Portal References in Games

[@masterofbloopers]

When I heard GLaDOS in Cyberpunk, I freaked out! If only the actual game was as amazing as that one moment.

[@wta1518]

If only they spent the budget on making the game playable.

[@HEROX05]

Wait, you heard her in Cyberpunk 2077?

[@thatlowqualityblaziken7005]

But the voice is a bit higher

[@tranlewlinign9592]

It's obviously not a "reference" in Half-life: Episode 2! It's part of the Half-life&Portal story!

[@wta1518]

If anything Portal is a Half-Life reference, seeing as the Borealis was planned to be in HL2 from 2004, and Narbacular Drop wasn't released until 2005.

[@jasonpugliano]

@@wta1518 and also the borealis was in portal 2

[@wta1518]

@@jasonpugliano Yes, but my point is that Aperture Science was planned before the concept for Portal existed.

[@thatlowqualityblaziken7005]

Makes sense

[@oscarmarvi]

@@jasonpugliano The borealis is a Aperture Science Enrichement Center wich includex the message "Do you want a boat for *cough* 1 USD? Then *cough* go to our center!" Borealis was some of these arround 67 boats. Borealis Project is based to inpresionate the public, but led to a inmidiate Disaster. The message is finded in arround the gate to the ECP.

[@TheStegosaurus_]

2:19 Makes sense, as we know, Aperture sold the Turrets, so maybe someone just made a graffiti with it. And i think the heart is because they have such a cute voice

[@dankmachine]

I’m pretty sure there’s one in Subnautica When you first repair the radio, you will receive a transmission that says “Rescue will be dispatched in 9… 9… 9… 9… 9… hours.” This is a reference to Portal 2’s “You have been in stasis for 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9…”

[@Bendyy_Vr]

That sound is the sound that the portal radios play when you put them in certain parts of the map then the red light on them turns green. Once you do it to all of them you get an achievement

[@AevilJ]

The sound in black Mesa is a secret transmission from both portal and portal 2, if you put the sound through some program you will see companion cube on moon (only in portal 2). In portal 1 you will see pictures that were a puzzle to find portal 2 teaser.

[@wirmaple7336]

can you tell me the program's name please?

[@AevilJ]

@@wirmaple7336 I'm sorry but I'm as clueless as you are. Just look on KZbin for "portal radio Easter egg" or something

[@jhwdesign]

One of the most obscure Aperture Science references comes from Project Cars 2. If you select the Renault Megane Race Car and change the paint, you can find two Aperture Labratories painted race cars. Especially weird since it’s a Bandai Namco game and the paint schemes are not exclusive to one version of the game

[@The_Jayyyy]

2:39 I think it is the “I’m different” turret in portal 2

[@prod.electrostatic1030]

that sound is the exact same sound as one used in an Easter egg in Portal 2. Specifically, you hear it when you bring a radio into one of the Rat Dens

[@tskrinus]

the first easter egg weird sound comes from portal 2, one of the tests has the ratman's hideout, if you go to the hideout with the radio, you would hear the same sound but when you decode the sound, there is a footage screenshot where a companion cube on a ground.

[@avilevy5294]

What about the Stanley parable. There is a portal reference in that as well

[@lorenzobertuglia2873]

Where

[@Shed_is_Gaming]

@@lorenzobertuglia2873 in one of the endings, you get sent into minecraft then into portal. The portal part is the end of the ending

[@Llamology]

The Cyberpunk reference sounds like an employee watched a KZbin synopsis of Portal and put everything he could in there

[@genthean]

In terraria if you're in a dark space for long enough, the cube attacks you, and it even has a special death message

[@reistia3483]

there is a portal reference in bendy and the ink machine where after you beat the game, go back to chapter 4 and in the giant ravine with a box next to the hallway with arms and if you use the seeing glass on it it will show a heart on the box

[@cj_th3_g4m3r4]

In terraria, if you have the companion cube pet, it will stab you in the back for only 1-3 damage if you’re locked in a dark room for too long

[@supercg1526]

About the Black Mesa reference, "The Pizza is a LIE" can be seen in other places out of bounds. I got this from Kacpi26's easter eggs and secrets video when Black Mesa had its 1.0 version. Credit goes to him. Also, about the CS:GO reference, the words used are using the nato phonetic alphabet. So PGPW 50, which is 50 Pretty Good Privacy Words, and SMS7 57, which is 57 characters in the 7-BIT GSM SMS message. But anyway, back to PGPW. Using the rest of the letters in Pretty Good Privacy you get numbers and letters, which then decode into "This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCES".

[@xbox07]

By the way, Terraria's companion cube will stab you in areas of complete darkness. It only deals 1 damage though, and will only strike once.

[@generalgongthehawkeye557]

The Black Mesa reference also stands as a Stanley Parable reference with the numbers [427] and the guy sitting at the computer.

[@mewhenthetherealone]

i know im 2 years late, but that sounds at 0:54 is def the sound that you get after catching a signal on the radio (for the transmission received achievement)

[@fartboss02]

3:36 lol he sounds like young joseph joestar

[@CrazyOwlDude]

The beeping in Black Mesa is a spectrogram I think, it's an audio file that when put through a spectrogram reveals an image

[@duskdean8127]

In the game Bendy and The Ink Machine if you use the Looking Glass on a box in Chapter 4 there is a heart on the side referencing a companion cube, in case you want to make a updated version at some point

[@setsu3002]

The black mesa computer sound is a reference to an easter egg in portal 2, where if you bring a radio into one of the ratman's hidouts, it will start making that noise. The noise can actually be translated into a picture of the companion cube on the moon, via SSTV.

[@GUSHERSTheThird]

52 to 55 it's also an Easter egg in portal2 and if u find it you get the achievement secret transmission go look it up

[@GilgaMash0]

By the way, In the Turkish version of Minecraft, the name of the cake was "Yalan" Which means Lie in English. And it stayed that way for many years until it was changed

[@sharonv3597]

There's also one in a mobile game I play called "Soul Knight". In the game, there's a chance to get a mode where enemies teleport randomly using the portals from, well, Portal.

[@cURLybOi]

The weird sound in Black Mesa is similar to Portal ARG, when if you placed radios on certain spots, they would emit such sounds. But there is more - the sounds are actually encoded pictures, similar to how computers encoded data over landline phones.

[@futuretask8466]

Reason why someone knows turrets from portal in half life alyx game might be an aperture science turret selling campaign, which we seen some trailers of. (One of the theories, but I think its very realistic)

[@franzpanz]

Wasn’t in the video but in bendy and the ink machine, you can look through the your looking glass and there is a heart drawn on a box. This is a reference to the companion cube.

[@PossumOnAVacuum]

I feel like someone already commented but that sound is from the arg leading up to portal 2 where valve hid messages in the radios for people to decode

[@morecaid]

Technically the Lego dimensions game is it’s own Easter egg full of portal in its own level

[@statikas]

You missed one CSGO Easter egg, yes there is another on overpass near T spawn on the way to B, can't remember what the spot is, but there you can hear Portal music

[@Believe086]

Half life 1 and 2 :being reference to portal Portal 1 and 2:Being reference for half life So they connected now

[@JamesCarnmal]

Portal is also referenced in Dragon Age: Origins. «The cake is a lie.»

[@maskedmystery5456]

You also forgot that the teleport portal in geomtry dash has the same orange blue color scheme as the portals in portal

[@kinet1q]

Also in Terraria this cube starts killing you if you are in the dark place

[@VarunGupta3009]

Loved that you used Philip Dyer's Atomic Amnesia.

[@spaceanimal6557]

Hey did you know that there is a portal reference in Bendy and the Ink Machine chapter 4?

[@doofusboy7054]

I don’t know how many people know this, but in Java Minecraft there is a fairly well-known portal gun mod which actually works really well. I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar mod exists for the Bedrock version too, not to mention the many portal-based mods for other games as well. Really great stuff all round 👍

[@iimZeon]

I think the reference in HL:A is more referencing the broken Turret in Portal 2

[@bye3135]

There's a reference in bendy and the ink machine in chapter 4 I think where when you have to make and cog with the ink blob to get onto the ride thingy to get to a door There's a box where if you look through your glass thing you get in chapter 5 and beating the game you'll see a heart referencing the companion cube

[@PoIiwag]

If the fat turret is in Alyx, that means that someone that was a survivor of Aperture science other than ratman still lives

[@CYGNIUS]

*Portal 3 should be a prequel to Portal one (and the sequel to Half Life 2 Ep2). The game that connects them.*

[@fatihkartal2513]

2:48: Female voice: Well, you find me... Me: TOTALLY GLADoS!!

[@frankchristensen8597]

That was the sound from the "final transmission" achievement

[@kyan1645]

The turret graffiti in half life alyx makes perfect sense as aperture sold the turrets as personal home safety devices

[@davidmcbride5357]

In one of doom music there is drawing i don't have to discover that but mabye that bip bip sound has that easter egg (actually 666 with flipped star )

[@monochromatikfanaltaccount6386]

The borealis isn't a reference, its apart of Half Life 2's lore. Portal and Half Life take place in the same universe, so.. Right above you in Portal 2. The combine are there, somewhere.

[@herrkatzegaming]

What about Team fortress 2? There are bots named: "Aperture Science Prototype XR7", "Chell", "Companion Cube", "Delicious Cake", "GLaDOS", "Still Alive" As well as items like "The Ap-Sap", "The Companion Cube Pin", "The Friends Forever Companion Square Badge", "The Long Fall Loafers", "The Resurrection Associate Pin"

[@JRHainsworth]

I was trying to decode the black mesa sstv but you cut away from it before it finishedddd

[@blue052a]

At 0:42 the sound is air.ogg from Minecraft (look up what it is)

[@totalparkour0]

4:43 You can call it the "Companion Core."

[@ran631]

In the game the things are called spheres. The dude with the mission says that they are spheres but thinks that sounds stupid so he calls them balls

[@totalparkour0]

@@ran631 Wheatly was a Core. If you look at Wikipedia, it says his species is "Personality Core."

[@ran631]

@@totalparkour0 yeah but the companion cube is obviously not a core. And the things are called spheres so it would be the companion sphere

[@kornet001]

Cores (also referred to as spheres, personality cores/spheres, or Aperture Science Artificial Personality Constructs) are machines designed to house advanced artificial intelligence, mostly unique for their ability to express emotions. - theportalwiki.com

[@kornet001]

It doesnt matter if you call them core or spheres. Atleast it talks about Aperture Science.

[@pepijn23]

I thought there was also a reference in payday 2 on the stock signs in Big Bank called Aperture inc.

[@eepy_end0]

0:52 this is portal radio sound

[@K_amonger]

Also the terraria companion cube will stab you if you're in complete darkness

[@SSGDevelopment]

Hey you! Get ready take your companion cube plush your turret animatronic you amazon glados a portal gun sculpture and a path of borealis and get ready for portal 3 references!!

[@theyegmcmuffin]

The pizza is a lie is also a reference to Italian ninjas video requiem for pizza

[@ItsLelingTime]

Could’ve sworn that Minecraft has another reference in the form of a splash text.

[@defectivetoaster]

There’s also if you change the language to LOLCATS the cake is called “liez” or something like that

[@johannesviljoen9656]

The noise was probably from the portal ARG (transmission received achievements)

[@tauon_]

It’s a new one, but it’s still using SSTV. I can’t decode it right now because my SSTV software, QSSTV, doesn’t work right now, but someone in another thread is decoding it so it’s okay.

[@skydub7844]

The terraria companion cube will stab you if it's dark

[@kinet1q]

Atomic Amnesia is everywhere

[@XGG09]

That sound is in portal 2 Edit in 2023: its the transmission Edit again: i must no click so i dont click

[@AliYassinToma]

The sound at the start ... u need to use a decoder it will show an image .. i dont have black mesa if u have a full recording of the audio i can decode it just link it and ill decode it

[@BaynexoMusicOfficial]

I love the GMAT noises

[@luislabra2480]

It’s Doug Rattman’s signal in portal 2

[@blu445]

Lightmatter is Conneted to half life and portal confirmed

[@wheats0]

Holy shit I never knew Minecraft had portal references

[@fewpew5787]

I've known about the cake achievement but I thought there was nothing else after that

[@cpapuarmando2062]

I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't mention one of the clearest and most obvious References. What would be the Portal level in Lego Dimensions, Valve Literally Loaned Warner the IP to make a Very iconic level in my opinion. although taking that into account the theme of Lego Dimensions and all the Easter Egss of the Portal Level give for their own Video

[@GreyscaleW49]

The one thing I remember most about the open world area was the extra large cubes. If you broke the companion cubes in that area, (not the spawnable one, but the ones that are part of that area), the pieces would include transparent red dots and bones.

[@dancam2271]

It’s in space with rat dug men

[@engineergaming9057]

0:26 "donuts are a lie" -some sciencetist who asked gordon who ate all of the donuts

[@vuk_ustipak]

That sound is a picture encoded into sound

[@Mabra51]

4:13 How can you tell that's a companion cube and not a storage cube?

[@r4ycer676]

fun fact: the companion cube in terraria can stab you to death.

[@nicosteve0570]

The first sound is a sstv code

[@TheManWhoSoldTheW0rld]

Fun fact: You missed troll face quest: videogame

[@noahbienvenue]

The noiz from the black massa computer is a picture you can decode the sound into a picture

[@razielcechinel]

Não falou do Transformice, tem uma evolução do Shaman que tu coloca uma skin do cubo de companhia na caixa

[@T-80BVM_enjoyer]

The sound is probable morse code

[@toby9848]

The sound in 1 is a photo made into sound

[@Masuteri_]

0:47 get the audio visualizer

[@mikehayes5183]

The sound is in a portal 2 achievement

[@snow799]

You can find cores including Wheatley in Lego dimensions I got this from another video

[@alexsaladalt]

the sound is an easter egg from portal 2

[@TheDman131]

You want my opinion on the Borealis disappearing I think G-Man had something to do with it! Anyone else have any opinions?

[@gentlesoul221]

You forgot the secret area in Ion Fury

[@Opthomas_Prime]

there is a companion cube easter egg in bendy and the ink machine

[@clovekslovensky5901]

the sound is the portal 2 radio

[@postkarolis2077]

That sound ref is from portal 2 į playes the game

[@mattlorenz7777]

bro really forgot kingdom rush

[@TatsukiShuto]

why Valve Never Made 3rd game Why Valve please make 3rd games

[@goldstain5098]

what does that mean there's going to be a portal 3?!?

[@404-GLITCH]

The CS:GO one is the in the phonetic alphabet

[@squash589]

At this point, Portal And Half Life are actually in the same universe.. But that's just a theory.. *A* *GAME* *THEORY*

[@noclick]

there are in the same universe

[@squash589]

@@noclick *happy scientist noises*

[@nightgamer1501]

Iam so stupid for never realising that reference in minecraft

[@colruss7012]

There is a word write with blood says die freeman whats that ? Correct me if im wrong

[@charlotte80389]

maybe every game is in the same universe

[@charlotte80389]

the pizza is a lie decal can be found a lot outside the bounds

[@epico_3228]

1:18 BM

[@thatxzasw2156]

i use the companion cube for my gd icon

[@ahhhhhhhhhhhhh8152]

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