The Anticipation of Portal 2
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- You’ve been waiting. I’ve been waiting. We’ve all been waiting for the day that Ultra decided to tackle Portal 2 yet again. It’s been a year since the last video made some try the series out, and made everyone else really really mad. Either way, I hope this one makes you feel something!
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0:00 Reveal
0:38 Things Have Changed
5:42 Portal: The Flash Version and Still Alive
7:58 Portal... again
36:56 Portal 2: Lab Rat
51:46 Actual Portal 2
54:47 Chapter 1: The Courtesy Call
1:24:05 Chapter 2: The Cold Boot
1:37:53 Chapter 3: The Return
1:54:20 Chapter 4: The Surprise
2:02:26 Chapter 5: The Escape
2:25:46 Chapter 6: The Fall
2:48:42 Chapter 7: The Reunion
3:01:47 Chapter 8: The Itch
3:22:40 Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You
3:48:08 Portal 2's Lasting Legacy
3:52:17 A Meeting
3:53:08 Want You Gone
3:55:48 Credits Игры
You need to take basic singing lessons.
Pin of shame😂
What an idiot
@@whatidkdunno8950
How so? I'm not ashamed of my comment and stand by it.
He can not sing.
I think GlaDOS' VA needs to take singing lessons from HIM
@@thebigdawgj You need to take basic social lessons, who the hell would pay for singing lessons? something tells me you had an easy childhood.
Something I want to point out is that the blue screens by the elevators in Wheatley labs says “Reactor Meltdown Imminent. Press any key to repair.”
So Wheatley could have fixed everything with the press of a button and just…didn’t
Also the turret opera is a reference to the phrase “It’s not over till the fat lady sings.” And the animal king is in the background
@@Droboto23456 oh that’s amazing-
Knowing Wheatley, it's probably because he couldn't find the Any key
@@octochan wait that actually makes way too much sense that’s my headcanon now
Well, he doesn’t have hands
I never knew Wheatley saying we have brain damage is foreshadowing about him being an idiot core.
Just like how your misspelling of damage is foreshadowing of your own idiocy.
@@jazzy4830 Hey, it's hard to type on a phone when you need to deal with small letters and guiding the cursor is hella inaccurate.
@@staticplays1871God bless you❤
@@jazzy4830 Being an obnoxious jerk about a spelling error? In 2024? Grow up. Linguistic judgmentalism is imperialist elitist bs that belongs in the last century
I like how the ending also serves as a happy ending for half-life because if there’s grass everywhere after all this time, then the combine didn’t win because they would’ve taken the water
Wait what?
The combines goal for earth and the multiverse was to go planet to planet draining them of natural resources like the ocean. Portal 2 takes place thousands of years after, with how fast the combine conqured and established architecture on earth there is no way they would taken thoussnds of years and not drained all life unless they were stopped during that large time skip. @JoseAlberto-dh8pf
Didn't Glados also mention that she saw Human on the surface?
@eiscreme3116 you really can't trust GLaDOS
no sir it did not. this is the worst take ever.
I love Cave Johnson so much. His business was built around putting a bunch of smart people in a room, throwing ridiculous amounts of money at them, and asking them to "do science".
He saved no expense, cut no corners, he literally just tossed money into the fire and whatever products came out of that were too expensive or impractical to sell.
Actually a lot of the products were very effective, the government just didn't like them much because black Mesa was safer. Well, until the cascade. But still.
He let them cook and they cooked.
3:48:05 i love the implication of her being like “ok FIIINE- I’m _sorry_ here’s the stupid cube back, now we’re done”
Portal 2 adds an additional layer to everything that is going on with the companion cube.
Glados mocks Chells connection with the cube. She calls it a silent thing that Chell can project her stupid emotions onto, and that is Glados projecting her own feelings towards Chell onto Chell herself. Despite everything, Glados has a deep and fucked up love for Chell. Chell hasn't said a word to Glados, from Glados' perspective Chell is nothing but a silent tool and she has projected her love onto her
love in what way exactly..?
@@KwikBR they are gay
@@CalamitasCalliope Nice
The reason that Wheatley's tests have access to the gels is shown when you unseal old Aperture and call down the elevator to get into the new facility. After the huge hatch opens, you can see pipes coming down and connecting to the gel pumps, restoring access to them for the new facility.
He literally zooms in to show them connecting.
@SalesmanWave and yet he doesn't know that they're there.
This was baby's first hyperfixation for me, I've never clicked a video so fast...Portal 2 changed my brain chemistry
omg same experience i literally autism hyperfixated on these games so hard
Same!!! I legit cried whenever I looked at the moon for an entire year.
i never left my hyperfixation and it sorta just, reactivates
Glados: Yes, I saved your life and watched over your weak and sleeping body and didn't crush you to death despite how easy such a thing that could've been. In fact, I'm going to erase the tiny part of my brain that "forced" me to save you. No, that doesn't mean I'm going to kill you. Just go and take this elevator ride to the surface and listen to this opera all about loving you. Don't read into it. Also, have this cube with a pink heart on it. Now, don't ever come back
that robots a lesbian... ive been saying this like !!!!!!!! GLADOS HAS A FUCKED UP PSYCHOSEXUAL OBSESSION WITH CHELL. ITS TRU.
gives hardcore "get out of my school" vibes, if you know you know
Glados was lying...she can’t delete Caroline....she IS Caroline she was lying and being her evil self XD
@@thatguyonthedime8297 Haha yea but...Glados was lying...she can’t delete Caroline....she IS Caroline she was lying and being her evil self XD
Cave Johnson is my spirit animal and my sleep paralysis demon all at the same time
"Cave Johnson here! If the lab boys did their jobs right, I should currently be manifesting as a shadowy figure in the corner of your room."
“Cave Johnson here! The lab boys said that I ‘couldn’t actually stalk people and stand in their corners shrouded in shadow’, I told them they were fired! I’m in your walls!”
@Artcat932 why can I hear his "I'm in your walls" so fucking clearly you maniac 😂
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth"I assure you that this is completely normal and under no way a life threatening. What's happening here is that the scientists have managed to deconstruct and reconstruct my molecules in a way that lets me travel at the speed of light, and in this scenario, I happened to appear in your house. The legal boys said this was, quote, "dangerous and unnecessary" so they're fired. If you happen to feel threatened, do not call the cops under any circumstance, I have enough hiding from them as is. Trust me, this scares me more than it scares you. Alright, Cave Johnson, we're done here.
Is it because you can't sleep if he makes you ai?
3:26:15 ah, so that's the decidedly not paranormal reason why the robots scream, it's literally what they were made for.
I never caught that. Noice.
the way you solved the advanced aerial faithplates chamber blew my mind because there's just a white wall on the ceiling above the button you can portal the cube to. The trickshot with the faithplates was crazy cool.
I haven't played portal 2 in quite a bit, and I got gaslit so hard when he mentioned that oml
That Radio in the box actually has an Easter egg failsafe if you get trapped in there-GLaDOS has a dialogue line acknowledging that you’ve trapped yourself, and then opens one of the walls up to let you out. Prevents you from NEEDING to stress out when getting that radio-although the stressing from people who don’t know this is very entertaining.
For the longest time I thought the defective turrets were called "Detective Turrets". They have that kind of accent and vibe of an incompetent detective that thinks they're competent and yet somehow always solves the case by accident. The kind of character to always say "I meant to do that," when they didn't mean to do that.
Portal 2 is one of, if not the first game I, little stupid me, beat on my own. No outside help, no half-finished attempts. For that it has a special place on my heart
Clicking on a video about "the anticipation of portal 2" to see an in depth look of the game from fetus to death bed, is like looking up how to play chess and end up in a 4h video essay about game design.
To be clear, not complaining. Great content btw.
(Unless by "anticipation" he also means how the narrative uses reversion of expectation. Either way I'm gobbling this content like no tomorrow)
I JUST REALIZED ITS FOUR HOURS LONG??
man. cara mia addio never fails to bring tears to my eyes. it’s so perfect, but so sad.
glad Wheatley is here to keep us company along the way
Every time i see that Portal 2 announcement, i half expect GLADos to say that she's about to flood the room with deadly neurotoxin.
I feel funny(collapses)
The Anticipation of The Anticipation of Portal 2
your first Portal video is one of my favorite video essays of all time and I am not even finished with this but I already love it. So happy this will slide so nicely in with rewatches of part 1. I have never and will never play a portal game, your videos are great. This whole layout is exactly what I as a not video game person want from a video game video-- letting the scenes play out as much as you do, showing me how hard it is to get to a point without me having to fail a million times to get there, hearing what you think after clearly thinking about it for a decade. All the best parts of sitting on the couch watching someone play a video game, which is a hard feeling to replicate. I spend a lot of time alone too and videos like this are very helpful with that, which is something I hope you know. I just really like your videos, this is really excellent
idk why Cave spent all that money crushing up moon rocks when Wheatley was producing his own white gel every time Chel completed a test
Somebody pray for this man oml
I don’t think that gel is made of moon rocks-
You didn't talk about the after credits scene where Wheatley, knowing the space core wasn't listening to a word he said since he continued to ramble on about how excited he was to be in space, expressed his regret for everything he did while in charge. You know, they say you know someone's truly sorry when they express it while they think no one's watching/listening
I was expecting like a playthrough of portal with the length of this video. What I got instead is nothing short of incredible.
1:03:32 This is actually quite nice foreshadowing regarding Wheatly 'betrayal' later on.
1:23:31 Not sure if you realize this, but this actually IS chamber 19 from Portal 1 in reverse.
Man, venture bros is the best. Fr. Good research, I'm sure you're glad you did it
Apparently I feel asleep with youtube running and just woke up to the like last 10 minutes of this video, but from what I've seen so far this is amazing.
48:42 oh hey, that's super mario galaxy.
edit: oh hey, it was actually revealed at the end
3:50:46 oh hey, isn't that lego dimensions?
As someone who grew up playing portal and who recently got back into it, I love this video! Thank you so much for making it :)
maybe the radios in lore may have been used by black mesa to contact people that might still be alive or to contact cave Jonhson since he was preserved in desk job. And the story in half-life 2 was leading up to the borealis so it makes sense that any survivor or black mesa worker would want to get info from people that worked on Aperture to figure out how to get into it or use the technology.
Desk job and the Aperture VR games are in another universe, the Resistance didn't know about the Borealis until the end of Episode 2, and Black Mesa was destroyed by the nuke at the end of Opposing Force.
Not trying to sound like a jackass though.
@@SalesmanWave I didn't know whether desk job was cannon or not. It seemed pretty small compared to the overall lore but still had useful information and I figured cave had the same idea for himself if he thought it would work for Carol.
@@SalesmanWave This could still work but if there is a half life 3 or a new VR title, although I doubt it.. bbbbbbbbuuuuut since half life alyx(half-life in general) and portal have shown the multiverse. The could look to other universes to stop the combine kind of get on gman's level in terms of power or at least knowledge althiu ubwiuld prefer they used an established one like the vr games and desk job.
Wheatley is not annoying at all and I will die on this hill.
Bri’ish dumb ball gang rise
You jumped into the masher, but missed the dialog when you go back when he first fails to kill you
I woke up to this, and watched it all. 10/10
“In other words speedy thing goes in, speedy thing come
As a person who has never played either game, I have watched this video twice now
They're 10 bucks each, as are all of valves games. Get either one, you'll love em. If you end up enjoying it, I'd recommend getting half life 2 as well.
we're so back once Valve learns to count higher than two 💯💯💯
The green adventure core is so funny 🤣🤣
Great stuff as always, Mr Ultra. Spent the back half of today slowly working through this video between my college classes. Loved it!
You broke all the cameras but didn’t get the Smash TV achievement. I see how it is
These four hours finna get me through work today ❤❤
When you get to the puzzle you did first try you missed dialouge if you get stuck. They set you free if the door closes on you
1:06:04 I reloaded this level so many times just to listen to that snippet of smooth jazz that I have this dialogue memorized
"jazzy"? my dude that's conga
Best sequel to a youtube video i’ve ever seen
this game consistently makes me cry. absolutely one of my favorite games
53:40 BHultra is so real for that. When I was 11, I saw Portal 2 for PC in a gamestop, and the cover looked cool, so I asked my mom to buy it for me. Got home and popped it in my laptop, and it made me create an account for this weird thing called Steam.
Been a fun 11 years since, still one of my favorite games. Apparently took me 1.5 years to buy Portal 1, according to my Steam purchase history.
The whole laboratory being somewhat alive as it movs and fixes itself without humans and Chell being the brain of it all, i love it so much. Humans played god, and while it required a part of a human to breathe that life into an AI, that's the same as the christian god breathing life into their first human. Honestly, despite it all, Glados and her body of the entire apeture laboratory is humanity's greatest achievement
Thank you so much for this video!!! I’ve been needing a long form video to watch while I work and I’ve ALSO been itching to play portal 2 again so this was the best of both worlds, amazing commentary & you really covered everything I could think of (after listening to about a million hours of portal videos & played the game through over 20 times now) this was truly a masterpiece and helped me through the workday - THANKS!!!!
51:25 I have the exact same Wheatley plush sitting next to me while im watching this
the "gibberish" from the radios is SSTV code, basically audio data that can be converted into images
I literally watched the first video yesterday and I was like damn he never released that second game video and now here it is 😂
Wheatley got the gel because when you escape out of the gel facility little tubes fly down and connect to the gel tubes down in the underbelly of the facility, so presumably these tests with gel only work because we just so happened to connect the gel pumps to the rest of the facility on our way out
I can't wait for the in-depth review of Lego Dimensions' Portal Expansion
It’s me. I’m part of the strange portal video cult following. And 4 hours. You’ve outdone yourself sir.
aww you forgot the face above glados in the portal gun mural, symbolizing Caroline.
He never mentioned the playable teaser for Super 8
Wdym? I know about the link hidden on the insides of a lot of props, but wdym playable teaser?
@@magentawool2556 portal 2 has a playable teaser for the movie in the bonus/extras menu
@@SpicyMB oh that's neat
i cant believe i watched a 4 hour game on portal 2 theres something wrong with me
This is hands down one of my favorite games of all time. Bought it for way too much on ps3, and bought it again for xbox when my ps3 died. And when it came out on the switch, i bought it again
I fell asleep and just woke up why am I here 💀
Riddle me this, batman
You use the word penultimate, and nobody bats an eye
But when I do it, I'm a "nerd" and "shut up"
What's up with that?
Someone tell me how he’s able to pump out a multi hour long in such a short span of time
the portal games have been my favs since I played them as a kid. There has been a subtle resurgence of its popularity recently and I'm so happy to be seeing so much content for the game. Thank you for the video!!
I'm conflicted.
I don't want a Portal 3.
In truth, I want nothing more than another great Portal game, but this one ends on such a perfect final note...
Plus, we know how easily sequels can turn out to be garbage.
So I want this to stay Portal's legacy. And of course I also want more.
Could not have said it better myself
7:33
"I got an achievement while playing Still Alive that called me a fruitcake! So-"
16:34
"This is my audition for a very popular video game based RUclips channel though, by the way-"
"Did you know? That the whole left side of this Fizzler does not work properly? Not only can you shoot portals through it, but even walking through it doesn't erase them, and neither of these things are correct"
24:38
"If that sounded incorrect or confusing... I don't pretend to know how guns work!"
51:29
"Do you know what this means...? ...I'M NOT ALONE ANYMORE!"
52:56
"Wheatley's my best friend!"
57:47
"Portal 2 is about abandonment, moving on!"
1:01:30
' And that's the first time in my life I learned what the Fizzler does"
1:04:54
"What should be a epic and triumphant moment is haunted by oncoming horrors beyond the player's comprehension"
1:28:29
"I know THREE games-"
1:32:25
"I know what you want. I'm not doing the Hamilton bit again"
1:43:15
"Yeah! You hear that, guys? I'm a predator! ...hold on- wai- sorry, let me-"
2:03:48
"I trust this dumb*ss orb with my LIFE!"
41:51 Athena
I put this on for just a little background noise, I didn’t realize I was gonna get literal comedy gold.
1:09:33 top 5 line in the game for me lmao 💀
ATHENA P JUMPSCARE????
The garbled noise sounds like a spectrogram. Basically frequency on the left with the bottom being bass and top being trebble. The bottom is time, then the colour changes between green and red depending on volume
Edit: also, the chamber here 17:50 you can't get trapped an get a hidden voiceline when you do
Edit 2: Radio 2 sounds like base64- I was wrong lmao
The "corrupted" cores are cores that constantly send out misinformation or just random crap to fuck with the thing it's attached to's mind.
3:55:12 once again this is an absolute jam
Oh my god its finally here
09:28 Not Gibberish, it's a method of transmitting images via radio, frequently used by HAM operators, and sometimes even NASA, you can decode those noises into images with apps made for that kind thing. SSTV, Slow Scan TV; basically some variation of analog TV so slow you gotta wait for just a single low res frame to be transmitted; there are several standards, but most apps know them all nowadays. If you had let that noise play a little longer, I would've been able to tell you what image it was with an app on my phone.
I haven't finished watching the video yet, so maybe you do reveal it wasn't gibberish later and touch on the ARG etc. But for this timestamp, that's my comment for now.
Loved this video, it captured just how thrilled this series and its world made me. It was the first game I ever bought with my own money and captured such a specific part of my life.
(BTW, I think there's some parts where the year on screen and what you say are different? I think the screen said 2010 and you said 2011. It was early in the video and I didnt catch the time code)
i like how gaben just spawned in
Man knows his audience
DIDNT SEE THIS WHEN IT CAME OUT BUT IT CAME OUT ON MY BIRTHDAY SO THANK YOU BHULTRA FOR THIS GODLY BIRTHDAY GIFT
Every now and then you bless us with these HUGE videos and I appreciate them SO much being a grocery store worker bored out of my mind
I asked for this like 6 months ago, well worth the wait.
I watched 4 hours of someone explaining portal at me.
let me guess, you've played both games
@@KwikBR Yes. Multiple times.
IS THAT ATHENA P AS GLADOS!
Fun little fact: the sign guy seems to have a name, now I don’t know if it’s fan made or official but a lot of times I see him people refer to him as “Bendy” (not associated with the dancing demon from bendy and the ink machine) but I think it’s a fitting name seeing how weirdly flexible the sign guy is!
What a lovely and succinct summary of the anticipation of portal 2. Could not have said it in fewer words myself.
watched this video a day ago and it was genuinely one of the most enjoyable things I have ever seen, as I'm typing this I just finished running through portal 2 for like the 20th time in about 4 hours. anyways yah this video is awesome man good job 👍👍👍
This is a certified cult classic
gawd, if you got enough thoughts to make a video on it someday then I'd love to hear you walk about Venture Bros I don't feel like I see enough ppl talk about that show, let alone make video essays n such, despite the show having a p sizable fanbase.
(anyone reading this: if u got any Venture Bros video essay recommendations, plz reply them to me)
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!!!
Always glad to hear another Venturoo has entered the world.
half life 2 happened so uhhh the lore of portal and half-life go brrrrrr
i spent some time in cryostasis (sleeping) then i woke up to this
I woke up to this at 3am and now I'm confused
About an hour through so far, love this video! Reached the part where you talk about how portal 1 is your third favorite game of all time, and it shows Mario galaxy as your second. I would love a video about Mario Galaxy! Mario Galaxy and Portal 2 are my top 2 favorite games of all time too, although depending on my mood I sometimes prefer one over the other. You've been making great content, keep it up!
God the listening to the unofficial musical before school hit particularly hard. Shout out to the one day I watched the original production, watched the updated 2017 version, and noted the differences between each production.
I've been a fan of the portal games for over a year and I've been obsessed with everything portal these games are my favorite
You really seem to have enjoyed the game. I hope the creators see someone really enjoyed the game like this. This is what video games were made for
As a really big fan of the portal series in general, I really appreciate this video. Even let me know some secrets in the games I didn't know! You should do another video on portal modded games, like Portal Stories Mel.
Eyyyy, the hair growing good Andrew
YOOOOOOOOOOO FINALLY
maybe if Glados had an anchor to her Humam self she would not try to kill everyone
came for portal, stayed for the information overload and the production quality, please never be afraid of a video being “too long” because i honestly wouldve eaten this up even if you included like 2 extra hours of rambling about co-op