Portal/Aperture: Desk Job - My First Reactions

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[@jpest17]

I just realized this, but the desk jokes probably also revolve around how valve brings their desks with them every where in the office, like their workstation desk. I bet they say bring your desk casually all the time.

[@brad7928]

They totally get inspiration from that

[@ericputney4598]

Bring your.... Deck?

[@BrochachoTheBro]

and Deck and Desk sound similar, and where can you bring your Steam Deck?

[@goncaloguimaraes4185]

Half life 3 confirmed

[@andresa.ruizv.7413]

Valve in-jokes!

[@DaRealBruner]

The fact that Grady could be a prototype design for the personality spheres is really interesting. It's sort of meta in a way, because he actually resembles the cores from the first Portal, which in a way are technically early designs for the personality spheres until Valve stuck with the designs from Portal 2.

[@proctifer9833]

I think that part where he talks about the tattoo being a metaphor for a person being inside the machine is alluding to the fact that all cores have people inside them. A freaky concept to think that every core (theoretically) is some person that they downloaded and edited to become a core.

[@thomashart22]

His eye is also the same as the turrets

[@memehunter2476]

@@thomashart22 and the sphere body is the same design as the rocket turrets and Atlas from Co-op, the eye also fits for atlas, just make it a different color.

[@mguymario]

In The Lab they redesigned them again these look more like the cores from that game

[@nightlord131]

@@proctifer9833 Cave says they can't fit a person into a computer smaller than the giant head though, implying that the cores aren't actually people unless he just had no idea about them and they were developed after him.

[@AveryHyena]

There is also a giant head in aperture hand lab, but it doesn't appear to be Cave. The first head in hand lab was also Valve's idea, not cloudhead's.

[@Hikikomorisama]

ill have to revisit that since i missed that part! EDIT: Alright, i saw that head and yeah, looks like a prototype. I also saw a debug mode of the game on youtube where you throw food in the big face's mouth lol.

[@Artician]

(This is only a theory, but) What if that was an early attempt/prototype to put cave johnson (or literally anyone else) into a giant head.

[@eclip6686]

@@Artician BREEN HEAD

[@TheMAZZTer]

Things I noticed from my playthrough you didn't note: * HL2 style ammo boxes in the beginning. * Saying your name works, you probably have the wrong mic set as Windows default maybe? Or something else. * Gyro controls work using Steam Controller, as one would expect. * L4 and R4 (back buttons) on Steam Controller activate the rockets. * You can shoot Cave before he finishes his first monologue. He gets mad at you for interrupting him before resuming his normal speech.

[@tkthefirst298]

also, pressing shoot button before opening the turret panel causing the toilet to explode.

[@jtobecalled7543]

The giant chicken in the beginning (that Tyler yells about) is a reference to the Portal 2 "alpha" (F-stop), where a massive chicken was planned to be a sort of boss-fight.

[@JoHn-gi1lb]

gyro also works with ps4 controller

[@azzlytheazzome]

The streaming software might have occupied his mic.

[@mytranscription6909]

also if you pay attention there's no loading screen and all is in game, not like "cinematic videos" or something like dat

[@timeimp]

They got the real Cave Johnson for the game. This is how you know Valve is serious about this TF2 update.

[@antarticstorm7991]

Tf2 source 2 confirmed

[@compatriot852]

I don't understand why Valve doesn't just adopt the source 2 Dev team. They've made so much progress

[@mrhollywood0384]

What TF2 update?

[@danielmerino4722]

what tf2 update

[@misterk7_-]

@@compatriot852 They might if they finish it. And even if they do I feel like they eventually would stop working on TF2

[@TKsh1]

Tyler "Passionate Gamer" McVicker canonically created Aperture Science turrets. The Portal lore goes deeper...

[@inn5268]

tyler confirmed for hl3

[@sang1582]

Tyler is the ceo of apeture science CONFIRMED

[@williamburnett3660]

@@sang1582 It's all confirmed.

[@Isaacfess]

I love this whole thing so much, but I especially love Cave Singing at the end.

[@S1nwar]

did like a combine energy thing drop through the ceiling and accidentaly kept him alive?

[@ncrranger4737]

@@S1nwar no, it was the sci-fi reactor made by the mantisis in-between the floors

[@Isaacfess]

Yes, so the Mantis Men he created and wanted to fight ended up saving his life. Poetic.

[@lahabitacionde_eme]

@@Isaacfess Well... He wanted to die

[@lft3254]

The little “Manntis Co.” thing at 12:25, kind of lets us know that valve is still aware of tf2 and hasn’t forgotten it.

[@azerithboxxed4339]

I don't know if that makes me feel any better knowing that they acknowledge it but don't want to do anything with it

[@Cheesepuff8]

Eh, or someone put it in for fun and everyone else was like ye sure Also I like the idea that those Mantis were people that got turned fully into insects

[@dangkhoaanlam6688]

@@azerithboxxed4339 yeah because the source is so messed up that they didn’t want to touch that again :((

[@seaborne1278]

I like the use of the cut portal 2 section (unplugging cave) and the tf2 reference I one of the mantis cut scenes (mann-tis co.), if you turn on noclip, all the maps are textured and built-up a surprising amount, 8.5/10 game

[@maniacalmeme5022]

Bit late but if you noclip to areas you aren't supposed to be yet there's some qr codes on things. Only found one on the coffee table in front of the door to caves office (probably only shown when the player isn't able to be there normally) but there's more scattered around, I'm certain

[@Wbfuhn]

I find it interesting that they are touching more on the history of the lore. Details that weren't there before. There wasn't a lot when it came to the history of this place but considering that it's Valve, Portal is also part of the Half-Life universe. The only question is, where does everything take place between Black Mesa and Aperture? There's no clear indication of the timelines connections. Half-Life has accurate dates and times to go based on but Aperture doesn't. There's also another facility related to Aperture but it's in Killing Floor.

[@ethanalberts4477]

For this game in particular It’s in the extended universe, but from what it looks like it’s in the 70s/80s? Black Mesa most likely exists in this universe but they either haven’t caused the resonance cascade yet or won’t

[@azzlytheazzome]

I say based on evidence that the Glados uprising and Resonance Cascade happened within a short timeframe of eachother in 2000/2003.

[@Artician]

It's amazing that whenever valve does literally anything to do with half-life or portal, even if it's a tech demo, they make sure that it fits into the lore, and sometimes (like in aperture desk job's case) even expand the lore to a significant extent.

[@WalnutOW]

@@ethanalberts4477 Black mesa is confirmed to exist in portal 2. Cave disses them.

[@PirateCat822]

@@ethanalberts4477 the resonance cascade occured sometime in the the 90s

[@standardsloshy]

Every Valve video looks like Tyler has just become more and more broken at the notion of Valve entirely

[@UserX-02]

I really like how it exands on the lore and what happened to cave

[@legiongamerworkbruhben6058]

miss cave j

[@halolasomaster3900]

This is an alternate universe

[@cuppa_tea2673]

@@halolasomaster3900 wait rlly? I thought it was a prequel

[@joshkund]

Except didn't cave get sick in the 80s and not the 70s?

[@BassBanj0]

@@halolasomaster3900 it's not though

[@Ju-on]

There's just no way they're not starting or haven't started production on a new Portal game with how much quality and content there is in this 20 minute "demo". Introducing Grady and the 70s Aperture facility WITH EMPLOYEES and Cave being confirmed alive.. come on now.

[@unchpunchem8947]

Yeah honestly this makes me think that it’s at least something they’re working on. Who knows if it’ll ever see the light of day (probably not given Valve’s history) but god I hope it does.

[@Kacper42PL]

I mean the lore does say that GladOS was created after Cave Johnson died, so of course the employees and Cave are alive... but the Cave Johnson being a giant head is now confusing bruh. Besides that Valve is known for putting a lot of effort into something when they're truly interested into something before they lose focus so I sadly wouldn't be surprised if that is just a 20 minute demo

[@rileyreed7690]

@@Kacper42PL its not that confusing glados doesn't know about it as she didn't even know that part of the facility existed and i guess they made glados becuase they were afraid of cave's head enough to abandon it completely and start working on glados

[@roberthunter6122]

​@@rileyreed7690 I don't think they abandoned it because they were afraid so to speak... This is probably one of the various multiverse Earths, therefore, this is probably isn't main canon.

[@rileyreed7690]

@@roberthunter6122 this is also definetly a possibility. In one of our alternate universes this is true and in one my theory is

[@shatteredmirror4458]

Does the ending of cave imply that he gave the turrets the ability to sing? And does this also mean that he was the put inside the giant turret? The Giant turret did make loud deep notes.

[@BassBanj0]

@@auhsojacosta8078 I don't think he actually died though, the weird nuclear reactor sorta thing the mantis made is still there so he has a power source He might have just turned himself off/put to sleep

[@HyperDashYT]

@@BassBanj0 Yup! And this can be proven that he's still very much alive by that little yellow dot, meaning that Cave's Systems are still active. 31:50

[@timothyt666]

@@BassBanj0 yeah idk how true it is/could be, but I heard that the thing the mantis people "made" is actually just vortigaunt energy, which I guess make sense, they did save alyx that one time from near death, so it makes sense it would save cave from dying.

[@arthurpietrogarcia1057]

The game is not canon.

[@FubisReal]

Don't think Valve is teasing anything by reusing TF2 sounds. Most Valve projects reuse sounds from other games whether it's weapons, button presses, or just sound effects. It's just what Valve does. Even Dota 2 uses the AWP sound from CS and those two are definitely not the same universe.

[@Jack-fz8gc]

I don't think he actually thought that. I think he was just still a bit angry about the TF2 situation.

[@cruz3608]

I’m so glad that I played this on my own spoiler-free. Finally getting closure for F-Stop somewhat is just awesome.

[@Oldmangamess]

This game gave me the urge for a new portal game. Why does valve keep teasing us stuff that we can’t get!

[@Nikolaos34]

hold up, the ending.. did that imply that Cave's consciousness was leaking out into all the appliances, thus is responsible for all of the machinery within Aperture to become sentient?

[@computeraidedworld1148]

I really like this.

[@ea09]

It makes sense for Animal King (big giant singing turret at the end of Portal 2) and Oracle turret.

[@Kacper42PL]

Hold tf up

[@Cheesepuff8]

That’s a very fun idea but the thing leaking energy was the weird power thing that the Mantis stole and brought to Cave’s head to power him or something

[@arthurpietrogarcia1057]

i know its late but this,The lab, Hand lab and moon dust are all non-canon, its basically one of the thousands of multiverses in the Perpetual testing initiative.

[@jeanbutinfrench]

Given how clean portal still look to this day, and how portal 2 has more visual intricacies than most games released now, I can’t believe how breathtaking the graphics were in this, even in a post HLA valve, this is source 2 right? This was also unexpectedly daring in regards to the lore, the lab and the hands thing added virtually nothing, I want it back! Give me portal 3, and give me a vr Aperture game now (beyond the 12 minutes of enjoyment in the lab)

[@idioticed4379]

Nausea is a problem tho

[@Rakenclaw]

@@idioticed4379 Only for the weak.

[@Cadency]

@@idioticed4379 they could just have it not be portal, maybe make f-stop in vr?

[@jeanbutinfrench]

@@idioticed4379 I’d woudnt need to be portal, but I kind of want it anyway

[@ADreamingTraveler]

Yes it's Source 2 and I agree this was really good looking

[@SnareGG]

J K Simmons is one of the greatest actors of all time

[@whoisanarnb]

Those tf2 jokes and sfx’s gave me pain Btw Tyler if you shot cave before he finished his speech he would ask you to stop

[@ThiniffExtra]

"What about like a robot arm coming out of the side of my head and its holding a wrench?"

[@jeanbutinfrench]

I think they’re just recycling their sound library instead of recording new sfx, not making a deliberate choice, it’s just valve synergy

[@whoisanarnb]

@@jeanbutinfrench oh

[@zig131]

You can shoot the lamp and make it spin around too

[@bas919]

Valve is the master of videogame blue-balling.

[@dextergrif2019]

While very short, I love what I played. I need more Valve! Please! Sidenote: how did you get that old steam styled ui at 32:08? It looks cool, I didn’t know you could do that

[@ea09]

It's custom Steam skin. Available for download somewhere. Even Tyler made a video about it, iirc.

[@rotnn]

steam library patcher + a steam skin

[@gumballegal]

i like this new direction for the Portal universe. feels fresh. like hl:a. New Source, New Valve

[@thealandude9146]

Love how they got cave back and the cut portal 2 thing, and that combat track sounds like portal 1

[@Isaax]

I came in expecting a nice little tech demo and instead left with a Portal 3 soft-confirmation

[@Zladnyl]

Yea, knowing Valve? Sure, Portal 3 in another 15 years or more.

[@nosrah9660]

We need a new proper Portal game.

[@acblook]

I really don't want a new portal game, I feel like the portal mechanics were explored pretty thoroughly in Portal 1 let alone Portal 2, but I desperately want a new proper Aperture Science game

[@nosrah9660]

Yes, a full game in the extended universe of Aperture Science. That’s what I should have said but kinda meant.

[@S1nwar]

@@nosrah9660 imagine your a combine elite squad tasked with exploring the facility and some form of overwatch variant guides you

[@S1nwar]

@The Lonely Proto untitled aperture-universe flagship tile

[@nosrah9660]

That would be amazing. Being able to explore the extreme scale of the facility would be mindblowing.

[@alvianekka80]

I like how there are no bullet casings come out of turret, because it shoots the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet, per bullet.

[@Vincent-ye6pe]

they can't not not making a portal 3 after that seriously, it's just incredible and a portal on source 2 like that would be so so good

[@ADreamingTraveler]

The fact that they specifically wrote a paragraph about it not being portal 3 definitely gives me suspicion. you dont just say that, especially now.

[@valeskhaconk2550]

This gives me hope for future valve games

[@saddex5506]

Yeah maybe we'll get another new one in another 18 years

[@halolasomaster3900]

Until I see a full non VR game I have no hope

[@cosmo1851]

@@halolasomaster3900 why non VR?

[@andresbravo2003]

However, Requiem Ad Immortali is quite a classic. How would Valve ever did it possible for this amazing Tech Demo. Edit: I was Confirmed that it was the song name since I uploaded on my Alt Channel (Andres Bravo Sim).

[@games528]

What does your comment mean and why is it getting likes?

[@ea09]

@@games528 It's the song that Cave Johnson sings at the end and it's getting likes because why not?

[@games528]

@@ea09 His comment makes absolutely no sense. First he calls a 3 day old song a classic, then says "How would Valve ever did it possible for this amazing Tech Demo", which is a complete nonsense sentence.

[@ea09]

@@games528 You know English isn't the only language spoken around the world and some people might be not able to speak it efficiently, right? Yeah, his sentence is not grammatically correct but it's not hard to understand what he's trying to say.

[@games528]

@@ea09 Well, can you translate for me because I have no idea what he is trying to say. Also yes, I am aware English is not the only language, in fact my native language is not English.

[@antonkirilenko3116]

They went and made more content and put more creativity in a 20 minute free tech demo than some AAA companies put into $60 games.

[@ethanchaotic]

I can't believe this entire thing is just "heres fstop!" But youre playing as the inventor of the turret

[@ciriak]

00:50 this is the first time we see actual humans in a canon Portal game, right ?

[@sinksalesman1747]

I'm pretty sure it is Ain't gonna include chell since ya know you play as her

[@defecticon9000]

This game is not canon unfortunately Someone emailed Eric Wolpaw and posted his reply on reddit The only portal games that are canon are Portal and Portal 2

[@jacke_RS]

cant believe valve just dropped a 30 minute interactive teaser for a game they have no intention of making

[@Zladnyl]

Like with Half Life Alyx?

[@compatriot852]

Now only if Valve could do something with Team fortress 2 even a little tech demo spin off would be appreciated

[@Freelancer837]

JUST FINISH THE COMICS, VALVE

[@Kieran5]

Please, stop being inpatient for the new TF2 update for Christ sake.

[@Freelancer837]

@@Kieran5 I don't even play TF2, but they should definitely get an update just to fix how awful the bot issue is alone

[@MH-mi4xg]

Did we invent the turret or the tur-let?

[@BakersTuts]

Oh lawd I need to use the tur-let!

[@acemagalor2519]

Honestly go figure the turrets started out as a complete accident involving a fucking smoking toilet

[@DaRealBruner]

What's funny is it ties back to Portal 1 in a fun way. The toilet at the very start of the game if flushed will say "Your business is appreciated" in the voice of the turrets.

[@Infernokit]

@@DaRealBruner oh my god you're right and i hope that's intentional

[@compatriot852]

I don't know if I should be happy or sad given the large amount of references, sound effects, etc. from the Team Fortress universe. It's like Valve is playing with the idea that Portal is connected or they're doing something with the Team Fortress series

[@leandrogoslean889]

It's just them reusing assets like they always do. For example you can find various games of theirs that use the same sounds for weapons in Counter Strike, L4D and TF2 (AK47, minigun, rocket launcher, etc). They do the same with their models, you can find a boat from L4D in CSGO, or some maps even use the same buildings (also CSGO and L4D). Most people don't notice and those who do will instead think it's Valve trying to make all their games happen in the same universe, wich would be cool but its not true. I could be wrong and you right, but it's the most possible answer that they just like reusing assets, its boring but they aren't the first or the last game devs that do it.

[@DaRealBruner]

Valve commonly reuses multiple models, textures, and sounds for all of their games.

[@Archman155]

@@leandrogoslean889 yeah but MANNtis co was a pretty huge nod

[@Archman155]

@@DaRealBruner yeah legit portal 1 was literally almost entirely hl2 textures and sounds, even the turrets and stuff are just hl2 turrets with a different model

[@CricetoFunni]

@@Archman155 Or, y'know, someone working on the enviroments just put it in as a little easter egg and it's nothing more.

[@CoolSs]

29:48 wild theory. the reason why Cave Johnson is singing . is because of pain . because his robot body got crashed even more after the drop . i am not putting it passed of them giving him a pain body sensor . also a far fetched theory: that how the robot learned how opera singing because they don't have access to the internet . they learned it by Cave Johnson pain moans.

[@Axodus]

That actually makes sense.

[@NebulousFumes]

Wait soooo Cave Johnson is… s t i l l a l i v e ? Like wtf happened to him then??? FUCK, Valve please you cant just drop some heavy lore bits like this and not make a sequel please 😭😭

[@Zladnyl]

He died at the end of the credits, power on him shut off and eyes went dark. He spilled out into the universe and became immortal like he said, he bled into all the other technology in the facility and now many of the units are sentient (with a little of Cave Johnson in them).

[@ali32bit42]

can we apreciate the fact that valve did not lock this down to be exclusive to steamdeck devices? they can easily do that

[@joseislanio8910]

Not only that, but made it available for free

[@UpsideDownCycle]

Man I wonder if this somehow fits into the already messy timeline? Or maybe it's one of the other Earths we see in the multiverse somewhere.

[@akeem2983]

I think that it fits in the timeline and actually don't break anything in it

[@Raum2901]

@@akeem2983 i dont think so, cave johnson got sick by procesing moon rock when aperture was using white for everything, and personality cores werent a thing but after the first tests on glados, this is most likely a retcon but a contradiction in the case of cave johnson

[@Axodus]

the only reason they created GLaDOS was because Cave died before he could be uploaded.

[@AngeloT2001]

after watching this again, I realized that since the start you can see that cave is asking for help through the light under his painting

[@albinodino5050]

God I need a full portal game so bad this was awesome

[@Ogaitnas900]

Haha everyone they put in a robot just goes crazy and starts killing everyone else, gaben should take some notes. edit: wait so in the end cave is powered by the mantis men generator, but the energy goes into through him and into the turrets. So it gave them consciousness? Does that mean they are also Cave now? In the vein of "everything in apperture is sentient" or are they their own thing.

[@Cimlite]

Valve is one helluva game studio. _Shame they don't make games._

[@daedaly7344]

Ok, so nobody is gonna question how Desk Job is a tech demo showing off something with elements of F-stop and bringing back Cave in a new art-style and aesthetic for the tech demo? I THINK THEY QUIETLY SOFT-LEAKED PORTAL 3 OR A GAME IN THE PORTAL/HF UNIVERSE

[@aerobridge_]

This isn't in the portal series. It wouldn't make sense for GLaDOS to exist if they were able to put Cave Johnson's conciseness into a computer. Also Eric Wolpaw confirmed that this isn't canon. Only the main two games are.

[@daedaly7344]

@@aerobridge_ actually the portal universe is confirmed in a multiverse as of the Perpetual Testing Initiative, so it being Canon could very much be possible if they decided to put Cave instead of Caroline, it is very possible

[@halolasomaster3900]

0:45 those are the ammo crates from the Half life games right?

[@salimkun4597]

And why the logo looks like dota 2

[@defecticon9000]

@@salimkun4597 That just means it's rocket launcher ammo

[@_strayfer_]

Valve set up half life with HLA’s ending. They kinda set up portal now, and the thing powering cave Johnson looks like something out of half life. Are the two Possibly linked to something coming??? No :(

[@gavinmitchell3709]

Yes. HL3 is supposed to be about the borealis, about stuff aperture worked on. They are in the same universe. Portal 3 would literally be the same game as Half-Life 3, without a doubt. GLaDOS knows what's up there, she wouldn't do it if she just wanted her gone, the combine would immediately take her in. She knew what she was doing. She still wants Chell dead. GLaDOS will stay down there doing her tests, but Chell's story doesn't just end at that elevator.

[@2phonesbabyken]

@@gavinmitchell3709 oh great so Half-Life 5: Guardians

[@defecticon9000]

Well this game is non canon unfortunately, so rather than "setting up" portal, I think this is a way of them saying that they really are exploring their options, I guess

[@_strayfer_]

@@defecticon9000 where has it been said that it isn’t canon

[@defecticon9000]

@@_strayfer_ Someone on the Portal or Valve subreddit emailed Eric Wolpaw and posted his reply there. Basically he said the only canon Portal games are the main ones: Portal and Portal 2

[@EthanLR]

but cave Johnson advertised the turrets in one of the portal 2 vids "just try and get close to that baby, hah! your funeral" so chronologically, he survives...

[@bals1632]

Not cannon, he also reviews the bots and long fall boots which we can assume didnt exist then. Glados states she was making the bots while we had our "episode" and the long fall boots weren't a thing as P1 Chell had those weird heel leg things.

[@maggintons]

This entire game was an elaborate way to troll Tyler

[@I-LOG]

I like to think now that the giant Cave head becomes the giant king turret

[@TheAnnoyingF2P]

Note that the reactor they built seemed to mimic Vortigaunt energy, and as it ripples over the turrets, causes them to mimic him. Could it be possible, that like the Vortessence, he is communicating with them telepathically or interweaving their consciousnesses? It is rather suspicious how the reactor looks similar to Vortigaunt powers. Plus, I have heard that Erik Wolpaw mentioned in Portal 2: The Official Guide, that mantis men may still live in the facility and could be a part of a theoretical Portal 3.

[@zig131]

I don't know why people are calling the intelligent Mantis "mantis men". The Mantis Men were human test subjects injected with praying mantis DNA. It does seem now that the reason they thought to do that is that they found they had a colony of praying mantis to get the DNA from.

[@CricetoFunni]

When you start going up to Cave's office and you see that small spark of fire, I legit thought we were gonna see GLaDOS' first activation.

[@miniminerx]

I loved playing this, recognizing all the cut lore I have ever wanted. This made me so happy! I love how valve always expands on the portal lores creativity and comedy instead of retreading the past. Edit: I've always been in love with F stops potential. JUST MAKE A VR PORTAL BY NOW!!!!! I don't even need nauseating teleportinggg.... AGHHH

[@krich451]

So they just had ammo flowing through pipes even before they had turrets?

[@idioticed4379]

Aperture tested stuff, for the sake of testing stuff

[@Dr_Hax]

@@idioticed4379 "hey bob?" "yes mike?" "what if we tested how much bullet can resist while flowing continuously and endlessly through pipes?" "great idea"

[@Axodus]

The ammo was for the ammo crates.

[@themadbank6]

I'd like to think of this as a soft confirmation that they're making Portal 3, way too much effort was put into this to just consider it a tech demo. Let's hope it's not just wishful thinking tho.

[@ADreamingTraveler]

I felt the same way. The amount of effort into every aspect of this felt like a teaser for a new Portal game than just a little story short or demo

[@ocass66]

you underestimate valve's willingness to not do anything

[@Appletank8]

valve has started and stopped a dozen games at this point. They’re “making” something alright, the question is whether the initial burst of energy lasts long enough to finish it.

[@Freelancer837]

Meanwhile I'm still trying to tell if this game is canon. Based on how Valve has described it, I can't tell if it's canon or if it's "canon" like The Lab is

[@Xenomorpheus429]

according to Eric Wolpaw, it's not canon, and neither is lab, but also if they do out out another official portal game, parts of it COULD become canon

[@aerobridge_]

It wouldn't make sense in the lore if it was. Caroline was to be put in a machine if Cave were to die before they could figure out how to put him into it. The fact that GLaDOS exists makes this noncanon. Or they just retconned Portal 2.

[@nightlord131]

It's quite confusing as to when this is meant to be set. 70s aperture facility, including their logo, but Cave says he got sick a few years before, which was meant to happen in the 80s. The company is named Aperture Laboraties, a change that also happened in the 80s, and there's a personality sphere - which I was under the impression were part of the GLaDOS project. There was also the prototype central core chasis seen in an old area of 80s Aperture but the core and Cave here don't line up with that in the timeline so it's unclear if this is all part of the GLaDOS project or not. There's also the weighted storage cubes with the usual design further implying it's the 80s.

[@staindk]

Tyler's so excited he set his mic volume to 11 for this stream

[@Vgreen45]

It took me 400 bucks to fully experience this game, but at least I got free portable gaming console

[@timothymckane6362]

No one at Aperture: Some employee: How about a GIANT CHICKEN? Cave Johnson: [INVEST]

[@Aerix]

So does this hint cave as the "animal king turret"?

[@pannomic1818]

wait... its that mean that Cave Johnson's mind...is still alive somewhere in Aperture? OMG

[@halolasomaster3900]

No alternate universe

[@mcg.youtube]

This is the last time we saw Sane McVicker

[@jamser40]

I swear to god this better be setting up a portal 3

[@SimonClarkstone]

Is this the first game in the Portal universe with time-skips? From what I remember, the only skips in the Half-Life and Portal series games were suspended animation and falling unconscious.

[@halogenlampert]

Half Life 2 has the slow teleport that skips a week. In between Nova Prospect and the uprising.

[@SimonClarkstone]

@@halogenlampert I was thinking of that as "suspended animation" too. The key part is that the player experiences all the time passing that Gordon experiences.

[@thedispenser8301]

How are they so good at this?! This look so awesome!

[@NOTADFIVE]

Crazy how they brought jk Simmons for cave again

[@2phonesbabyken]

Can’t wait for Portal: Wheatley on the Index

[@TheRocketJumperOfficial]

There is so much potential. Why leave us hanging Valve.

[@LukesOffline]

So Cave was the original GLaDos all along

[@JackCats0]

This game was so good!

[@captaincookie72]

So this is what a modern portal game would look like. VALVE PLEASE. MAKE ANOTHER FULL PORTAL GAME YOU WOULD MAKE SO MUCH MONEY ITD BE WORTH IT

[@Infernoliza]

This was a triumph!

[@cllm8498]

on steamdb there was something called Project 9. So that could be something

[@BenevolentBratwurst]

🗿🎵🚽🚽🚽

[@FlamingoRadio_]

This needs to be the pinned comment

[@nanopi]

credits was in-engine. could tell because the framerate stayed very low for me.

[@legiongamerworkbruhben6058]

PORTALS BACK

[@professionalclown7166]

This could honestly be fleshed out to be a full spin off for the steam deck, like an on rails shooter using the toilet-turret and find out how the toilet-turret eventually evolved into the real turret we see in the Portal games.

[@Michael-um1qq]

I like your videos, man, but can you not have such horrible mic peaking?

[@ringer1324]

This tech demo is so good. It just proves valve is still the best dev out there they just put their time in questionable places.

[@Zladnyl]

Valve has all of their time and money on gambling right now. They gamble with new technologies and such, they are trying to make Linux gaming not only viable but preferable, and they make things like the Steam Machines, Steam Controller, Steam Link, Steam Deck, VR hardware, and more. Quite a few of these were failures and attempts to make something unique, some of these attempts are working and still in motion like Linux and Steam Deck, but it is still all a gamble and will indefinitely take up their time and further neglect their past, their franchises/series, and their old fans.

[@CoolSs]

i am not the only one who got depression after seeing "manntis co" . it's been 1595 days ; - ; (yes yes . i know we not getting updates but am still sad about it)

[@transitcombine9057]

So cave jhonson is still alive in portal 1 and 2?

[@JHG_1]

no

[@tasterisk6339]

more like sleeping without power the whole entire time

[@jeanbutinfrench]

I believe this is all setup before gladOS, glados being another attempt to transfer human consciousness, also gone wrong… cave must’ve been deactivated before her arrival…

[@transitcombine9057]

Well, now i know that game is another universe xd

[@nesto6687]

Why is no one talking about how this makes portal 3 possible? Portal 2 was a good ending to a great story but there was no reason to return to aperture, but now we know cave johnson is still somewhere in the facility. He could be reactivated and start a new story.

[@TravisaInc]

agreed

[@defecticon9000]

This game is non-canon, as well as every portal game that isn't Portal or Portal 2, according to Eric Wolpaw, unfortunately

[@bel_unoffical]

Its funny that almost the whole entire life of valve they still use the same sounds from older games Like the half-life error sound or older valve game sounds

[@JJungleJapeson]

Imagine a Source 2 remake of Portal, as in what Black Mesa is to Half-Life.

[@generallyunimportant]

black mesa is a remake that makes xen bad from the story standpoint lol also its made in source 1. p1 remake in source2 would be grat tho lol

[@ADreamingTraveler]

So wait is Cave Johnson still alive? Or could he somehow come alive again?

[@reevessmoak5425]

Nate Bargatze voices Grady… knew it was familiar. Check out his standup, he’s pretty funny

[@gegaomega5038]

i hate it when streamers scream right into microphone cuz' my ears can't stand it anymore

[@memehunter2476]

I feel like Grady is just a more friendlier, less power-hungry version of Wheatley, still stupid as him, just less power-hungry.

[@alialatrach9788]

SO I take this is Aperture Science Pre-Disaster 😂😂 Seriously, we need more games like this from Valve with the funny and well-written sense of humor

[@RoyalRhythm]

I love the joke at the credits where the sign says Ape science instead of Aperture science. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone talk about it.

[@Optimus97]

I just suddenly remembered that line from a Cave Johnson YTP called "Aperture sells faulty products" "Introducing the consumer version of our most popular -military-grade- product... ...the TO-I-LET"

[@masterzoroark6664]

I am thinking that if Portal got a new instolment it just should be in old Aperture, because Chell story is finished, current day Aperture story is finished. Maybe revisit F-stop

[@GavinFromWeb]

A GIANT CHICKEN!!!

[@Omegapork]

Hey! That's the giant chicken that was an early scrapped boss from portal 2!

[@captaincookie72]

I wonder if there's any easter eggs in this game

[@SupinePandora]

Music in end sounded like "Pink soldiers" from squid games