Author Topic: Portal - The Cake is a Lie! (Read 39437 times)

Sir_Stabbalot · « **on:** October 13, 2007, 03:02:37 AM »

Welcome to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. One the test is over, you will be baked [Garbled words] cake.

Anyway, Portal is one of the games that comes with the Orange Box. It's best called a first-person puzzle game, as while it uses the same engine as Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike, the only weapon you have is your trusty Portal Gun (NOTE: Do not submerge in water, even partially) and your not-so-trusty brain.

I'll throw some screenshots up later, but at its basic level Portal is about getting from Point A to Point B. But normally this would be impossible, but not with your Aperture Science Enrichment Center Handheld Portal Device. The game itself is only 19 Test Chambers, but that's not counting the Bonus Maps, Challenges, ending levels and, of course, user-made maps.

Now for the plot:
You play as a test participant (willing or unwilling is unknown) named Chell Johnson. Yes, it's a woman. I'd like to say this: NO SHE'S NOT AN ANDROID OR COMBINE. THOSE THINGS ON HER LEGS KEEP THEM FROM BREAKING AFTER EACH FALL. Anyway, Chell is much like Gordon Freeman in that she never says anything. But that doesn't mean Portal doesn't have personality. That comes for the AI giving you directions, GLaDOS. Some of the things she says are hilarious, especially the ending song. You're promised cake at the end of the test, but the scribblings on the walls from previous test participants tell a different story...

I can't be the only one loving this game on NWR.

YouTube trailer link

vudu · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2007, 03:28:40 AM »

I'm playing the flash version.

I just beat the game. And I don't know what you're complaining about, because I got cake at the end. I win.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2007, 09:15:39 AM »

Played and beat it today...Great game...

I particularly love the turrets that you come up against...Are you still there? There you are. Put me down! Hey! I don't hate you. Etcetera, etcetera...

And the boss going crazy at the end..."Don't believe me? Here, I'll put you on...<dorky>Hello!</dorky> That's you! That's how DUMB you sound!"...Classic...

I've gone and uploaded the ending theme and a few sound clips...

that Baby guy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2007, 10:38:54 AM »

I'd buy the orange box, but I doubt my laptop could handle it. It's on my list for when I upgrade in a few years, though.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2007, 11:47:11 AM »

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Originally posted by: thatguy
I'd buy the orange box, but I doubt my laptop could handle it. It's on my list for when I upgrade in a few years, though.

Really? What kind of laptop do you have, because many of the games are well optimized.

Sir_Stabbalot · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2007, 12:24:44 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
Played and beat it today...Great game...

I particularly love the turrets that you come up against...Are you still there? There you are. Put me down! Hey! I don't hate you. Etcetera, etcetera...

And the boss going crazy at the end..."Don't believe me? Here, I'll put you on...<dorky>Hello!</dorky> That's you! That's how DUMB you sound!"...Classic...

I've gone and uploaded the ending theme and a few sound clips...

Yeah, They jammed a lot of personality into the GLaDOS fight. Especially how each one of her "brain spheres" has it own personality. I loved the curiosity one. "Hey, you're the lady from the test! Hi!" "Where are we going?" "Eww, what's wrong with your legs" "Do you smell something burning?".

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Originally posted by: thatguy
I'd buy the orange box, but I doubt my laptop could handle it. It's on my list for when I upgrade in a few years, though.

What's your laptop's stats? If you can run the Half-Life 2 demo, you can probably run the Orange Box.

BigJim · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2007, 01:53:44 PM »

Love Portal. It's fresh, funny... I think it would be a great Wii game, too.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2007, 04:57:14 PM »

I bet Valve ports Portal to Wii in the near future. It's fun as Hell, though I'm kind of stuck right now. I'm trying not to use guides...

UncleBob · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2007, 05:00:51 PM »

I'm enjoying this flash version... thanks for the link vudu...

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 13, 2007, 05:36:02 PM »

How do you get past level15 in the flash game?

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2007, 05:53:04 PM »

I will help you...

1. Shoot a portal up above the door...
2. Shoot a portal below you...
3. Jump into the portal below you, and you should have enough momentum to carry past the glass, and next to the electric field...
4. Now shoot a portal below you...It MUST be the color of the portal you first jumped into (so leave the one above the door)
5. Be sure not to fall below...
6. Now produce a new portal down below that gets rid of the one above the door...
7. Now timing with the electric field, jump into the portal and you'll have enough momentum to fly up onto the electric plate
8. Just jump across to the exit!

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2007, 06:00:58 PM »

I am not understanding steps 6- 8 so maybe a picture will help you explain it to me so that I can better understand

So what do I do from here?

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #12 on:** October 13, 2007, 06:29:29 PM »

Jump into the yellow portal carefully so you land up the upper left ledge...Then from there produce a blue portal below you (so your yellow portal will stay where it is)...Then just jump down into your new blue portal, and you'll come flying up out of the yellow portal...

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2007, 06:44:16 PM »

Ohhh, now I feel stupid for not thinking of that my self. Thanx Bill.

Mashiro · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2007, 09:58:57 PM »

I can't figure out stage 9. I'm stupid ;_;

vudu · « **Reply #15 on:** October 14, 2007, 04:07:20 AM »

Some of the later levels on the flash version are pretty brutal. Some of they take a long time to figure out what you need to do. A few of them are real easy to figure out but it takes a lot of practice to pull it off. Are any of the levels in the real game as tricky as the ones in the flash version? I'm not sure how some of those hard puzzles would work in 3D.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #16 on:** October 14, 2007, 04:20:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: Mashiro
I can't figure out stage 9. I'm stupid ;_;

Protip: you need to shoot a portal mid-air

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #17 on:** October 14, 2007, 04:25:42 AM »

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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
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Originally posted by: Mashiro
I can't figure out stage 9. I'm stupid ;_;

Protip: you need to shoot a portal mid-air

You have to do that quite a bit in the real game...

Mashiro · « **Reply #18 on:** October 14, 2007, 05:51:23 AM »

To where though . . . I can't open a portal anywhere else.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 14, 2007, 05:55:27 AM »

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Originally posted by: Mashiro
To where though . . . I can't open a portal anywhere else.

Post a screen shot, (print screen, then open MS paint and paste)

vudu · « **Reply #20 on:** October 14, 2007, 06:43:22 AM »

Level 9:

Shoot a portal in the ceiling directly above you. Shoot another one in the floor directly beneath you. You'll start cycling through the two at increasing speed. Once you've hit your top speed shoot a portal the same color as the one in the ceiling in the floor to the left of the big ledge you can't get past. You'll fly up through it and you'll be able to reach the platform.

Mashiro · « **Reply #21 on:** October 14, 2007, 07:14:42 AM »

It won't let me though.

the left wall is grayed out and I can't create portals on it

That's why I'm confused lol.

vudu · « **Reply #22 on:** October 14, 2007, 07:21:18 AM »

You don't need to create a portal on the wall. First one is on the ceiling above you. Second one is on the floor beneath the first one. As you're falling between the two create the third one (to replace the first one) on the ground to the right of the second one.

Mashiro · « **Reply #23 on:** October 14, 2007, 07:46:12 AM »

Ohh haha thank you.

I don't know why I didn't think of that before.

Brain fart =)

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 14, 2007, 10:13:26 AM »

Ahhhh!!! Level 35 is so frustrating. I get right to the end and the energy ball disappears. everytime.

how many levels are there?

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Author Topic: Portal - The Cake is a Lie! (Read 39437 times)