044: Portal

We enjoy cake (even though the cake is a lie) in Portal.

Developer: Valve Corporation | Publisher: Valve Corporation | Release Date: October 10, 2007

Jacob, Mike and Moe make some extreme trust leaps, talk extensively about Mirror’s Edge and laugh at some great comedic writing.

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Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

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Show Notes (spoilers):

• 2:00 Remember when Valve made video games?
• 2:15 Is Moe secretly the owner of @IsHL3OutYet?
• 3:00 The Digipen connection & Narbacular Drop
• 4:20 The Orange Box
• 5:55 How does Portal start?
• 7:45 The difficulty ramp
• 9:00 Jacob compares Portal to The Witness
• 11:20 Mike praises Erik Wolpaw and Mike Morasky’s writing
• 14:20 Jacob avoided 11 years of Portal spoilers
• 15:50 We talk about our favourite levels!
• 19:00 Jacob used a walkthrough
• 21:20 Jacob asks about the Weighted Companion Cube
• 23:35 The Source engine was the engine for physics
• 24:50 The final boss encounter with GLaDOS
• 28:05 Connecting Portal and Mirror’s Edge
• 30:45 Jacob brings up the PS3 version of the Orange Box
• 31:25 Our final thoughts about Portal

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