Portal - Spoiler Thread!

[Sirusblk]

I really liked the turrets shooting at you then asking in the nicest way possible, "Are you still there?"

[icky]

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

Better listen to that one a little more closely.

"2 cups all-purpose flour" is not a meaningless calculation.

[DirtyLude]

Ya, turrets rocked. "Dispensing Product."

[KoopaTroopa]

Better listen to that one a little more closely.

"2 cups all-purpose flour" is not a meaningless calculation.

Y'know... if you look at the computer monitors that are still online (once you escape the testing chambers in level 19)... they're cooking recipes with a lot of garbled text thrown in.

Cake references. :P

[Iamthefallen]

Btw, make sure to turn textures up to max quality to be able to read all the text.

[DirtyLude]

For some reason I have to reset textures to 'very high' every time I load the game. It defaults to medium.

[Anospa]

For some reason I have to reset textures to 'very high' every time I load the game. It defaults to medium.

Same, very weird/annoying.

[stickyjeans69]

I remember walking into this one office, on the wall it had this doodle with tentacles
underneat it said

"nice little jellyfish"

thought that was extremely random

[Lucky Shot]

Think they had a jellyfish on one of the clipboards indicating it was a test subject. I think it failed.

Lucky Shot

[Sirusblk]

For some reason I have to reset textures to 'very high' every time I load the game. It defaults to medium.

Same x2. It happens on all the Orange Box games for me. Does anyone know of a console command to fix this?

[Zoopy]

Same x2. It happens on all the Orange Box games for me. Does anyone know of a console command to fix this?

Add mat_picmip -1 to your autoexec.cfg or type it in the console.

[Tarenth]

Better listen to that one a little more closely.

"2 cups all-purpose flour" is not a meaningless calculation.

Better yet, go to your sound options and turn on subtitles for all dialogue. The blue orb says some great stuff.

"Toppings to include:
Fish Shaped Dirt
Fish Shaped Crackers
Fish Shaped Solid waste
Fish Shaped powdered waste
Fish Shaped Fish"

Also line up a bunch of active turrets and then pick one up and knock them over with it.

"Hey! Put me down! Please!
Coming through!
Excuse me!
Just passing by!
Code Amber! Code Amber!"

The last I got only once of all the times I actually carted one around and stands for child abduction. ^_^

Additionally throw one into the ASEEG (Apature Science Equipment Emancipation Grill) and it says "Ow" repeatedly very very fast until it vanishes.

One other thing I noticed during the later tests was that GlaDOS slurs her words on her greeting when you enter. In the captions she says "You will be baked, and then there will be cake." Quite funny if you think about it in context of what happens.

[DirtyLude]

If you want to hear all the audio, you can just use the GCFScape utility linked early on. There is a crazy amount of dialogue for the blue orb. As well as the 'Fish shaped references, there's alot of Rhubarb as well.

[Sirusblk]

Better yet, go to your sound options and turn on subtitles for all dialogue.

Cheater! :P

[Daxx]

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.

This is why I really like the Valve games. They designed puzzles that have one clear solution, but theres always 2 or more ways of actually doing it, and is some cases ways that the developers never even realized of doing it.