talking about Portal 1 and 2
couldn't point my finger on which of the two games i like more.
tho portal 1 get's a bonus point on how well it aged.
there wasn't that much detail in the worldbuilding but that made the game feel somewhat uncanny and that's totaly fitting the tone of the game.
portal 2 on the other side was way more cinematic but still managed to make the facility "believable" and the feel of the old parts of the facility is truly amazing!
I adore both, I prefer P2, but I really wish Portal 2 included the high-energy pellet launchers and rocket launcher turrets.
If I remember right the devlogs inside the game explain why they didn't include those.
6:22 alright, the Shell joke was unexpected
I think Portal 2 has better gameplay but Portal 1 has a better atmosphere. The music in Portal 1 feels desolate and lonely and I love that. For example "Self Esteem Fund" is a great track. The perfect Portal game for me would be the lonely atmosphere of Portal 1 with the amazing gameplay of Portal 2
I love the editing
3:18 sell 💀💀
One mod is Aperture Tag, which is Portal but mostly without portals
Ricochet, of course
2:10 thanks for the jumpscare :)