VIDEO: Valve Updates Portal With New Ending
New Portal ending paves way for Portal 2.
After learning of a true sequel to Portal from Valve planned for release later this year, the fine folks at the PC gaming developer earlier this month quietly updated the ending of our favorite first-person puzzle game.
Portal is a game that undoubtedly deserves another play-through before the launch of the sequel, and now gamers will be treated to an extended ending sequence. Of course, if you don't have time to go back to Portal or you're working through your own pile-of-shame backlog, then here's what the new ending looks like:
Portal Updated With New Ending
Still Alive.
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You guys are very late. This ending was revealed at Portal 2's announcement.
Yeh!!! An excuse to play through Portal again! IMHO, one of the most clever games of the decade. Kudos to the guys at VALVe for keeping the game interesting and working hard on the sequel. Now if they would just get the friggen thing finished already (along with HL2:EP3)! Worth the wait though, I'm sure.
They should have added the song to the video...
They should have added the song to the video...
That song is absolutely great. I'm still bugging my buddy that's in a local metal band to try a riff-laden screamo cover of it.
Portal was definitely different. I loved HL2 (Sill my favourite FPS of all time) and bought the Orange box to get the sequels and portal turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
Old news is old
This update came on March 3rd, and that video was posted not long after.
Tom's getting slow
The Cake Is A Lie !
It wasn't really extended so much as having a few seconds more added to it. Extended in my mind would mean another scene, or another bit of action. Being dragged across the ground with an additional ten words is not much.
I did play through again, get all the radios, and still had tons of fun. One of the best games ever in my opinion. Portal 2 better not mess it up!
That song is absolutely great. I'm still bugging my buddy that's in a local metal band to try a riff-laden screamo cover of it.
Dude if you start a petition, I'd sign it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/
I have to agree with Regulas- HL2 is way better. I wish Valve would stop throwing resources into Left 4 Dead, and release HL2:E3. I mean seriously, its painful! I'm hoping Episode 3 is longer than Episode 2 also. Then I suppose, it will be another six year wait between that and HL3.
I thought the original ending was clever. I remember how every time I thought it was going to end, it had a different sort of twist to it. I'll definitely have to dust it off and play it through again.
I am ashamed to say I have never played Portal and don't know anything about it. I am assuming its a mod and about to be made into a full blown sequel like TF2 was with Portal 2.
Portal was the best game in Orange Box. Half Life 2 is overrated and disappointing and the episodic content is even more disappointing.
Old news is old This update came on March 3rd, and that video was posted not long after.Tom's getting slow
No. This is just a filler for a slow news day.
Then I suppose, it will be another six year wait between that and HL3.
FYI: Sadly, Half-Life 2: Episodes 1,2&3 = Half-Life 3 ---> according to Gabe Newell (paraphrased).
I wish they would update Half Life with another episode!
This is really, really old news. Still good news though.
How is this ending truly different from the original ending with a hundred glowing robot/computer eyes staring at the cake in a basement somewhere? I mean, that was enough to tell me there was going to be a sequel.
Maybe you'll find someone else
to help you
Maybe Black Mesa...
Portal was definitely different. I loved HL2 (Sill my favourite FPS of all time) and bought the Orange box to get the sequels and portal turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
yeah i bought orange box for the same reason. I didn't know anything about portal until i actually played it for the first time.
this is old news...
i almost had a heart attack when i saw "Portal" and "New" in the title add to that the utube video... ~_~
wasn't this posted before on TH or did i read it in some other website??
Maybe you'll find someone elseto help youMaybe Black Mesa...
I hope that was a joke, haha, fat chance.
The Cake Is A Lie !
No, It's not...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ [...] +a+lie+%3F
very sensible of wolfram alpha to think of Portal
That song is absolutely great. I'm still bugging my buddy that's in a local metal band to try a riff-laden screamo cover of it.
Probably been done already. I found a lot of versions on YouTube so far. A rock version, pop version, original writer version, Mario Paint version, terminal version.
Hell I even found a Russian band version.
Still Alive is probably the most popular video game song released in recent years.
So the cake, is not a lie? eh... um...
I just started a game yesterday. Already at 17/19 since I know all the puzzles, but I'll keep the new ending for tonight.
"Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an 'unsatisfactory' mark on your official testing record, followed by death. Good luck!"
That GLADoS is such a sassy gal.