Portal - Spoiler Thread!

[UnDeaD]

I think it was a masterpeice.

[Relmar]

One thing I found out when I did the commentary is that you are supposed to smash the box delivery tube with the rocket turret to get a box and jump into the air duct. I never figured this out during normal game play. During normal gameplay, I just went back to the offices, gathered up those PC cases and used those to boost into the air duct.

I did it with the chairs.

On another note, incase you haven't seen this yet:

[Skud]

Hahaha, thats a great picture, definitely has the "I'm crazy," grin-thing going.

Check out www.aperturescience.com type login, then hit enter, then username: cjohnson password: tier3 (They're somewhere on one of the walls in the game) Some pretty funky/interesting stuff there. There's a really long survey if you type apply, and I misentered my ID # (the thing is like 50 characters long!) at the end and couldn't go any further. Its good for a laugh if you've got some free time.

I did that.

Then I didnt have my UID.

The representative never came!

[Yoshi MCF]

I did that.

Then I didnt have my UID.

The representative never came!

If you look closely, your UID changes slightly every time it flashes.

[Daxx]

Your username doesn't matter as long as you use the password "Portal" as well.

On a side note, keep an eye on the Valve store. Rumor has it the your Companion Cube may still be alive!

[Iamthefallen]

Companion cube will be available for the holidays.

I absolutely loved it, the wife did too. We played it together over the weekend and had a great time with it. Simple, pure, undiluted, fun.

(Careful with spoilers please for those who haven't played it yet)

[Sirusblk]

Cool where'd you find that?!

[MagnaCentipede]

A, not my. Mine is gone and gone forever.

[Tarenth]

After around two frustrating and mind cramping hours I finally got my Vanilla Crazy Cake achievement. Damn some of those are HARD, but they just streamlined the original tests in some cases so the process you use on the advanced test can be reused for better times.

That said, I gave up on the challenges as a lost cause and I can't seem to get the camera shy achievement either.

[MagnaCentipede]

I got to 30 on camera. A few are well-hidden. If you feel like cheating a list is on Steam forums.

[icky]

After around two frustrating and mind cramping hours I finally got my Vanilla Crazy Cake achievement. Damn some of those are HARD, but they just streamlined the original tests in some cases so the process you use on the advanced test can be reused for better times.

Got my Vanilla Crazy Cake too. I wasted lots of time...

As for the challenges, I really like the least-portals ones, but there are obviously some tricks I don't know yet.

[KoopaTroopa]

Probably the coolest trick I did was that part in level 19 where you first encounter a rocket turret. It destroys the first glass pane, and then you get it to destroy the second glass pane. You continue to move down the hall but reach a room with another glass pane (right before the air duct).

To break the glass, I didn't think to make a portal to make the rocket turret fire through and destroy the glass pane (well, I did, but only after I was searching for a way to get into the air duct). Instead, I made a floor and ceiling portal and dropped a chair into it. I let the chair build up speed until it was zipping by, and then popped a portal onto the wall beside me; the chair shot out of the wall portal so fast I didn't even see it, but it broke the glass pane!

Pretty cool "emergent gameplay" kind of thing.

[DirtyLude]

That is pretty cool. Rocket chair.

[Anospa]

Hahhaaha, wow! Now thats a good idea!

[KoopaTroopa]

Oh, and the various personalities that each of the GlaDOS orbs represented and how they gibbered at you while you carried them to the incinerator was hilarious.

The orange orb: "What's that? What's this? Who are you? Where are you going? Are you coming back? What happened to your legs?!"

The blue orb: Just a constant stream of meaningless calculations and math problems.

The red orb: "GRRRRRR-RAAARRRRGGGHHH-GAAAAAH-GRRRRRR-BRAAARRRGGGHH!"

LOL. Lovely little game.